Xaris posted:

lookin forward to it

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

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

texas, now that is a power grid that needs no more electric vehicles

it is regularly 90F at 8pm when people are home from work charging their electric cars

Oglethorpe posted:

If you want to simulate biosphere collapse play The Universim and choose all the bad options on the tech tree

Or if you want to feel good choose the Eco options

silicone thrills posted:

Is it finally "Finished"? I bought it in beta ages ago and it would always crash before I even got to paved roads.

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

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

also depopulation because i'm pretty sure the average north american would sooner off themselves than live without red meat every day

Wheeee posted:

broke: truck drivers in Alaska idling their trucks overnight because it's too cold to get them started again in the morning

woke: truck drivers in Texas idling their trucks overnight because it's too hot to survive without AC and the power grid keeps collapsing

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.

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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

Hubbert posted:

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You have to make up for your gas tax shortfall somehow...

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

That Montana bill is so insane, JFC. Also Ticks are loving horrifying and gross me out so much, fuckin disgusting little bastards

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Microplastics posted:

If it's any consolation, male ticks reproduce by stabbing their penises anywhere into the females open circulatory system

quote:

Oceans have been absorbing the world’s extra heat. But there’s a huge payback
Record sea surface temperatures suggest the Earth is headed for ‘uncharted territory’ in terms of sea level rise, coastal flooding and extreme weather

...
“The ocean captures more than 90% of the imbalance of energy that we’re creating because of anthropogenic climate change.”

The ocean is much less reflective than the land and soaks up more of the direct energy from sunlight.

But as greenhouse gases trap more of the energy that’s reflected back – allowing less to escape to space – the ocean tries to balance itself with the heat in the atmosphere above.

A technical chart in a chapter of the latest UN climate assessment laid out the unfathomable heat gain. Between 1971 and 2018, the ocean had gained 396 zettajoules of heat.

How much heat is that? Scientists have calculated it is the equivalent energy of more than 25bn Hiroshima atomic bombs. And that heat gain is accelerating.

A study in January found the ocean gained 10 ZJ more in 2022 than the year before – enough heat to boil 700m kettles every second.

Compared with the ocean, according to a study in January the atmosphere has held on to about 2% of the extra heat caused by global heating since 2006.

HazCat posted:

Isn't that bedbugs?

Or is that also bedbugs?

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And that heat gain is accelerating.

4d3d3d posted:

traumatic insemination is sufficient proof there's no just or loving god

“a vast and mechanical cruelty beyond comprehension” posted:

In the Stylopidia, the female's anterior region protrudes out between the segments of the hosts abdomen. In all strepsipterans the male mates by rupturing the female's cuticle (in the case of Stylopida, this is in a deep narrow fissure of the cephalothorax near the birth canal). Sperm passes through the opening directly into the body in a process called traumatic insemination, which has independently evolved in some other insects like bed bugs.[1][11]

Strepsiptera eggs hatch inside the female, and the planidium larvae can move around freely within the female's haemocoel; this behavior is unique to these insects.[12] The offspring consume their mother from the inside in a process known as hemocelous viviparity. Each female produces many thousands of planidium larvae.[13] The larvae emerge from the brood opening/canal on the female's head, which protrudes outside the host body.[12][13]

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Microplastics posted:

"it's too crowded here"

AceClown posted:

Yo Microplastics, can I get a sixer with Mr Bdelioid's Wild Ride please

or any mod reading this really

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Rectal Death Adept posted:

if we invent realistic sex robots then i think we can see ourselves out as we lose the ability to grow as much food