Zoe posted:

hey the op changed the poll after everyone already voted, I call shenanigans.

Zoe posted:

hey the op changed the poll after everyone already voted, I call shenanigans.

also I just got up, is everything dead yet?

my cats still seem ok

Parallax Scroll posted:

maybe animals should invent some poo poo

Yaldabaoth posted:

I don't get how global warming is causing so many things to die off, should life be flourishing now that there's more light and warmth? I mean it should be simple: More light and warmth >> More plants >> More food for herbivores >> More food for carnivores

Yaldabaoth posted:

I don't get how global warming is causing so many things to die off, should life be flourishing now that there's more light and warmth? I mean it should be simple: More light and warmth >> More plants >> More food for herbivores >> More food for carnivores

Yaldabaoth posted:

I don't get how global warming is causing so many things to die off, should life be flourishing now that there's more light and warmth? I mean it should be simple: More light and warmth >> More plants >> More food for herbivores >> More food for carnivores

TOILETLORD posted:

because we have dropping world wide temps, in america the democratic part of congress is in charge of distributing federal funds to universities for scientific research. Since it's an issue they use for votes they pay people to blame global warming on everything, most warming scientist are essentially doctors paid to say smoking is good.

skeletonotherkin posted:

Shine on you crazy diamond.

Torka posted:

they think climate change is actually responsible for less than 10% of the dieoffs according to a chart on the guardian article about this. it's mostly just plain old habitat destruction

Zoe posted:

I read a Michael Chrichton book one time that laid out in detail how global warming was a lie.

I know he's not a scientist or anything but the man reads a lot of science-y things and was all into DNA before it was cool (dinosaurs were always cool he gets no props for that) so I'm just going to trust he knows what he's talking about.

monkey posted:

This is probably the right thread to say this...

If you are vegan, or even just against factory farming, then gently caress you.

Human grain and vegetable crops take up a lot more land area, and that is what is sending species into extinction. If you don't eat meat for moral reasons, then you also have a moral duty to slow down the destruction of diversity of life on this planet. This means we need to source our food from the densest source of kilojoules per hectare, and that is factory farming.

By not eating factory farmed beef and chickens, you are killing orangutans.

Pawn 17 posted:

I wonder what all those cows, chickens and other animals eat to get all nice and fat?

Al Nipper posted:

The last baby bird dies, roasting on the windowsill of the hermetically sealed, temperature controlled pleasure dome.

The young girl sees this and begins to weep, and is quickly slapped by the meaty paw of an oil tycoon before he lifts his gut and crams his shriveled micro-cock into her mouth.

Looking upon the wasteland, he violently cums before dying of a heart attack, leaving the girl weeping by the window.

Her well-manicured hands trace the corpse of the last baby bird through the window.

With a voice choked by tears and ejaculate, she delivers a eulogy fit for a species:

"im gay..."

TOILETLORD posted:

global warming was created by al gore a politician all is findings were found to be false, every time this happens a new study is released then trumped up by universities. Most politicians who support green energy give companies they have stock in federal loans make a profit then let the companies fail after the ceo get a golden parachute. Remember they had to come up with something that sounds sensational and sciency sounding because one of democrats biggest voting blocks is the un educated and the average american adult has less than a 3rd grade understanding of the sciences. Democrats are also the retards who will give governments infinite tax increases if they think the money goes somewhere that makes them feel warm and fuzzy. good racket infinite taxes and tighter control over a chunk of voters.

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The climate scientists (at NASA's Goddard Space Center, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, our universities, etc.) are using an incorrect model. Talking about .2 degree rise in heat per decade,blah, blah, blah. That is a model from the 1970s. Scientists are really not that smart as independent intellects, and most are trapped in old-fashioned thermodynamic computer modeling systems. Like generals fighting the last war. (Or the current one!) And they are concerned about rises in sea level. Another old model. What really matters are two other changes, both (just for a little poetic irony at the climate scientists' expense!) related to COLD not HEAT: First, the cooling of the stratosphere (which is connected with the warming of the troposphere), which will create extraordinary and unprecedented convection currents between the two layers of the atmosphere that will result in storms greater in strength than anything experienced on earth in the past two million years. They will be hurricane-like in nature, but far, far greater in force than a hurricane. We're talking about winds hundreds of miles an hour in speed and with the force of bombs going off on everything in their path.

The second major change will be a precipitously rapid and nearly complete cessation of the current systems of the North Atlantic (the technical term for this is a cessation of the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation System), affected by decreases in ocean water salinity and its concomitant buoyancy/density (which will decrease due to the influx of non-salty water into the north Atlantic as the polar ice cap melts), accompanied by a radical diminishment of the thermal circulatory effect of the north polar heat sink. With only brief and comparatively minor fluctuations -- much more minor than will take place in the very near future -- this system has powered the Northern Atlantic part of the so-called Global Thermohaline Circulation System and moderated the winters throughout Europe and Asia Minor as far as the Urals and North America east of the Rockies for more than two million years.

Both of these changes will have been caused by increases in temperature, of course, but they will have results that are much more radical and far-reaching -- much more catastrophic -- than merely raising the temperature of the atmosphere a few degrees or the height of the ocean levels a few meters. In fact, those things -- the things the climate scientists are currently predicting -- are ridiculously trivial in comparison with the changes I am describing. The next major event will be the melting of the north polar ice cap, which will precipitate a major change or complete cessation of the North Atlantic currents (the slowing of the Gulf Stream will be part of this process, but what I am describing will be much more widespread than that and will involve other current systems throughout the Atlantic and particularly the North Atlantic). Both events (the atmospheric and the oceanic) will precipitate a series of devastatingly strong thunderstorms, tornados, and hurricanes with unprecedented wind speeds, duration, and violence, which will not only destroy buildings, power systems, and much of the industrial and agricultural infrastructure in the Northern latitudes, but will radically and irrevocably change the climate. The result will be--are you ready for this? you better brace yourself--a new Ice Age. Coming on with incredible rapidity. (The gradualism of that event that we were taught in school is another computer modeling error.) Followed by..... well, I'll leave the rest to your imagination in terms of crops and harvests and growing seasons.... Or, to put it in other words:

Quantos tremor est futurus
Quando judex est venturus...
Dies irae, dies illa,
Solvet seculum in favilla.

Pawn 17 posted:

I wonder what all those cows, chickens and other animals eat to get all nice and fat?

butplug accident posted:

skeletonotherkin posted:

Way to be serious in GBS, D&D is that way. Also I love your new avatar.

butplug accident posted:

Tsinava posted:

it's almost as if the majority of people don't understand the concept of a food web.