Three Russian Ballistic Missile Submarines Just Surfaced Through The Arctic Ice Together (thedrive.com) 120
The Drive reports on an "unprecedent exercise" which included a Russian nuclear submarine firing a torpedo underneath Arctic ice, which it calls "a bold statement of Russia's presence and capabilities in the increasingly tense Arctic region."
Three Russian ballistic missile submarines surfaced next to each other from beneath the ice near the North Pole as part of a recent major Arctic exercise. The head of the country's Navy said that event was a first for his service. It also underscores the growing geopolitical competition in this highly strategic region... A pair of MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors, supported by an Il-78 aerial refueling tanker, also flew over the North Pole and troops have been conducting maneuvers on the ground in extreme cold weather conditions as part of Umka-2021. Average temperatures in the exercise area, at present, are ranging between -13 and -22 degrees Fahrenheit, with winds gusting up to just over 70 miles per hour, according to state-run media outlet TASS....
[A]ll of this is magnified by the ever-increasing strategic significance of the Arctic and growing geopolitical competition there, as a result. Much of this has been driven by the emergence of new economic opportunities as global climate change has caused ice in the region to recede. This has made the prospect of sending commercial shipping via the Northern Sea Route more viable and offers the possibility of greater access to untapped natural resources, including oil and natural gas. Just this week, Russia's state nuclear agency Rosatom has been promoting the Northern Sea Route as an alternative to traditional routes in light of the very serious situation in the Suez Canal...
The Umka-2021 drills come as Russia and the United States, among others, are working to expand their abilities to project military power into the Arctic. Russia has been working particularly hard to build new facilities and expand existing ones, especially air bases, in the region. The U.S. military, in cooperation with Canada, just recently demonstrated its ability to conduct more routine combat aviation operations out of the strategic Thule Air Base in Greenland, as well.
The article notes that U.S. Navy also conducts Ice Exercises each year with submarines surfacing from under Arctic the ice, "though not with ballistic missile boats. However, this particular drill is, nevertheless, a significant show of force and general demonstration of the Russian Navy's strategic capabilities...."
"We're in competition... and to be competitive with Russia and China, specifically in the Arctic, you have to be on the field," said the U.S. Air Force general who heads NORAD in remarks to Congress last week. The Drive quotes him as saying "And, so it's crucial that we do that and we continue producing capabilities that will allow us to be in the Arctic." The Russian Navy sending three ballistic missile submarines punching through the Arctic ice together in a row near the North Pole provides a very clear look at this competition and more such displays are likely to come as the geopolitical friction in the region continues to increase.
[A]ll of this is magnified by the ever-increasing strategic significance of the Arctic and growing geopolitical competition there, as a result. Much of this has been driven by the emergence of new economic opportunities as global climate change has caused ice in the region to recede. This has made the prospect of sending commercial shipping via the Northern Sea Route more viable and offers the possibility of greater access to untapped natural resources, including oil and natural gas. Just this week, Russia's state nuclear agency Rosatom has been promoting the Northern Sea Route as an alternative to traditional routes in light of the very serious situation in the Suez Canal...
The Umka-2021 drills come as Russia and the United States, among others, are working to expand their abilities to project military power into the Arctic. Russia has been working particularly hard to build new facilities and expand existing ones, especially air bases, in the region. The U.S. military, in cooperation with Canada, just recently demonstrated its ability to conduct more routine combat aviation operations out of the strategic Thule Air Base in Greenland, as well.
The article notes that U.S. Navy also conducts Ice Exercises each year with submarines surfacing from under Arctic the ice, "though not with ballistic missile boats. However, this particular drill is, nevertheless, a significant show of force and general demonstration of the Russian Navy's strategic capabilities...."
"We're in competition... and to be competitive with Russia and China, specifically in the Arctic, you have to be on the field," said the U.S. Air Force general who heads NORAD in remarks to Congress last week. The Drive quotes him as saying "And, so it's crucial that we do that and we continue producing capabilities that will allow us to be in the Arctic." The Russian Navy sending three ballistic missile submarines punching through the Arctic ice together in a row near the North Pole provides a very clear look at this competition and more such displays are likely to come as the geopolitical friction in the region continues to increase.
