Post #430,550
8/28/19 4:13:10 PM
8/28/19 4:13:10 PM
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what happens if all of the amazon burned plus everything else?
not much except we would get hungry, some science anybody? https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/amazon-fire-earth-has-plenty-oxygen/596923/“What would happen if we combusted every living cell on Earth?” it asked. That is, Peters wanted to know what would happen to the atmosphere if you burned down not just the Amazon, but every forest on Earth, every blade of grass, every moss and lichen-spackled patch of rock, all the flowers and bees, all the orchids and hummingbirds, all the phytoplankton, zooplankton, whales, starfish, bacteria, giraffes, hyraxes, coatimundis, oarfish, albatrosses, mushrooms, placozoans—all of it, besides the humans.
Peters pulled up the next slide. After this unthinkable planetary immolation, the concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere dropped from 20.9 percent to 20.4 percent. CO2 rose from 400 parts per million to 900—less, even, than it does in the worst-case scenarios for fossil-fuel emissions by 2100. By burning every living thing on Earth. one hellofa smokers cough no doubt "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #430,567
8/29/19 5:49:57 AM
8/29/19 5:49:57 AM
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Oh please don't
The oxygen argument is one of the least important reasons why we shouldn't normalise burning the Amazon.
This sort of "technically correct is the best kind of correct" stuff gets out-of-context weaponised by climate change deniers and other anti-science asshats.
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Post #430,569
8/29/19 7:13:46 AM
8/29/19 7:13:46 AM
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"Gets" weaponized? This clearly *started* that way.
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Post #430,571
8/29/19 9:23:15 AM
8/29/19 9:23:15 AM
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maybe the cryers shouldnt be howling "the lungs of the world" everywhere
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #430,575
8/29/19 7:06:30 PM
8/29/19 7:11:54 PM
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Today.. The Menace wants to eliminate restrictions on Methane *Leaks*
Were he Assigned ("..or else we publish the Pissing Videos"!) by Comrade Putin to "increase the devolution-rate of the dis-US back to the Ice Age"
... there'd be no difference in his Instruction Set-to-Date.
Only science-ignoramuses/flat-earthers thus, The Base would not describe the above as Traitorous.
You gots yer Brexit mondo-clusterfuck; We'unses have ... well you know... Bolsonaro-grade Ignorance writ worldwide.
We are er, enjoined to maintain an open mind; this koan was never meant to imply: there's no keeping anything Inside or Out of it.
'Muricans tried to achieve adulthood; millions--we see hourly now--are a FAIL.
All it is taking is: regression to antediluvian mind-sets, fueled by superstition, mental laziness--increasingly via sheer-Viciousness-in-spirit
thence: the declining IQs via feckless Ed-ju-ma-Kay shun.
What DOES one 'call': Racing towards Extinction ---> with-open-arms? I no words.
Box is merely the outlier-Contrarian, who imagines self smarter than [any Fact? any Science, etc.] There's a word for such (besides a strain of solipsism;)
IIRC it's megalomania®, a slightly lesser neurasthenia ..but no less annoying, in perpetuo.
Edited by Ashton
Aug. 29, 2019, 07:11:54 PM EDT
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Post #430,581
8/29/19 10:55:07 PM
8/29/19 10:55:07 PM
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So you'll be happy to hear Tongass National Forest will be harvested.
Newsweek: Trump to Lift Logging Restrictions in America's Largest National Forest: The Trump administration is looking to remove a 20-year-old set of logging restrictions covering the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, according to reports.
Tongass—located in the southeast of the state—is the largest national forest in the United States encompassing 16.7 million acres.
In 2001, the Clinton administration introduced the so-called "Roadless Rule" which put limitations on logging and road construction across the country. But The Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump has directed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to lift these restrictions at Tongass so that the forest is exempt from these rules, citing three sources who were briefed privately on the issue.
The latest moves could potentially open up more than half of Tongass—the world's largest intact temperate rain forest—to logging, mining and energy projects, environmental groups warn. Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #430,584
8/30/19 9:40:58 AM
8/30/19 9:40:58 AM
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it is still a national forest and there are well known methods of protection
permits, meetings, lawsuits before a single log can be extracted. Certainly no trees will be cut before the next election "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #430,601
8/30/19 7:27:47 PM
8/30/19 7:27:47 PM
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It's a national emergency -> chop
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Post #430,602
8/30/19 9:11:51 PM
8/30/19 9:11:51 PM
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well there is that
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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