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mags posted:as long as you don’t microwave, boil water in, leave in the sun, drink from, eat from with metal utensils, eat with as a utensil, drink through as a straw, or inhale any particulate of, plastics are fine So I dont need to worry about my thousands of plastic morgellons protruding from my skin and slowly enveloping me into a plastic cocoon?
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Apr 6, 2024 16:45
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Thats dope I bet we can get that over 500 before the end of the decade if we all burn enough poo poo
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Apr 6, 2024 16:48
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420 blaze it ('it' is human civilization)
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Apr 6, 2024 16:50
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quote:Wet weather sees farming morale at 'all time low'
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Apr 6, 2024 18:08
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https://x.com/CNBC/status/1776596471191670786
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Apr 6, 2024 18:10
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i wouldn't worry about microplastics. at high enough temperatures it is all destroyed. earth is having a little fever to help us out.
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Apr 6, 2024 18:16
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Dakar rally racing my diesel powered truck with five thousand gallons of green paint in it at a hundred miles per hour through an environmentally critical area and hitting every endangered bird I can before it's too late
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Apr 6, 2024 18:18
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ooh better invest in some real estate in the yukon
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Apr 6, 2024 18:19
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mags posted:ooh better invest in some real estate in the yukon All of those boreal forests and permafrost ecosystems are going to become blowtorches in the next few years
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Apr 6, 2024 18:21
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The Oldest Man posted:All of those boreal forests and permafrost ecosystems are going to become blowtorches in the next few years nice our homes can save on heating
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Apr 6, 2024 18:29
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I'm coming around to the notion that climate change is in fact metal as gently caress and should be celebrated
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Apr 6, 2024 18:30
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Car Hater posted:I'm coming around to the notion that climate change is in fact metal as gently caress and should be celebrated positioning myself now so i can fall into being Immortan Joe's guitarist
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Apr 6, 2024 18:47
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Hubbert posted:
funniest part re-reading this is that we now also know the breakfast oats were doing eugenics
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Apr 6, 2024 19:21
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/geoengineering-test-quietly-launches-salt-crystals-into-atmosphere/ It is easier for capitalism to block the sun than it is to reduce gas consumption lmao
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Apr 6, 2024 20:54
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Argentum posted:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/geoengineering-test-quietly-launches-salt-crystals-into-atmosphere/ this poo poo is never gonna be more than an expensive grift that will be a tiny fart compared to the crap released from other emissions, humanity will go extinct before there's enough means to cover the land in sickening darkness
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Apr 6, 2024 21:20
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Popoto posted:this poo poo is never gonna be more than an expensive grift that will be a tiny fart compared to the crap released from other emissions, humanity will go extinct before there's enough means to cover the land in sickening darkness They have a great use in being used as a talking point to prevent real action, like how carbon capture plants are imo "They just opened a new geoengineering plant in norway last year! stop doomin about how hot it is!"
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Apr 6, 2024 21:26
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Popoto posted:this poo poo is never gonna be more than an expensive grift that will be a tiny fart compared to the crap released from other emissions, humanity will go extinct before there's enough means to cover the land in sickening darkness wealthy people are going to turn to using their wealth on geoengineering (and make more money) in an attempt to keep their necks
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Apr 6, 2024 21:33
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Lpzie posted:i wouldn't worry about microplastics. at high enough temperatures it is all destroyed. earth is having a little fever to help us out. I hear Democrats make it feel better
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Apr 6, 2024 21:34
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Big oil is racing to scale up carbon credits
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Apr 7, 2024 00:08
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Ignore_Me posted:https://youtu.be/IJYK5tkgtvk?feature=shared Ashes Ashes
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Apr 7, 2024 00:43
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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:Ashes Ashes Ain’t about biodiversity collapse, thanks for the rec though Ignore_Me has issued a correction as of 03:05 on Apr 7, 2024 |
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Apr 7, 2024 03:01
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Car Hater posted:I'm coming around to the notion that climate change is in fact metal as gently caress and should be celebrated No more genocide! Only omnicide
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Apr 7, 2024 06:23