Also shows why the f35 is dead (Score:1, Offtopic)
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Offtopic to the point of being irrational. You're giving F-35 haters a bad name. But that's not saying much.
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...the plane has 50 Kadashian pro hairdryers on overdrive.
Nuclear-powered, I presume?
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Re:Also shows why the f35 is dead (Score:5, Funny)
Who exactly is the f35 going to fight ?
The US taxpayer. Obviously.
The F-35 has already plundered the taxpayers for thousands of times more than the entire Viking nation seized in centuries.
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I alway thought it strange that defense is a national shared cost both in money and soldiers, but health isnt. Its so obvious why, one is national and the other isnt, its a joke that people dont see they are being used.
Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's wrong.
In economics there are defintions such as 'common good' and 'commodities' which have meanings. National defense is common good. It cannot be supplied efficiently from a competitive market, the same goes for a freeway, rubbish collection, Fire Service etc all the things that should be run by the government.
Healthcare on the other hand is a commodity, ie you can go to one doctor or another and get similar levels of service. If you don't lik
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I do understand i gave the reasoning you just cant accept it.
> In economics there are defintions such as 'common good' and 'commodities' which have meanings. National defense is common good. It cannot be supplied efficiently from a competitive market, the same goes for a freeway, rubbish collection, Fire Service etc all the things that should be run by the government.
And good free health is also a good and helps more people on
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I do understand i gave the reasoning you just cant accept it.
Nope, you are contradicting the economic definitions of words being used. This means you don't understand what they mean
Read this, then come back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] .
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Enjoy your 3rd world country (Score:2)
Healthcare on the other hand is a commodity, ie you can go to one doctor or another and get similar levels of service. If you don't like your drug store, you can go to the one around the block etc. {...} This seems to be lost in most of these 'healthcare-for-all ' arguments.
As long as you can economically afford to go to a doctor.
Which is something that the rest of the developed world has noticed and thus we have developed decent healthcare systems.
And functions more or less well in most countries.
You in the US seem to be the exception to that.
Government should not be involved in these they same way they should not sell cell phones, or internet, or overseas holidays etc.
Funny that you mention "internet". I've heard US people complaining on /. that you are still getting internet over old school phone network's copper wire as soon as you step outside of the big city centres. Meanwhile my country here has
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Free healthcare is also a common good. If someone has an infection its a community good that they are given treatment etc to stop the spreading. Helping people get well asap or helping people cope
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Free healthcare is also a common good. If someone has an infection its a community good that they are given treatment etc to stop the spreading.
A lot of people seem to mistake the economic definition of a 'common good' with 'is it good'?
Read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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As opposed to those who play word games and forget about the spirit of the statement
When you said "I always thought it strange that..." I was trying to help you understand why you find it strange, it's because words have meanings, and if you goign to invent your own, then things will always seem strange to you.
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You are concentrating on nonsense details
I know right? Who cares about what words mean when we can simple ignore them and backpedal at any opportunity lol...
No wonder you find things so strange...
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No because you concentrate on the 1% while im concentrating on the 99%. You have no concept of being honest, you obviously have been watching too much american tv where the law forgets about justice and excuses criminals on nonsense. The minor point you bring out makes no absolute difference in the end, it does not disprove my statement in anywa
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The US taxpayer. Obviously.
The F-35 has already plundered the taxpayers for thousands of times more than the entire Viking nation seized in centuries.
This is the same stupid logic that parrots the old "an average steak requires 15,000 litres of water to grow" myth. The water used to grow grass, or hydrate a cow does not disappear from the universe. Nor does a government program make money evaporate. Government spend goes mostly to people and businesses, who in turn pay taxes and buy stuff, which in turn pays other people's wages etc. Rinse repeat.
Compared to say a Viking invasion where they kill all your best men, rape your women, and remove all your w
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Who exactly is the f35 going to fight ?
Three submarines with one munition, by the looks of it.
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"USA war industrial complex sucking the life out of the USA economy" Really? The budget for 2021 is nearly $5 Trillion. The DoD's budget for 2021 is roughly $700 Billion. Discretionary funding, about $1.5 Trillion, so the DoD is a bit less than half of that. Where's the other $3.5 Trillion going? Grandma and Grandpa and a host of non-discretionary costs.
