Re:The $47T Death Sentence for Oil and Gas
by coldtea on Friday September 27, 2019 @03:22AM
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>What countries have experienced an "apocalyptic future" due to climate change seeing as you are smarter than NASA?
Note that the latter part is an ad-hominem, and what it puts forward (that I'm "smarter than NASA") was nowhere in my message (not even implied). So I might not be "smarter than NASA", but you (or at least your comment) are ruder than needed.
As to the point I made. NASA presents the Disney version for a lot of reasons, not because of lack of smart people there. Two main ones:
One is that they are a government agency, and need to be political (e.g. balance the pressure from those that discard the climate impact altogether and "meet them in the middle").
Second, is that in such a public pronouncement they tend to be conservative and err on the side of caution.
As for the countries that have already experienced an "apocalyptic future":
Note that the latter part is an ad-hominem, and what it puts forward (that I'm "smarter than NASA") was nowhere in my message (not even implied). So I might not be "smarter than NASA", but you (or at least your comment) are ruder than needed.
As to the point I made. NASA presents the Disney version for a lot of reasons, not because of lack of smart people there. Two main ones:
One is that they are a government agency, and need to be political (e.g. balance the pressure from those that discard the climate impact altogether and "meet them in the middle").
Second, is that in such a public pronouncement they tend to be conservative and err on the side of caution.
As for the countries that have already experienced an "apocalyptic future":
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/10/five-pac...
Here's another:
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/24/pakistan...
And the migrant crisis that affects tens of millions (and a project 1 billion until 2050) is strongly affected by climate change already...
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/10/disease-flood...