Radirot posted:

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1443583915084627968

rip this cool looking bird.

Real hurthling! posted:

lmao it kills boring beetles, the scourge of all our trees now lol

Radirot posted:

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1443583915084627968

rip this cool looking bird.

God Hole posted:

i'm currently recovering from valley fever, a disease with an accelerating infection rate due to climate change. it sucked because the acute period of the illness had the exact same symptoms as covid, during a global outbreak of covid lol so for months my doctor was giving me all these antibiotics to clear up the "long-covid pneumonia" that was ruining my life, meanwhile this fungus is happily flourishing in my lungs.

as the world heats up, fungi are going to build up a tolerance to heat that may one day eclipse the average body temperature of land mammals. do not worry about the vibrancy of life, friends. fungus will thrive in the world we're leaving behind.

ughhhh posted:

Had a lovely conversation with my grandmother today who lives in Nepal. She was really cheerful and talked to me about how much she misses me and how great all her grandchildren are and cant wait to see all of us together one day and feed us a great big feast with produce she grows in her garden. It was really nice



































Then i thought about everything that has happened in the past decade. The civil war got me to run from the country to study abroad. Many of my family died. Then half my village got covid and alot of people died. Most of them were older people, women, young kids. Most of the men from the village are in the gulf states working as migrant labor and no one has heard from them. Harvest was awful since the monsoon didn't come as it does, and when it did it washed away a nearby village. No one can plan the rice planting according to the almanac and religious calendar like we used to. The south of the country where we could reliably grow rice in has had a constant series of locust plagues druing the harvest since 2019. Most of the calories these days come from wai wai instant noodles according to the local health post that i keep in contact with. Her home in Kathmandu used to be in the middle of rice fields where i used to catch crawfish and snakes. Now her back garden barely grows anything because its surrounded by multistory houses people have built up which blocks the sunlight. The ground water well that used to water the garden and provide for the house can barely fill up even during the monsoon. The valley of Kathmandu that i left in 2007 used to have a population of under a million with barely any water or energy infrastructure to handle that, now has an unofficial population count of 2 million + with even less infrastructure since the earthquake. My cousins who haven't had a job in years but constantly take care of the family and village managed to bribe and fight their way to a doctor in a health system overwhelmed with covid patients because my grandmother was sick. Im so proud of them. Unfortunately there is nowhere to do a biopsy for the lump in her liver thats definitely cancer because there are no labs in Nepal. So im just here posting

lmao

lol

Serf posted:

lol

https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1443346166071050241?s=20

Homocow posted:

this is gaslighting

ughhhh posted:

ughhhh posted:

Had a lovely conversation with my grandmother today who lives in Nepal. She was really cheerful and talked to me about how much she misses me and how great all her grandchildren are and cant wait to see all of us together one day and feed us a great big feast with produce she grows in her garden. It was really nice



































Then i thought about everything that has happened in the past decade. The civil war got me to run from the country to study abroad. Many of my family died. Then half my village got covid and alot of people died. Most of them were older people, women, young kids. Most of the men from the village are in the gulf states working as migrant labor and no one has heard from them. Harvest was awful since the monsoon didn't come as it does, and when it did it washed away a nearby village. No one can plan the rice planting according to the almanac and religious calendar like we used to. The south of the country where we could reliably grow rice in has had a constant series of locust plagues druing the harvest since 2019. Most of the calories these days come from wai wai instant noodles according to the local health post that i keep in contact with. Her home in Kathmandu used to be in the middle of rice fields where i used to catch crawfish and snakes. Now her back garden barely grows anything because its surrounded by multistory houses people have built up which blocks the sunlight. The ground water well that used to water the garden and provide for the house can barely fill up even during the monsoon. The valley of Kathmandu that i left in 2007 used to have a population of under a million with barely any water or energy infrastructure to handle that, now has an unofficial population count of 2 million + with even less infrastructure since the earthquake. My cousins who haven't had a job in years but constantly take care of the family and village managed to bribe and fight their way to a doctor in a health system overwhelmed with covid patients because my grandmother was sick. Im so proud of them. Unfortunately there is nowhere to do a biopsy for the lump in her liver thats definitely cancer because there are no labs in Nepal. So im just here posting

lmao

lol

quote:

Severe drought that began in late 2019 continues to punish the region while experts say climate change and deforestation may be intensifying the phenomenon

In the shadow of towering grain silos that line the bank of the River Paraná, South America’s second-longest waterway, Lucas Krivenchuk stands watching workers rush to load a barge with soybeans.

“Twelve barges had to leave today, but only six will make it out: there’s no time, the water’s dropping too fast,” said Krivenchuk, general manager of the Trociuk private port in southern Paraguay. “It’s the first time that any have left in two months.”

The Paraná River, which winds through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, has dropped to its lowest levels in 77 years as a severe drought that began in late 2019 continues to punish the region. Experts say the climate crisis and deforestation may be intensifying the phenomenon.

The river experienced a temporary rise as Brazil released water from hydroelectric reservoirs for urgent electricity production but levels are rapidly falling.