The U.S. deficit for 2020 is roughly $2.3 Trillion which the rest of the world and ourselves are kind enough to lend to us. So completely sucking back all o
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Bandying about phrases like "USA war industrial complex" is merely rhetorical flourish.
But every time I repeat this I earn respect from my Antifa buddies. I also get points for wearing black skinny jeans with my Che T-Shirt and wearing the Soviet flag as a cape...
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Russia is barely doing anything. America is being gamed by the military complex. You can thank your own people for this. Russia basically kepts within its own borders, Crimea was Russian for 300 years and is 99% Russian people. There was nothing illegal
Shipping lanes. (Score:4, Informative)
With ice expected to go away for more and more periods of time - there's a lot of posturing over who gets to control a theoretical new shipping lanes across the far north.
They want the PRESUMPTION to be that they get those rights of control by default - and have trading partners invested in them getting them.
That's also why it's crucial to them to see the EU broken up as much as they can, and distracted by things like Brexit. I don't really need to say much about Trump in this context either.
Amazon as it exists now is just the tip if the iceburg, to use a backwards pun - taxing all those growing megamarkets on bulk shipping is going to mean more raw power than most things on the planet.
Ryan Fenton
Pots and kettles (Score:1)
"The article notes that U.S. Navy also conducts Ice Exercises each year"
And this is perfectly OK with everybody here. Am I right?
(and everybody is OK with Russians meddling in US elections, just so long as Trump wins as a result...)
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Suppose it's NOT okay with me. Suppose I wish that the US, China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran were all singing kumbaya and making granola together.
What *exactly* would you expect me, or anyone, to do differently? When Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declares "death to America", shall I send him some s'mores? Do you send yours FedEx or UPS?
It's not cool that China wishes the US were a territory of China, but it's reality. You know why we aren't at war with China right now? WHY Chinese tanks aren't rolling throug
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In an addendum, Russia, the Norks, China, and Iran are all waving their guns around and acting like jerks to distract their own public from coming to the conclusion that their governments are corrupt and illegitimate. That's why Putin is killing his political enemies, China is scared of Falun Gong doing calisthenics on their front lawn, Lil' Kimmy keeps the concentration camp atmosphere going, and Iran imports Hezbollah goons to screw with any actual democratic movements.
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You know why we aren't at war with China right now? WHY Chinese tanks aren't rolling through San Francisco? Because of the USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Nimitz carrier strike groups. China isn't shooting at us BECAUSE they know the US Pacific fleet would punish them greatly.
This!
The only thing holding China back from the global ambitions is their lack of blue water navy, but they are intent on developing one fast. We're going to need a stronger leader than the geriatric in office at the moment if we plan maintain a superior defence strategy against them.
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> The only thing holding China back from the global ambitions is their lack of blue water navy, but they are intent on developing one fast.
And the US Navy. Even when China has a strong navy, which they will soon, that won't mean they'll want the US to sink it. So it appears most likely they intend to assert dominance in their neighborhood, bullying their neighbors; they won't directly challenge the US unless the US becomes significantly weaker.
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I'm fine with the US conducting Ice Exercises and I'm not okay with anyone meddling in US elections. Why would those be related at all?
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And this is perfectly OK with everybody here. Am I right?
Canadian here.
And the answer is yes.
A lot of America is taking the fast train to crazytown, but I still trust the American Navy - Our allies - A helluva lot more than I do Putin's Russian Navy.
Plus, the USA actually tells us (in secret) when stuff like that is going on, if for no other reason than to ensure our CP-140s don't raise an alarm. That's what friends do.
Save the Whales. Save Gracie. (Score:1)
From my perspective in the north (Score:2, Interesting)
greater access to oil and natural gas (Score:2)
China (Score:2)
Hopefully China will not start building up a sand bar in the 'Extremely North China Sea' and building a landing strip.
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I'm rooting for a good ol' fashioned typhoon to come ripping through the S. China sea and dissolve their toy islands.
wheres Rock Hudson (Score:2)
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hmm (Score:1)
The article notes that U.S. Navy also conducts Ice Exercises each year with submarines surfacing from under Arctic the ice,
So you'd think the woke-a-rozzi would like this then. I mean, it's not the US, right? Takes us down a peg?
