Femur posted:

does this mean, in those pictures of a layer of plastics in the soil, it was probably there on purpose? to easier till the land basically?

Raine posted:

i'm too dumb to figure out how to do this, but it would be interesting to search every corporate media news article over the past ~40 years for the increasing prevalence of terms like

"unthinkable"

"unprecedented"

"no one could have seen this coming"

"faster than expected"

etc

Raine posted:

i'm too dumb to figure out how to do this, but it would be interesting to search every corporate media news article over the past ~40 years for the increasing prevalence of terms like

"unthinkable"

"unprecedented"

"no one could have seen this coming"

"faster than expected"

etc

Cold on a Cob posted:

Cold on a Cob posted:

Confusedslight posted:

How long will the Internet infrastructure last? I'm semi serious. Because the real life ramifations of that going down is not a small thing. Not just for indoor shut ins like me. Or will the poors just get priced out as everything becomes even more unaffordable.

Times of Israel posted:

An Israeli study published on Thursday found that climate change is already causing a “considerable intensification” of winter storms in the Southern Hemisphere to a level not anticipated until 2080.

The study published by the Weizmann Institute of Science in the Nature Climate Change journal is part of an effort by scientists around the world to use 30 massive, intricate computer networks to better model and predict climate change.

The study, which compared previous predictions of human-caused intensification of winter storms in the Southern Hemisphere with current storm observations, found that the “bleak” reality was far worse than expected.


An Israeli study published on Thursday found that climate change is already causing a “considerable intensification” of winter storms in the Southern Hemisphere to a level not anticipated until 2080.

The study published by the Weizmann Institute of Science in the Nature Climate Change journal is part of an effort by scientists around the world to use 30 massive, intricate computer networks to better model and predict climate change.

The study, which compared previous predictions of human-caused intensification of winter storms in the Southern Hemisphere with current storm observations, found that the “bleak” reality was far worse than expected.

“It became clear that storm intensification over recent decades has already reached levels projected to occur in the year 2080,” said a statement from the institute.

The study, led by Dr. Rei Chemke of Weizmann’s Earth and Planetary Sciences Department in collaboration with Dr. Yi Ming of Princeton University and Dr. Janni Yuval of MIT, “shows that current climate models severely underestimate the intensification in mid-latitude storm tracks in recent decades,” the report said.

“A winter storm is a weather phenomenon that lasts only a few days. Individually, each storm doesn’t carry much climatic weight. However, the long-term effect of winter storms becomes evident when assessing cumulative data collected over long periods of time,” Chemke said, explaining that the storms affect the transfer of heat, moisture and momentum within the atmosphere, which consequently affects the various climate zones on Earth.

“One example of this is the role the storms play in regulating the temperature at the Earth’s poles. Winter storms are responsible for the majority of the heat transport away from tropical regions toward the poles,” he said, noting that without their contribution, the average pole temperatures would be about 30°C (54°F) lower.

Chemke also noted the current trends pose “a real and significant threat to societies in the Southern Hemisphere in the next decades.”

The study said it only examined storms in the Southern Hemisphere because the intensification there has so far been stronger than in the north. However, Chemke said that if the trend persists “we will be observing more significant winter storm intensification here in the upcoming years and decades.”

The study also investigated whether these sudden changes could be attributed to natural changes in climate patterns or were caused by external factors such as human activity and found that over the past 20 years, storms have been intensifying faster than can be explained by internal climatic behavior alone, the statement said.

The study also examined why current models were not able to accurately predict the storm changes and found that it was due to changes in atmospheric jet streams.

However, the study found that while there were problems predicting these specific events, most current computer modeling of climate change was accurate.

“The models are doing a very good job at forecasting nearly all the parameters,” Chemke said. “We’ve discovered one parameter for which the sensitivity of the models needs to be adjusted. Changes in temperature, precipitation, sea ice, and summer storm patterns, for example, are all being simulated accurately.”

Still, the research results were alarming, the study said, noting that climate projections for the coming decades are graver than previous assessments, and in this case with dire implications for the Southern Hemisphere.

“This means that rapid and decisive intervention is required in order to halt climate damage in this region,” the statement said.

silicone thrills posted:

Amazing how every time an article about climate change comes out, its always worse and happening faster than expected. There's never any "wow its slowing downs" ever.


Currently marveling that they put an individual plastic sticker on every single fruit at safeway.

Real hurthling! posted:

fruit stickers are required to be edible so that is edible plastic thank you, us government for your protection

Real hurthling! posted:

fruit stickers are required to be edible so that is edible plastic thank you, us government for your protection

Sad Billionaire posted:

I think we need to make a distinction between non-toxic and edible here

Confusedslight posted:

How long will the Internet infrastructure last? I'm semi serious. Because the real life ramifations of that going down is not a small thing. Not just for indoor shut ins like me. Or will the poors just get priced out as everything becomes even more unaffordable.

TeenageArchipelago posted:

Maybe scientists are bad at spelling. Try "faster then expected"

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

It's edible if I can fit it inside my mouth

Real hurthling! posted:

fruit stickers are required to be edible so that is edible plastic thank you, us government for your protection

actionjackson posted:

in las vegas the current dewpoint is 9, the humidity is 4% lol

endlessmonotony posted:

Give me enough money I can afford to get my teeth fixed.

silicone thrills posted:

Amazing how every time an article about climate change comes out, its always worse and happening faster than expected. There's never any "wow its slowing downs" ever.


Currently marveling that they put an individual plastic sticker on every single fruit at safeway.

Shifty Nipples posted:

There is a Marvel Iron Man sticker on the bananas I bought a few days ago

Femur posted:

does this mean, in those pictures of a layer of plastics in the soil, it was probably there on purpose? to easier till the land basically?

Hexigrammus posted:

Hell of a price to pay for strawberries.

Confusedslight posted:

How long will the Internet infrastructure last? I'm semi serious. Because the real life ramifations of that going down is not a small thing. Not just for indoor shut ins like me. Or will the poors just get priced out as everything becomes even more unaffordable.

silicone thrills posted:

If we get a massive solar flare event like another carrington we will lose internet and communications overnight and poo poo will go WILD.


We are so built around "just in time" and immediate communications telling us where and how to ship things that the whole world will come to a stop.

Hexigrammus posted:

I must apologize, I didn't traumatize you properly on the last page by introducing you to the wonders of modern agriculture. The article is referring to plastics in sewage sludge applied to fertilize farmland, but there's more!

Black plastic mulch applied over raised beds has been standard operating procedure on a lot of vegetable farms for years now. Heats up the soil so your crops grow faster and keeps the weeds down without using expensive chemicals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZGxaUO-yZk

For a standard strawberry bed there's a 4' wide strip of black plastic with two soft plastic irrigation tubes under it. This is only designed to last one season. They make machines now to reel up and recover the used plastic but when I first became aware of it (when our garden outgrew the irrigation equipment in Home Depot) s.o.p. was to till the whole mess into the soil.

This sentence sounds so stupid as I type it I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't researched and had it confirmed from multiple sources. I never used that vinyl tubing because despite it being cheap as hell it won't last more than a couple of seasons even under mulch.

When you reel up your bed plastic at the end of the season you put it into a dumpster and send it to a landfill or overseas to be burned in a cement kiln next to poor people who don't have the power to object to the cancer rates in their communities. Hell of a price to pay for strawberries.

Fly Molo posted:

just tilling the plastic into the soil each year, as one does

mawarannahr posted:

I’m guessing this is considered chemical-free organic farming,, c/d?

Mayor Dave posted:

Plastic is delicious

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Wait a minute



Computer, enhance



It's a nurdle!!