The good news is we may gather very valuable information on volcanoes. we didn't have global communications and satellite imagery the last time a volcano in this scale erupted.
In fact, we Don't have any records at all from that long ago. Ur was a big city by 5800 years ago, according to records from 4600 years ago, and some Indian records are considered older, but mostly everything past 6000 years ago was only passed down by oral stories. 20000 years before that? The stories don't seem to have survived. Or much in the way of ruins to study. Cave paintings that age, alas don't seem to have a lot of information, though I sometimes wonder if they might be interpreted differently if viewed with an eye towards looking for planetary scale disasters. The Laura Croft perspective?
There's Indian stories about battles of the gods where millions of people died, which has interpretations in fiction as extraterrestrials fighting with energy and atomic weapons, or civilization ending cosmic events.
Having a volcano erupt you could hear across oceans & Then rains of muddy ash, killing all your crops might get described as gods fighting, eh? So might a cometary strike.
Archaeologists 20,000 years from now may list our time as the "glass rectangle" people, but probably think It is a religious thing. ( As they are prone to do about not understood stuff today ) Pretty sure your IPod collection Contents won't be found. Pity, I imagine some future scientists arguing over Metal ages and instead of "bronze" & "iron" be writing about Thrash and Scandinavian.
There's so much we don't know about the real apocalypses of the past. Not Elon buying Twitter, I mean waves of plasma thousands of miles across followed by incandescent rock falling across the planet setting all the vegetation on fire over half the planet.
One problem with faked politically motivated "science" that defends it's theories with ad hominem attacks is it harms all trust in science.
Settled science is always a lie. Science is questioning, that's how it works.
Climate Con Theory is to science what the Catholic church is to belief in God. They send you to hell for eating a burger on Friday since they made up a custom based on the profession of some followers, not because of anything in the faith itself.
Ditto, like Islam, questioning the Prophet is a crime punished by destruction.
If you are a believer in the Climate Con, you win by never having to make a copay for surgery, since you'll not have any.
Opens up surgery appointments for the Heretics and reduces the load on health care.
Not so much on funeral homes, but if the True Believers follow my advice, they'd donate their bodies to science/medical education and research. That reduces your contribution to Capitalism too!
And we really need to examine a significant number of Woke brains to see if there's any physical differences or a communicable disease involved. A vaccine may be possible.
Win, win, all around. Grad students need data for papers, and the environment is saved!
From that article "operating rooms (ORs) partially account for 70% of a hospital’s waste".
What in the wide world of sports does that mean? Wouldn't "operating rooms (ORs) partially account for 99.9% of a hospital’s waste" also be just as true?
99.9% isn't a believable Lie. 70% is a much easier lie. It's that simple.
Over the last 45 years, since the Climate Con began with hysteria over the Onrushing Ice Age, I've been studying the science & watching the politics.
That's not exaggerating, I was taking Meteorology 102 when the 1977 headlines announced the New Green KGB Plot, though, of course, that wasn't the accepted label.
The mask came off years ago when the head of the U.N. Climate panel openly stated it wasn't about science but about political & economic power. Period.
My views have evolved, based on actual science, and actual Actions.
In 1977 every current Action, plus one now ignored, was formulated and Decreed, as the Purpose that the Elite Must Take to save the world, aka, take Permanent Power.
1. End fossil fuels. 2. Tax you. Abolish private property. 3. Establish an unelected Elite to rule the world over all national interests. 4. Build up food stocks for the upcoming Climate Caused Famine.
You'll notice that the preparation for famine is gone, without trace. It's too easy to detect the theft of funds if there was supposed to be warehouses full of food, and they were missing.
As to the Onrushing Ice Age... a possibility that is a realistic concern, as there is ample historical examples of "mini ice ages" ( that didn't look so small to the starving peasants ) that wiped out crops and led to famines & the associated plagues you get with widespread malnutrition.
We have multiple examples of volcanic eruptions causing years without summer. That's not counting the mega disasters of eruptions like Thera.
Meteor/comet strikes in human history are less well documented at causing widespread Climate change. The Tunguska, and Mississippi air bursts took out carbon and a civilization, respectively, but I haven't seen them connected to mini ice ages or massive crop failures ( research ongoing ) across the planet.
Though that's no consolation to the Native American tribes wiped out in the fireball.
What stands out to me, is there has never been the kind of Climate Event Prophesied by the Prophet Gore or Saint Greta. I can't find one example.
But there are too many of the opposite events to count.
And SOMETHING, probably very Cosmic, millions of years ago, utterly changed the planet's Climate from a stable warm one, to episodic Ice Apocalypse, and we have been recovering from the last one for lots of thousands of years.
Let us pray Tomorrow, May 9, ( the Soviet version of VE-day ) doesn't offer us a chance to disprove Nuclear Winter hysteria theory, with Real example.
Glaciation period of the current ice age. We are in an interglacial period. When the ice age ends, and it will, it will get much warmer. In other words, hot is normal.
Yep. The "onrushing ice age" is the 1977 simplified for hysteria creation version of a complex system that us peasants aren't expected, or desired, to know.
