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Climate Change 3: Whatever you do don't call it a twatwaffle

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MissThundercat said:
Unhealthy air quality in West Michigan today.

Wheeeee!
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I’m in downtown Minneapolis today, and I can taste the forest fire. Even as I drove into the office today, I could see the smoke clouds surrounding downtown, likely following the river, though I thought it was just a normal cloud/fog bank at the time.
 
St. Clown said:
I’m in downtown Minneapolis today, and I can taste the forest fire. Even as I drove into the office today, I could see the smoke clouds surrounding downtown, likely following the river, though I thought it was just a normal cloud/fog bank at the time.
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This morning, I woke up and thought "one does not simply walk into Greater Grand Rapids."
 
Day 3 of unhealthy air quality in West Michigan.

I didn't smoke, but I do now! Me and the girls love to smoke Quebec Wildfires while we're drinking coffee and watching scary movies.

Quebec Wildfires: smooth and unfiltered!
 
MissThundercat said:
Day 3 of unhealthy air quality in West Michigan.

I didn't smoke, but I do now! Me and the girls love to smoke Quebec Wildfires while we're drinking coffee and watching scary movies.

Quebec Wildfires: smooth and unfiltered!
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People go out on their decks to breathe the air after good sex?
 
Kepler said:
This is fine.
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Humans are idiots. We don't seem to realize that the Earth will survive us. We won't destroy the Earth, but the Earth will destroy humans. That is unless we destroy ourselves before the Earth gets around to finishing us off, which is still a distinct possibility. My guess is humans have been the dominant species for a far greater amount of time up until today than the amount of time we have left to be the dominant species. And if that dinosaur killing asteroid had been just a couple thousand miles to the left or right of where it was, would we have even become the dominant species, or even evolved into existence? I'm betting there are an awful lot of penguins who wished otherwise.
 
WeAreNDHockey said:
My guess is humans have been the dominant species for a far greater amount of time up until today than the amount of time we have left to be the dominant species.
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That brings up an interesting question. When did we become the dominant species (I mean assuming it isn't some form of bacteria) and what constituted our accession to the title?

An answer.

The putative start date for what scientists have begun to call the Anthropocene—a newly defined epoch in which humanity is the dominant force on the planet—ranges widely. Some argue that humans began changing the global environment about 50,000 years back, in the Pleistocene epoch, helping along if not outright causing the mass extinctions of megafauna, from mammoths to giant kangaroos, on most continents. Others date it to the emergence of agriculture some 7,000 years ago. The most definitive cases to be made coincide with the start of the industrial revolution and the dawn of the atomic age. The beginnings of burning fossil fuels to power machines in the 19th century initiated a change in the mix of atmospheric gases , and the first nuclear weapon test on July 16, 1945, spread unique isotopes across the globe.

There is little doubt from the archaeological record that humans have been altering ecosystems on a local scale for at least 50,000 years if not longer, but the extent of that alteration remains unknown. Recent work by ecologist Erle Ellis of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and others suggests that for at least 3,000 years hunting, farming and burning have shaped most landscapes on the planet, based on computer models
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MissThundercat said:
Day 3 of unhealthy air quality in West Michigan.

I didn't smoke, but I do now! Me and the girls love to smoke Quebec Wildfires while we're drinking coffee and watching scary movies.

Quebec Wildfires: smooth and unfiltered!
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Yesterday in NE Ohio was worse than any air I have previously breathed. it was bad everywhere I was and even made sleep difficult the last two nights despite the fact my windows haven't been open in days. I'm either now old enough to feel it when the weather people talk about how bad the air is for young kids or older adults, or the air really does suck. I'd almost rather have walked into a burning building without my SCBA than breathe the 5h!t I was breathing yesterday.
 
WeAreNDHockey said:
Yesterday in NE Ohio was worse than any air I have previously breathed. it was bad everywhere I was and even made sleep difficult the last two nights despite the fact my windows haven't been open in days. I'm either now old enough to feel it when the weather people talk about how bad the air is for young kids or older adults, or the air really does suck. I'd almost rather have walked into a burning building without my SCBA than breathe the 5h!t I was breathing yesterday.
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The last 4 days have reminded me that we're all ants and God is a 7 year old boy with a magnifying glass.
 
MissThundercat said:
Day 3 of unhealthy air quality in West Michigan.

I didn't smoke, but I do now! Me and the girls love to smoke Quebec Wildfires while we're drinking coffee and watching scary movies.

Quebec Wildfires: smooth and unfiltered!
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Driving around here and running errands yesterday, the smog made me think of every story I've heard about Pittsburgh in the 70s, with all the steel plants belching out coal exhaust.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Driving around here and running errands yesterday, the smog made me think of every story I've heard about Pittsburgh in the 70s, with all the steel plants belching out coal exhaust.
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LA in the 70s is still the gold standard.

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On my first trip to LA it was as if you took a ruler and drew a line across the sky. Above was pure blue, below was orange. Temperature inversion is great for Emphysema.
 
Kepler said:
LA in the 70s is still the gold standard.

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On my first trip to LA it was as if you took a ruler and drew a line across the sky. Above was pure blue, below was orange. Temperature inversion is great for Emphysema.
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You can still see it that bad today in Salt Lake City. One time, a few years ago, I was connecting there and the inversion was so bad there were times when you couldn't see the Wasatch Range.
 
Monday was the hottest day in the recorded history of the planet. The record lasted a whole day, as Tuesday's global average temperature was warmer than Monday.

The record will likely broken several more times in the coming weeks.

Some hoax.
 
Ok, it's important not to be over dramatic and distort the nature of how bad climate change is.

it's the hottest day using a measure that began in 1979. "Recorded history of the planet" feels like a huge distortion. Yes, that's when records began for this particular measurement. But weather records often go back hundreds of years.

When a statistic is younger than the Brady Bunch, maybe don't frame it as "recorded history of the planet"
 
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