When I “traumatically amputated” (medical phrase) my Left thumb I was given fentanyl. I also had it when my Gall bladder was playing up.
It’s great stuff, hits quick, fades just as quick though!
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When I “traumatically amputated” (medical phrase) my Left thumb I was given fentanyl. I also had it when my Gall bladder was playing up.
It’s great stuff, hits quick, fades just as quick though!
Posted from Whyalla, I presume?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tombie
Did the gall bladder settle down or have to be removed, as a mate's had to be taken out the 2nd time it played up?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tombie
Removed. Reasonably painless, I was operated on at 5pm and discharged 7am the next morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by RANDLOVER
Science and averages collide at times
"Australia flood crisis: 'Once in a century'Australia flood crisis: 'Once in a century'
Western Australia has been experiencing heavy rain, causing communities to be stranded and leaving hundreds of people in need of evacuation.
An emergency services minister said it was "the worst flooding Western Australia has had in its history".
"
BBC headline. Click on the link and I notices several "ONE' in a hundred suggesting it might not be just ONE [biggrin]
"Trend is your friend" at times in finance. Not so with floods of course
Dito for another Once in a Centry event which is not going to take a hundred years to bite again' New Scientist explains it best
"You call the current pandemic a “once-in-a-century event” (28 March, p 20). True, that is the elapsed time since the “Spanish flu” outbreak of 1918 to 1919, but this is no guide to the future. Since then, our population has quadrupled. The United Nations estimates that it was only in 2007 that the majority of humanity came to live in cities rather than the countryside. For much of the century, we couldn’t fly across the world in hours.
The production of animals for food has massively intensified, increasing the chances of new pathogens emerging, as we have tragically seen. The dangerous effects of climate change, those with the potential to disrupt ecosystems and societies in a way that creates more opportunities for the spread of diseases, have started to be experienced in the past 20 years.
If I had to guess, I would say that a return to “business as usual” will result in another major pandemic within the lifetimes of most people reading this. Of course, we now have the science and technology to cope with almost any pandemic. Yet current events are proving that we are very reluctant to make even the most basic pandemic preparations.
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Mr Smith's 30 time Century might be said to have done it as well with not many with the expectation Don Bradmans record would fall[bigrolf]
Preindustrial levels of Co2 were around 280 ppm and had been for at least 6000 years, to my knowledge "Roman Times" were around 2000 years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by superquag
Current levels of Co2 are around 410 ppm
If you are going to state "facts" perhaps they should be factual.
ICE cores give a very cool C02 record for a LONG timeQuote:
Originally Posted by Dorian
Not new science - "1977 paper has "On purely glaciological grounds it appears that the ice age gave way to present-day climates some 10 000 ± 1000 a B.P., the coldest period being 20 000 + 3000 a B.P., when the climate in Antarctica was 6-8 °C colder than at present. Glaciological data suggest a duration of 50 000 to 100 000 years for the last ice age. Before this period, climates in Greenland and Antarctica appear to have been around 2-3 °C warmer than at present." Link
One aspect of Science is it evolves and is refined by research not biased by anything hopefully
That 1977 'Royal Society' science paper has for example "Greenland and Antarctica appear to have been around 2-3 °C warmer than at present" (1977 present )
Trend is interestingly cooler
https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfront.ne...12&d1=19730122
What that doesn't show is the impacts of high highs and lower lows!
Not pretty at all Greenland/Antarctica Ice Sheet Today | Surface Melt Data presented by NSIDC
"September set records for high temperatures, melt extent, and ice loss. " (2022)
Measurement is key to most things of course.
Mate - if you think 8 BILLION people aren't having an effect on our climate then there's nothing anyone can say or show you to convince you otherwise - there's a Forrest Gump saying about this I think...Quote:
Originally Posted by superquag
Next you'll tell me you've never been in a room full of people that has been hotter than outside? Or is that just the heating turned up to far???
Give me strength...
Yet the solution and daily desperate objective if you’re a mayor, premier, prime minister, basically any elected official is - more people and bigger populations fast as you can. At the same time the other half of government tells us we need to conserve power and use less fuel, timber, fish and most raw materials. Go figure.
So, Long time ago, when Romans were busy building their Top Quality roads all over the place... how did the population - then - breathe heavily and make the planet warmer than it is now ? - Swiss uncovering another R- road up in the mountains... where it has been under snow till just now?Quote:
Originally Posted by Homestar
- No point in building a road... if it can't be used.
And then there's the ... ? of whether CO2 levels are the same round the globe.... Consider a CO2 monitor on the side of a hill... Numbers trending up. = Global Warming from more CO2 !
But, Was that a lump of ground, or a Volcano ?. (Hawaii....) Oops !
Similar errors have grown into Temperature/Weather observations taken over Centuries. Urban sprawl cannot always be foreseen.
For example, One particular station in South Australia. Originally out in the open. Today, same spot, is surrounded by factories. Guess the temperature trend ? I'm told this particular point was moved around ?? years ago, after someone queried "reliability" in it's current pristine locale.
- One of the reasons Airports are favoured for locating weather measuring sensors... Wide open space very unlikely to be built-in, and lots of wind to mitigate jet exhausts.
But there IS. a silver lining, and it ain't reflective metal high in the atmosphere... MORE. CO2. =. More. Plant Food for the grasses and trees.. Y'know, the green plants that take in CO2, turn it into 'Fertilizer' and pump out oxygen.
Google this and see for yourself. Greenhouse supplies carbon dioxide equipment