Important climate change warning

[JTQ]

As the planet warms the human body cools.

https://www.newscientist.com/article...no-longer-37c/

Human adaptation or merely the way data is collected?

[blues]

Is it warm in here or is it just me?

[NickA]

Is it warm in here or is it just me?

Like Dennis Miller once said regarding climate change, "Eh, I'm always a little cold anyway." [emoji41]

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[LittleLebowski]

Niche uses of whale oil don't really negate the fact that it was supplanted by a more readily available, energy-dense medium.

We didn't keep using whale oil for a major energy source into the 1970s. We replaced it with something better a long time prior.

We'll keep using fossil fuels for plastics manufacturing long after burning it to keep warm seems insane.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/91b9f07...e-8259e57b7ef7

[BehindBlueI's]

As the planet warms the human body cools.

https://www.newscientist.com/article...no-longer-37c/

Human adaptation or merely the way data is collected?

Well, per the article likely unrelated:

“The most likely explanation in my view is that, microbiologically, we’re very different people than we were,” says Parsonnet. Modern people have fewer infections, thanks to vaccines and antibiotics, so our immune systems are less active and our body tissues less inflamed. If that is true, body temperatures should also have fallen in other countries where people’s health has improved.

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article...#ixzz6CX5RvVwG

On a side note, I wonder if this is related to the studies showing we're slightly fatter than our fairly recent ancestors even when calories consumed and activity is accounted for. If we're cooler our resting metabolism rates are a bit lower.

[cmoore]

The main science associated with climate change is political science.

From an old Tommy James song...

[OlongJohnson]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45584-3

Article projecting reductions in temperature through ~2055, followed by increase of up to 2.5 *C by 2600, independent of human activity.

Anyone know enough science to comment productively?

Rush Limbaugh posted about it yesterday, apparently.

[Borderland]

Deleted.. too political.

[OlongJohnson]

ETA: This was a response to @Borderland's deleted post.

I know with a 10 or 15 foot rise in sea level, Skagit Everything is f'ed. Like many, many other good places to live where a lot of food is grown. Don't know if it will happen in my lifetime, or if there is anything that all of humanity could do to delay it by a useful amount if we worked together.

One thing I am certain of is that all of humanity will not work together toward that goal. If there is a tragedy coming that could be prevented in some way, it will be a "tragedy of the commons" and we are inescapably in it.

[Borderland]

ETA: This was a response to @Borderland's deleted post.

I know with a 10 or 15 foot rise in sea level, Skagit Everything is f'ed. Like many, many other good places to live where a lot of food is grown. Don't know if it will happen in my lifetime, or if there is anything that all of humanity could do to delay it by a useful amount if we worked together.

One thing I am certain of is that all of humanity will not work together toward that goal. If there is a tragedy coming that could be prevented in some way, it will be a "tragedy of the commons" and we are inescapably in it.

I deleted that post because the link was to a website that was a little strange.

Here's the content I was after.


https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/fe...nkovitch_3.php