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I'd prefer nobody was doing it.
The only nation to ever nuke anyone (twice!) conducting such drills shouldn't warm anyone's cockles.
If Russia is doing it, then we also have to be doing it, because that's how MAD works. But the best situation would be if no one was.
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Corporate America and your endless involvement in unwinnable brushfire wars have done such an excellent job of eroding your middle class, your infrastructure educational system and even the American Dream itself that no outside help is needed to "take you down a peg".
The American Empire is already well into its sunset phase
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Yes, let's have the freedom to insult minorities. Remember, the U.S. is a Christian nation, Jesus never liked minorities and supported building a wall and making Jordan pay for it.
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Watch the video. The first submarine surfaces with the flags up and it is NOT THE RUSSIAN FLAG ON IT.
It is the flag of the Donetsk and Lugansk Separatist army - same as USA confederate flag...
Not really, the USA did not back the CSA like Russia backs and equips the Ukrainian separatists.
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Re:The Drive Missed the most interesting bit (Score:5, Interesting)
Sorry to burst your bubble, but it's not the same flag you're thinking of.
First, concern at lack of Russian flag is a non sequitur, the Russian Navy has own flag distinct from Russian national flag. .But that's not the only flag they have.
Second, the primary Russian Navy flag is a blue "X" cross on white field.
They also have "Jack" flag which is what you're probably focused on. But that isn't the same as the "Novorussia flag".
(which doesn't have any official status in Donbass currently AFAIK, DNR/LNR having own official flags each with different colored horizontal bars)
Although the "Novorussia flag" seemingly was "based on" the Navy Jack, it differs in lacking the thin vertical/horizontal white cross lines of Navy Jack..
Third, there are actually more flags used by Russian Navy, and in one shot of video you can make out mostly red flag with emblem in upper left,
that being the flag of Fleet Commander, obviously corresponding to the specific hierarchy of staff in command of the naval grouping on display.
Re:The Drive Missed the most interesting bit (Score:5, Informative)
That would be the Russian Naval Jack:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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You wants the short but memorable relations.
I wants for you to fuck. In the direction of "off".
Re:The Drive Missed the most interesting bit (Score:5, Informative)
Those flags are:
- the Ensign of the Russian Navy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
- the Russian Navy Naval Jack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
You're a moron.
Re:The Drive Missed the most interesting bit (Score:5, Funny)
Those flags are:
- the Ensign of the Russian Navy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
- the Russian Navy Naval Jack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
You're a moron.
He may have been misinformed. That is by no means the same as being a moron.
There may even be one or two things about which you are misinformed.
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You are right, Archtech. Here is a famous quote by someone you probably know to back you up on your statement:
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” - Albert Einstein
a.k.a. "knowledge != intelligence"
So, Mr. "r1348" - if that is even your real name - more carefully weight your replies in the future, otherwise the internet police will be knocking at your virtual door.
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I correct myself: he's not a moron, he's spreading deliberate disinformation and anti-Russian propaganda.
Here's Donetsk People's Republic flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Here's the Luhansk People's Republic flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
As you can easily notice, they show no resemblance whatsoever with the flags in question.
That post was propaganda.
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The only thing they have in common is literally being rectangular.
I don't want to pass as some pro-Russia shill here, I'm actually highly critical of Putin and his entourage.
But resorting to the same "fake news" tactics Russia is often accused of, puts you on the same level.
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Read the whole thread.
OP claimed that the submarines were sporting the flags of the separatist republics of Ukraine, while it was standard Russian Navy insignia:
- the Ensign of the Russian Navy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
- the Russian Navy Naval Jack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
You might notice that, apart from being actually blind, it's basically impossible to confuse them with the Donetsk and Luhansk flags.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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He was conflating LNR/DNR flags with the Novorossiya flag that is also used by separatists in the region. That one is clearly a derivative of the Naval Jack:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Re: The Drive Missed the most interesting bit (Score:2)
Misinformed - how far from the truth is the information you're given
Moron - how far your conclusions go out on a limb before you confirm anything
Or, stupid is as stupid does. It is what it is, happens to all of us.
