[tomder55]

2 million years ago, frigid, barren Greenland was lush with trees and animals. Today, it’s a barren Arctic desert, but back then it was a lush landscape of trees and vegetation with an array of animals, even the now extinct mastodon.

This came from scientific investigation of the oldest DNA ever recorder .


Oldest DNA reveals life in Greenland 2 million years ago | Federal News Network

[jlisenbe]

And it was all caused by the activities of man!! No...wait a minute.

[tomder55]

it was those mastodons driving combustible engine SUVs

[jlisenbe]

AOC recently put out a "movie" about climate change, aiming to do something similar to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth". Hers has turned out to be a flop, but the two movies do have something in common. They were both produced by people who knew but little about the subject.

In the meantime, Switzerland, a supposed leader in carbon emissions reduction, has announced that recharging EVs is going to be a problem this winter, and is trying to figure out how to prevent widespread blackouts.

[tomder55]

pretty telling that people who torture themselves by gluing their hands to museum floors in the cause were not willing to torture themselves by watching the movie

[jlisenbe]

Made some pretty significant progress towards fusion energy recently. If they can figure that out, then it will solve a lot of problems, or at least so they say.

[tomder55]

It will be if their results can be duplicated. If it can be reliably duplicated then it is my view that the advancement of the technology is worthy of a Manhattan Project or moon landing type of investment . The starting point is water and the waste is water . It would instantly be the energy source of choice . It would fuel a sustainable electric everything future that other renewables are clearly not adequate to supply . Then all that would be need is sufficient supplies of rare earth minerals . Who knows...... maybe on one of those rocks in space is the answer to that problem

[jlisenbe]

the advancement of the technology is worthy of a Manhattan Project or moon landing type of investment .

Our current sorry state of financial affairs in the federal government precludes that. Let the private side do the investing and reward reaping.

[tomder55]

The Compost went all chicken little about Utqiagvik Alaska having a one day warming event .

Alaska’s northernmost city posts warmest winter temperature on record - The Washington Post

The temp shot up to 40 degrees F the warmest temp ever observed between Nov-March. Of course they blamed AGW as the cause.

Doesn't matter a lick that for the rest of December temps will be in the single digit or below zero.

Utqiaġvik, AK 10-Day Weather Forecast - The Weather Channel | Weather.com

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Doesn't matter that Anchorage is still digging out from the record snow that they have not seen since the 1950s

Anchorage still shoveling out of its snowiest December day since the '50s - Alaska Public Media

Doesn't matter that Antarctica has had a half year of record cold temps

Antarctica's last 6 months were the coldest on record | CNN

I bet that can be blamed on human made climate change too.