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Climate change: the big picture is being missed : Comments

By Melvin Bolton, published 2/4/2020

The study of earth's climate is as big as it gets in terms of system science so making sense of climate change is mainly the work of specialists who feed enormous amounts of data into computer models.

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Dear Peter Lang,

“The projections of global warming are irrelevant. What is relevant is the impacts of global warming.”

So the projections of the spread of the coronavirus in the US were irrelevant and Trump was right to ignore them. He was only ever required to deal with the impacts?

Can even you see how ridiculous that sounds?
Posted by SteeleRedux, Thursday, 2 April 2020 10:03:00 AM
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It seems even Mother Nature has fallen for this climate change alarm
http://www.extremestorms.com.au/record-high-temperature-at-penrith-48-9c-4th-january-2020/
Those who think this is not a cause for concern will of course politely refrain from using aircon when it is around 50C.
Posted by Taswegian, Thursday, 2 April 2020 10:20:23 AM
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If the solutions I've proposed would in any way harm our economy! I would understand those folk who are shouting the loudest to protect the fossil fuel, robber barons and the crumbs from the table we get in return for their rapacious activities?

Simply put and thanks to the after-effects of covid-19, we are heading toward a depression! And don't say you weren't warned!

And the folk in charge are like the frog in the bowl syndrome, warm and comfortable until it's way too late! But covid-19as a shot straight up the FO and steaming hot, and able to get them also, regardless of their ring of steel security! And given they even in cradle to grave, air-conditioned comfort, needed to react with absolute urgent alacrity!

And because immediate absolutely imperative, urgent self-interest, was the master, had to obey! With what was always possible and then some!

Had that same mindset been employed to mitigate against climate change? We wouldn't be having this discussion, but thousands of us busy-busy building (nuclear powered) stuff and new infrastructure! And an export-orientated coperative capitalism economy, the envy of the world!

Understandably, the geniuses among us like AJ and coal-fired cohort feel threatened by that because they are just too smart to see the writing on the wall, or our children' and their children's future?

Whu flu, who brung you?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Thursday, 2 April 2020 11:57:17 AM
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Thanks MB, this is an excellent article.

Perhaps covid-19 will be a wake up call for the world. The risk of a major pandemic driven by mass air-travel has been well known and planned for, for decades. We chose to delay action for the sake of money wealth accumulation, with austerity, tax cuts and balanced national budgets.

Now we all know what a tipping point look like.

Perhaps the penny will drop? If so, we need to see the big picture clearly, because big changes must be considered.

Good work, mate.
Posted by GDU, Thursday, 2 April 2020 1:08:17 PM
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When the vaccine is tested safe and ready to roll? We will possibly have between two and three million unemployed and will need productive jobs and projects to get them back to work!

If we engage these projects etc via cooperative capitalism models? Then the money will stay in our economy circulating and circulating until exhausted Where every one dollar will do the work of seven or more.

This would allow the money required to employ four hundred Aussies to employ two million of them via the usual economic flow on factors. All while creating additional wealth and economic growth opportunities!

And could start with the graphene highways that all but eliminate transmission and distribution losses that total on average, as a reported combination, 75%.

And we can explore all the energy options to see which is the cheapest, the safe and most affordable. and in mass-produced systems, that other folk pay for with nuclear waste repository rental money! It just gets better and better and our manufacture could undercut anything produced in China given the energy input costs.

If that outcome is to be assisted? Could be done with genuine tax reform! Moreover, all current energy exports could b sent as transmitted electrical energy and more than able to treble current supplies and income! All that prevents any of that is the usual, never ever, naysayers! If it also decarbs the economy! What is lost!?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Thursday, 2 April 2020 2:41:46 PM
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Same old same old, with the addition of the absurd "valiant efforts of Greta Thunberg".

Good luck with convincing the biggest offenders, China - and India with its millions of farting sacred cows.
Posted by ttbn, Thursday, 2 April 2020 3:02:02 PM
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