skooma512 posted:

"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”

The Oldest Man posted:

The preferences of the electorate at large have literally nothing to do with the policies adopted by the united states government

mdemone posted:

if Antarctic sea ice melting rates approach seasonal standards or are even a little below, there will be no Antarctican sea ice left by New Years Day 2024

smoobles posted:

Those penguins should learn how to code

munce posted:

https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1704530397592514720#m

FlapYoJacks posted:

It’s winter, it’s supposed to be hot. wait…

ikanreed posted:

Just because research had shown this to be unequivocally true is no reason not to vote!

munce posted:

https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1704530397592514720#m

Eason the Fifth posted:

Time to rename Chile to Wharme

Eason the Fifth posted:

Time to rename Chile to Wharme

Eason the Fifth posted:

Time to rename Chile to Wharme

Complications posted:

Anybody who lives in the US or Europe can tell you that more south means more hot. Those places are very south, so of course they're very hot.

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[United States representative on the Stockholm convention, and EPA member]Kovner was also in close contact with a powerful chemical industry trade group about the other compound, UV-328, which prevents plastic from deteriorating in sunlight. In order to be restricted under the Stockholm Convention, a pollutant must be shown to travel long distances. UV-328 was the first chemical that the convention decided met that criteria because it is transported by plastic debris that accumulates in bodies of water around the globe and in the migratory birds that eat it.

In April 2019, a representative from the American Chemistry Council, a trade group for chemical manufacturers, emailed Kovner to alert her of the proposal to consider limits on UV-328 under the Stockholm Convention based on its presence in microplastics, or pieces of plastic debris about the size of a sesame seed that accumulate in the environment and contain multiple chemicals.

“Wow — that’s quite a precedent. Holy moly,” she responded in an email, as the Greenpeace publication Unearthed has reported.

The chemical trade group representative wrote that they had seen several presentations about “getting microplastics into Stockholm.”

“Welcome to our future,” Kovner responded.

munce posted:

https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1704530397592514720#m

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

need to read that book again

skooma512 posted:

We just got to 1.5C

lmao agriculture is going to be impossible in 10 years

Eason the Fifth posted:

[Bad News Biosphere] Time to rename Chile to Wharme

RandomBlue posted:

1.5 degrees, pfft, that's nothing

RandomBlue posted:

1.5 degrees, pfft, that's nothing

1glitch0 posted:

that's too hot imo

Hubbert posted:

500 degrees of summer

starkebn posted:

gently caress You And Diebold posted:

if it gets too hot to support human life they can just sell their house and move

FlapYoJacks posted:

I got on anti anxiety medication for the first time in my adult life yesterday and hollllllly poo poo bring on the collapse babyyyyyyy!

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A new climate frontier. The leap of global temperature in the past two months is no ordinary fluctuation. It is fueled by the present extraordinarily large Earth’s energy imbalance (EEI). EEI is the proximate cause of global warming. The large imbalance suggests that each month for the rest of the year may be a new record for that month. We are entering a new climate frontier. When the first author gave a TED talk 10 years ago, EEI was about 0.6 W/m2, averaged over six years (that may not sound like much, but it equals the energy in 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs per day, every day). Now EEI has approximately doubled. Most of that energy is going into the ocean. If Southern Hemisphere sea ice cover remains low, much of that excess energy will be poured into the Southern Ocean, which is one of the last places we would want it to go.

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Political leaders at the United Nations COP (Conference of the Parties) meetings give the impression that progress is being made and it is still feasible to limit global warming to as little as 1.5°C. That is pure, unadulterated, hogwash, as exposed by minimal understanding of Fig. 6 here and Fig. 27 in reference 6

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That does not mean that the problem is unsolvable. It is possible to restore Earth’s energy balance. Perhaps, if the public finds the taste of the new climate frontier to be sufficiently disagreeable, we can begin to consider the actions needed to restore a propitious climate.

FlapYoJacks posted:

I got on anti anxiety medication for the first time in my adult life yesterday and hollllllly poo poo bring on the collapse babyyyyyyy!

TehSaurus posted:

hell yeah brother if we have to deal with this late capitalist apocalypse at least give me the soma.

Kal posted:

Obligatory cope

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That does not mean that the problem is unsolvable. It is possible to restore Earth’s energy balance. Perhaps, if the public finds the taste of the new climate frontier to be sufficiently disagreeable, we can begin to consider the actions needed to restore a propitious climate.