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Glacier crash into dam near Uttarakhand, India.

Discussion in 'News from the UK, Europe and the rest of the World' started by aposhark, Feb 7, 2021.

  1. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

  2. Anon220806
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    Anon220806 Well-Known Member

    I saw this on the news today.
  3. Druk1
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    I have passed through the state, done some glacier walking in Pakistan, I used to love listening to them moving, creaking and groaning, almost as if its their language, good place to dump a body I was once told.
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    Creepy :eek:
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  6. Anon220806
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    Yet another climate change indicator.

    Was watching A Perfect Planet earlier with the 8yo. The episode about human influence on the planet.
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    There's a great film premiered on amazon prime a few days ago, your children will enjoy it, not normally my sort of film but I thought it was very good :)
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  8. Anon220806
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    I saw this advertised. I have it “bookmarked”.

    Later. Just seen the trailer. I am not that into movies about meteorites. :D
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  9. Druk1
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    I don't really like this sort of movie, but the special effects and storyline are well worth a watch, very good :like:
  10. aposhark
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    Looks like a very picturesque area.
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    Deep Impact was ok and Armageddon was a fun romp but most ELE movies are in the B movie category. (ELE extinction level event)

    Gerard Butler has some good movies but most of them tend to be B grade, I might give this one a try.

    He's a Paisley boy and went to my school St Mirin's Academy or rather the unified version of it St Mirin's and St Margaret's school, which got me to look up my old school tonight, interestingly I had not realised that John Goodfellow the inventor of the ATM and PIN code was an alumni of my school :)

    We also produced Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan, the famous ones seem to be mostly in the arts :) although I know for fact that we produced a good few scientists from my own era.
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  12. Druk1
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    I know a couple of murderers who went to my school :)
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  15. John Stevens
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    Earth has been in a ELE since the last ice age most people think ELE's are all like the one that took out the dinosaurs.
  16. oss
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    Oh really, nothing to with people I take it and everything to do with nature am I right?
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  17. Jim
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    Humans have made it worse, no denying that. But.....
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    He's implying that a natural cycle would have exterminated the human race and all other complex life on the planet, an Extinction Level Event is where there is little more than bacteria and insects left, the natural cycle of ice ages has been going on for millions of years and it does not wipe out everything, not even close and the natural cycle would certainly not wipe out the human race.

    Ice age cycles are driven by the precession of the Earth's pole and the obliquity and eccentricity of the Earth's orbit, the cycle is about 41,000 years and has been repeating for the last 5 million odd years.

    Climate change denial and deniers like to promote this trope that it is nothing to do with people that we are so tiny that we could not possibly affect something as big as a planet and that it is all just nature and natural change.
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  19. John Stevens
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    It has everything to do with humans thats about the time that humans stopped being nomadic and started farming, over population is the biggest factor in climate change and habitat destruction.
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    Yes I would agree with that, I am well aware of the deforestation and environmental impact of the human race stretching back some 10,000 years, but I would not label anything prior to the advent of the Industrial Energy Intensive civilisation we have now as an Extinction Level Event.

    Humans likely hunted many of the giant creatures like Mammoths to extinction and we have likely been responsible for many other extinctions this last 10,000 years but none were planet threatening until a couple of hundred years ago, the Enlightenment brought us understanding and it brought us power beyond our dreams and as a result it brought about the current world where we are now in a race to use that knowledge and understanding to prevent planetary disaster.
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