ELTON JOHN posted:

rip humanity

cause of death: advertising

https://twitter.com/PaulEDawson/status/1478645997102321664

500excf type r posted:

It's not good but it isn't bad. It isn't subtle but people are idiots and the audience needs it to be ham fisted and in their face otherwise it is just lost upon them, like everyone that thinks it's about trump and covid

Rectal Death Adept posted:

my new coin offering will pay people 1 coin per pound of co2 removed from the air











unfortunately the people using it realize it's easier to grab carbon dioxide if you are making it so my carbcoin rigs are just coal engines with a digital counter on the exhaust

ELTON JOHN posted:

rip humanity

cause of death: advertising

https://twitter.com/PaulEDawson/status/1478645997102321664

quote:

One recent study examined all home-threatening wildfires in the U.S. between 1992 and 2015. It found people started 97 percent of those blazes through things like debris burning, cigarettes, fireworks — and even mower blades hitting rocks and sparking fires.

Balch, who helped write the study, said the results show why it’s essential to focus on ignition sources near homes. If people could learn to change their behavior, they could prevent some of the most dangerous wildfires from threatening Colorado communities.

“We need Smokey the Bear for the suburbs,” she said. “We need to better understand how our daily activities carry the risk of ignitions.”

Perry Mason Jar posted:

https://twitter.com/KrystofSubr/status/1478434262726684680?s=20

Pryor on Fire posted:

Yeah this is it, we are finally at the point where entire cities are just wiped out by the fires. This happened. And our response is that everyone on social media is screaming about how dangerous cults are and how we need new anti cult laws while also saying that the police are amazing heroes and we need to give them a pay raise and more bonuses because of the fire.

Every disaster is more loving stupid than the one before

Quotey posted:

Watched it today. This is right. The movie is as overindulgent as you’d expect. Leo is the only person in it who will take any lessons from it, and that’s to keep quiet and live his best life with women that keep staying the same age.

uguu posted:

Does anyone have any resources on learning to influence people?

Perry Mason Jar posted:

My administration is committed to launching an investigation into how the cultists have gained the ability to manipulate wind, fire, and drought.

500 good dogs posted:

https://twitter.com/_TheBulletin/status/1478636216262316034

seems good

Raine posted:

you will be the one in hospice. along with everyone else

quote:

In June 2021, an unprecedented heat wave hit the Pacific Northwest and Canada, killing an estimated 1,400 people. On June 28, Seattle reached 108 F — an all-time high — while the village of Lytton in British Columbia recorded Canada’s highest-ever temperature of 121.3 F on June 29, the day before it was destroyed by a heat-triggered wildfire.

Climate change is expected to bring more such extreme heat events globally, with far-reaching consequences not just for humans, but for wildlife and ecosystems.

In 2019, University of Washington researchers witnessed this in Argentina at one of the world’s largest breeding colonies for Magellanic penguins. On Jan. 19, temperatures at the site in Punta Tombo, on Argentina’s southern coast, spiked to 44 C, or 111.2 F, and that was in the shade. As the team reports in a paper published Jan. 4 in the journal Ornithological Applications, the extreme heat wave killed at least 354 penguins, based on a search for bodies by UW researchers in the days following the record high temperature.

“This extreme event fell near the tail end of the breeding season for Magellanic penguins, so it killed a large number of adults, as well as chicks,” said lead author Katie Holt, a UW doctoral student in biology. “It’s the first time we’ve recorded a mass mortality event at Punta Tombo connected to extreme temperatures.”

The Jan. 19 heat wave was the highest temperature the researchers have ever recorded at Punta Tombo, where UW teams have been studying Magellanic penguins since 1982 under co-author P. Dee Boersma, a UW professor of biology. Temperatures at the site during the breeding season typically rise from the 50s F to the low 100s F. In a past season, researchers had previously recorded a shade high of 43 C, or 109.4 F, but that older record was not associated with a mass die-off of penguins, according to Holt.

The extreme heat on Jan. 19 affected adults and chicks differently. Nearly three-quarters of the penguins that died — 264 — were adults, many of which likely died of dehydration, based on postmortem analyses conducted by the UW researchers. They found 27% of adult penguin corpses along paths heading out of the breeding colony to the ocean, where they could get a drink — penguins have glands that can filter salt out of the water. A journey from the colony to the ocean can stretch up to one kilometer and, at its longest, might take an adult Magellanic 40 minutes to complete. Dead adults were often found on their stomachs with their feet and flippers extended and mouth open, a common panting and cooling pose for Magellanic penguins.

Some sections of Punta Tombo, where thousands of Magellanic penguins gather to breed each austral spring and summer, fared worse than others. In the central section of the colony, about 5% of adults perished. But other sections saw few or no fatalities, indicating that microclimates and access to the ocean, as well as individual health and nutrition, may have influenced survival rates.

UW researchers have documented past mass mortality events at Punta Tombo linked to severe rainstorms that killed primarily chicks, including one year where deluges killed 50% of the colony’s recently-hatched offspring. The 2019 heat wave is a particular concern because it led to the loss of a large number of adults in a single event, according to Holt.

