hanrahan

hanrahan, 26 days ago

Yeah, it’s one of those weird things, upvote something devastating becase it’s important. Maybe there a way to relabel the upvote downvote to more or less important ?

hanrahan, 28 days ago

Surely Storm Shadow and the French variant can go further then that being aircraft launched?

And ffs Germany send then Tarus.

Long range would be when they could hit Moscow, a stretch calling these long range.

hanrahan, 28 days ago

As might be expected, many economists and techno-optimists roundly rejected this assessment

Nordhaus surley leads this group of asshats.

theintercept.com/…/william-nordhaus-climate-econo…

Ignorance of systems has its way of plowing forward, juggernaut-like. Nordhaus has opined that agriculture is “the part of the economy that is sensitive to climate change,” but because it accounts for just 3 percent of national output, climate disruption of food production cannot produce a “very large effect on the U.S. economy.” It is unfortunate for his calculations that agriculture is the foundation on which the other 97 percent of GDP depends. Without food — strange that one needs to reiterate this — there is no economy, no society, no civilization. Yet Nordhaus treats agriculture as indifferently fungible.

This crude mess of a model is what won him the Nobel. “

hanrahan, 28 days ago

No need, we’ll do it ourselves

theintercept.com/…/william-nordhaus-climate-econo…

Terrible numbers get thrown around. But scientists mean what they say. Kevin Anderson, professor of energy and climate change at the University of Manchester in the U.K. and Uppsala University in Sweden, asserts that “something like 10 percent of the planet’s population — around half a billion people — will survive if global temperatures rise by 4 C.” He notes, with a modicum of hopefulness, that we “will not make all human beings extinct as a few people with the right sort of resources may put themselves in the right parts of the world and survive. But I think it’s extremely unlikely that we wouldn’t have mass death at 4 C.”

Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and a leading researcher on climate tipping points and “safe boundaries” for humanity, projects that in a 4 C warmer world, “it’s difficult to see how we could accommodate a billion people or even half of that.”

Hans Shellenhuber suggests that if we get to around 2c or thereabouts, 4c is inevitable becase of cascading tipping points we won’t be able to stop.

hanrahan, 28 days ago

Wait, what ? Trump’s Pecker leaks ?

hanrahan, 28 days ago

I was born in 1996 but I feel you man

JFC, how to make me feel old AF, 1966 here .

I don’t stream anything.

hanrahan, 28 days ago

Self Attribution Fallacy

www.monbiot.com/…/the-self-attribution-fallacy/

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. The claims that the ultra-rich 1% make for themselves – that they are possessed of unique intelligence or creativity or drive – are examples of the self-attribution fallacy.

hanrahan, 26 days ago

Luckly they didnt divest huh ?

That said you can’t thave a fossil fuel company with a Climate plan. You’ll end up with some stupidity where they subsidise ecars for thier employees while expanding gas exploration and saying job done.

The only emissions worthy of consideration are scope 3, we have the same ludicrous situation at airports claiming to be Carbon neutral and enviormentally because they put solar panels on the roof and use rainwater for flushing the shitter.

hanrahan, 28 days ago

By make it harder do they mean put a gun to ASMLs head to not sell them the hadware needed to make them ? ASML is a Dutch company, spun out of Phillips from memory.

hanrahan, 28 days ago

Hitler liked dogs and said we shoukd be kind to them.

hanrahan, 26 days ago

there should be an awakening in most voters’ minds about the idiocy of this policy.

History would seem to suggest the opposite. Or perhaps I am just not the optimist you are ? People voting for the LNP aren’t particularly “woke” to much of anything in my expereince, aside from entitlment and tribalism.

"I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative - John Stuart Mill

hanrahan, 25 days ago

It also allows them to shift blame to The Greens for pushing back againt nuclear when it all falls over. “See climate change and energy prices are The Greens fault” will be a simplistic mantra they can use to keep the outrage alive.

I heard that same thing endlessly after the 2019/2020 bushfires from numpties like Barnanby and every older perons I spoke too about the fires when they found out we’d lost so much in then said “you must be really upset with The Greens”. I’d just look and then say “No, I’m only upset with voters who didnt Vote Green”.

hanrahan, 25 days ago

The bridge was the myth sold by gas, no one was going to get excited by “slightly better then coal if everything goes right and there are no fugitive emissions”

science.org/…/natural-gas-could-warm-planet-much-…

Just have to look at the shitshow mess we’ve made of this with @ZLabe stuff for Berkly Earth (methane chart part way down"

zacklabe.com/climate-change-indicators/

hanrahan, 25 days ago

Because I don’t remember voting on that

But surely anyone voting LNP/ALP must know that? Decades of voting for the orthodoxy means this is the inevitable for seeable result. The only ones occasionally pushing back againt this shit occasionally is The Greens.

None of this is new, I remember back in the day Bob Brown, an Australian Greens Senator and party leader no less, was banned from Parliament during a speech by US President Bush. As an Australian I was horrified. How is it that a member of our parliment was banned ?

The ALP lost it all after Gough was booted out and stopped being an alternative party and became the other arse cheek of the orthodoxy. He wanted to throw the lid off the shenanigan at Pine Gap.

Yes, I’m that old, yes I Vote Green

hanrahan, 25 days ago

This was such a harrowing read. In a just world, they’d all be up on manslaughter charges.

I am sure in 2 years they’ll be able to retire with PTSD on workers comp.

hanrahan, 1 month ago

What helped you make the decision to be child-free?

www.worldometers.info/world-population/

That was 30 years ago, now it’s only worse.