gently caress COREY PERRY posted:

im buying the biggest most pollutingest truck and ripping out everything related to emissions we got this guys

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

unwantedplatypus posted:

Nuclear power is good for the environment because when they melt down they drive away human habitation and cancer isn’t a population-level threat to most animals

bedpan posted:

and the next panel is the goatman

bedpan posted:

and the next panel is the goatman

Mola Yam posted:

hm. if we're at 1.7, i think it's time for someone to do something

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

Iceland built the word's largest carbon capture and storage plant

smoobles posted:

Iceland also has the world's largest carbon emitter (a big loving volcano)

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1754881796511055918

Pussy Quipped posted:

I always thought the ocean was just a little too cold so this is good actually

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1754881796511055918

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1754881796511055918

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1754881796511055918

Hit Man posted:

Reminder: https://twitter.com/AnthonyQuintano/status/1744892262889263421?s=20

Hit Man posted:

Reminder: https://twitter.com/AnthonyQuintano/status/1744892262889263421?s=20

The Oldest Man posted:

We're really underperforming on our key toxic algae blooms and washed up dead deep ocean life metrics, and I think this new "boil the entire ocean until everything in it becomes chowder" initiative is going to turn things around

Hit Man posted:

Reminder: https://twitter.com/AnthonyQuintano/status/1744892262889263421?s=20

quiggy posted:

it's part of greenland's green transition so it's good actually

Demon Of The Fall posted:

lol

*crying, sobbing*

lol

RC Cola posted:

Number go up is good actually

quote:

Not a week goes by without a steady stream of headlines conveying our worsening climate predicament. [...] Given this now-familiar news diet, it's sometimes difficult to maintain optimism when it comes to society's capacity to manage the climate crisis. But as a historian, I find it helps to zoom out.

Looking to the not-too-distant past reveals that the sheer fact we are aware of the issue is a genuine achievement. Easy to otherwise overlook, history throws into relief how far we have already come in our understanding.

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For much of the 1800s, physicists had been led to believe our planet was, essentially, a cooling body: inexorably losing its finite fund of heat to space's void

[...]

Eunice Foote realised as far back as the 1850s that carbon dioxide retains heat and, thus, an Earthly atmosphere with more of it would be warmer.

[...]

Around this time, scientists also first made the link between humanity's burning of fossil fuels and Earth's future climate. Liberating colossal amounts of CO2, the planetary juggernaut of industrial civilisation suddenly seemed poised to rapidly warm our globe.

[...]

How did people respond to this conjecture? Having grown up fearing a frozen future, many rejoiced.

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And that brings us to William Lamont Abbott's case – and his erroneous beliefs about the benefits of burning all our reserves of coal.

For him, accelerating consumption wasn't enough. Estimating there are several trillion tonnes of carbon still locked underground globally, he reasoned that this storehouse, if "returned to the air", could increase atmospheric levels tenfold.

With staggering self-assurance, Abbott announced such a dramatic increase in CO2 would double Earth's arable surface, by transforming polar countries into temperate paradises. He envisioned perpetual summers, jungles in America's north-east, unprecedented crop yields, and unimaginably verdant environments; an outcome, he said, which was demanded by humanity's "increasing population".

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Abbott then arrived at his action plan. Despite nonchalantly acknowledging scientists didn't yet understand all the intricacies, he arrived at his conclusion: "Let the nations of the Earth unite", he said, in immediately setting alight all their deepest coal seams, so as to release the planet's entire "treasure of carbon".

He even claimed countries ought not "regulate the fire to the varying demand of power", but simply "let it rage day and night" — luxuriantly and wastefully — in order to make the world's mines into one "roaring furnace".

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Moreover, Abbott was not unique in holding these beliefs. [...] When they acknowledged a hotter world might unevenly make the Global South "suffer", they shrugged

Microplastics posted:

quote:

Moreover, Abbott was not unique in holding these beliefs. Swedish physicist Svante Arrhenius — the period's leading expert on climate change — had also remarked, cheerfully, that global warming will only precipitate better climates and crops. Others readily assumed similar things. When they acknowledged a hotter world might unevenly make the Global South "suffer", they shrugged rather than shuddered.

Hubbert posted:

I actually really enjoyed that article, thank you for sharing. Here's the chief quote I enjoyed most:

bedpan posted:

the global south getting scourged by climate change is at worst seen as something worthy of a shrug by the global north. during less guarded moments, eager anticipation for the forthcoming "solution" to "overpopulation" is expressed.

Hubbert posted:

... which, in turn, deliberately side-steps the true source ...