[Biosphere Collapse] 420 days of blazin' it

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bedpan: Apr 23, 2008

AceClown posted:

https://x.com/PGDynes/status/1742976906583060795?s=20

High risk strategy!

but think of the sealanes that will open up!

# ? Jan 4, 2024 22:29

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# ? May 27, 2024 21:46

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Nothing risked, nothing gained.

# ? Jan 4, 2024 22:32

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

bedpan posted:

but think of the sealanes that will open up!

i've already invested all of my 401k into MAERSK, Hapag and CMA, great opportunities for profit. get in on the ground floor yall

# ? Jan 4, 2024 22:34

Notorious R.I.M.: Jan 27, 2004; up to my ass in alligators

Xaris posted:

i've already invested all of my 401k into MAERSK, Hapag and CMA, great opportunities for profit. get in on the ground floor yall

The only ground floor I'm invested in is at the bottom of the Laptev Sea.

# ? Jan 4, 2024 22:37

toggle: Nov 7, 2005

AceClown posted:

https://x.com/PGDynes/status/1742976906583060795?s=20

High risk strategy!

looking good

# ? Jan 4, 2024 22:43

Unless: Jul 24, 2005; I art

Xaris posted:

i've already invested all of my 401k into MAERSK, Hapag and CMA, great opportunities for profit. get in on the ground floor yall

if you havent read it, my favorite living sci-fi author has a great piece on the global shipping logistics network

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150209-the-network-that-runs-the-world

# ? Jan 4, 2024 22:53

Communist Cop: Jun 29, 2023

AceClown posted:

https://x.com/PGDynes/status/1742976906583060795?s=20

High risk strategy!

*Master Chief pounding on the table*

BLUE!
OCEAN!
EVENT!

# ? Jan 4, 2024 23:28

mistermojo: Jul 3, 2004

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

the january 3rd radio ecoshock is a great one, btw: https://www.ecoshock.org/audio-on-demand/2024-radio-ecoshock-show

yeah it was a wild one. her podcast is good too. though of course its no Radio Ecoshock with its choice 90s style radio edits

# ? Jan 4, 2024 23:41

Dokapon Findom: Dec 5, 2022; But have you considered whether the child murdered by the driver of that truck was riding an oversized bike?!?! Children riding oversized bikes are the scourge of our roadways!!

skooma512 posted:

I don't know what's worse, the fact that my work cafeteria has orange roughy on the menu every week, a fish that takes 20 years before it can reproduce and live to 200 and thus is very easy to overfish, or that they're that they're probably lying and it's not even the fish they say it is.

I think I might send some emails about this before I leave this job. My ecology class from 2009 has prepared me for this.

You just reminded me that in the last year I've seen Orange Roughy at Safeway of all places and I'm 500+ miles from the shore

# ? Jan 4, 2024 23:42

Cabbages and VHS: Aug 25, 2004; Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.

celadon posted:

the exponential improvements in consumer electronics over the last fifty years have conditioned the public to think such progress is possible in all scientific fields, and that if push comes to shove, we can see similar advancements anywhere. so the idea that "we'll figure it out when we need to" is pretty deeply wired into the collective consciousness, even if it is not true for many areas

As someone whose had tinnitus for 20 years, a condition that has plagued humanity for long enough that there exist written descriptions of it from 3500 years ago....

Lol lmao

# ? Jan 4, 2024 23:47

Puppy Burner: Sep 9, 2011

Cabbages and Kings posted:

When I got to the bottom of a pile of wood I stacked in August this week, hauling it inside, there were frozen mushrooms under it which had clearly grown during the rash of 40-50F weather we just had

maybe I should stop growing weed and grow shrooms instead, they seem well suited to this tropical, humid climate we're building here in Northern Vermont

it's been snowing and I think a lot of skiing is going to open up over the next 2-3 weeks, but that doesn't change the fact that it's ~10-20F warmer than usual.

