The Nepal flooding disaster vs. climate "science" | Forum

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This week's disastrous flooding in Nepal [suggested to have been caused by earthquake] is a testament to our poor ability to respond preventively to natural disasters.

No climate change wizardry, no dollar contribution to the Green New Deal would have prevented this disaster. To think we could have predicted this with any accuracy of timing or preventive action is about as wishful thinking as if we had any ability to clean the clouds.

In terms of what science can do, in this regard, we're still trying to figure out how to plant corn and expect to harvest a crop.

Climate science? That's what you really think it is? An infantile science, at best, right now. Hell, predicting the weather by the detail of neighborhoods accurately, hour-to-hour, is still beyond us, let alone an event like what happened this week in Nepal. God bless those people affected, and succor those in desperate need now, and in their grief for those they have lost.

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@SatanLucy

There is a solution for heat… air conditioning. But there is no solution for earthquakes.

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@SatanLucy

Oh global warming is real.

Yes, looking at Earth's climatology in the short term would lead to that conclusion; perhaps the last 10 - 20,000 years, or so. But the fact is, geological scientists [a much older and more mature science than climatology, which has been a "science" for only the last 200 years] have known this since the mid-nineteenth century, that we are in a current ice age, called the Quaternary Glaciation Period.

Modern geology formally pins the start of the Quaternary Period and its ice age cycles at 2.58 million years ago, a timeline ratified in 2009 by the International Union of Geological Sciences based on deep-sea core samples. https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/living-in-the-new-ice-age/

In the late 19th century, we discovered that within a single ice age, there are alternating periods of glaciation [expansion of glaciers] and interglaciation periods [receding glaciers]. https://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/content/discoveryofmultiiceages.html

We are currently in the latter, therefore measuring rising temperatures. That this cycle of alternating periods of cold and warm will continue, just as we observe the same phenomenon on other planets and even the Sun.

In. otyher words, climate science needs to grow up.

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<blockquote>Oh global warming is real.</blockquote> Yes, looking at Earth's climatology in the short term would lead to that conclusion; perhaps the last 10 - 20,000 years, or so. But the fact is, geological scientists [a much older and more mature science than climatology, which has been a "science" for only the last 200 years] have known this since the mid-nineteenth century, that we are in a current ice age, called the Quaternary Glaciation Period. Modern geology formally pins the start of the Quaternary Period and its ice age cycles at 2.58 million years ago, a timeline ratified in 2009 by the International Union of Geological Sciences based on deep-sea core samples. <a href="https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/living-in-the-new-ice-age/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/living-in-the-new-ice-age/</a> In the late 19th century, we discovered that within a single ice age, there are alternating periods of glaciation [expansion of glaciers] and interglaciation periods [receding glaciers]. <a href="https://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/content/discoveryofmultiiceages.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/content/discoveryofmultiiceages.html</a>We are currently in the latter, therefore measuring rising temperatures. That this cycle of alternating periods of cold and warm will continue, just as we observe the same phenomenon on other planets and even the Sun. In. otyher words, climate science needs to grow up.

We tell God what to do and then blame Him for our errors.

- Dr. Pet Dragon of Sorbonne University

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@SatanLucy

I have millions of years-worth of Earth data against an alarmist crowd that thinks we can control Earth's climate by throwing money at the clouds. Any attempt I've made at throwing money in that direction ends up with every penny back on the ground, some on my head, first. I learned the first time that was stupid. You know what Einstein said about repetition expecting different results...

The same crowd, coincidentally, tries to convince us that men can be impregnated. The same crowd tells us they cannot define "woman."

Three strikes says the batter is out. On deck...

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@SatanLucy

Unfortunately Canada will benefit from global warming.

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