Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This Week

Re:Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This... by StreamBright on Thursday July 04, 2019 @07:47AM (#20353693)

So I guess there is no scientific reason, just living memory. For me such articles just lack the scientific merit and the only purpose is trying to cause mass hysteria. Earlier it was about how we all going the freeze to death, nowadays it is how we are all going to die because of global warming. In fact Earth went through several warm and cool periods, even if you look back just few hundred years. I am all for reducing CO2 and I am pretty successfully reduced unnecessary CO2 production in my work by using more efficient solutions and not wasting energy because this is what is under my control to help mother Earth. Writing click baity articles without context and scientific merit is not going to help anybody.

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Re:Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This... by cerebellum42 on Thursday July 04, 2019 @08:11AM (#20353825)

To cause "hysteria" in the way you're implying the general public would have to read the headline any other way than it is meant in the first place. But joe shmoe wasn't ever going to consider that 1000 years ago earth may have been in a different place climate wise so they're going to read the headline exactly the same whether it has the qualifier "in recorded history" or not.

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Re:Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This... by keymone on Thursday July 04, 2019 @08:01AM (#20353767)

Or maybe it’s only you who considers it clickbait and everybody else immediately understood the article was about recorded history of temperatures, because, you know, it’s kinda common sense?

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Re:Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This... by StreamBright on Thursday July 04, 2019 @03:06PM (#20356954)

I do not debate whenever it was the record in the last 100 years, I just try to understand what is the scientific implication.

If you look at the bigger picture it means nothing:

Last 65M years:

http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/graphs/lappi/65_Myr_Climate_C...

Lat 10K years:

https://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/graphs/lappi/gisp-last-10000...

Now please explain to me that how looking at only the last 100 years is relevant or it prooves anything.

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Re:Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This... by aoeaoeaoe on Thursday July 04, 2019 @08:02AM (#20353768)

Not for Peter Moore, his narrative has always been consistent, that's why Greenpeace erased him from founders on their website.

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Re:Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This... by StreamBright on Thursday July 04, 2019 @03:03PM (#20356940)

Yes because he revised his views on nuclear.

"Moore co-chaired the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, which was supported by the Nuclear Energy Institute, a national organization of pro-nuclear industries.[59] In 2009, as co-chair of the Coalition, he suggested that the mainstream media and the environmentalist movement is not as opposed to nuclear energy as in decades past.[59]

He argues that any realistic plan to reduce reliance on fossil fuels or greenhouse gas emissions would require increased use of nuclear energy to supply baseload power."

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Re:Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This... by aoeaoeaoe on Thursday July 04, 2019 @05:35PM (#20358000)

I fail to see how that's a revision of his views. He was against some nuclear bomb test sites, not against nuclear energy.

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