Yeah, I saw some wild ones coming up on Monday in the Great Lakes. My coworker went to Whistler and couldn't ski cause there's no snow. All the plants are hosed, birds that shouldn't be here are, I can't imagine what's going to happen with insects, amphibians and reptiles. The trout are still jumping because the water is still so warm and ice fishing is a memory. Viva death.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 00:03

MightyBigMinus: Jan 26, 2020

Unless posted:

if you havent read it, my favorite living sci-fi author has a great piece on the global shipping logistics network

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150209-the-network-that-runs-the-world

wait you guys own stuff?

# ? Jan 5, 2024 00:05

Spaced God: Feb 8, 2014; All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!

MightyBigMinus posted:

wait you guys own stuff?

me everytime i open the doomsday econ thread and y'all 40 something motherfuckers talk about your houses

# ? Jan 5, 2024 00:06

mdemone: Mar 14, 2001

Communist Cop posted:

*Master Chief pounding on the table*

BLUE!
OCEAN!
EVENT!

# ? Jan 5, 2024 00:06

JAY ZERO SUM GAME: Oct 18, 2005; Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.

Spaced God posted:

me everytime i open the doomsday econ thread and y'all 40 something motherfuckers talk about your houses

well the banks usually own them

# ? Jan 5, 2024 00:27

TeenageArchipelago: Jul 23, 2013

Still lmfao that scientist decided "albedo" was some serious scientific term. Lmfao nerd albedoing 70 in my f150, later dork

# ? Jan 5, 2024 00:28

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

MightyBigMinus posted:

wait you guys own stuff?

i own nothing but stocks, as God intended. portfolio up 15% today!

# ? Jan 5, 2024 00:39

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

thread title

quote:

Groundhog Day. Another Gobsmackingly Bananas Month. What�s Up?
04 January 2024
James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Pushker Kharecha

Abstract. December was the 7th consecutive month of record-shattering global temperature, driven by the combination of a moderately strong El Nino and a large decrease of Earth�s albedo. The El Nino will fade in the next few months, but we anticipate that the string of record monthly temperatures will continue to a total of 12 and possibly 13 months because of Earth�s unprecedented energy imbalance. By May the 12-month running-mean global temperature relative to 1880-1920 should be +1.6-1.7�C and not fall below +1.4 � 0.1�C during the next La Nina minimum. Thus, given the planetary energy imbalance, it will be clear that the 1.5�C ceiling has been passed for all practical purposes.

Zeke Hausfather memorably termed the record September global temperature as �gobsmackingly bananas.� Subsequent monthly temperature anomalies have not been much smaller. These records coincide with a moderately strong El Nino, but they exceed expectations for even the strongest El Nino, if that were the only driving factor. Warming is also being driven by another factor, one that is ultimately more consequential: a large decrease of Earth�s albedo. In other words, Earth has become darker, absorbing more of the sunlight incident on the planet (Fig. 2). The increase of absorbed solar radiation (1.4 W/m2) is a decrease of Earth�s albedo (reflectivity) of 0.4% (1.4/340).[3] This reduced albedo is equivalent to a sudden increase of atmospheric CO2 from 420 to 530 ppm.

Fig. 2. Global absorbed solar radiation (W/m2) relative to mean of the first 120 months of CERES data. CERES data[2] are available at http://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/

Fig. 3. 12-month running-mean of Earth�s energy imbalance from CERES satellite data normalized to 0.71 W/m2 mean for July 2005 � June 2015 (blue bar) from in situ data.

We conclude in our Pipeline paper[4] that the decreased albedo is spurred by reduced atmospheric aerosols and enhanced by feedbacks. Given that NASA decided in the early 1990s[5] not to make precise measurements of the global aerosol forcing and cloud feedbacks, we are faced with a difficult task of sorting out how much of the increased solar absorption is aerosol forcing and how much is from feedbacks. The two major feedbacks expected to darken Earth as the planet warms are reduced sea ice cover and reduced cloud cover. The recent spike of absorbed solar radiation to almost 3 W/m2 (Fig. 2) may be related in part to the fact that it occurred during the season when solar insolation was rising in the region of Southern Hemisphere sea ice when sea ice cover was at its lowest point in the period of satellite data. Large variability of clouds, unforced and forced, complicates interpretation of anomalies, but spatial variations may help untangle the situation.

