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Re:U.S. is now the world’s biggest oil and gas producer by hannibal5 on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:31AM (#6508077)
If we want to limit climate change to +2°C, we must leave 80% of hydrocarbons into the ground. This option is not showing in the prices of energy companies. It's just not going to happen.
Re:U.S. is now the world’s biggest oil and gas producer by devilsadvocate9 on Monday October 07, 2013 @10:54AM (#6508605)
The good news is that so far climate models have all been dramatically wrong in their predictions of global mean temperature, and that all of them have erred on the high side. It's striking how little knowledge climate activists have of relevant evidence.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2157446...

[2] http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/16/lomborg-climate-models...

Re:U.S. is now the world’s biggest oil and gas producer by beedogs on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:57AM (#6508223)
Hopefully the demise of our species will be quick and relatively painless, then.
Re:U.S. is now the world’s biggest oil and gas producer by criley2 on Monday October 07, 2013 @10:05AM (#6508280)
It will be bloody and violent and probably the single largest amount of human suffering from a single event in the short history of our civilization.

While it is an oversimplified game, Fate of the World can help show how increasing temperatures puts more energy into global systems resulting in intense storms, droughts, flooding, wildfires, famines, etc, and how that destabilizes regions leading to less effective ability to implement anti-warming policy.

Re:U.S. is now the world’s biggest oil and gas producer by foobarbazqux on Monday October 07, 2013 @10:04AM (#6508266)
On the bright side, forecasters that rely on computer models of massive systems often end up making horribly inaccurate predictions. For example, we usually get tomorrow's weather wrong.
Re:U.S. is now the world’s biggest oil and gas producer by throwaway2048 on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @04:58AM (#6513693)
Being wrong goes both ways