World will end in 12 years..according to supergirl

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Ocasio-Cortez calls climate change ‘our World War II,’ warns the world will end in 12 years

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/oca...nd-in-12-years

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take politics completely out of this. lets forget about cortez for a sec. climate change will dramatically change the world. there can be no doubt about that. the cost and impact is rising in real time and will continue to speed up. long term cost will actually be far more expensive and long lasting then WW2.

now the part where i tend to disagree with her is how much we can actually do about it. i think it's already in motion and no matter what we do the change is already happening. I think maybe we can slow it down a bit if we were to cut lets say 50% of our carbon emissions but i think the slow down in global warming would be negligible. that's kind of the sad part. i'm basically saying we are helpless and doomed.

with the doom and gloom in mind, we should still absolutely take care of our planet and do our best to treat it with great care. it's all we have.

bringing politics back into the discussion. i'm definitely a democrat when it comes to science and climate. facts are facts and I can't deny facts like so many on the right seem so willing to do.

as far as cortez goes. i'm actually starting to like her for 1 reason. she is weakening ole chuck and nancy. they suddenly seem less in control and on shaky ground. you are going to see a power struggle start playing out. this will weaken the left. people talk about the right being afraid of her but nobody is talking about the old guard on the left. it's they that are most afraid. those fake fucks nancy and chuck are scared shitless.

[lipripper]

take politics completely out of this. lets forget about cortez for a sec. climate change will dramatically change the world. there can be no doubt about that. the cost and impact is rising in real time and will continue to speed up. long term cost will actually be far more expensive and long lasting then WW2.



now the part where i tend to disagree with her is how much we can actually do about it. i think it's already in motion and no matter what we do the change is already happening. I think maybe we can slow it down a bit if we were to cut lets say 50% of our carbon emissions but i think the slow down in global warming would be negligible. that's kind of the sad part. i'm basically saying we are helpless and doomed.



with the doom and gloom in mind, we should still absolutely take care of our planet and do our best to treat it with great care. it's all we have.



bringing politics back into the discussion. i'm definitely a democrat when it comes to science and climate. facts are facts and I can't deny facts like so many on the right seem so willing to do.



as far as cortez goes. i'm actually starting to like her for 1 reason. she is weakening ole chuck and nancy. they suddenly seem less in control and on shaky ground. you are going to see a power struggle start playing out. this will weaken the left. people talk about the right being afraid of her but nobody is talking about the old guard on the left. it's they that are most afraid. those fake fucks nancy and chuck are scared shitless.

So..you believe the world is done in 12 years? Comon bro? That's the whole thing..she's a fucking wack job if she believes the Earth is gonna end in 12 years...lmfao

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I didn't read what she said but some scientists say in X number of years at the rate we are going we will be past the point of no return. I think we are past that point and there is no way we will change to the degree needed. So, I'm just bucking up and getting ready for the ride.

https://youtu.be/ioPa1URjZ_Y

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So..you believe the world is done in 12 years? Comon bro? That's the whole thing..she's a fucking wack job if she believes the Earth is gonna end in 12 years...lmfao

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the 12 year limit is not meant literally. it's buzz words for the media to pick up on. click bait type shit. she's smart in that sense. she knows how to spread her message. say a few key words and everyone losses their minds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8F_bO5zQXk

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new study doesn't paint a pretty picture.

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January 21, 2019 - Ohio State University


Greenland is melting faster than scientists previously thought -- and will likely lead to faster sea level rise -- thanks to the continued, accelerating warming of the Earth's atmosphere, a new study has found.

Scientists concerned about sea level rise have long focused on Greenland's southeast and northwest regions, where large glaciers stream iceberg-sized chunks of ice into the Atlantic Ocean. Those chunks float away, eventually melting. But a new study published Jan. 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that the largest sustained ice loss from early 2003 to mid-2013 came from Greenland's southwest region, which is mostly devoid of large glaciers.

"Whatever this was, it couldn't be explained by glaciers, because there aren't many there," said Michael Bevis, lead author of the paper, Ohio Eminent Scholar and a professor of geodynamics at The Ohio State University. "It had to be the surface mass -- the ice was melting inland from the coastline."

That melting, which Bevis and his co-authors believe is largely caused by global warming, means that in the southwestern part of Greenland, growing rivers of water are streaming into the ocean during summer. The key finding from their study: Southwest Greenland, which previously had not been considered a serious threat, will likely become a major future contributor to sea level rise.

"We knew we had one big problem with increasing rates of ice discharge by some large outlet glaciers," he said. "But now we recognize a second serious problem: Increasingly, large amounts of ice mass are going to leave as meltwater, as rivers that flow into the sea."