Feedbacks associated with ice melt are particularly important for reasons discussed in our Ice Melt paper[6] (that�s the paper blackballed by IPCC because it disagrees with IPCC about the imminent threat of shutdown of the overturning ocean circulations and large sea level rise). We find in that paper that freshwater injection into the ocean mixed layer by melting polar ice is already a significant climate forcing that acts to slow down the production of deepwater in the North Atlantic and production of bottom water in the Southern Ocean.

Moreover, this freshwater injection drives a crucial climate feedback that any lay person can understand. The freshwater injection � in the form of glacial meltwater and icebergs � cools the ocean surface creating a heat sink, as a large amount of energy is needed to melt the ice. This heat sink and cool ocean surface increase Earth�s energy imbalance. As shown in Ice Melt, this increase of Earth�s energy imbalance provides energy to melt ice faster.

It is possible to shut off this amplifying feedback by cooling the planet, but that can happen only if we reduce the present enormous geoengineering of the planet. This will require purposeful actions to cool the planet, in addition to phasing down greenhouse gas emissions as rapidly as practical. Fortunately, there are young people who are beginning to grasp the situation that they are being handed by older generations. We will write a paper in cooperation with enlightened young people from Finland,[7] Eric Rignot, and several other people discussing this situation. We intend to complete the paper this coming spring, by which time we expect to have additional data that test our interpretation of ongoing global change.

Figure 4 includes our expectation that continuing record monthly temperatures will carry the 12-month temperature anomaly to +1.6-1.7�C. During subsequent La Ninas, global temperature may fall back below 1.5�C to about 1.4�0.1�C, but the El Nino/La Nina mean will have reached 1.5�C, thus revealing that the 1.5�C global warming ceiling has been passed for all practical purposes because the large planetary energy imbalance assures that global temperature is heading still higher.

Fig. 4. Global temperature relative to 1880-1920 based on the GISS analysis [8],[9] through November and an estimate of the December anomaly using data of Fig. 1.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 02:01

Stereotype: Apr 24, 2010; College Slice

this thing that has been universally predicted for a half a century happening almost exactly as it was predicted really is gobsmackingly bananas.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 02:20

Dokapon Findom: Dec 5, 2022; But have you considered whether the child murdered by the driver of that truck was riding an oversized bike?!?! Children riding oversized bikes are the scourge of our roadways!!

Yeah even I predicted this!

# ? Jan 5, 2024 02:22

Car Hater: May 7, 2007; wolf. bike.
Wolf. Bike.
Wolf! Bike!
WolfBike!
WolfBike!
ARROOOOOO!

Predicted or not I don't like it and want to go back to blissful treat-coma ignorance

# ? Jan 5, 2024 02:32

HAIL eSATA-n: Apr 7, 2007

does this mean it�s time to buy a hybrid?

# ? Jan 5, 2024 02:36

Hubbert: Mar 25, 2007; At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

it's time to enjoy your treats

:blessed:

# ? Jan 5, 2024 02:47

Mola Yam: Jun 18, 2004; Kali Ma Shakti de!

ah well, i'm sure things will be back to normal soon

# ? Jan 5, 2024 03:23

Mola Yam: Jun 18, 2004; Kali Ma Shakti de!

(i'm talking about the timeless void of eternity that existed, and will exist, infinitely once the universe is gone)

# ? Jan 5, 2024 03:24

HAIL eSATA-n: Apr 7, 2007

oh wow that sounds really nice

# ? Jan 5, 2024 03:34

TeenageArchipelago: Jul 23, 2013

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

does this mean it’s time to buy a hybrid?

