tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post9149641773443857799..comments2023-09-26T02:09:58.787+10:00Comments on diogenesian discourse: is it too late?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-75820467071779153272008-03-30T11:10:00.000+11:002008-03-30T11:10:00.000+11:00you are unusually cheery today, Diogenes. No soft...you are unusually cheery today, Diogenes. No soft-landing scenario for this trajectory as far as I know.GreenSmilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07126239521640810895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-71079461916107502622008-03-15T09:19:00.000+11:002008-03-15T09:19:00.000+11:00Hip, I gotta disagree with you. I don't think hum...Hip, I gotta disagree with you. I don't think humans will become extinct because of global warming. <BR/><BR/>Ice age? Not the whole planet would freeze over. <BR/><BR/>No, humanity (what a misnomer!!!) will just die back severly due to a lot of human-activity-caused shit, not the least of which will be wars fought over "Lebensraum" and resources. But a significant chunk will survive to continue their mad materialisitic dreams.The Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884172849865230486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-64168460635615115982008-03-14T18:53:00.000+11:002008-03-14T18:53:00.000+11:00Old hippies just smell that way, Davo, and you're ...Old hippies just smell that way, Davo, and you're right -- two Homo saps on a mountain wouldn't amount to a hill of beings . . .<BR/><BR/>Mr Fish has an opinion:<BR/><BR/>http://blogs.laweekly.com/fish/<BR/>2008/03/the_elephants_in_the_room.php<BR/><BR/>(no linebreaks)hiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12764480274408835360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-56040806933149104882008-03-14T10:22:00.000+11:002008-03-14T10:22:00.000+11:00jeepers Hip, last time i was over in your neck of ...jeepers Hip, last time i was over in your neck of the blog woods was 12.5.07. nice t' know that yer still alive .. heh.<BR/><BR/>.. and by the way, just to cheer everyone up - am supremely confident that human beans (won't write Homo Saps, sounds rude) <B>will</B> survive .. might only be a couple that find their way to the top of a mountain in Antarctica but hey .. it only takes two .. heh.Davohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02785126939071213905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-55511838381214803702008-03-14T01:42:00.000+11:002008-03-14T01:42:00.000+11:00Gerry, I totally agree, it's why I'm so grumpy, th...Gerry, I totally agree, it's why I'm so grumpy, these days. I amuse myself by listening to idiots talking about 2020 targets, wondering if these deluded farts realize that the only markets operating by then will be for weapons and food. There will be no second chances, no civilization rising from the denuded mullock heaps, just an ecosystem powering on without us. <BR/><BR/>Jim Lovelock is right, Gaia is pissed. Homer Sap is facing extinction and taking perhaps 98% of the planet's species with him. The morning started so bright and sunny in Pompeii, and 2,000 years later we found out how it ended. In 20 million years, given plate tectonics and an ice age or two, there will be no trace of us anywhere on earth, just a few precious boot prints on the moon for Jehovah to contemplate. <BR/><BR/>I can tell you only that the greenhouse equation is a fractal, a Julia curve with the kind of unpredictability that Heisenberg spoke of, that Einstein denied when he said "God doesn't play dice". The kind of math that cannot predict an answer because it must do each sum, in turn, to get the factors for the next sum. So, the science behind the prediction <B>is</B> sound but the final iteration is guesswork, we have to live through it to know what <I>was</I> coming. <BR/><BR/>It may become "the perfect storm", and it's likely the survivors won't last long, or it may cancel itself out and Humans will survive, not because of our evolved intelligence, but because we were very, very lucky.<BR/><BR/>The odds are stacked very much against the latter. <BR/><BR/>Hope that's cheered you up some. :o)hiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12764480274408835360noreply@blogger.com