The story went around among climate change denying media and social media, and nobody bothered to look up any actual facts.
Bro . Cosmic Rays will kill or severely damage anyone who takes that journey. Not to mention the radiation or the damage zero gravity does to the human body.
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I think this notion has been debunked.Well eventually our sun will explode but before then it will start getting bigger and the few degrees difference will kill us all first .
First post best post. I had much lower expectations for the average IQ of this forum.None of the above. We aren't even close to being wiped out in the next 100 years or so.
Edit: Some interesting reading regarding climate change:
Many climate change scientists do not agree that global warming is happening - PMC
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Will climate change drive humans extinct or destroy civilization?
Almost certainly not—but unless we act quickly to stop warming the planet, there will be very severe consequences for many, many people. October 20, 2023climate.mit.edu
aah, this is a better explanation than what i posted, thanks.Increase in global temp does increase the amount of water the atmosphere can hold.
Steamy Relationships: How Atmospheric Water Vapor Amplifies Earth's Greenhouse Effect - NASA Science
Water vapor is Earth’s most abundant greenhouse gas. It’s responsible for about half of Earth’s greenhouse effect — the process that occurs when gases in Earth’s atmosphere trap the Sun’s heat. Greenhouse gases keep our planet livable. Without them, Earth’s surface temperature would be about 59...science.nasa.gov
Water being not just drawn from the ocean makes trees and land dry out more. The severity and frequency of forest fires will continue to increase with rising global atmosphere temps.
Well eventually our sun will explode but before then it will start getting bigger and the few degrees difference will kill us all first .
One of the problems.
Working toward survivability of biological life isn't a god complex, Mormon example upcoming. But life will survive, not human life with current attitudes.
They don't beleiveor talk about those things...
I will admit I did not look up the elevation of Pres. Obama's property. I will concede that point. However - huge investments in hyper-exclusive coastal enclaves still don't make sense if catastrophic climate change is imminent. Even with elevation.I love how you cheerfully just ignore the fact it’s not at any danger from sea level rises
It’s not imminent, tbh. There’s a concerted effort to say that it is because humans aren’t typically going to care about dangers 100 years away, and by the time it’s obvious to the general public the damage may be irreversible and catastrophic.
Not sure I understand the bolded. You're saying there is more water evaporating into the atmosphere but less of it is precipitating back into drinkable sources?
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So, yes, there is a problem because we are not able to store enough of the rainwater we get, due to more extream - and more widely separated - precipitation events. The same amount of rain, distributed differently, would be enough for us. But currently when it rains, most of that rain quickly flows back to the oceans instead of being absorbed into aquifers.
This is a fallacy. Just because something hasn't occurred doesn't mean it won't. Extinction has happened to many species, and just because ours has proliferated to such a high degree doesn't mean we can't go extinct.First post best post. I had much lower expectations for the average IQ of this forum.
Anyone who thinks humanity is going to be wiped out any time soon outside of an inadvertent apocalyptic event like an impact event is fooling themselves.
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia
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Humans are here to stay, whether we like it or not.
Sure, just add yours to the list.
And the dinosaurs could never have gone extinct either.
First post best post. I had much lower expectations for the average IQ of this forum.
Anyone who thinks humanity is going to be wiped out any time soon outside of an inadvertent apocalyptic event like an impact event is fooling themselves.
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia
Humans are here to stay, whether we like it or not.
Since we're comparing ourselves to dinosaurs, let's also bring up the fact that they existed for a 165 million years, we haven't been here for a fraction of that time. If you want me to believe we're the brink of extinction you'll need to provide better evidence than simply fear mongering about the next inevitable technological evolution or another looming war, global or otherwise. We've been waging wars since the dawn of civilization and possibly even before that.
they weren't actively looking for their own demise, either. We have a bad habit of looking for and causing trouble. And also not believing the consequences can happen to us.
Since I didn't get my answer, I'll repeat my question again: What currently suggests we are even remotely close to being extinct?
climate change might not take us out in our lifetimes, but the longer we don't give a shit about it, the worse it will be for us.
This should be the actual focus of discussions of this sort.
It's going to take more than meme understanding, though that may contribute to not making it.^I'm sure once the US Army Corps of Engineers figures out how to redeploy Lizzo to India this tilt will get sorted.
definitely seems a lot closer. been thinking about it quite a bit with AI exploding the last few years. lots of us use AI now. it's a useful tool but it's making us think less. as it improves we will rely on it even more and i can imagine us using it to enhance our brain. at first it'll be on device like our smartphones and everything else but eventually we'll be able to get implants/cybernetics that could attach directly to our brain. i think it's totally possible in the next 20-40 years.
that's too many fancy words for me. i'll try understand it lolDespite its professed strong attachment to the values of liberalism and forward-thinking, some critics argue transhumanism is a dangerous resurgence of many discriminatory attitudes and elitist ideals of the discredited eugenics movements of the past
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Nevertheless, the idea of creating intelligent artificial beings (proposed, for example, by roboticist Hans Moravec) has influenced transhumanism.[38] Moravec's ideas and transhumanism have also been characterised as a "complacent" or "apocalyptic" variant of posthumanism and contrasted with "cultural posthumanism" in humanities and the arts.[71] While such a "cultural posthumanism" would offer resources for rethinking the relationships between humans and increasingly sophisticated machines, transhumanism and similar posthumanisms are, in this view, not abandoning obsolete concepts of the "autonomous liberal subject", but are expanding its "prerogatives" into the realm of the posthuman.[72] Transhumanist self-characterisations as a continuation of humanism and Enlightenment thinking correspond with this view.
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