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WTF

Time to move to Scotland?

It's coming bro. I don't know what to say, it's a shame Dr. Wadhams moved his prediction to 2017.

So, you're predicting an ice-free Arctic within the next couple years?  Okay, good luck.

Wow, we're talking about climate change genocide now.     

Agreed well said. I still liked the talk of warm core tropical like storm systems in the arctic at the time.

Woah. Was this actually discussed? I'd love to read those posts.

One-way trip to permaburn hell.

The D16 GFS??????????

The sea ice thread is out of control. It is amazing the passion people have about ice thousands of miles away from their backyards... ha.

I like extreme weather, so yes.

That being said, it is surely much inferior when compared to snow or even sleet.

We need more buttons undone. Be like Max!

Asheboro?

You can clearly see the billboard behind him says something about art and culture so nope probably not Asheboro. 

Valparaiso, Chile.

I don't know if I'm posted a picture or not before.  This was taken a a week-and-a-half ago from somewhere much warmer than here.

The global will will not be there until we get alarmed, shocked, and frightened by an actual threat. An ice free arctic in late summer might do the trick. That will be the climate change Pearl Harbor. After the holidays I am going to start a new topic about this.

Yeah, but even that is not going to affect anyone outside of the arctic, at least initially.

I have tremendous doubts that the developing world is going to eschew progress in favor of environmental sustainability. They just look at it as a way for the first-world to keep the developing world from developing.

1. Declare global war on GHG.
   
2. Invest in sustainable energy: solar, wind, wave, ethanol, hydrogen, geothermal(this will kick the world economy into high gear as a secondary effect.) then:
   
3. stop mining and pumping fossil fuels.
   
4. Go back to returnable reusable bottles, compost able packaging.
   
5. Build durable(1,000+ yr) infrastructure(like the Romans did. Some of their aquiducts, roads bridges, sewers, and buildings are still in use.).
   
6. Use bicycles and walking for routine, local, travel.
   
7. Replant the forests.
   
8. Invest in research in sustainable farming and living.
   
9. Stop dumping chemicals into the environment.
   
10. Stop human population growth through education and economic incentives.
    
11. Back off from the natural world. Have a smaller footprint.
    
12. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
    

That would be a reasonable start. Its a twelve step program for fossil fuel addiction.

These are all great, but very idealistic in nature. How do you plan on getting everyone to comply by these 12 rules? Also, there is no way China, India, and other developing countries would comply with these regulations, so it is really pretty hopeless for the time being. It is what it is and I don't think CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is going to decline unless the global economy melts down.

Methane is deadly.

Your point?

Clearly it's being used as a fear-mongering attention-grabber in the article, though. Its usage there really wasn't necessary.

We shall see what happens with the methane. That's the problem with the climate; there are so many feedbacks that feed other feedbacks, ect.

Mt Mitchell

Ha, I've been there twice and both times have featured fog and rain. Looks like you picked a golden day to hit the summit!

Kind of a crappy picture, but I met Richard Petty at his shops a couple months ago.

Here is a better picture of me from last year at the Palace of Versailles when I had a beard.

Ds get degrees, at least that was the case at my university, some of the bigger ones like PSU, OU, Wisconsin that is not the case, notice to all....if you are weak in math I'd strongly advise going to one of the smaller schools, they tend not to have the C or C- requirement for core courses and generally are more forcast based....nobody is going to ask for your transcript the majority of the time outside the NWS and even if they do they could give a rat's booty about your Ds in math if your Met class grades were good.

Good news for me... I just got a C- in Calc 1.

NC State requires us to get a C- in our Calculus courses. I had a B going into the final exam, but I think I did pretty poorly on it, so I'll probably end up with a C. I'm God awful in Chemistry, as well, but managed to do well on the final exam and got a B- in there. My other grades are B+s or As.

It seems to me a lot of the arguments that the OP made could be said about a lot of jobs. For example, automation. Does it worry me some? Yes. However, there's few jobs out there that aren't subject to being automated. My dad is an airline pilot. I'm not sure if there will be any airline pilots in 50 years. My uncle works on the railroad. Will trains be completely automated in 50 years? Low-level jobs are susceptible, as well, such as cashiering. A lot of office jobs could probably be automated in the future. Middle-management is susceptible. Even a salesman is susceptible if you believe something like the "Manna" story by Marshall Brain could happen.

I know the environment is not great, but it's hard to see me doing anything else outside of something related to aviation and that's certainly susceptible to automation. You just have to do what you love and it will hopefully work out. NC State is a good engineering school and there are more jobs available in the engineering sector, but I just can't see going through four years of boring classes related to engineering and then working at a boring engineering job. The only engineering which I would be interested in is aviation engineering.

That was a bit long-winded, but while the OP has valid points, I just feel like he's being a little reactive based on some sort of personal experience he had.