mtgp1000 (u/mtgp1000)

mtgp1000 commented on Grit Has a Negligible Effect on Success Compared to Intelligence journals.sagepub.com/doi/... · Posted by u/cofree

programmarchy · 5 years ago

Not true but typical belief of STEM types. If you go by reproducibility rates you could say the same about medicine and economics. Hell, gravity is poorly and inconsistently defined, but we don’t throw away physics.

mtgp1000 · 5 years ago

Perhaps it is because "STEM types" understand the difference in rigor that mathematics affords hard sciences. That's not an opinion.

mtgp1000 commented on What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil? economist.com/the-world-i... · Posted by u/known

hedora · 5 years ago

The status quo will starve/kill billions in a few decades and make 10% of the earth’s land mass uninhabitable:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/23/magazine/clim...

The least destructive time to take action is right now.

mtgp1000 · 5 years ago

This is such ridiculous alarmism. This is one of the worst case predictions and is unlikely to occur.

Most likely you'll see gradual migrations over the next 100 or so years away from coastal areas, probably not too much larger than typical migrant and infrastructure turnover.

Please stop relying on journalism to make your decisions regarding climate change. It's pure dogma by completely ascientific liberal arts majors.

If you read the IPCC reports yourself (they're huge but you can read the introductory summaries) they're much less certain about the future. Meanwhile alarmism has a real cost now, if you foolishly allow it to influence policy.

And on the subject of habitability, why is it that media rarely, if ever, runs stories regarding the increase in arable land that comes with thawing permafrost? How much habitable land will be gained from climate change?

And just to emphasize the short sightedness of "banning" fossil fuels as you originally proposed, good luck getting food and medical equipment (and pretty much anything else) to the hundreds of millions of people living in cities without diesel for trucks.

mtgp1000 commented on What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil? economist.com/the-world-i... · Posted by u/known

hedora · 5 years ago

I also wish there was an easy way to buy and shut down oil producers. There are 8.3 million millionaires in the US, so they control 8.3T.

Chevron is worth 180B. If the millionaires banded together to control 50.1% of Chevron, they could oust the board, permanently destroy all of its oil production and distribution capabilities, and convert its oil fields into a permanently undrillable status.

Then, they could sell off the remaining assets (except the mineral rights), and only lose most of their money. Heck, the resulting shuttered corporation would probably be eligible for carbon credits.

Even better, instead of buying the oil reserves, they could buy out the corporations that own patents and factories for things like fracking equipment and critical car components.

Anti-trust would probably get in the way, but the global airbag industry has revenue in the single-digit billions. A band of 100,000 millionaires could easily acquire them all and charge $80,000 extra (per car) for bags headed to gas powered vehicles.

mtgp1000 · 5 years ago

Shutting down petroleum overnight would completely shutter the economy and starve/kill millions of people.

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jdmichal · 5 years ago

This strikes me as a first-world privileged thing, similar to how Europe built its industrial revolution on coal but now tries to prevent others from doing the same thing. Even in the US we eat domesticated livestock (cattle), cultivated but not domesticated livestock (bison), and entirely wild animals (deer). Any of these could vector a novel illness to humans.

mtgp1000 · 5 years ago

Not all animal species carry the same risk. This isn't about privilege - or at least not anymore. Mainland Chinese learned to eat anything and everything that moved after food shortages and famines caused by e.g. the four pests and such. This is cultural. as are the unsanitary conditions at wet markets, and completely unscientific "traditional medicine" and the common notion that live beings taste better if tortured before death.

Stop bending over backwards to excuse antisocial behavior. Not all cultural practices are positive and need to be celebrated.

mtgp1000 commented on FDA Updates on Hand Sanitizers with Methanol fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety... · Posted by u/keehun

mtgp1000 · 5 years ago

I had no idea that all those stereotypes about moonshine turning people blind and/or crazy were real - I guess methanol alcohol was a common enough contaminant in bootleg alcohol during prohibition. And wherever they make moonshine these days, though I imagine even backwoods people are wiser these days.

Edit: it's complicated: https://www.pastemagazine.com/drink/alcohol-history/prohibit...

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TurkishPoptart · 5 years ago

Would you like to propose an alternative? I think it's a great term.

mtgp1000 · 5 years ago

It's kind of racist/sexist. Pretty obviously such.

I'm not personally offended but I am bothered by the casual double standard.

mtgp1000 commented on Siberian heatwave of 2020 almost impossible without climate change worldweatherattribution.o... · Posted by u/tannhaeuser

mtgp1000 · 5 years ago

>In places such as Siberia, a hotter climate can have devastating effects, not just on the local wildlife and people who live there, but also on the world’s climate system as a whole, for example through thawing permafrost, reduced snow cover and melting ice.

My biggest issue with climate alarmism is that sources universally consider only the negative outcomes of climate change. Thawing permafrost also opens up an enormous amount of arable and habitable land. Some species will benefit from warmer temperatures and extended ranges (and that's not just insects).

Not to mention that neither the change or the rate is unprecedented according to geologic data.

The world is very unlikely to end, human migration and economic impact will be gradual (≈100) years, and people need to consider that mitigation of climate change at this point is also not "free" when they ask people to go vegan (yeah, right).

mtgp1000 commented on Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “opinion” arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/rbanffy

sneak · 5 years ago

How is it that you figured out that you should read sites other than Facebook, and that the (presumably) mindless masses on Facebook have not?

What specifically makes them captive? Why do you believe that? Are the audiences of other extremely popular websites also captive? Why or why not?

mtgp1000 · 5 years ago

>mindless masses

Perhaps you meant this hyperbolically but I do not believe it to be an exaggeration.

>What specifically makes them captive

They are captive because of a combination of their ignorance and the network effect. If all of your friends are on Facebook for example you'll have to leave them behind if you delete your account.