My plan is to be cryogenically frozen and then be awakened just as this is happening, so I can watch that! I'll wake up Ted Williams for that one too.Iguru wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 2:42 pmUntil the sun goes red giant and the first three planets are swallowed up in the processtimisimaginary wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 2:04 pmhumanity will pay the ultimate price eventually: extinction.COFitnessJenn wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 10:44 am Makes me sad, nature/wildlife pays the ultimate price for human greed and ignorance.
after that, nature and wildlife will recover and be better off without us. might take a few hundred or a few thousand or a few million years, but the planet will be fine in the end.
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Human kind will either be extinct or have moved on to other planets long before that happens. All plant life (and then other life) will likely be extinct or going to be extinct in another ~600,000,000 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth
It's likely that the earth won't be swallowed up until almost seven billion years after that happens.
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We have never been able to predict earthquakes, but predicting the future of the planet Earth must be much easier and not at all akin to conspiracy theories
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False equivalency. There are a ton of things we don't know/understand. That in no way diminishes the confidence in the processes we do understand.
The climate is observable and we understand it's functioning from first principles (i.e. physical laws and math). Earthquakes are underpinned by large-scale processes that are incredibly challenging to measure with our current technology, so we don't understand it well enough to make predictions.
Climate models from 2004 predicted the following 16 years of global temperatures with remarkable accuracy:
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So, we should be more concerned about the immediate future than the long term future. Whoda thunkScott P wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:57 pmHuman kind will either be extinct or have moved on to other planets long before that happens. All plant life (and then other life) will likely be extinct or going to be extinct in another ~600,000 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth
It's likely that the earth won't be swallowed up until almost seven billion years after that happens.
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Don't engage the dum dums.Dave B wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:12 pmFalse equivalency. There are a ton of things we don't know/understand. That in no way diminishes the confidence in the processes we do understand.
The climate is observable and we understand it's functioning from first principles (i.e. physical laws and math). Earthquakes are underpinned by large-scale processes that are incredibly challenging to measure with our current technology, so we don't understand it well enough to make predictions.
Climate models from 2004 predicted the following 16 years of global temperatures with remarkable accuracy:
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That is a fun article Scott. In agreement, more or less with this:Scott P wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:57 pmHuman kind will either be extinct or have moved on to other planets long before that happens. All plant life (and then other life) will likely be extinct or going to be extinct in another ~600,000 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth
It's likely that the earth won't be swallowed up until almost seven billion years after that happens.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/22 ... ion-years/
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Indeed. Definitely a typo on my part.Wentzl wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 6:57 pm
That is a fun article Scott, but you left some zeros off you summary. Not 600,000 years, but 600,000,000. In agreement, more or less with this:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/22 ... ion-years/
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He is the master of all he surveys. And a sixth degree black belt in the google fu discipline. Show proper respect, grasshoppa.
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me too...plus mold, pollution, etc. I've already visited an ENT and he's got me jacked on prednisone.Jon Frohlich wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 10:37 am I'm super sensitive to wildfire smoke and I'm already having headaches, sneezing, and asthma attacks even in Denver. Not looking forward to another few months of this at all.
the first time visited CB, I was immediately addicted to that alpine air. clean air, clean creeks and rivers, clean town. I was in nirvana. I'm grateful that I had 5 summers of that kind of beauty, it will never be forgotten.
so depressing that I or the next generation may never experience that again.
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