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Weather.
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(7 March 2023, 14:20)bigpaul Wrote: anyone got any of this snow the papers keep panicking about this week?
dull and overcast here, a few drips of rain but so far nothing white.

Typically the interglacial lasts about 10,000 years, and then ends with a sudden and dramatic drop in temperature. The current interglacial is 2000 years over due for its end.

When it happens, it isn't so much the drop in temperature, but the drying of the climate, that will totally destroy global agriculture. Realistically there won't be the land to grow the crops to sustain most of the population and perhaps 90% will die.

So, if you assume 1 in 2000 chance of the next ice-age starting every year, there's around a 5% chance of an ice-age starting in the lifetime of anyone born this year. That's the biggest risk most people face... yet you won't find a single academic or government employee working on the issue. Yet there are millions globally working to stop plants having CO2, which they love and may actually stop or curtail the next ice-age.

What it proves is that government perception of risk is inversely proportional to the real threat.
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Weather. - by bigpaul - 7 March 2023, 14:20
RE: Weather. - by Straight Shooter - 7 March 2023, 17:36
RE: Weather. - by Straight Shooter - 8 March 2023, 13:28
RE: Weather. - by bigpaul - 8 March 2023, 13:37
RE: Weather. - by Sekwo - 14 July 2023, 08:35
RE: Weather. - by bigpaul - 14 July 2023, 10:53
RE: Weather. - by Sekwo - 14 July 2023, 16:05
RE: Weather. - by bigpaul - 14 July 2023, 16:42
RE: Weather. - by Sekwo - 14 July 2023, 20:36
RE: Weather. - by bigpaul - 15 July 2023, 07:41
RE: Weather. - by Pete Grey - 14 July 2023, 20:52
RE: Weather. - by Sekwo - 15 July 2023, 08:49

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