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/04/06/glacier-greenland-rock-flour/ The unassuming material that could soak up carbon emissions Researchers want to use the ultrafine rock particles left by eroding glaciers — called ‘rock flour’ — to suck climate-warming carbon from the air Minik Rosing grew up around the fine mud flowing from Greenland’s glaciers. It wasn’t until much later, when his own daughter had grown up and was in her mid-20s, that he realized how special it is. During a family vacation in rural Greenland, where there was no electricity, she was fishing ice out of a milky-blue fjord for a gin and tonic when that mud gripped her feet so tightly that she had to abandon one of her boots. As temperatures rise, meltwater is flushing out millions of tons of this stuff: ultrafine powder ground down by the island’s melting glaciers. Geologists have a culinary-sounding name for the microscopic particles: “rock flour.” The loss of his daughter’s boot got Rosing thinking. Maybe those tiny grains of rock could be used to trap something much bigger: the carbon emissions that are altering the frozen landscape and way of life on the island. “Greenland has been seen as the example and the horror story of climate change, and never been portrayed as a part of the solution,” said Rosing, a geology professor at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark who was born in Greenland. As global emissions continue to rocket, he is part of a growing group of scientists looking for ways to suck carbon right out of the sky, an example of a sometime contentious suite of technologies called geoengineering. For Rosing, the massive Arctic island’s exceptional mud represents not only a way of dialing back global warming but also an opportunity to change “the rest of the world’s impression of the Arctic” from ground zero for climate change to a solution for it. Petrifying the air Give it enough time and most of the carbon dioxide that humanity is pumping into the air will be taken back by the planet. CO2 dissolves in rainwater and reacts with rocks to form carbon-containing compounds that lock the gas out of the atmosphere. That naturally occurring process, called “chemical weathering,” literally petrifies the air. The problem — at least for us humans — is that chemical weathering takes millennia to work its carbon-absorbing magic. Humanity doesn’t have that kind of time: The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says society needs to drastically reduce CO2 emissions by the end of the decade. The situation has gotten so bad that the panel of scientists says we need to develop ways of pulling carbon from the air to avert catastrophe. So what if we could speed things up? What if, Minik Rosing and other scientists wonder, we exposed more carbon-absorbing rocks to the carbon-laden air? They call that technique “enhanced weathering.” Most enhanced-weathering proposals involve pulverizing tons of basalt or other rocks and spreading them across the land. But all that crushing would consume an enormous amount of energy that might result in more greenhouse-gas emissions. That’s where rock flour comes in. Glaciers flow over the bedrock like a slow-moving river. Over centuries, the tremendous weight of the ice grinds the rock underneath into a fine powder only a few ten-thousandths of a centimeter, or microns, in diameter — finer than most sand found on a beach. During a Zoom interview, Rosing poured a bit of cream-colored rock flour from Greenland onto his index finger and held it up to the camera. “If you see here on my finger now,” he said, “there’s absolutely no grains you can see.” Greenland’s ice sheets have already done the hard, dirty work of milling the rocks. Rubbing his fingers, he said it felt as soft as talc, an ingredient in many baby powders. The fineness of the grains is the flour’s advantage. It gives the substance an enormous surface area to expose to the air, making it an attractive candidate for enhanced weathering. That high surface area is also what gripped the boots of Minik Rosing’s daughter, Johanne Aviaja Rosing, so thoroughly. “Every time I tried to pull one foot up,” she recalled, “the other foot just went down.” “Other groups or companies are looking at using other types of rocks for enhanced rock weathering, but they have to crush the material,” said Christiana Dietzen, a soil scientist working with Rosing. “Even if they’re doing that, they’re kind of lucky to get to a hundred microns.” The power of ‘rock flour’ To test how well rock flour stashes carbon, Rosing and Dietzen hauled about 200 tons of the stuff from Greenland for experiments. The material packed a one-two punch, according to a pair of papers the researchers published last year: Not only did it suck up carbon when spread over farm fields in southern Denmark, but it also enriched the soil with nutrients and increased the yield of corn and potatoes in the first year of application. The researchers estimate that, given enough time, spreading rock flour on all agricultural land in Denmark would suck up a quantity of carbon approximately equal to the annual emissions of that country (or of Hong Kong or Syria). Preliminary results show longer-lasting crop yields in nutrient-poor soil in Ghana. “There’s a novelty to the idea in using pre-ground material,” said Bob Hilton, an Oxford geochemist not involved in the research. “There’s interest in the idea because glacier processes produce huge amounts of this material.” But there is still a lot of work to do before any farmer begins dusting their fields with rock flour. So far, the studies have only measured the crop yield and carbon-absorbing effects over short periods of time. The rock flour works best in certain soil — slightly but not too acidic. Rosing and other enhanced-weathering researchers need to measure more precisely how much CO2 their techniques are taking up, so farmers and others can eventually make money by selling carbon credits. “It is not easy to figure out how much CO2 has been sequestered in these field operations,” said Susan Brantley, a geochemist at Pennsylvania State University. Even though no extra energy needs to go into crushing rock flour, it may come with other environmental costs, such as the greenhouse-gas pollution from shipping it across the ocean and impacts on local ecosystems. And even though Greenland’s frigid waters slow the weathering process, rock flour would have already reacted with some CO2. “Just because these areas look like sediment factories, if you like, doesn’t mean that the grains haven’t already reacted in some way,” Hilton said. Last year, Rosing helped found the Rock Flour Company. It has raised $2 million and plans to seek approval from the government of Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, to mine and export rock flour. The process of assessing the environmental and social impacts will take years. “We have quite high environmental standards regarding our mining sector,” said Naaja Nathanielsen, a minster overseeing minerals in Greenland. “It’s a long process, and it’s not a one size fits all.” But she added that she expects scooping rock flour from the shore would have a lower impact than hard-rock mining for nickel and other minerals that other firms are eyeing in Greenland. “It’s a tension I think about a lot in that I would love to accelerate the process from a personal perspective in order to have climate impact,” said Clive Eley, a Rock Flour Company board member. “But at the same time, you don’t want to accelerate to the detriment of its full potential.” Rosing hopes rock flour not only alters the trajectory of climate change, but changes the perception of his birthplace, too. He was born in a small settlement on Nuuk Fjord in West Greenland, not far from where he extracted his magic mud. “Greenland is already seen as the parking lot of problems,” he said. “The Arctic is seen as a victim with no agency, and it would be really nice for Greenland to be relevant to the world in a positive way.” great investing opportunity if i dare say so
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Apr 7, 2024 06:57
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I finally understand why pol pot killed all the nerds first, lady out here writing a drat thesis about how it’s perfectly normal to huff rocks.
