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Salt Fish posted:Why would you try to predict the magnitude of a volcanic eruption lol I don't. Vulcanologists do and you'll have to ask them why they chose that life.
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Nov 13, 2023 23:52
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I mean is there a chance this blows us all up? asking for a friend
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Nov 13, 2023 23:54
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Scarabrae posted:so from a scale of nothingburger to Krakatoa what are we looking at here? If it erupts in the ocean like it might then it could disrupt some air travel in Iceland but from what I've seen there isn't all that much lava involved, and the volcanic system is almost entirely super runny non-explosive eruptions like Hawaii. That there are fumaroles popping up in the middle of town isn't a good thing for the people who live there though But again, there's not much lava involved, so it's going to be pretty local
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Nov 14, 2023 00:26
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Scarabrae posted:I mean is there a chance this blows us all up? asking for a friend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Kbym7WYzs
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Nov 14, 2023 00:30
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Scarabrae posted:so from a scale of nothingburger to Krakatoa what are we looking at here? Probably at most a 2 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index (the scale is out of 8, and logarithmic). Eyjafjallajokull was a 2, and that was the biggest one Iceland's hand in some time. For comparison, Mt. Saint Helens was a 4 and Krakatoa a 6.
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Nov 14, 2023 00:51
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Uranium Phoenix posted:Probably at most a 2 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index (the scale is out of 8, and logarithmic). Eyjafjallajokull was a 2, and that was the biggest one Iceland's hand in some time. For comparison, Mt. Saint Helens was a 4 and Krakatoa a 6. walking around muttering "eyjafjallajokull" to myself like an Icelandic hobo
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Nov 14, 2023 01:01
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ok but can this new plastic geology make it go to 11?
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Nov 14, 2023 01:36
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I can’t imagine what Krakatoa must have been, at six.
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Nov 14, 2023 01:49
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Salt Fish posted:Why would you try to predict the magnitude of a volcanic eruption lol The trick is to predict differently on various forums, then afterwards you stick to the forums where your prediction came true and have everyone defer to you as the Volcano Guy.
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Nov 14, 2023 01:56
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Samuel Glompers posted:Always loved this logo because it looks like a sick poster for a left wing party in the 1910's or so. SWP, is that the Socialist Worker's Party? Nah, Sherman Williams Paints.
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Nov 14, 2023 03:43
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i just realized that of my 200 level human geography class's critical writing essays, the lowest grade of the 3 for the semester is dropped. i got a perfect score on the first two. the third one is on an alternate proposal to carbon offsets to manage emissions. i am subjecting my professor to an unhinged screed well over the stated word count explaining the Money Number Religion, the Sacred Line, dying earth doomerism, and finally my proposal: quote:Given the pervasive influence of the Money Number Religion, my proposed solution is as simple as it is comprehensive and unthinkable to that faith’s acolytes. The first step is total nationalization of the fossil fuel industry. The cost of a controlling interest in the three largest oil companies is estimated at around $350 billion, a trivial amount given the ballooning Pentagon budget to fight current and future resource wars and amelioration of the symptoms of the climate catastrophe (The Hill, 2022) Owlbear Camus has issued a correction as of 05:03 on Nov 14, 2023 |
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Nov 14, 2023 04:57
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post the full paper manufestos must be shared
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Nov 14, 2023 06:19
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jokes on you if your prof is unabomber 2.
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Nov 14, 2023 06:23
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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:post the full paper Yes You can't just tease the thread like this with that golden nugget and not post more
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Nov 14, 2023 09:17
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volcanos count as climate change because they're helping us add more carbon to the atmosphere. volcanos and humanity are climate change allies. our common enemy? you guessed it. the biosphere.
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Nov 14, 2023 13:04
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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:post the full paper
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Nov 14, 2023 13:26
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Mola Yam posted:jokes on you if your prof is unabomber 2. he's a liberal techno-utopian who thinks we can transition to renewable and perhaps hitherto unknown technologies to fix it fast enough lol ill post it soon phoneposting now
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Nov 14, 2023 13:31
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Owlbear Camus posted:i just realized that of my 200 level human geography class's critical writing essays, the lowest grade of the 3 for the semester is dropped. See if you can work in the phrase "Babylonian money magic slave system".
