"Death by Dining: An Unbalanced Day’s Breakfast" Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Mar 2018 11:41 a.m. PST |
"There's an old Celtic myth about a creature called a "just-halver". Eat what you want, and the parasitic fairy takes a sizable portion for its own sustenance as you gradually waste away. It's basically a preternatural tapeworm. Death by malnutrition when you eat copious amounts seems a bit unfair, and since it ultimately results in your death, it shouldn't be considered as a new fad diet. As usual, human hubris eventually recapitulates the consequences that folklore warned us about. It turns out you soon may have plenty of food, but sadly you won't be able to survive on it. You see, there's lots more CO2 in the air these days. Yay! Plants love carbon dioxide. They get crazy with the vegetative growth thing when there is an abundance of it in their atmosphere. This means bumper crops from here on out…"
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Shagnasty  | 21 Mar 2018 12:01 p.m. PST |
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| Mithmee | 21 Mar 2018 1:27 p.m. PST |
Why I eat things that are mostly meat. |
| Dn Jackson | 21 Mar 2018 4:06 p.m. PST |
Oh good, doomsday du jour! |
 Editor in Chief Bill  | 21 Mar 2018 6:19 p.m. PST |
And in previous 'warm' eras, did all animal life die off? I didn't think so… |
| Patrick R | 22 Mar 2018 2:19 a.m. PST |
The problem is not warming up or cooling down as it has indeed happened before, the problem is the timescale and the rate at which it is changing. In previous cases this change took tens of thousands of years to change about a degree, a very gradual change, meaning that life has time to adapt and now it's going to be condensed in about a century and the change is much higher than previous temperature changes. It's a bit like saying your house is on fire is no big problem because houses get colder and warmer all the time, but it's the timescale and the amount of change that makes a huge difference. |
| Old Wolfman | 22 Mar 2018 7:04 a.m. PST |
Didn't Stephen King do a story inspired by that?("Thinner") |
| Tango01 | 22 Mar 2018 11:27 a.m. PST |
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| Mithmee | 22 Mar 2018 1:58 p.m. PST |
the problem is the timescale and the rate at which it is changing So we have actual real data on how long other Climate Changes happened over the past 10 million years. I think not. |
| goragrad | 22 Mar 2018 9:40 p.m. PST |
As to the rapidity of the change, within recorded history temperatures have risen a couple of degrees in less than a decade. That is the problem with temperature reconstructions for past eras that smooth the graphs with 50 or 100 years sampling intervals. Makes it look like everything in the past was a smooth slow progression. |
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