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> does NATO and Ukraine account for a nuclear
> submarine battlecruiser
No, they don't; because there's no such thing.
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Obviously there was an issue with their GLONASS system. They were probably all heading in a different direction but ended up at 0,0,0.
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Obviously there was an issue with their GLONASS system. They were probably all heading in a different direction but ended up at 0,0,0.
Um, you realize 0,0 is at the equator off the coast of Africa?
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Obviously there was an issue with their GLONASS system. They were probably all heading in a different direction but ended up at 0,0,0.
Um, you realize 0,0 is at the equator off the coast of Africa?
Given the state of the Russian Navy's navigation skills I'm not surprised that they wanted to stage this event at the equator off the coast of Africa but ended up at the North Pole.
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or have a military force umpteen sizes large than the next play ground bully.
The next play ground bully would be the US and they have a bigger, better, more well equipped and more competently led army than Russia
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And also, since when does minus 25 to minus 30 qualify as "extreme cold weather conditions"? In Canada, it's simply called "winter" and people still go to work and kids still go to school in those temperatures. Well, at least they used to before this damn pandemic happened.
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And also, since when does minus 25 to minus 30 qualify as "extreme cold weather conditions"? In Canada, it's simply called "winter" and people still go to work and kids still go to school in those temperatures. Well, at least they used to before this damn pandemic happened.
I'm in Australia where 40deg C summers are the norm and we deal with it. When I hear about the catastrophe due to the temperature in say Canada increasing by 0.5 degrees I can't help but laugh. For a lot of places, slightly warmer is a win. Why is this never talked about?
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Because in Canada we have much higher humidity than Australia, so 40C is extremely hard to endure. i.e. if you can't sweat properly, your body overheats. Same thing as -35C with dry air and -35C with humidity. But people who only ever lived in dry areas can't possibly understand the huge difference it makes, it has to be felt to be understood. I've heard about Russian people who said it feels colder in some parts of Canada in winter than in freakin' Siberia.
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Because in Canada we have much higher humidity than Australia
Lol, have you been to Australia?
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LOL. Have you ever been to Canada?
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LOL. Have you ever been to Canada?
Yes. Have you been to Australia?
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Yes. There was a lady named Pammi.
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Australian here.
I've got a Canadian friend who left Canada when it was -40C and 3 days later arrived in Australia, at +40C...
If I ever visit Canada, I'm going in their summer, I'm thinking... Or, alternatively, in the depths of winter just to experience a complete climate reversal - from my point of view, as I'd be doing the reverse of what she did!
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Canadian climate ranges from sub-tropical literally to the North Pole. Global Warming so far has resulted in extended forest fire seasons and some devastating pests, such as the Emerald Ash Borer. Whole ecosystems have already been affected. And if the permafrost thaws, the entire world might wind up feeling the effects.
I thought Aussies had brains. I was obviously mistaken.
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Canadian climate ranges from sub-tropical literally to the North Pole.
Cool...
Global Warming so far has resulted in extended forest fire seasons
Yet there's no evidence that fires are a bigger problem: https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/our-na... [nrcan.gc.ca]
and some devastating pests, such as the Emerald Ash Borer.
I know nothing of this, but a 5 minute read tells me it's an invasive species unrelated to climate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
As with most pests, it's lack of a natural predator from being introduced to a new environment " it was introduced from overseas in shipping materials such as packing crates".
Or are all problems from now on going to be automatically assigned to climate change?
Whole ecosystems have already been affected. And if the permafrost thaws, the entire world might wind up feeling the effects.
I thought Aussies had brains. I was obviously mistaken.
Brains are demonst
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Thanks. You proved you're an idiot. The Emerald Ash Borer in Canada is an invasive pest that is causing widespread problems because a lot of places that used to get cold enough to kill it off aren't getting that cold nearly as often:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180517113751.htm [sciencedaily.com]
And from your own fucking link:
"Following two consecutive record-setting forest fire seasons in British Columbia in 2017 and 2018, the area burned in British Columbia in 2019 was below the long-term average."