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Nov 14, 2023 14:44
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When I see a volcano I salute and say thank you. Pretty telling that the libs don't thqh
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Nov 14, 2023 14:47
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more like volcaYES
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Nov 14, 2023 15:19
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Has biosphere prolapse been a title yet? Seems appropriate with the volcano.
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Nov 14, 2023 15:28
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If it just cracks open and seeps, seems more of a fistula than a prolapse
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Nov 14, 2023 15:39
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I believe that if we throw enough garbage into as many volcanoes as we possibly can, we can then trigger enough eruptions and subsequent plumes to naturally cool the planet. 
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Nov 14, 2023 16:25
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5th national climate assessment was released today: https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/ so a good fun time to be had finding insane graphs & paragraphs that very politely and obtusely say we're hosed
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Nov 14, 2023 17:30
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Weembles posted:I don't. Vulcanologists do and you'll have to ask them why they chose that life. because vulcanologist is a badass job title
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Nov 14, 2023 17:37
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Nov 14, 2023 17:40
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Nov 14, 2023 18:02
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cow farts lol
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Nov 14, 2023 18:05
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seaquest dsv hamburger episode haunts me in my darkest hours
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Nov 14, 2023 18:06
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Delta-Wye posted:cow farts lol Cow farts are only 2% of emissions. Its the cow belches you have to look out for
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Nov 14, 2023 18:10
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honestly the change in USDA plant zone chart is probably a good one to share with people who garden and are receptive to climate change but don't *get* the scale.
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Nov 14, 2023 18:13
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Nix Panicus posted:Cow farts are only 2% of emissions. Its the cow belches you have to look out for idk I'm way more worried about a cow farting on me tbqh
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Nov 14, 2023 18:26
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TeenageArchipelago posted:idk I'm way more worried about a cow farting on me tbqh I fear belches because I kiss a lot of cows on the lips
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Nov 14, 2023 18:34
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Trabisnikof posted:honestly the change in USDA plant zone chart is probably a good one to share with people who garden and are receptive to climate change but don't *get* the scale. LMAO How many carbon capture plants would need to be built in 15 years for that graph to be correct? One for every gas station
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Nov 14, 2023 18:35
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jetz0r posted:LMAO hey it says potential right in the name, it doesn't say we're actually going to do anything  (but yeah 800 million metric tons, would be 200,000 plants of the same size as the Iceland plant, but since those plants have associated emissions of ~10% you'd need another 20,000 just to cover the induced emissions from those plants themselves)
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Nov 14, 2023 18:40
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good thing that building infrastructure is well known to use very little resources and carbon itself or we'd be in trouble
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Nov 14, 2023 18:42
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back of the envelope, we'd need about 1,600 of those "largest carbon capture" plants to meet that target. probably trillions-scale investment? but that chart only covers 800 million tons. USA annual emissions are like 5-6 billion tons. all the other poo poo on the list is still worth doing but CCS is never going to save us, no matter how desperately we want it to.
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Nov 14, 2023 18:53
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I've always been curious what the scale would need to be for like a bamboo biochar operation and how it compares (both in land/water use and operating cost) vs direct air capture Researchers have shown biochar reactors can be self-sustained via using the offgassed combustibles to burn/heat the reactor for a slight efficiency hit (still resulting in a net carbon decrease, like burning 20% of the carbon to bury the remaining 80% without requiring an external energy source) To me it seems a lot easier to grow acres and acres of bamboo to toss into a big hole/make black earth with than build thousands of these bigass expensive air capture plants but idk
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Nov 14, 2023 19:14
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Shows over, doomers. Xi gets poo poo done (maybe, in a single dimension, in a model).
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Nov 14, 2023 19:17
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:Shows over, doomers. Xi gets poo poo done (maybe, in a single dimension, in a model). China doing better will be absolutely essential to any hope of mitigation.
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