SixteenShells posted:

tree law abandons us when it is needed most

celadon posted:

celadon posted:

ekuNNN posted:

seaweather

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/22/large-methane-gas-leak-in-baltic-sea-discovered

quote:

Researchers in Sweden have discovered that large amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, is leaking from unusual depths of the Baltic Sea seabed.

In a recent expedition, researchers at Stockholm University and Linne University detected methane bubbles rising up 370 metres (1,200 feet) from the seabed, a stark contrast to the expected 150-200 metres.

The gas bubbles were found in a 20-square-kilometre (77-square-miles) area off of Sweden’s southeastern coast.

“We know that methane gas can bubble up from shallow seabeds near the Baltic Sea coast, but I’ve never seen such intense bubbles before – and definitely not from such a deep area,” said researcher Christian Stranne, member of the research project, in a statement from Stockholm University.

Erghh posted:

from weatherdamerung

Jizzny Princess posted:

We going to get a sequel of the ocean on fire like in 2021 if someone takes a lighter to it?

https://i.imgur.com/idP7Aj9.mp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YegdEOSQotE&t=76s

Jizzny Princess posted:

We going to get a sequel of the ocean on fire like in 2021 if someone takes a lighter to it?

https://i.imgur.com/idP7Aj9.mp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YegdEOSQotE&t=76s

skooma512 posted:

I wonder at what point people start harming the ranchers flocks and the ranchers themselves. They seem to think they’re entitled to unlimited rainforest land.

soundsection posted:

does "going completely loving insane" come after lol, and lmao? because i think thats where im at. post enlightenment, perhaps.

PostNouveau posted:

The Mississippi is so low that seawater is coming upriver. It's getting close to the point that it's going to overtake the intake plants for drinking water for New Orleans.

The mayor has responded by asking for emergency powers so the police can abuse thirsty people.

https://twitter.com/Cassiewdsu/status/1705316322970657249

PostNouveau posted:

The Mississippi is so low that seawater is coming upriver. It's getting close to the point that it's going to overtake the intake plants for drinking water for New Orleans.

The mayor has responded by asking for emergency powers so the police can abuse thirsty people.

https://twitter.com/Cassiewdsu/status/1705316322970657249

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

this is loving wild

When Authorities Believe Their Citizens Will Become Dangerous... posted:

Why does the State fear its citizens?

I’ll cover this briefly here; look for expanded discussion in later work. But to start, consider this, from the (neocon) magazine Commentary. It starts with the tale of an earthquake near Anchorage, Alaska, and public officials’ fears of what would happen:

quote:

North America’s strongest recorded earthquake struck just off the Alaskan coast at 5:36 p.m., on March 27, 1964. The shaking from the magnitude 9.2 quake lasted an unimaginable four and a half minutes. The tectonic forces reshaped Alaska’s coastline and triggered tsunamis that wiped out villages and claimed lives as far south as California. Anchorage, only 75 miles from the epicenter, was devastated. …

The sun set that night on a shattered city. Thousands were homeless. An entire neighborhood of stately homes had tumbled down a bluff as the soil beneath it turned to slurry. …

Almost as soon as the shaking stopped, city officials began worrying about how the populace would respond. … Police quickly deputized a group of volunteers—some of them freshly emerged from those Fourth Avenue bars—as ad hoc officers. The men put on armbands with the word police emblazoned in lipstick—a few were even issued firearms—and off they went to protect the city from the inevitable post-disaster crime wave.

…At the time, most experts believed any major disaster would cause “a mass outbreak of hysterical neurosis among the civilian population,” as social scientist Richard M. Titmuss had put it some years earlier. Shocked by carnage and desperate for food and shelter, people would “behave like frightened and unsatisfied children.” Only firm control by powerful authorities could keep the lid on such dangerous situations.

“Only firm control by powerful authorities” plays right into the hands of powerful authorities who desire firm control.

