Zodium posted:

Zodium posted:

Stereotype posted:

this thread is where hope comes to die

Rectal Death Adept posted:

maybe you hadn't heard that the world's largest carbon capture facility just opened in iceland

Just a Moron posted:

I have no sources or reasoning for this beyond gut feeling and my general comprehension of the world, but the U.S. is not going to cut emissions by 40% over the next seven years. If it does happen it won't be because of the IRA but because of a massive and sustained campaign of people blowing up fossile fuel infrastructure.

Zodium posted:

blatman posted:

literacy takes away from your posting power

Hubbert posted:

edit: why did i add the word earth, gently caress

https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-ocean-oxygen-levels-dip-fish-face-an-uncertain-future

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Gianforte signs bill banning state agencies from analyzing climate impacts
House Bill 971 comes as Montana courts are poised to consider how “clean and healthful environment” protections intersect with energy regulations.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has signed into law a bill that bars the state from considering climate impacts in its analysis of large projects such as coal mines and power plants.

House Bill 971 was among the most controversial energy- and environment-related proposals before the Legislature this session, drawing more than 1,000 comments, 95% of which expressed opposition to the measure. HB 971 bars state regulators like the Montana Department of Environmental Quality from including analyses of greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts, both within and outside Montana’s borders, when conducting comprehensive reviews of large projects. It builds off of a decade-old law barring the state from including “actual or potential impacts that are regional, national, or global in nature” in environmental reviews.

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You remember Greg Gianforte?

He was the politician who body-slammed a reporter back in 2017. A court found him guilty of assault. Instead of going to jail, he got to pay a fine and do some community service. Now he’s the governor of Montana.

Talk about second chances…

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To be honest, Gianforte is simply making American denial official. There’s really no shortage of ordinary people and politicians who want to act like they’re doing their part by driving an electric vehicle or reading Bill Gates. The only difference I see is that Democrat politicians consider the climate impact of their actions, and then shrug. “There’s nothing we can do about it.”

silicone thrills posted:

This substack has been making good posts about covid for a while and apparently is on the same wave length as I am about also being sick of toxic positivity on climate issues as well

https://open.substack.com/pub/jessicawildfire/p/the-relentless-assault-of-positivity?r=64c8n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

starts off banger and keeps going, addressing laws like the new Montana one that is just basically another way to deny that anything is happening.

silicone thrills posted:

This substack has been making good posts about covid for a while and apparently is on the same wave length as I am about also being sick of toxic positivity on climate issues as well

https://open.substack.com/pub/jessicawildfire/p/the-relentless-assault-of-positivity?r=64c8n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

starts off banger and keeps going, addressing laws like the new Montana one that is just basically another way to deny that anything is happening.

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Here’s something ironic I’ve noticed: You can put a lot of work into being polite and civil. The people who need to hear your message most will still say you’re being too hard on them. They’ll put words in your mouth. They’ll victim signal, even as they call you names and accuse you of having no soul.

There seems to be a lot of people in this country who go around talking about how positive and optimistic they are, but only if you never ask them any hard questions or make them think too hard about anything they don’t like. If you challenge them or offend them in any way whatsoever, that positivity snaps like a little twig. When it does, they blame you for it.

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

https://twitter.com/DallasTexasTV/status/1658172735552385026

silicone thrills posted:

Thats an 18+ twitter link which means i think it wont unfurl and you can't view it with out an account. Post screenshots or the article link?

Nothus posted:

"New Texas bill signed by Greg Abbott will require owners of electric vehicles to pay $400 to register a new electric vehicle"

silicone thrills posted:

WA state tacks on like 100$ a year for tabs since we dont pay for gas therefor "not the wear and tear on the road"

its always kind of funny how "left" this state is but we've had that in place for almost a decade

err posted:

isnt WA the most regressive tax state in the US? its a shithole for suyre

Cuttlefush posted:

the el nino-southern oscillation is oscillating back to an el nino pattern. it's been in "el nino watch" for a month or so. so the switch is happening. it'll be interesting to see how it develops.

the ENSO blog is good
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/may-2023-enso-update-el-ni%C3%B1o-knocking-door

noaa's enso stuff is dry and technical but might get interesting
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml

people talk about el nino like it's an event that does thing's but the ENSO pattern is just a pattern that tends to pop out of SST data. the underlying physical mechanisms are a lot more varied and those are what are actually going to do things. el nino/la nina refer to patterns within that

if you're familiar with principal component analysis or any other multivariate/spectral analysis, ENSO is literally just the first principal component or equivalent that pops out and accounts for most of the variance in SST temperature in a given spatial region (tropical/eastern pacific). the Pacific Decadal Oscillation/PDO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_decadal_oscillation?useskin=vector is the same thing but for SST north of 20N in the pacific. so they're the same kind of math applied to SST in different parts on the pacific.

for some reason it's never really brought up what statistical phantoms both of these are outside of like, climate modeling courses. most people end up believing that they are events that cause changes instead of being observed patterns in SST changes. they're still extremely useful though. Also the cool thing about them, unlike most bullshit results of multivariate analyses, is you can see them in all sorts of other data sets. they're defined by SST but you can see them in some rainfall data sets, all sorts of poo poo. robust.

PDO is way cooler than ENSO imo. ENSO is pretty stable, small amplitude, and has strong regional impacts. useful to track. PDO has big amplitude and the PDO index tends to track with big global crazy temps all over instead of regional stuff.

if you compare the PDO index to crazy world wide heat vs the ENSO index, i think keeping an eye on the PDO index can be a better "poo poo is gonna get crazy soon" tracker. check out this paper for instance https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017GL075930. ENSO blog also talks about it occasionally https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/going-out-ice-cream-first-date-pacific-decadal-oscillation

Xaris posted:

ticks ftw. america is founded on parasitic blood sucking, might as well die by it imo

silicone thrills posted:

Just waiting for the ticks that give alpha gal allergies to make all of their range allergic to red meat

Wheeee posted:

there's going to be some incredible content in a few years when the price of beef begins to skyrocket to like $40/lb

silicone thrills posted:

The threads position is that no one should off themselves.

You should watch eyes wide open and let the horrors seer into your eyeballs.