The findings could have serious implications for coastal U.S. cities, including New York and Miami, as well as island nations that are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels.

And there is no turning back, Bevis said.

"The only thing we can do is adapt and mitigate further global warming -- it's too late for there to be no effect," he said. "This is going to cause additional sea level rise. We are watching the ice sheet hit a tipping point."

Climate scientists and glaciologists have been monitoring the Greenland ice sheet as a whole since 2002, when NASA and Germany joined forces to launch GRACE. GRACE stands for Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, and involves twin satellites that measure ice loss across Greenland. Data from these satellites showed that between 2002 and 2016, Greenland lost approximately 280 gigatons of ice per year, equivalent to 0.03 inches of sea level rise each year. But the rate of ice loss across the island was far from steady.

Bevis' team used data from GRACE and from GPS stations scattered around Greenland's coast to identify changes in ice mass. The patterns they found show an alarming trend -- by 2012, ice was being lost at nearly four times the rate that prevailed in 2003. The biggest surprise: This acceleration was focused in southwest Greenland, a part of the island that previously hadn't been known to be losing ice that rapidly.

Bevis said a natural weather phenomenon -- the North Atlantic Oscillation, which brings warmer air to West Greenland, as well as clearer skies and more solar radiation -- was building on man-made climate change to cause unprecedented levels of melting and runoff. Global atmospheric warming enhances summertime melting, especially in the southwest. The North Atlantic Oscillation is a natural -- if erratic -- cycle that causes ice to melt under normal circumstances. When combined with man-made global warming, though, the effects are supercharged.

"These oscillations have been happening forever," Bevis said. "So why only now are they causing this massive melt? It's because the atmosphere is, at its baseline, warmer. The transient warming driven by the North Atlantic Oscillation was riding on top of more sustained, global warming."

Bevis likened the melting of Greenland's ice to coral bleaching: Once the ocean's water hits a certain temperature, coral in that region begins to bleach. There have been three global coral bleaching events. The first was caused by the 1997-98 El Niño, and the other two events by the two subsequent El Niños. But El Niño cycles have been happening for thousands of years -- so why have they caused global coral bleaching only since 1997?

"What's happening is sea surface temperature in the tropics is going up; shallow water gets warmer and the air gets warmer," Bevis said. "The water temperature fluctuations driven by an El Niño are riding this global ocean warming. Because of climate change, the base temperature is already close to the critical temperature at which coral bleaches, so an El Niño pushes the temperature over the critical threshold value. And in the case of Greenland, global warming has brought summertime temperatures in a significant portion of Greenland close to the melting point, and the North Atlantic Oscillation has provided the extra push that caused large areas of ice to melt."

Before this study, scientists understood Greenland to be one of the Earth's major contributors to sea-level rise -- mostly because of its glaciers. But these new findings, Bevis said, show that scientists need to be watching the island's snowpack and ice fields more closely, especially in and near southwest Greenland.

GPS systems in place now monitor Greenland's ice margin sheet around most of its perimeter, but the network is very sparse in the southwest, so it is necessary to densify the network there, given these new findings.

"We're going to see faster and faster sea level rise for the foreseeable future," Bevis said. "Once you hit that tipping point, the only question is: How severe does it get?"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0121153636.htm

[lipripper]

the 12 year limit is not meant literally. it's buzz words for the media to pick up on. click bait type shit. she's smart in that sense. she knows how to spread her message. say a few key words and everyone losses their minds.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8F_bO5zQXk

So..let me get this right...she is ok saying shit that's not true and not accountable for it..but if others say something... figuratively.....they are to be held accountable...called a liar. Wack job...right? Comon bro...your better then that. I'm not debating science... politics...none if it...just her statement as a congresswoman..the world will end in 12 years...she's a fucking wack job... Lmfao

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[Bouncer]

So..let me get this right...she is ok saying shit that's not true and not accountable for it..but if others say something... figuratively.....they are to be held accountable...called a liar. Wack job...right? Comon bro...your better then that. I'm not debating science... politics...none if it...just her statement as a congresswoman..the world will end in 12 years...she's a fucking wack job... Lmfao

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no it's not okay. I've already said it's not fine and I've compared her to trump with her word play. i'm saying she's doing things purposely to get attention. she's not a whack job, she's very smart in this particular way. she's know her words will create buzz and she's getting massive attention for it.

[lipripper]

no it's not okay. I've already said it's not fine and I've compared her to trump with her word play. i'm saying she's doing things purposely to get attention. she's not a whack job, she's very smart in this particular way. she's know her words will create buzz and she's getting massive attention for it.

I agree

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[Bouncer]

I agree

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LMAO...that's about right....

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