All the dire predictions turned to dust, as the article details. “Expecting chaos, the sociologists were puzzled to find the residents calmly, almost cheerfully, pitching in to help.”

And yet…

quote:

Before dispatching those casually deputized citizens to keep order in the streets, the Anchorage police chief suspended the search for survivors in damaged buildings. “Arguably, the city was protecting its ruins from looters more conscientiously than it was looking for people trapped in them,” Mooallem writes.

Sounds conscienceless, this behavior; property before people. But that’s pretty much at the core what our government protects.

quote:

Disaster researchers call this phenomenon “elite panic.” When authorities believe their own citizens will become dangerous, they begin to focus on controlling the public, rather than on addressing the disaster itself. They clamp down on information, restrict freedom of movement, and devote unnecessary energy to enforcing laws they assume are about to be broken.

If reason one is that the state fears citizen panic during disasters, reason two is that it reasonably fears an overturning of the state during certain disasters. The coming climate crisis is a perfect example.

Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:

None of this would be happening if we hadn't built a civ in the biosphere. Rookie mistake, really.

PostNouveau posted:

The Mississippi is so low that seawater is coming upriver. It's getting close to the point that it's going to overtake the intake plants for drinking water for New Orleans.

The mayor has responded by asking for emergency powers so the police can abuse thirsty people.

https://twitter.com/Cassiewdsu/status/1705316322970657249

Erghh posted:

from weatherdamerung

quote:

Researchers in Sweden have discovered that large amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, is leaking from unusual depths of the Baltic Sea seabed.

In a recent expedition, researchers at Stockholm University and Linne University detected methane bubbles rising up 370 metres (1,200 feet) from the seabed, a stark contrast to the expected 150-200 metres.

The gas bubbles were found in a 20-square-kilometre (77-square-miles) area off of Sweden’s southeastern coast.

“We know that methane gas can bubble up from shallow seabeds near the Baltic Sea coast, but I’ve never seen such intense bubbles before – and definitely not from such a deep area,” said researcher Christian Stranne, member of the research project, in a statement from Stockholm University.

Jizzny Princess posted:

https://twitter.com/SaraHor76174949/status/1705225568982065329

Angry cattle ranchers burn down rainforest restoration project because grass feed for cows is more important than any sort of biodiversity.

quote:

Extreme Temperatures Around The World
@extremetemps
South America Heat Wave day #2:
Highest temperature today was 43.6C at Villamontes in Bolivia.
Exceptionally hot nights in some areas with a Tmin of 29.5C at Establecimiento Miguel y Jesús in Paraguay.

Tomorrow the heat will intensify and spread in area and reach historic levels

MightyBigMinus posted:

no you go insane first, lol lmao is when you come to terms with it via cackling nihilism

Harik posted:

no, that's a different, darker path. one where you start snorting ever larger piles of copium and obsessing over carbon capture technology and lashing out when anyone talks about our objective reality because it risks shattering your head-in-the-sand worldview that everything is going to be JUST FINE.

The Oldest Man posted:

NO MY OFFSETS NOOOOOO

Harik posted:

oh, don't worry then. Your carbon offsets are fine and you can buy even more from the same land when they replant.

munce posted:

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1705345488545886292

Harik posted:

oh, don't worry then. Your carbon offsets are fine and you can buy even more from the same land when they replant.

Hit Man posted:

"when they replant"

MightyBigMinus posted:

no you go insane first, lol lmao is when you come to terms with it via cackling nihilism

munce posted:

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1705345488545886292

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/colinreads/status/1705263873828274213?s=20

Hit Man posted:

"when they replant"

starkebn posted:

Yeah, it's been okay here so far, will probably stay that way. I mean it's flooded twice in the last 15 years but everything went back to normal each time, I don't see why we can't just keep doing that.

skooma512 posted:

I wonder at what point people start harming the ranchers flocks and the ranchers themselves. They seem to think they’re entitled to unlimited rainforest land.