While I often refer to the recent warm periods of about 1000 & 2000 years ago, as desirable "normal", both are, as you say, in this interglacial period.
It's not PC to even admit there was a universe before this Ice Age. ( as far as Climate discussions are concerned )
The parallel idea of the Fermi Paradox, that civilizations trash themselves before a D.D. Harriman (Musk) type builds starships, & the species escapes their gravity cage, is a bit chilling, especially as we watch our own conquest by crazies.
What exactly can the Mayor of a megacity like LA do to fix the climate? He can reduce the long term CO2 emissions by reducing the population, ideally to zero, but that's unreasonable. Really reduces tax revenue!
Or increase it by burning it down, then filling the empty space with burning garbage dumps. ( great for revenue without needing to pay for services of the people driven off )
Both approaches are extreme and violate law and morality, but, hey, it's LA.
Neither would make a difference in slowing, speeding, or change the direction of the fluctuations the climate makes. But would be devastating to the economy and the environment.
OTOH, I think a Mayor of a major city Should have an Environmental Policy. Doesn't have to be detailed or complex. Preserve parkland for the Citizen's use, maintain some wild areas that only hikers, bikers, and nature lovers will disturb but lightly, and functioning water & waste systems to protect the population and environment.
The 2 most important things to take from that article is to support the Second Amendment, and he sure to properly cook meat, and don't eat brains. Kuru.
It takes an enormous industrial plant and millions of acres of agricultural land to produce fake meat. Only an Elitist, selfish, First World rich person can afford to eat a fake meat diet, at the expense of the poor and developing countries. Combined with the other creeds of the Religion in question, that would deny energy to the Third World, we have potentially the greatest threat to humans in history.
Or, if you think the arthropod diet fad the Greenies are pushing is for you? Remember the classic movie, The Mummy, 1999, and feed them to Scarab beetles. Then eat the beetles.
Sounds like they scanned her good ear and flipped the image to make the new one. I didn't see in the story how they harvested her cells to print with, but that would be interesting.
And wasting Millions of taxpayer money on "net zero" fantasy stupidity, which I will bet goes in large Part to relatives of the politicians and those who bribe them.
When you Lie about the science for nearly Fifty Years.. ( 1977- ) then the Gore That Cried Wolf destroys all trust. When bureaucrats announced They are The Science, and questioning Them is Heresy, you'd be stupid to believe anything they say.
Especially when they Actually Admit they Lied to you, because you're too stupid to understand the Truth. ( Fauci )
Hey, virology and epidemiology is Hard! That's why they are college degrees! Never you mind that the basics were once taught to Boy Scouts. There was a Merit Badge. Boy Scouts also once were allowed pocket knives!
Not anymore.
Urban schools, like the City environment, are hotter than suburban or rural areas. All that asphalt, so little green. And the corruption is staggering in proportion to the crowding of bureaucrats together.
The good news is, fewer people choose to victimize their kids in schools the push propaganda and have declared STEM classes racist.
If 2+2=4 is "racist because it imposes white norms" then we know who the Problem is.
Expect weather delays for any balloon activity. It takes very calm conditions to fill & launch a balloon. Period. Gas balloons are more fragile & slower to fill than hot air balloons.
Looks like a lot of fun. I've only been up about five miles in a balloon ( open, not a closed, pressurized gondola ) & The View is breathtaking. ( yes, I had an Oxygen mask )
Landing under a parafoil parachute is a skill, so I assume robot or piloted balloons for tourists.
It you choose this fun, be aware that there may be delays of days for winds. I know I have hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours spent waiting for better conditions in multiple wind related sports, from sailing to ballooning to soaring. ( you log flight time, not wait time )
That’s the great thing about climate change nowadays—it can explain everything, and getting rid of fossil fuels will solve everything.
If you look at root causes, then 90+% of all the Bad in the World including slavery can be attributed to the 2 1/2 religious cults that rule most of the population of the planet.
The Marxist ideology cults ( including their Green brand subsidiary ) and the Protected Intolerant ones that started in Mecca.
A distant 3rd is the European Colonial Racist Slave using systems that are almost completely gone, except the Confederate/Klan/Plantation Party in power in the U.S..
It's pretty obvious that the world would be a much better place without the Russian, Chinese, European and American Parties/regimes that Rule based on those cults.
1. "Defense Production Act" means get AMERICAN companies to re-task, and make a product we are in dire need of. Such as, ventilators made by Ford and Chrysler and GM auto plants. Or, tanks and airplanes made by GM and Ford and Chrysler auto plants.
1a. Did I mention, AMERICAN companies?
1b. Did I mention, items we are in DIRE NEED OF? Such as...oh...I don't know...BABY FORMULA???
well...if I itemized any more, I'd get repetitive.
Why is it SO important to have solar panels? Made by Joe's Asian Masters, instead of American workers? Right now? With fuel production at rock-bottom (for no reason), fuel prices sky-high because of that, baby formula 70% out of stock nationwide, and inflation at 70 year highs?