[Master Thread] Environmentalism, Climate Change, etc.

[Mike E 11,739]

It requires less energy to cool from 110 down 70 than to heat from 0 to 70.   https://www.onehourheatandair.com/articles/expert-tips/energy-efficiency/what-is-more-expensive-heating-or-cooling-energy/#:~:text=Anyone who's opened an eye,US than cooling your home.
 

I am always amused by climate change alarmists here in Arizona  who assert that they will escape before it gets too hot and move up north.  These are are the same climate change alarmists who assert that the colder winter weather is because of climate change. 

 

[TBoneTX 45,304]

So-called climate change = weather.  Period.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

14 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

This is an excellent stand-alone article.  Comments?

Is that news. Not being a smarty pants, but much easier to find shade and chill in 105 than stay warm at 10 below

[Mike E 11,739]

1 hour ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Is that news. Not being a smarty pants, but much easier to find shade and chill in 105 than stay warm at 10 below

Climate changists like to shame people who run the A/C, use golf courses built  on the desert watered with recycled water, have a back yard pool, etc.  

 

The only reason North America north of the Rio Grande has civilization is because Europeans sailed  over and brought technology and  domesticated animals. 
 

High Technology like: coal mining (cuz it’s too cold here) bricks and cement (cuz anything else in the 16th century gets mowed down by tornadoes and hurricanes), bullets (cuz it takes a while to establish agriculture in a wild frontier so eat wild animals), steel (because wood rots).  

 

The previous inhabitants killed off the horses. Llamas and alpacas aren’t exactly  going to sustain mixed agriculture like sheep, hogs, and cattle.  
 

The original inhabitants did try and you can read about the Mound civilizations. But the wind and cold just flattened them.  

 

 

 

[TBoneTX 45,304]

And we've never read of tropical explorers dying of heat (malaria, maybe).  The polar explorers are a different story, the ill-fated Scott Antarctic expedition one example.

[TBoneTX 45,304]

Maldives at risk?

 

I got a bit of pushback on my post regarding The Lancet study that showed that deaths from excessive cold are 9x higher than from excessive heat.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/12/30/maldives-at-risk-n520733

[TBoneTX 45,304]

This is NOT the Babylon Bee.

Rogue start-up launching reflective clouds into Earth's stratosphere to cool planet?

 

A rogue solar geoengineering start-up firm claims to have begun using balloons to launch reflective clouds into the stratosphere for the purpose of changing the weather.  [...]

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/rogue_startup_launching_reflective_clouds_into_earths_stratosphere_to_cool_planet.html

[Dashinka 24,508]

Aren't clouds already reflective in some respect?  

[TBoneTX 45,304]

12 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

Aren't clouds already reflective in some respect?  

I'll have to reflect on that.

[Dashinka 24,508]

So looking at this holistically, reflecting more sunlight away will reduce the amount of solar energy available for the all so important solar generating stations, and cooling the planet may have a more adverse effect such as more people dying from the cold as discussed elsewhere, and growing glaciers.  As an aside, I had this discussion with a collogue several years ago and asked him what would be done if the glaciers started to advance toward populated areas.  His response is we could seed the glaciers with activated carbon to promote melting. 

[TBoneTX 45,304]

42 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

looking at this holistically

Which leftists NEVER do.  Never is one consequence considered.

43 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

reflecting more sunlight away will reduce the amount of solar energy available for the all so important solar generating stations, and cooling the planet may have a more adverse effect such as more people dying from the cold as discussed elsewhere, and growing glaciers

Excellent points.

43 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

we could seed the glaciers with activated carbon to promote melting

Interesting.  How much activated carbon would it take?

[Dashinka 24,508]

5 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Which leftists NEVER do.  Never is one consequence considered.

Excellent points.

Interesting.  How much activated carbon would it take?

A whole lot.  Anyway, the world is full of crackpots.

[TBoneTX 45,304]

Maybe we could activate Al Gore's carbon credits -- he probably has a whole lot.

[TBoneTX 45,304]

Earth would be healthier if we were all shorter, greenies say

 

PJ Media recently referenced a New York Times opinion piece by Gross Anatomy author (and confessed short person) Mara Altman in which she argues that "short is better, and it is the future."

 

Altman wrote, "Short people don't just save resources, but as resources become scarcer because of the earth's growing population and global warming, they may also be best suited for long-term survival."  [...]

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/earth_would_be_healthier_if_we_were_all_shorter_greenies_say.html

[Mike E 11,739]

3/3 tonight I picked the Bee.  
 

I lost each time. 
 

You beat me like a rented mule.