Predictions???
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re: Heat Waves - It was particularly hot and sunny last week here in UK/LDN, and I found the 'quality' of it quite disconcerting. It's early May and the sunlight was INTENSE - sort of like dry days in really hot, arid climates with totally clear skies. I was getting constantly blinded by reflected glares from cars and such. I began idly wondering at this, surmising that perhaps the huge drop in airplane travel was reducing particulate haze at certain altitudes, which normally deflect or scatter incoming sunlight. Not totally crazy - much the same was measured in the days after 9/11 when transatlantic air travel was stopped.What began worrying me was that if that's the case, then we're now reliant on our emissions to protect us from the intensity of sunlight, which .. well, that wouldn't be Good.
So, prediction: Like alcoholics trying to treat their addictions, we're going to have to gradually taper off emissions even if we somehow came up with fully-functioning fusion tomorrow, elsewise we'll all end up like gingers in Australia, hiding from the sun.
- was discussing similar over the weekend. Everything seems as though it's on fast forward. Environmentally, politically, scientifically.Fax_Benson
- Nice alcoholic reference.ideaist
- Feels very apt at the moment, Ideaist :\Nairn
- @fax - socially and economically too. Although I suppose they'd be umbrella'd under 'Politically'.
'Interesting times' indeed.Nairn - If anything, Coronavirus is shining a huge light on all the teeter-tottering human systems on the brink of disaster.
Next step: War.Nairn - An interesting visual comparison of Euro flight traffic versus a year prior..
https://vimeo.com/40…Nairn - Actually having unlimited energy would explode capitalism and consumerism accelerating our destruction of the environment.grafician