David Kampmann
Sheril KirshenbaumWhen “1000-Year” storms happen frequently, they are no longer anomalies. This is #ClimateChange.
Brian Dear@Sheril Rather than calling it “Climate Change” I wonder if we could call it the “Carbon Age” instead. Unlike the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, humans might not make it through the Carbon Age if they don’t act now.
FoxRings@brianstorms I like the idea. But it would get confused with positive potential to be unlocked by graphene & nanotube manufacturing.
Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑All 8 Billion people will not die out.
People often use "End of civilization" and "end of humanity" interchangeable, but no, I don't think the world will become so inhospitable that a population too small to breed will be all that is left.
Just like the twinkie and the cockroach, human beings will survive the apocalypse. Maybe even with rather high tech intact. But it will not be in central US for example since that will once again be a sea, like it used to be.
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wl7cps@brianstorms @Sheril So we all need to plant a tree for every mile we drive!
Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏@Sheril Starting the pool for the first media appearance of the phrase "10,000 year storm" now.
LucomoAh, it's just the time that is accelerating so that a century now lasts only a couple of months or so.
That's why there are now so many "1000-year-storms" etc.
Felix 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇺🇦@Sheril can someone give an exact definition what '1000 year storm' means? I feel like I heard this term very often now and it seems that we are going to see quite a few more of these in the near (<1000 year) future. Is that a storm with a likelihood to happen only once in 1000 years based on the historical weather data we have?
@fst @Sheril That's right. It's expected to happen, and has probably happened before, but the annual incidence is ~1/1000. Kinda like earthquakes in California: it will happen, but nobody knows when.
200-year flood levels are used for zoning and insurance in California. (But they're happening distressing frequently now so...)
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Óscar Morales Vivó@Sheril If you get a 1000 year storm every 10 years, isn't it a 10 year storm?
arceuthobium@MyLittleMetroid @Sheril it’s statistically a 1/1000 chance of having such a flood in a particular location in a particular year. So across the entire planet it’s not improbable to have one 1000 year flood per year. But, we do seem to be far beyond what’s normal.
SearingTruth"Tick, Tick (part 2 of 2)
In fact, one of the most immediate and ominous threats facing America and much of the world today is the utilization of advanced technologies for the implementation of authoritarian control over societies.
My friends, the truth is that if we do not fight for and secure freedom today, the time will very soon come when it will be almost impossible to do so.
In retrospect, when one soberly considers the critical challenges that we must face together to survive as a species, our differences, at times, can become almost imperceptible."
SearingTruth, A Future of the Brave, 2005
"Tick, Tick (part 1 of 2)
Fellow citizens, the truth is that our present can only be as stable as our future.
For too long we have hobbled from decade to decade, generation to generation, and millennium to millennium, myopically adhering to superfluous battles that can never be won. Never once as a species forwarding or embracing an all encompassing path towards a certainly better future.
Our excuses have been many, our reasoning mostly incoherent, and our lack of vision as a species, certainly fatal.
For in the meantime, as each tick of the ages has passed, the critical threats posed and ignored by our species discordance have increased exponentially.
Pandemic famine and disease, massively destructive weapons, fatal atmospheric and climate change, super volcanic eruptions, catastrophic space body impacts, Orwellian societies of unparalleled oppression, and many other global catastrophes too numerous to list here, waiting to befall us at any moment."
SearingTruth
DaSkinny ⚜️"Coming to you - the 1,000-year storm that happens every other year!
"Buy now, as your time to buy may be washed away!"
brotoae@Sheril yes the data showed that is not only anomalies but gradual change
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