An
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Thanks. You proved you're an idiot. The Emerald Ash Borer in Canada is an invasive pest that is causing widespread problems because a lot of places that used to get cold enough to kill it off aren't getting that cold nearly as often:
And no natural predator right? Or do we skip that part and pretend that ain't a thing? And we also skip the part about how it got there.
So let's review the data you provided to support your position:
"the beetle may eat its way further north than originally estimated"
"the emerald ash borer is likely to"
"We ran specific predictions"
"Calgary is likely to"
"with measures of climate variability using a mechanistic modelling approach"
May, estimated, likely, predictions, likely, modelling... etc it's the
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Depends... is it vanilla-flavoured glue? Because if it is, I can't make any promises.
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Indeed you are ALL correct!
"Currently, the average air temperature in the area is plus 243 to 248 degrees Kelvin"
OR
"Currently, the average air temperature in the area is plus 438 to 447 degrees Rankine"
I could go on about Mars or Pluto but you get the idea...
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Alright then, I'm going to start calling +25C and above "extreme heat weather conditions". Because not everywhere is California/Florida/etc.
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Ah, you've been to the UK then.
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The UK does not have "temperatures" in the conventional sense. They have "rain" and "no rain".
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My microwave's output power is 1200 watts, so I guess we do use the metric system!
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Yay! :)
Yeah, I've read many times that the US does use some metric, but not in distance/length (US miles/feet) or volume (fuel is in US gallons?) and temperature.
It'd likely be easier if you just jumped in the deep end, like every other nation has, and got it sorted - it only takes a decade or so.
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Please, USA, use the metric system like everyone else on the planet?
Celsius isn't really much better, scientifically, than Fahrenheit. And in regards to suitability for Humans it's less intuitive. If you need a precisely defined temperature then use Kelvin, otherwise the choice of Celsius or Fahrenheit is just a matter of personal preference.
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Celsius isn't really much better, scientifically, than Fahrenheit. And in regards to suitability for Humans it's less intuitive. If you need a precisely defined temperature then use Kelvin, otherwise the choice of Celsius or Fahrenheit is just a matter of personal preference.
I guess the intuitiveness depends on what you were grown up with, but I would still disagree on both points:
First, Celcius is scientifically exactly as precisely defined as Kelvin, as the conversion "factor" to Celsius means just adding 273,15 to any Kelvin temperature. Doesn't affect the precision at all, as the scales increase in same increments (1 degree change is the same both in C and K).
Second, Celsius scale is defined with water freezing at 0 degrees, and boiling at 100 degrees. Cannot get more
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> I would love to hear your argument, how F would be
> more intuitive.
Oh, that's easy; not for science or engineering mind you, but from the specific point of view of measuring the weather, which... you know... human beings have to live and be comfortable in if we go outdoors.
0 degrees F: Holy shit, it's goddamned miserably and dangerously cold. This sucks. We need to get indoors and vegetate in front of the heater so we don't freeze.
100 degrees F: Holy shit, it's goddamned miserably and dangerousl
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This is not at all better or more intuitive than 10C, 15C and 22C. Freezing and negative Fahrenheit temperatures make even less sense. WTF is freezing at 32F? With metric you immediately know: "Oh, it's -5C? Better be prepared for ice on t
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Cannot get more intuitive than using the most common element (both inside and outside your home) as the basis.
I'm Canadian, and I function and use the metric system. Still, I get the point of Fahrenheit.
0F: Jesus! It's really cold!
100F: Jesus! It's really hot!
The 100-degree range of the Fahrenheit scale aligns nicely with human comfort.
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Australian here.
0C is headline news nationally if it occurs where I live, because it's very rare that it ever does.
40C (over 100F) is weather that's likely a few times a year and that I'll still ride my bicycle 35 minutes to and from work in. It's damned hot, but as long as I've got water and a breeze (say, because I'm riding a bike) and it's not for too long, it's completely bearable. For me, acclimatised to it. Others may baulk at riding in such heat, understandably. To be fair, when I get home I'll be st
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Yes, but the important point is that Russkies and China don't know which missiles constitute that 50%. Personally, I think you are full of shit. And even if you are right, one sub could devastate either Russia or China.