The Climate Change Thread

Is rapid climate change man made?

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Tiffany

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I hope your storms aren't too severe as they come through and everyone will be okay.
 

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Hey, more bad news for our climate! 😃 There's so much nowadays that I just throw my hands up in despair. Now that Trump's an illegitimate president for a second term with an anti-climate change agenda, there's no hope anymore. I just hope the worst of it happens after my lifetime.

The Arctic has long filled humans with awe, but there are now profoundly worrying signals coming from the frozen landscape at the top of our planet, and scientists are deeply concerned about its future as the Trump administration pulls the US out of global climate strategy and guts its science agencies.

Last month was extreme: Temperatures in parts of the Arctic spiked 36 degrees Fahrenheit, or 20 Celsius, above normal. By the end of the month, sea ice was at its lowest level ever recorded for February, marking the third straight month of record lows.

 

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Is this where to put it? First time on this section. I'll just go ahead and leave this right here:

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And for the article:


I'm no scientist, but this all reads like some Looney Tunes stuff with Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote physics, with equipment fabricated by ACME.

>Just block out the sun bro

It's not like the UK is a beacon of sunshine.

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Oh, and then there is this gem:


Other British geo-engineering experiments have fallen under the umbrella of the government agency called SATAN.
The “Stratospheric Aerosol Transport and Nucleation,” balloon systems were made from stock and hobbyist components, with hardware costs that ran less than $1000.

Are we really not living in a cartoon? Someone is pulling our leg, right? Right? 😐

Edit: after having read this news, I've selected the illuminati option on the poll. I mean, come on. SATAN??? There just ain't no other way. 🙈😅
 

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Satan's brain child indeed.
Humans meddling with Nature only heralds calamities and disasters of global magnitude.
What's especially frustrating is that if they used proper science and cooperation, without the usual corruption, then something like this could work. The way things are however, yeah, calamity. 🙁
 

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I hope Tony Blair is right. If the whole UK killed off all emissions tomorrow, that would be less than 1% of the total global emissions, so why are they so keen to foist this expensive and lifestyle cramping crap on us ffs?

Sir Tony Blair has called for a major rethink of net zero policies, arguing that limiting energy consumption and fossil fuel production is "doomed to fail".

In a new report, the former Labour prime minister says voters "feel they're being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle when they know the impact on global emissions is minimal".

He does not call for Labour to halt its push to decarbonise the UK economy - but says all governments need to rethink their approach, as it is not working.

The Tories - who have joined Reform UK in opposing net zero emissions by 2050 - urged Labour to end the "mad dash" to this goal - but Downing Street said it would not be changing course.

And of course, our Kier will doggedly pursue these waste of space green strategies to the bitter end. :rolleyes:

 

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Hot on the heels of my post above comes this shocking story. 😮 Forget that tiny less than 1% difference that we could make by cutting our emissions with expensive and restrictive "green initiatives", they're blown completely out of the water by these rampant climate wrecking actions by Big Banks in bed with Big Corps. No way the government, regardless of flavour, didn't know about this and involved in some way, so they're complicit and flat out lying to us about achieving net zero, or whatever other BS that they try to foist on us.

I was right, all these "green initiatives" are indeed all about control of the little people and Big Corps increasingly profiting off us. You better believe it.

I wish it was possible to pin this post in this thread as this article is a real eye opener, a total game changer.

Banks in the City of London have poured more than $100bn (£75bn) into companies developing “carbon bombs” – huge oil, gas and coal projects that would drive the climate past internationally agreed temperature limits with catastrophic global consequences – according to a study.

Nine London-based banks, including HSBC, NatWest, Barclays and Lloyds are involved in financing companies responsible for at least 117 carbon bomb projects in 28 countries between 2016 – the year after the landmark Paris agreement was signed – and 2023, according to the study.

If the projects go ahead, the study says they will have the potential to produce 420bn tonnes of carbon emissions, equivalent to more than 10 years of current global carbon dioxide emissions.

 

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Banks are businesses... and businesses are there to make money and not be environmental stewards. That is the position of the governments. And if the governments do not restrict the construction then businesses are going to do what businesses do - go to where they can make that money. ;)
 

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It's not like the UK is a beacon of sunshine.
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I live squarely in the black region, somewhat east of the sunniest towns mentioned above.
 

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A recent discovery throws a spanner into the narrative that the Antarctic is losing ice. I stfill haven't made up my mind on whether this is good or bad, but is a good reminder that we are still in an ice age.

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Notably, four major glaciers in the Wilkes Land–Queen Mary Land region of East Antarctica reversed their previous pattern of accelerated mass loss from 2011 to 2020 and instead showed significant mass gain during the 2021 to 2023 period.
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ChatGPT helped me find these sources.

Spatiotemporal mass change rate analysis from 2002 to 2023 over the Antarctic Ice Sheet and four glacier basins in Wilkes-Queen Mary Land – Science China Earth Sciences (2025). Peer-reviewed study by Wang et al. using GRACE/GRACE-FO gravimetry data; it finds that after decades of mass loss, the AIS gained a record ~108 gigatons per year between 2021–2023dds.sciengine.com.
 
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