Comment Re:Bad for us, but not "our fault" (Score 1) 109
No one on the planet has reliable rainfall data for even last 120 years.
Do some research.
Comment Re:Bad for us, but not "our fault" (Score 1) 109
It's the period with lowest rainfall in 1200 years. If that doesn't count as a drought, I am not sure what is.
What we're dealing with in the West is not a drought because the current lack of rainfall isn't "abnormal" for a desert
Lowest in 1200 years seems abnormal to me, even for a desert.
The fact that we got weirdly lucky with unseasonably wet weather for a few decades
Or 1200 years.
The 20th century was abnormally wet and rainy
Lowest rainfall for 1200 years.
Comment Re:Happened about the same time last century. (Score 1) 109
We had a big ol' heatwave and drought in the 1930's.
In the USA, although the temperatures would not be so remarkable today. But it was pretty localised.
Back then, our farming practices weren't able to handle it, but we made some big changes in response.
Best not to test whether the changes work, I'd say.
Comment Re: Movie (Score 1) 41
I once saw an arty French film. 6 hours, edited down from the original 18...
Comment Re: This just in... (Score 1) 235
Come on, even The Beatles weren't the best Beatles-type band - that was the Rutles.
Comment Re: This just in... (Score 1) 235
I once got stopped for the Pepsi challenge. I successfully identified the Pepsi but they didn't use the footage as I said I could tell as the Coca Cola tasted better.
Comment Re:A good Matlab replacement, not the next big thi (Score 1) 114
Currently, it's still within the bounds predicted by models and given the emissions profile, even more so.
Comment Re:A good Matlab replacement, not the next big thi (Score 1) 114
We've been in a continuous ice age for 34 million years. You are confusing glacial maximums and ice ages. But no, the Earth is not recovering from that either and was in a cooling period for 8000 years until very recently (some argue 2000 years of stability and 6000 years of cooling) and in terms or orbital tilt, wobble, etc., should still be in one. It's was a very, very gentle period of cooling.
Comment Re:Prior art (Score 1) 89
No more than Star Trek communicators are prior art for your smart phone.
Comment 100 million? (Score 1) 56
How? No good music has been released since the Beatles split up!
Comment Re:So let me get this right... (Score 1) 81
P.S. That having been said, if it led to an increase in ice (it might just stop the decline) it might chance albedo and mitigate overall global warming. It's unlikely that it would be sufficient on its own to stop or reverse global warming, though.
Comment Re:So let me get this right... (Score 2) 81
Colder, regionally that is. The earth as a whole will be warmer, especially places like Florida.
Comment Re:So let me get this right... (Score 1) 81
Global warming is going to make things colder?
Yes, potentially. The effects of global warming on AMOC and the consequences have been explored in the scientific literature since the 1970s.
Comment Re:Geothermal will save Iceland (Score 1) 81
Right. Meanwhile down in the tropics they could just use the free energy from the sun to power the A/C if the heat becomes too extreme.
Because people just love being inside all the time.
Comment Re:The way our economy is set up (Score 1) 339
If we stop growing it all collapses and it takes us all with it. Without population growth we can't take care of the older population that doesn't work anymore.
Population increase is not necessarily needed for economic growth. Indeed, in Western countries it has tended to outstrip population growth for a long time. Automation means that people are not necessarily needed for the older population so much.
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