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Re:Triple-dip La Niña confirmed as BoM makes declaration by irrational on Saturday September 17, 2022 @05:22PM (#32881704)
Most people won’t be negatively affected? How do you justify that? How many people in the USA southwest are affected by the mega drought? How many people in China are affected by their mega drought? How many people in Europe are affected by the heat waves? How many people on islands and coastal areas are affected by sea levels rising? How many peoples are affected by glaciers melting and less snowpacks (such as villages in the Himalayas)?
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Re:Triple-dip La Niña confirmed as BoM makes declaration by kortilla on Saturday September 17, 2022 @06:03PM (#32882050)
> How many people in the USA southwest are affected by the mega drought?

This is a bad example because the area has gone through similar mega droughts over the last 5000+ years. The Colorado river compact was setup after an unusually wet period and now that the flow has returned to normal they are paying the price.

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Re:Triple-dip La Niña confirmed as BoM makes declaration by mokus on Saturday September 17, 2022 @07:14PM (#32882566)
I’ve been in car crashes before but that doesn’t mean I’m ok with increasing their frequency and severity.
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Re:Triple-dip La Niña confirmed as BoM makes declaration by bequanna on Saturday September 17, 2022 @05:34PM (#32881808)
Plenty of questions there. Do you have any of the answers?

Ah, right. This problem is so terrible and sneaky that we (quite conveniently) can't even measure its effect! Just to be safe, we should just assume everything bad is caused by this spectre.

Luckily, some very smart people who are not at all self-interested have told us that if we make great sacrifices and spend enough money that will help us avoid this impossible to measure problem.

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Re:Triple-dip La Niña confirmed as BoM makes declaration by russelg on Saturday September 17, 2022 @05:42PM (#32881883)
How is anything the poster stated not measurable? We can measure the rise of ocean levels, the rise of global temperature, the number of people on said coasts etc...

Take off your tinfoil hat for a quick second.

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Re:Triple-dip La Niña confirmed as BoM makes declaration by peyton on Saturday September 17, 2022 @05:43PM (#32881887)
It makes for great agitprop: play as cardboard characters of perfect virtue or absolute evil.
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Re:Triple-dip La Niña confirmed as BoM makes declaration by sph on Sunday September 18, 2022 @01:09AM (#32884594)
What are you and GP even talking about?
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Re:Triple-dip La Niña confirmed as BoM makes declaration by labster on Sunday September 18, 2022 @07:09AM (#32886489)
Hockey stick graphs are just astroturf agitprop in the class of endofunctors, what’s the problem?
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