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posted by martyb on Friday September 02 2016, @07:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the looking-for-the-thermostat dept.

From The Guardian :

The planet is warming at a pace not experienced within the past 1,000 years, at least, making it "very unlikely" that the world will stay within a crucial temperature limit agreed by nations just last year, according to Nasa's top climate scientist.

[...] But Nasa said that records of temperature that go back far further, taken via analysis of ice cores and sediments, suggest that the warming of recent decades is out of step with any period over the past millennium.

[...] [Director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies Gavin] Schmidt repeated his previous prediction that there is a 99% chance that 2016 will be the warmest year on record, with around 20% of the heat attributed to a strong El Niño climatic event. Last year is currently the warmest year on record, itself beating a landmark set in 2014.


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Saturday September 03 2016, @02:11AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Saturday September 03 2016, @02:11AM (#396858) Journal

    I'm free to create my own meaning for the term "complete nihilist" :^)

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  • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Saturday September 03 2016, @03:19AM

    by JNCF (4317) on Saturday September 03 2016, @03:19AM (#396893) Journal

    I'm free to create my own meaning for the term "complete nihilist" :^)

    And yet, creating your own meaning for a term without explaining it isn't very helpful for communication (not that you should care about communication, just that I do, sometimes). I don't entirely agree with AC's take on nihilism (I think AC is conflating nihilism with atheism and relativism), but it seems like you're using "nihilism" in a way that oddly encompasses caring. I think a human can care about something without attaching meaning to that thing -- caring is just a mental process, it is the state of being interested in something. Interest is not meaning.

    I also don't think a meaningless universe logically leads to the conclusion of suicide any more than it logically leads to any other action; it just doesn't lead anywhere. Not leading anywhere is not the same as leading to a quick acceptance of death.

    What do you mean when you say "complete nihilist?"