Global warming

[Napper Tandy]

Ask any young person to give up using their smart phones / tablets / laptops and see what they would say.....to hell with global warming i would imagine

Having conducted a meticulous and fairly exhaustive inventory of the contribution of ICT —including devices like PCs, laptops, monitors, smartphones and tablets — and infrastructure like data centres and communication networks, we found that the relative contribution of ICT to the total global footprint is expected to grow from about one per cent in 2007 to 3.5 per cent by 2020 and reaching 14 per cent by 2040.

That’s more than half the relative contribution of the entire transportation sector worldwide.

Dinny you must be off the sherry to have conducted that study.

[Twobob]

When I was a teenager I went to every demonstration that was going on....things I wouldn't dream of supporting now

Proof Dinny that people / opinions do change .

[cogito]

Ask any young person to give up using their smart phones / tablets / laptops and see what they would say.....to hell with global warming i would imagine

Having conducted a meticulous and fairly exhaustive inventory of the contribution of ICT —including devices like PCs, laptops, monitors, smartphones and tablets — and infrastructure like data centres and communication networks, we found that the relative contribution of ICT to the total global footprint is expected to grow from about one per cent in 2007 to 3.5 per cent by 2020 and reaching 14 per cent by 2040.

That’s more than half the relative contribution of the entire transportation sector worldwide.

The first iPhone only came out in 2007 so logically any 'relative contribution' is going to grow in the following decade.

And who's the 'we' ???

[dinny]

The first iPhone only came out in 2007 so logically any 'relative contribution' is going to grow in the following decade.

And who's the 'we' ???

https://nypost.com/2019/05/01/a-year-of-cell-phone-use-emits-as-much-c02-as-two-round-trip-flights/

[Napper Tandy]

https://nypost.com/2019/05/01/a-year...-trip-flights/

Who owns the NY Post? Why the same guy pushing anti climate change propaganda in Oz for years.

[Napper Tandy]

Good read, sobering do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/opinion/australia-fires-climate-change.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR3m-3hK4Q-iWcxmII4y-c0QIklZY_-5wqhycuISxyJG-rbx-quJprpoqds

[Vico2]

Good read, sobering do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/o...rbx-quJprpoqds

Very sobering,in fact terrifying

[bojangles]

I COPIED THIS TEXT FROM AN ARTICLE IN THE IRISH PRESS NOVEMBER 1950





Skerries will replace the world-famous seaside resorts in the South of France if the present tendency to greater warmth in certain parts of the globe observed by climatologists continue for the next 25 years, said Prof. Leo W. Pollak, Ph.D., M._R-I.A., director of the School of Cosmic Physics, in an illustrated lecture entitled " Is the Earth Getting Warmer? " at U.C.D., last night.

He said that since 1926 a warming-up of northern latitudes was observed particularly in Greenland, Iceland, North-Scandinavia and other countries, in the winter and, to a lesser degree, in summer temperatures. In the tropics and sub-tropics there was a decrease. GLACIERS RECEDING There was difficulty in ascertaining exactly the changes in climate since records consistent and over a very long period were rare. On the other hand, glaciers all over the world were receding and fish, such as cod, had migrated 9 degrees latitude to the north in 27 years and were now an important part of the daily diet of the inhabitants of Greenland. Birds and insects in Iceland were replaced by southerly species, the crop-growing period in Sweden and Finland had increased by two to three weeks, trees were growing faster and the coal-shipping season in Spitzbergen, Norway, was now seven instead of three months yearly.

The whole north coast of Europe and Asia was sometimes ice-free for about two months each year. This fact might be of great strategic importance in future in war as in peace time.

Mentioning a leading article 'n the " Cork Examiner " of August 26, 1950, which asked what ~»e Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies was doing of value for the country, Prof. Pollak said that he had kept his promises to work for the good of the country which he had made to the leader of the former Government, Mr. Eamon de Valera. The Meteorological and Geophysical Section of the Institute had done much for the production of sugar beet yields and were collaborating with Board na Mona on an important experiment.

[KatieMorag]

Warmest Decade on Record

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51111176

[dinny]

Even Dr Who's episode on Sunday predicted what earth would be like if we don't look after the planet .....although it was a bit over the top showing what earth could look like......it was very scary

[Napper Tandy]

Arctic sea Ice hasn't started to form yet, the latest ever recorded.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/this-years-arctic-sea-ice-is-failing-to-form-raising-a-1845462392/amp

To add to that the frozen deposits of Methane on the Arctic seabed have started to thaw.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/27/sleeping-giant-arctic-methane-deposits-starting-to-release-scientists-find?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

[quinner]

Arctic sea Ice hasn't started to form yet, the latest ever recorded.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/this-years-arctic-sea-ice-is-failing-to-form-raising-a-1845462392/amp

To add to that the frozen deposits of Methane on the Arctic seabed have started to thaw.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/...droidApp_Other

Time for a bit of good news methinks