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[Arx]

Have to stay up late to wait for someone to email me a letter of reference for something that closes tomorrow. Nagging him to do it seems churlish. Bleh.

[Bohandas]

*smacks face on desk*

Yeah, the world cooled by 1 degree in 13 years, the independent scientists (independent being important) are finding varying results in terms of climate change and I suppose the moon's actually a picture someone photocopied and attached to a plane.

To be fair, predicting the weather is a notoriously inaccurate science

[EnigmaticHat]

That's not about predicting the weather.

[Orange Wizard]

*smacks face on desk*

Yeah, the world cooled by 1 degree in 13 years, the independent scientists (independent being important) are finding varying results in terms of climate change and I suppose the moon's actually a picture someone photocopied and attached to a plane.

It causes me physical pain to know there are people this stupid running countries

[TheBiggerFish]

*smacks face on desk*

Yeah, the world cooled by 1 degree in 13 years, the independent scientists (independent being important) are finding varying results in terms of climate change and I suppose the moon's actually a picture someone photocopied and attached to a plane.

It causes me physical pain to know there are people this stupid running countries

*starts looking into study-abroad programs to escape the one madhouse into a probably-less-madhouse*

[Bohandas]

That's not about predicting the weather.

It is when they say that the average global temperature rise by such-and-such or we'll lose x percentage of the polar icecaps amount by 2025 or whatever. Some amount of these things will almost certainly happen but I'm highly wary of the many activists who seem to be fond of quoting very specific numbers for them.

Personally I do believe in global warming, but I'm not particularly worried about it because I'm a good distance away from the coast and on a hill. I'm not gonna get flooded out by rising sea levels. And while arctic wildlife dying out is certainly sad, it's not something that affects me personally. Furthermore, I'm confident that the rich businesspeople currently standing in the way of taking measures to stop global warming will change their tune and start working to fix the environment as soon as a few of their beachfront and lakefront houses get washed away.

[TheBiggerFish]

That's not about predicting the weather.

It is when they say that the average global temperature rise by such-and-such or we'll lose x percentage of the polar icecaps amount by 2025 or whatever. Some amount of these things will almost certainly happen but I'm highly wary of the many activists who seem to be fond of quoting very specific numbers for them.

Personally I do believe in global warming, but I'm not particularly worried about it because I'm a good distance away from the coast and on a hill. I'm not gonna get flooded out by rising sea levels. And while arctic wildlife dying out is certainly sad, it's not something that affects me personally. Furthermore, I'm confident that the rich businesspeople currently standing in the way of taking measures to stop global warming will change their tune and start working to fix the environment as soon as a few of their beachfront and lakefront houses get washed away.

If we wait until then, it'll be massively harder to fix.
Like entrenchment.  MS, Google...

[Graknorke]

It is when they say that the average global temperature rise by such-and-such or we'll lose x percentage of the polar icecaps amount by 2025 or whatever. Some amount of these things will almost certainly happen but I'm highly wary of the many activists who seem to be fond of quoting very specific numbers for them.

Definition of climate in English:
noun
1The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period

Definition of weather in English:
noun
[mass noun]
1The state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time as regards heat, cloudiness, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc

It's important to know the difference between weather and climate. Otherwise people get away with saying things like "if global warming is real then why am I cold???"

[ChairmanPoo]

If global warming is real then why do monkeys still exist?

[GiglameshDespair]

If global warming is real then why do monkeys still exist?

Checkmate atheists

[Bauglir]

Personally I do believe in global warming, but I'm not particularly worried about it because I'm a good distance away from the coast and on a hill. I'm not gonna get flooded out by rising sea levels. And while arctic wildlife dying out is certainly sad, it's not something that affects me personally. Furthermore, I'm confident that the rich businesspeople currently standing in the way of taking measures to stop global warming will change their tune and start working to fix the environment as soon as a few of their beachfront and lakefront houses get washed away.

Wait, you think rising sea levels and a loss of ice caps is the only problem caused by global warming?

Hunger is a much bigger deal, and rising food prices do affect you.

[WillowLuman]

That's not about predicting the weather.

It is when they say that the average global temperature rise by such-and-such or we'll lose x percentage of the polar icecaps amount by 2025 or whatever. Some amount of these things will almost certainly happen but I'm highly wary of the many activists who seem to be fond of quoting very specific numbers for them.

Personally I do believe in global warming, but I'm not particularly worried about it because I'm a good distance away from the coast and on a hill. I'm not gonna get flooded out by rising sea levels. And while arctic wildlife dying out is certainly sad, it's not something that affects me personally. Furthermore, I'm confident that the rich businesspeople currently standing in the way of taking measures to stop global warming will change their tune and start working to fix the environment as soon as a few of their beachfront and lakefront houses get washed away.

By then, it will be too late to avert some really, really bad effects. It's actually already too late to avert some pretty nasty stuff, as even if we all stopped emitting right now, our various greenhouse gasses would stick around in the atmosphere for a while (especially CFCs) and other things would take decades to repair on their own.

But flooding is only one effect. And even just looking at that, there are ways that would affect you. With such a huge chunk of the world's population living in at-risk areas, the remaining areas would get more crowded, which, combined with the loss of so much productive land, would have major economic effects. The loss of coastal wetlands (which are extremely ecologically important), as well as other costal habitats, will prompt the denizens of those areas to flee further inland (or perish), causing disruption throughout the biosphere.

It's not necessarily doomsday, as some would paint it, but some things are going to suck in the within next 5 decades at least. Nothing will be completely isolated from the effects of global warming, due to everything on the planet affecting everything else to at least some degree.

[WillowLuman]

I kinda wish people were more like cats. Cats just walk up to you and ask for cuddles. No dance, no game, just cuddles (and then catbutt).

The irony to my simile is that I'm allergic to cats, and that about aptly summarizes things, too.

Sometimes they passive-aggressively shit on your bed, though.

[ShoesandHats]

I kinda wish people were more like cats. Cats just walk up to you and ask for cuddles. No dance, no game, just cuddles (and then catbutt).

The irony to my simile is that I'm allergic to cats, and that about aptly summarizes things, too.

Sometimes they passive-aggressively shit on your bed, though.

Well, there's at least one similarity.

[technicallyAdventurer]

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my brother told me that depression is all in my head (well, yeah, its a mental disorder) and that if i think im depressed ill be depressed ?
my mom also told me that im "only borderline-depressed!!!1!!1!" (which is a diagnosis from 3 or 4 years ago?) as if i should n't be depressed because im onlysupposed to be "slightly" depressed?

they also claim that depressed people can't be suicidal they're only sad all the time no suicidal thoughst whatsoever nop

when i tried to correct them they jsut

"i know what depression is!!1"

no, you really don't,, please stop,m,