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Apr 7, 2024 07:39
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RadiRoot posted:Rosing and other enhanced-weathering researchers need to measure more precisely how much CO2 their techniques are taking up, so farmers and others can eventually make money by selling carbon credits. 
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Apr 7, 2024 07:53
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we better melt more glaciers so we can use their remains to melt fewer glaciers
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Apr 7, 2024 08:05
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Reducing carbon emissions would crash the carbon credit economy. One day we're going to see a coal plant that does nothing but belch CO2 as part of a complicated carbon credit trading scheme that transfers billions from public coffers into private hands
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Apr 7, 2024 08:16
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Speaking of carbon credits, I've just started reading The Ministry For The Future, which seems like a book the thread might appreciate I don't know how I feel about all the possible solutions presented in the book so far, like carbon credits on the block chain???, but there are some suggestions here that involve combining suicide drones and billionaires that I am 100% on board with
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Apr 7, 2024 08:30
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First came the microplastics and now they want to cover the earth with microrocks??  also what does the rock flour taste like
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Apr 7, 2024 09:55
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Kal posted:First came the microplastics and now they want to cover the earth with microrocks?? I get the distinct impression anything that scandinavian weirdo cooks tastes like rock flour
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Apr 7, 2024 10:03
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Bohemian Nights posted:Speaking of carbon credits, I've just started reading The Ministry For The Future, which seems like a book the thread might appreciate Ministry of the Future has some fun bits but is ultimately far too optimistic
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Apr 7, 2024 10:09
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The amount of times in the last few decades I've read about something good that could be done, but isn't because "it would cost too much" is depressing to think about.
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Apr 7, 2024 10:35
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starkebn posted:The amount of times in the last few decades I've read about something good that could be done, but isn't because "it would cost too much" is depressing to think about. One day theres like 10 last people left on the scorching heat of a desert planet, and they huddle over a bonfire an remember the many times they could have prevented it, and then they laugh and laugh until they melt in an acid rain
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Apr 7, 2024 10:40
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wait so if we just like nuked the gently caress out of the canadian shield?
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Apr 7, 2024 13:09
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https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1776923789822988405 Madness? this is! The New Normal!!
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Apr 7, 2024 13:57
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Even piddling poo poo non-actions are too much for usquote:The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) temporarily suspended its controversial rule requiring private companies to disclose carbon emissions data after it was met with a slew of lawsuits.
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Apr 7, 2024 14:00
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On 18 March, 2022, scientists at the Concordia research station on the east Antarctic plateau documented a remarkable event. They recorded the largest jump in temperature ever measured at a meteorological centre on Earth. According to their instruments, the region that day experienced a rise of 38.5C above its seasonal average: a world record. https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-of-catastrophe
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Apr 7, 2024 15:56
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Bohemian Nights posted:Speaking of carbon credits, I've just started reading The Ministry For The Future, which seems like a book the thread might appreciate welcome to the thread! we have such wonderful things to show you. blockchain is definitely going to be a major part of the climate change effort.
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Apr 7, 2024 16:08
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Nix Panicus posted:Reducing carbon emissions would crash the carbon credit economy. One day we're going to see a coal plant that does nothing but belch CO2 as part of a complicated carbon credit trading scheme that transfers billions from public coffers into private hands this in essence already exists in the form of bitcoin
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Apr 7, 2024 16:12
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4d3d3d posted:https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1776923789822988405 I would blow Dane Cook posted:On 18 March, 2022, scientists at the Concordia research station on the east Antarctic plateau documented a remarkable event. They recorded the largest jump in temperature ever measured at a meteorological centre on Earth. According to their instruments, the region that day experienced a rise of 38.5C above its seasonal average: a world record. Someone should ask ChatGPT what all of these different metrics in all of these different locations having the same dramatic and unprecedented spikes around the start of this year means.
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