That’s the species that featured in the second episode of Seven Worlds, One Planet.

At some point Chinese medicine needs to get a grip on fucking science.

I am sure there are better, more immediate ways he can put his “winnings” to use

I'd make the point there's no tax regime either, but it's no like amazon pay anyway anywhere.

https://logicmag.io/nature/oil-is-the-new-data/

Interesting enough. Could go in society's ills thread too.

Source warning. Anonymous and old. So may have been posted before and/or be dodge.

Meanwhile, in the pc thread, we all plot to upgrade.

*buys new laptop.*

Facewon wrote:

Meanwhile, in the pc thread, we all plot to upgrade.

Guilty as charged.

Facewon wrote:

Scarier than any spider is the mind of Ian plimer.

Sneaky fix of spelling there.

Meanwhile, this is the article in question.

https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/ian-plimer-op-ed-in-the-australian-again-presents-long-list-of-false-claims-about-climate/

Just to be doubly sure, I found the original article here...

https://twitter.com/p_hannam/status/1197643423957712897?s=19

So I dive in with my bro in law, because he's used plimer before, re undersea volcanoes and the sun being nearly all iron (don't ask).

Bro in law won't even concede the obvious contradictions.

From WhatsApp, my comments:

Hard to decide what my favourite fuck up is, but I think "there's no carbon emissions followed by here's china's carbon emissions is up there.

Do you want me to quote him verbatim?

Let's try this.

True or false? There are no CO2 emissions.

True or false? China's CO2 emissions have grown by 53% in the last decade.


"There are no carbon emissions...

If there were [carbon emissions], we could not see because most carbon is black."

"In the past decade China has increased its carbon dioxide emissions by 53 per cent, 12 times Australia’s total carbon dioxide output of 1.3 per cent of the global total."

Square that circle!

Response:

"your a fool.. sucked in again by bullshit.. these statements were said to ridicule climate change warriors and you sprout them as the truth... poor fool.."

Facepalm.

But they get articles in the Australian.

This country is fucked. Just fucked. Lazy, stupid, racist and indifferent to a completely useless and openly hostile government. fuckd I tells ye

how good are police states

Arguing with my bro has made me dig in on a number of claims and get a better understanding of the science. Found some goso stuff recently. I'll post some highlights this week.

Sigh. "Environmental journalists and advocates have in recent weeks made a number of apocalyptic predictions about the impact of climate change. Bill McKibben suggested climate-driven fires in Australia had made koalas “functionally extinct.”"

That was debunked almost instantly, and Forbes was one of the fucking sources fucking it up in the first place. 

"Few have underscored the threat more than student climate activist Greta Thunberg and Green New Deal sponsor Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The latter said, “The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.” Says Thunberg in her new book, “Around 2030 we will be in a position to set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control that will lead to the end of our civilization as we know it.”"

There's a difference here between the first and the second claim. And the second gets at the reality a bit better. AOC has used hyperbole, but focusing on that, to the point of even writing this article, is dumb.

The world will become a much much less hospitable place for humans in large numbers to function as we currently are isn't very catchy.

Poor water security, food scarcity, plain old extreme heat, cold and weather events - flooding, fire and hurricanes etc - aren't conducive to a life well lived. Shit Journalism is shit journalism. 

Sometimes, scientists themselves make apocalyptic claims. “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate a billion people or even half of that,” if Earth warms four degrees, said one earlier this year. “The potential for multi-breadbasket failure is increasing,” said another. If sea levels rise as much as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts, another scientist said, “It will be an unmanageable problem.” 

This is just accurate, that 4c mark will still take a while, but if it holds, it's on the high side of predictions, and things will be bad in X amount of years.

https://skepticalscience.com/big-picture.html
I somehow haven't hit this particular page on this site. But man, it's such a good site.

If your claim is on their myth list, you in trouble.