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Leroy Diplowski posted:

Google maps just updated their street view of Lytton BC, famous for getting to like 120F and then promptly burning to the ground. The whole town is gone but you can still see where the businesses were and their reviews. It's pretty eerie.

Fell Mood posted:

What does that report say is the cause of a sudden increase in the rate of warming?

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In the 2020s, internal climate variability leads to higher warming than projected, in a reverse development to what happened in the so-called ‘hiatus’ period of the 2000s. Temperatures are regularly above 1.5°C of warming, although
radiative forcing is consistent with a warming of 1.2°C or 1.3°C.

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Fell Mood posted:

So does anyone know what unforseen feedback loop has been triggered? My theory is that the deep ocean has been absorbing excess heat for decades and has finally stopped. It seems liike something has changed just within the past year.

TehSaurus posted:

sorry for your loss but I bet your meltdown will own so who can say if it is good or bad

gently caress You And Diebold posted:

faster than predicted you say

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/08/antarctica-warming-much-faster-than-models-predicted-in-deeply-concerning-sign-for-sea-levels

Trabisnikof posted:

I was thinking of the SR15 report, but I'm sure the AR6 reports have similar conclusions:

if climate models are us going up the trail to the top of the mountain of doom, the trail is bumpy in ways that average out over the long run. so we were cooler than we should be in the oughts, and now we're hotter than we should be

Dokapon Findom posted:

One of the experiments that Exxon commissioned in the 70s was related to determining how much carbon (and possibly heat?) was stored by the ocean; did they ever publicly release their findings?

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smoobles posted:

it's summer

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TehSaurus posted:

Covid thread has been following her for years. She’s awesome. One of us!

Truga posted:

got linked this in a discord
https://www.okdoomer.io/nobodys-driving/
which one of you is this lmao

Truga posted:

got linked this in a discord
https://www.okdoomer.io/nobodys-driving/
which one of you is this lmao

Cold on a Cob posted:

if the truck had slammed into the car instead it would have been a great metaphor for the situation we're currently in i guess

Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:

Kinda like the cut of this girl’s jib. Makes me think of Tim Watkins’ stuff over at https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk

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But roadkill is also a culprit in our planet’s current mass die-​off. Every year American cars hit more than 1 million large animals, such as deer, elk, and moose, and as many as 340 million birds; across the continent, roadkill may claim the lives of billions of pollinating insects. The ranks of the victims include many endangered species: One 2008 congressional report found that traffic existentially threatens at least 21 critters in the U.S., including the Houston toad and the Hawaiian goose. If the last-ever California tiger salamander shuffles off this mortal coil, the odds are decent that it will happen on rain-​slick blacktop one damp spring night.

When an aggregation of libidinous herps boils over a road, the outcome is what some biologists call, none too scientifically, a “massive squishing.” Squishing statistics are both appalling and abstract, in the way that astronomical death tolls often are: nearly 28,000 leopard frogs killed over two separate two-year periods on a Lake Erie causeway; up to 10,000 red-​sided garter snakes slain in one season in Manitoba; 2,500 toads flattened on a French road. In Indiana, scientists who counted more than 10,000 crushed animals found that 95 percent were reptiles and amphibians. You’ve probably never heard one pop beneath your tires, but in many places herps—​not deer, not squirrels—​make up most vertebrate roadkill.

For a long time, however, few considered roadkill a threat. Cars might have been pulverizing millions of frogs each year, but millions more crawled in the wings. Even Henry David Thoreau considered wagon-​flattenings cause for perverse celebration. “I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed … that tender organizations can be so serenely squashed out of existence like pulp,” Thoreau raved in Walden, “tadpoles which herons gobble up, and tortoises and toads run over in the road.”

Many biologists concurred. Roadkill was widely considered “compensatory mortality,” a form of death balanced by the scales of life. If more frogs were flattened, the thinking went, maybe fewer would get eaten by predators, or there would be more food for their tadpoles. “When you deal with a group like amphibians, which have a high reproductive rate, people just think, Well, they’ll be able to compensate for road mortality,” a Canadian biologist named Lenore Fahrig told me. “The idea that roads actually have effects on populations, I don’t think that was on anybody’s radar at all.”

In the 1990s, she noticed that the herp carnage was worse on a quieter road near her Ottawa home than on the busier one—even though frogs readily cross busy streets, fewer cars had somehow produced more death. Fahrig puzzled over the conundrum and came up with a hypothesis: The busy road didn’t have many frogkills, because there weren’t many frogs left to kill. Traffic, she suspected, had already wiped out the local population.

Given enough time and traffic, roadkill could indeed diminish a population, even extirpate it. Roadkill was not exclusively a source of compensatory mortality: It could also be additive mortality, death that never came out in nature’s wash.

The diminishment of herps is a hard problem to grasp. Utter extinction, the fate that befell the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet, is a concept universally understood. Yet extinction is rarely instantaneous, and the gradual ebbing of abundance that precedes it strains language. Some researchers have called such insidious losses “defaunation”; others know them as “biological annihilation.” The biologist E. O. Wilson favored “Eremocene”: the age of loneliness, a near and desolate future in which humankind bestrides an empty world, or perhaps drives over it.

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

uh, this isn't the shining endorsement you think it is lol

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

uh, this isn't the shining endorsement you think it is lol

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

uh, this isn't the shining endorsement you think it is lol

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

uh, this isn't the shining endorsement you think it is lol