“Any mass die-off like this is a concern,” said Holt. “But what is most concerning about heat-death mortality is that it has the potential to kill a lot of adults. The population viability of long-lived seabirds — like Magellanic penguins — relies on long lifespans. Adult Magellanic penguins can live more than 30 years, so they typically have many opportunities to successfully raise chicks. If we’re losing large numbers of adults from a single event like this, that’s a major concern.”

Based on examination of a subset of corpses, at least 8 out of 10 of the adults that died were males. That likely reflects the high prevalence of male Magellanic penguins at Punta Tombo — roughly three males to every female — rather than a differential survivability in extreme heat. The colony’s skewed sex ratio has grown over time. Research by Boersma’s group shows that adult females are less likely to return to Punta Tombo to breed, likely because they have more trouble finding enough food in the open ocean outside the breeding season. This has likely contributed to an overall decrease in the size of the colony since the late 1980s.

The remaining 90 fatalities from the Jan. 2019 heat wave were chicks. Based on postmortem analyses, the chicks that perished tended to be well fed and did not show signs of dehydration. They may have died because, with full bellies and small bodies, they could not regulate their body temperatures properly in the extreme heat, according to Holt.

Climate change is expected to produce more extreme weather events of all types globally, though effects will vary by locality. The consequences of this heat wave, though grim, also show scientists the limits that some species can endure.

500 good dogs posted:

https://twitter.com/_TheBulletin/status/1478636216262316034

seems good

Stereotype posted:

i remember before covid, people had hypothesized that a halt to air travel would cause a dramatic and nearly instantaneous increase in temperatures since huge amounts of suspended particulates emitted by jet exhaust that normally reflect light and increase the albedo of the earth would suddenly be gone. looks like that might be the case!

Xaris posted:

in case anyone hasn't been watching, much of Kazakhstan government resigned or forced out today as the country is in turmoil over fuel prices doubling and energy shortages. broadband is down across the whole country. billionaires including the presidents daughter have fled


https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1478749542489145346
https://twitter.com/Brave_spirit81/status/1478677736025694210
https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1478760524452139013
https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1478694849440358400
https://twitter.com/27khv/status/1478676064985571332
https://twitter.com/27khv/status/1478676302806884359
https://twitter.com/27khv/status/1478747084337692673

cheap subsidized fossil fuels is the divine right to rule for governments and can't go away.

Rime posted:

Enjoying Kazakhstan proving my thesis from like two weeks ago.

Also Kazakhstan supplies 50% of the worlds Uranium and a shitload of reactors are up for refueling this year. If the country collapses, that'll be fun.

Jel Shaker posted:

in hope putin and biden both move in to secure the uranium and we can finally end this charade with a global nuclear holocaust

Jel Shaker posted:

in hope putin and biden both move in to secure the uranium and we can finally end this charade with a global nuclear holocaust

T-Paine posted:

Rime posted:

Enjoying Kazakhstan proving my thesis from like two weeks ago.

Also Kazakhstan supplies 50% of the worlds Uranium and a shitload of reactors are up for refueling this year. If the country collapses, that'll be fun.

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

i remember reading something a while back, in this thread or the doomsday economics thread (lol they're all the same), about oil/fossil fuels being the currency of the world, not the dollar, not gold

was very well written and compelling, and i think about it a lot

uguu posted:

Does anyone have any resources on learning to influence people?

A Bakers Cousin posted:

There are volumes written about what is called the "petrodollar" (connecting the price of oil and the us dollar)

Do you think it was something about that?

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

i remember reading something a while back, in this thread or the doomsday economics thread (lol they're all the same), about oil/fossil fuels being the currency of the world, not the dollar, not gold

was very well written and compelling, and i think about it a lot

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

i remember reading something a while back, in this thread or the doomsday economics thread (lol they're all the same), about oil/fossil fuels being the currency of the world, not the dollar, not gold

was very well written and compelling, and i think about it a lot

Rime posted:

Enjoying Kazakhstan proving my thesis from like two weeks ago.

Rime posted:

This is where I am at right now. I have a long essay on the topic which I'm still fine tuning, but I'll give the cliffnotes version here:

Just as the government massively subsidizes Agricultural output in marginal terrain because low food prices keeps the population happy, so too will it subsidize and perpetuate the fossil fuel economy until the bitter end. Oil and Gas is quite literally the "divine right to rule" for modern governments, as soon as it goes away and takes cheap consumerism with it, these governments will crumble overnight. They know this. Fracking lost over $500 Billion in fifteen years without ever turning a profit, they kept it flowing through tax incentives to keep the price at the pump low.

As such, attempting to stop a pipeline or protest an O&G field is asinine and ignorant of reality to an offensive degree. At best you will be permitted to wave a sign and the minor financial disruptions from it accepted as the cost of pacifying the discordant left, at worst (in the event you achieve anything of note) you will be thrown in prison (See: Steven Donziger). As things break down further the mask will come off, you will be shot in the head, and you will be written off in the media as a terrorist. By and large the general public, having the mental capacity of a cow and fearing the loss of toys and steak your actions represented in a world where their comforts are already crumbling, will cheer your demise.

I am going back to all of my old oil-focused environmental protest groups, still busy pointlessly rabble-rousing about a pipeline owned by the loving government, and trying to encourage them to immediately drop that poo poo and pivot to an outreach model to build degrowth transition mutual-aid networks. So that whomever is listening, right loving now, has a snowballs chance in hell of not immediately dying when agriculture fails.