Climate Change Report

[Tgo01]

You know the reason dinosaurs never had an impact on the climate was because they didn't have a globe-spanning society, right?

When climate change brings the dinosaurs back to life we can just ask them.

[Androidpk]

I just got it this week. So still learning the game... but really enjoying it. I like the strategy involved. It seems I'm to careful with my movements/overwatch positions to get all of the cube things, but getting slightly better. If anyone wants to play multi-player let me know, haven't done that yet. (on PC)

I didn't even know it had multiplayer. As far as the single player game though my final squad consisted of 2 snipers, 2 assault (one being a medic) and 1 heavy weapons expert. The two most lethal on the squad were a pair of russian chicks, one a sniper and the other a shotgun toting grenadier. The weakest was the heavy weapons dude.

[Androidpk]

It was also a key thread in Chrono Cross.

Never played that one. Was it as good as its predecessor?

[Thondalar]

Looks like he's finally seen the light. Man does have an impact on the environment!

I don't think anyone can/does dispute this. The argument seems to be exactly what the impact is, and what should be done about it, if anything.

[Thondalar]

Never played that one. Was it as good as its predecessor?

I liked it more, a lot liked it less. I think you can get it on the Playstation store for like 4 bucks.

[Tenlaar]

Technically speaking, you don't HAVE to go to school to study climatology.

Technically speaking I can call myself an astrophysicist too, that doesn't mean I'm in a position to refute something that practically everybody who is one agrees with based on abso-fucking-lutely nothing beyond hyperbole and gut feelings.

[Parkbandit]

I don't think anyone can/does dispute this. The argument seems to be exactly what the impact is, and what should be done about it, if anything.

WRONG!!

If you don't agree with it 100%, then you are a flat Earther.

And probably a racist.

[Thondalar]

Technically speaking I can call myself an astrophysicist too, that doesn't mean I'm in a position to refute something that practically everybody who is one agrees with based on abso-fucking-lutely nothing beyond hyperbole and gut feelings.

40 years ago these same scientists were telling us to get ready for an Ice Age. Excuse me for being skeptical.

[Thondalar]

My point is that our understanding of things is fundamentally flawed because humans. There is simply too much we don't know, and may never know, about our Earth, our Universe, and our place in them.

There's a guy who went to school for 12 years to study fish, and has spent the last 25 years studying Cichlids in Africa...small, fresh water fish...and he still doesn't know everything about them. Over generations our body of knowledge expands, but there are always factors we don't consider...some because we don't understand the importance of them and so discount them, some because we don't even know they exist.

To err is human. This is nowhere so evident as in the world of science. Allowing our hubris to get ahead of our common sense does more harm than good.

[Latrinsorm]

That's why it's logical that the humans living back then did. A=B=C therefore A=C.

Humans hurt climate=climate changes=for 5 million years... therefore... Humans hurt climate=for 5 million years. See? Latrin!! Get on the exact mathematics involved in this!

I tried to take the standard deviation but my calculator kept spitting out "drink your ovaltine".

Never played that one. Was it as good as its predecessor?

Not possible.

40 years ago these same scientists were telling us to get ready for an Ice Age. Excuse me for being skeptical.

Can you cite one? Which is to say: one scientist who 40 years (or so) ago predicted global cooling and now predicts global warming. If you do (ha! ha!), I will cite one scientist who predicted warming in both eras, and we can continue until one of us is stumped.