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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Andrzej Matuch wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On 2025-01-07 11:26, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> Andrzej Matuch wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>> 
>>> On 2025-01-07 08:43, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>> Andrzej Matuch wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2025-01-06 16:20, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>>>> The Natural Philosopher wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 06/01/2025 19:06, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2025-01-06 10:02, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 06/01/2025 13:49, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> The way they sell it, warming means a lesser availability of fresh
>>>>>>>>>> water. Obviously, this would result in people dying. With cooling
>>>>>>>>>> though, there would be a decreased availability of food in general,
>>>>>>>>>> so I don't see how one is worse than the other.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Except the narrative says that all of greenland will melt. That's a
>>>>>>>>> fuck of a lot of fresh water
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If all of Greenland will melt, the people who are suddenly
>>>>>>>> inconvenienced by the world's warming could move there and turn the
>>>>>>>> continent-like country into something inhabitable for the first time in
>>>>>>>> thousands of years. I imagine that as a result of it never really being
>>>>>>>> used for agriculture, that land is incredibly fertile.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not wrong there. In fact huge areas of Canadian, Alaskan and Siberian
>>>>>>> tundra would be really quite nice places to live. Scarcely worse than
>>>>>>> Scotland
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Except for buildings and equipment sinking into the melting tundra :-D
>>>>>
>>>>> There is soil underneath all of that, Chris.
>>>>
>>>>       https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-military-sees-growing-threat-in-thawing-permafrost/
>>>>
>>>>       Climate change is rapidly altering the Arctic landscape, in particular the
>>>>       permafrost that serves as a foundation for buildings across the region.
>>>>       Warming temperatures are thawing out the frozen ground, and in the process
>>>>       it is threatening to unsettle structures that were built decades ago.
>>>
>>> "... that were built decades ago." How many buildings have been erected
>>> decades ago in the waste known as Greenland? Even in Quebec where the
>>> north is settled to a degree, the amount of buildings in existence is
>>> minimal because the population is itself tiny.
>>>
>>>>       That's particularly worrisome for the U.S. military, which maintains
>>>>       facilities across the Arctic region. And it's one reason Hicks embarked on
>>>>       a two-day tour of the nation’s northernmost military bases.
>>>>
>>>>       “Building and maintaining infrastructure — like runways — on permafrost
>>>>       presents unique challenges for Arctic nations — which are growing with the
>>>>       effects of climate change,” Hicks wrote in a Twitter post on Monday.
>>>
>>> Once there is no longer permafrost, those challenges will be eradicated too.
>> 
>> And replacement structures will be built/rebuilt.
>> 
>> And that doesn't include methane release.
>
> I don't mind if the people building new structure fart a time or two. Do 
> you, Chris?

Cut the patronizing crap.

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I'm pretty sure to make my mark.
If I'm in bed each night by ten,
I may get back my looks again.
If I abstain from fun and such,
I'll probably amount to much;
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.
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