The drought has threatened water supplies in Argentina, driven up energy prices in Brazil, and helped drive rampant wildfires across the region. Paraguay, which has no coast and relies on its rivers for countless social, environmental, and commercial services, faces dire strain.

“Paraguay is a landlocked country, and the river is an artery in its body that it depends on to live,” said Krivenchuk.

Juan Carlos Muñoz, director of Paraguay’s National Shipping and Ports Administration Body (ANNP) said river transport is central to an economy primarily based on genetically modified soy exports.

“We export commodities with zero added value: totally raw materials. River transport is by far the cheapest way of reaching international markets,” he said.

The world’s third-largest river fleet moves 96% of Paraguay’s international imports and exports along two great waterways, the Paraná and the Paraguay, to and from ports in Argentina and Uruguay.

The Paraguay River, which flows past Muñoz’s office in the capital Asunción, has dropped to its lowest ever level, further than the previous all-time low reached in 2020. With costs escalating, Muñoz said the shipping sector faces a loss of 20% of revenue – $100 million – for the second year running despite dredging initiatives.

The government – which declared a state of emergency on the Paraná in July – has already raised the alarm over rising prices of imported products.

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The Protagonist posted:

Hope is a mistake. Obliterate it from your vocab

Lost Time posted:

Paraguay is a bit hosed

The Protagonist posted:

Hope is a mistake. Obliterate it from your vocab

Shima Honnou posted:

imagine getting to give glory to the hypercane but not being awake to experience it. sad.

Shima Honnou posted:

imagine getting to give glory to the hypercane but not being awake to experience it. sad.

The Protagonist posted:

Shiva's forms are myriad, Her wrath empowered by our bacchanalia, Her embrace is inevitable

The Protagonist posted:

In the world I see - you are stalking landcrabs through the damp mushroom forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear sharkskin wetsuits that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick mycelium tendrils that wrap the Willis Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny squid pounding kelp, laying strips of grub meat on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.

Son of Rodney posted:

earth is dimming due to climate change

It's about as much more solar radiation staying on earth as the last two decades of human climate forcing. Hahahaha

quote:

The Earth is now reflecting about half a watt less light per square meter than it was 20 years ago, with most of the drop occurring in the last three years.

RIP Syndrome posted:

Cool. So the forecast by the way too pessimist, probably bad new models that was maybe, possibly happening next century in an absolute worst-case scenario:

- Is real
- Started happening in earnest a couple of years ago

lmao

Sedisp posted:

Uhmmm technically the earth is not dying because some form of life will still exis-

*turns planet into Venus*


Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

RIP Syndrome posted:

Cool. So the cloud layer breakdown forecast by the way too pessimist, probably bad new models that was maybe, possibly happening next century in an absolute worst-case scenario:

- Is real
- Started happening in earnest a couple of years ago

lmao

Sedisp posted:

Uhmmm technically the earth is not dying because some form of life will still exis-

*turns planet into Venus*


Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

quote:

Earth could turn into a hothouse planet like Venus, with boiling oceans and acid rain, if humans don't curb irreversible climate change, physicist Stephen Hawking claimed in a recent interview.

quote:

But most climate experts say that scenario is a dramatic and implausible exaggeration

quote:

Without a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere and the extra dose of solar radiation from the sun, only willful malice is likely to cause a runaway greenhouse scenario, said Kevin Zahnle, a space scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, who has analyzed runaway greenhouse projections for the planet.

Rectal Death Adept posted:

I was trying to find out if hothouse earth would eventually cool off so that subterranean or deep cave bacteria could somehow rebuild something over a long enough timescale and ran across this article

https://www.livescience.com/59693-could-earth-turn-into-venus.html
Stephen Hawking: Earth Could Turn Into Hothouse Planet Like Venus



....

Thankfully humanity isn't known for it's willful malice or anything

Son of Rodney posted:

earth is dimming due to climate change

It's about as much more solar radiation staying on earth as the last two decades of human climate forcing. Hahahaha

Rectal Death Adept posted:

thank god we will never have planetary concerted efforts to destroy our environment

Son of Rodney posted:

earth is dimming due to climate change

It's about as much more solar radiation staying on earth as the last two decades of human climate forcing. Hahahaha

mediaphage posted:

i get you're being pithy but we're really not, this is "just" a side effect of capitalism

we can absolutely change the environment enough to kill everything but that still wouldn't be enough to make it into a venus

hawking was smart but he wasnt a climate scientist

Rectal Death Adept posted:

I don't give a poo poo about stephen hawking, just the fact that humans acting extremely confident about the climate has never worked out

especially when it's a bunch of nerds who can't get over the fact the sun is further away therefore the calculations in simulations will never be the same between the two planets when we aren't doing this naturally, are doing it quickly and are using technology to make it worse.

So I'll believe these people claiming that it's impossible, forever, when they make one single correct prediction about the insane poo poo that is happening or somehow prove they are accounting for all possible geo-engineering when they go "Venus +100 Sun Earth -100 Sun" then do some atmospheric gas modeling while jerking off and being wrong about everything else except this apparently.