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Comment Human civilisation is doomed (Score 1) 207

At every possible opportunity we shit in our own nests rather than look after it. Every attempt to wind back the destruction of our own habitat is resisted with a fervour that borders on the religious.

I am going to be dead before the shit really hits the fan, but if scientific predictions are correct, my kids are in for a really nasty life once the ecosystem starts to fail and food production collapses.

Too greedy and stupid to deserve to continue in our current position in the ecosystem.

Comment Re:The ever-present refrain "Accept Less!" (Score 1) 267

This isn't a game of monopoly. Someone else gaining doesn't mean that you necessarily lose.

We live in a time of abundance unique in recorded human history. We have more than adequate resources to meet the basic needs, and more, of every person on the planet without depriving you or anyone else of anything. We only lack the will to do so.

Except with climate change it is exactly like a game of monopoly. We have a fixed carbon budget if we want to avoid some really bad things happening due to climate change. One country using more than their per-capita fair share means everyone else must use less than their per-capita fair share.

Comment Luckily native Americans built your roads (Score 4, Insightful) 104

The lack of imagination and awareness in all of the responses here makes me wonder if you thought the national highway network already existed when cars were invented because it was built by the native Americans, or it came after the car.

It seems to me that the problem of installing a bunch of chargers is a smaller problem than building a national road network, but for some reason people here think it is an insurmountable problem.

The fabled American can-do attitude seems to be more a more a can't-do attitude.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 174

Panels belong in professionally managed solar farms with sun trackers, ongoing maintenance, monitoring and highly efficient power conversion. This business of rooftop piecemeal installation is just wasting material resources that could be put to much better more efficient use elsewhere.

What complete and utter garbage.

We need everybody who has the means to help reduce fossil fuel usage to use their money to contribute to the solution. If we wait around for the government to do everything, then nothing will get done.

My panels have a theoretical 10kW generation capacity (in the lab), and on a clear day they frequently hit 8kW.

Comment Serves old media - damages independent journalists (Score 1) 48

One high quality, small independent media outlet here in Australia has a good collection of articles about this corrupt media code:

https://www.michaelwest.com.au...
https://www.michaelwest.com.au...
https://www.michaelwest.com.au...

Do not copy this code. It is a bribe for old media to make them keep continue to publish content supporting the government.

Comment Re:Modelling Climate Change really is a hard probl (Score 2, Insightful) 219

What a load of bullshit.

You collect a massive amount of data and then come up with a model that is consistent with that data. You then use the model to predict new data before it is collected. When the model turns out to be wrong enough (outside acceptable error margins) you try to understand what was wrong with the model and fix it.

This is science.

Comment Re:30 years is nothing (Score 1) 122

Maybe a cartoon form of information will help you finally realise that humans have never experienced global conditions this warm, and to our knowledge the temperature has never changed this quickly.

https://xkcd.com/1732/

Who am I kidding. You have to actively avoid learning about this stuff to still spout bullshit like you did.

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