Nah, SUVs are getting pretty efficient these days

# ? Jan 5, 2024 03:36

netizen: Jun 25, 2023

Just saw on the CBS evening news that the crab population off the coast of Alaska has flatlined suddenly. They did report that it was attributed to climate change so I'm sure something will be done any day now about this whole climate change thing.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 03:48

cash crab: Apr 5, 2015; all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology

netizen posted:

Just saw on the CBS evening news that the crab population off the coast of Alaska has flatlined suddenly. They did report that it was attributed to climate change so I'm sure something will be done any day now about this whole climate change thing.

crabs don't contribute to moneynumber

# ? Jan 5, 2024 03:50

skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

netizen posted:

Just saw on the CBS evening news that the crab population off the coast of Alaska has flatlined suddenly. They did report that it was attributed to climate change so I'm sure something will be done any day now about this whole climate change thing.

It's been like that since last winter at least though?

lol they're finally catching up

# ? Jan 5, 2024 03:50

Car Hater: May 7, 2007; wolf. bike.
Wolf. Bike.
Wolf! Bike!
WolfBike!
WolfBike!
ARROOOOOO!

I do kind of love knowing about problems months to years in advance of even the most hysterical news media. Gives me time to hyperventilate alone so that when people start talking about it I can laugh a bunch and tell them the latest update on the manmade horrors

# ? Jan 5, 2024 03:52

netizen: Jun 25, 2023

skooma512 posted:

It's been like that since last winter at least though?

lol they're finally catching up

Car Hater posted:

I do kind of love knowing about problems months to years in advance of even the most hysterical news media. Gives me time to hyperventilate alone so that when people start talking about it I can laugh a bunch and tell them the latest update on the manmade horrors

I guess I'm late to the party on this one too, although I just assume everything is dying everywhere and that way I'm never too disappointed.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 03:55

Owlbear Camus: Jan 3, 2013; Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?

I don't like crab so as long as the swimmy fish are fine its good.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 03:59

netizen: Jun 25, 2023

My favorite movie is Everything Dying Everywhere All at Once

# ? Jan 5, 2024 04:00

blatman: May 10, 2009; 14 inc dont mez

evolution tends to independently create crabs everywhere, all of whom are crushed by the hubris of man

# ? Jan 5, 2024 04:01

Complications: Jun 19, 2014

Sustained 1.5C+ average in 2023/2024! Only a decade ahead of the UN's current cope schedule. :toot:

# ? Jan 5, 2024 04:05

SniperWoreConverse: Mar 20, 2010; Gun Saliva

Being the bearer of bad news does have a certain villainous appeal but if you're charismatic enough to land an anime monolog you probably don't have to wait around in the first place

# ? Jan 5, 2024 04:06

Mola Yam: Jun 18, 2004; Kali Ma Shakti de!

yeah snow crabs are fucken gone man

10 billion "missing" (lol) in 2022

snow crab season has been cancelled for three years in a row.

the most recent comprehensive population data is actually from late 2022. i'm sure things didn't get much worse last year, now to take a large sip of crab juice while i look at ocean temperatures in 2023...

# ? Jan 5, 2024 04:06

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

skooma512 posted:

I don't know what's worse, the fact that my work cafeteria has orange roughy on the menu every week, a fish that takes 20 years before it can reproduce and live to 200 and thus is very easy to overfish, or that they're that they're probably lying and it's not even the fish they say it is.

I think I might send some emails about this before I leave this job. My ecology class from 2009 has prepared me for this.

lmao

quote:

This species was first given the common name "Orange Roughy" by scientists in New Zealand in 1975 following the discovery of large aggregations during a deep-water research cruise.[11][12][13] A large scale fishery for orange roughy subsequently developed around New Zealand, and imports into the United States increased where it was renamed from the less gastronomically appealing "slimehead" through a U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service program during the late 1970s that identified underused species that should be renamed to make them more marketable.[14]

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mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

Unless posted:

if you havent read it, my favorite living sci-fi author has a great piece on the global shipping logistics network

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150209-the-network-that-runs-the-world

they misspelled humongous. rofl :sad:

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