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Admiral Ray posted:One of the better places to get money to look into things like this is the military. If you can convince generals, admirals (or their closest hangers on) that climate change will unpredictably and irreparably harm America's defense posture and your idea is part of an improved action plan to mitigate these the threats after a period of X years, enabling continued US presence in regions A, B, C while keeping expenditures below Y projections. The issue is, as ever, getting contact with them. Yeah, see here: quote:Climate change poses “immediate risks” to national security and will have broad and costly impacts on the way the US military carries out its missions, the Pentagon said in a new report on the impact of climate change released on 13 October. quote:While the Trump administration has largely rejected climate change as an issue, the Department of Defense and Congress have identified it as a major potential threat to national security.
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# ¿ Nov 16, 2018 19:17 |
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# ¿ May 17, 2024 13:05 |
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Tab8715 posted:
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2019 18:39 |
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Shima Honnou posted:Can corn grow in chilly weather 'cause looking it up Illinois is one of the big producers and they're oscillating between like 50F and 70F depending on what day it is. Its more the fields are too wet to plow than the weather (that's fine for corn growing. Not ideal, but fine. More about the sun than the temp). Also the fact that they were warehousing all those soybeans that China wasn't buying because of the tariffs and oops floods took out the stockpiles and now they're washed away or rotting in flooded silos.
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# ¿ May 14, 2019 20:05 |
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Stoner Sloth posted:Make sure you drink plenty of water - more than you think you need and stay indoors/in air conditioned places if possible during the hottest parts of the day, also don't do anything too physical outdoors if you have to be there. Just some friendly advice - we've had healthy twenty six year olds drop dead of heat stroke and/or dehydration in those sort of conditions here. Shade will be your friend if you have to be outside as well. Find it or bring it with you (large hats, umbrellas, pop-up awnings) if you have to work outside.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2019 17:09 |
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Defenistrator posted:Anyone in Ontario notice the disturbing lack of insects this summer? I haven't seen a single fly or bee yet. After our ridiculously wet spring here in the Midwest (where some fields are still underwater) the number of mosquitos, whose population you’d think would have exploded, is just normal. The gnat population however is nuts. Driving my kid to camp in the morning it looks like mist over ditches along the side of the road but it’s not. It’s clouds and clouds of gnats. Oracle fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Jun 27, 2019 |
# ¿ Jun 27, 2019 05:24 |
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Sundae posted:You're going to instantiate a new wave of climate-hacking using clusters of renewable, root-based bioprocesses. No speed trees here; we're going back to core principles with our new system. Just click the button on this app to find available hackyards or independent climate-concierges to bring about this new reality! omg i died at hackyards
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# ¿ Jul 13, 2019 04:39 |
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1glitch0 posted:We were doubled up on computers and if we messed up and lost like a quarter way through class we just gave up and started talking because we knew it was hopeless to try again. Why "computer class" was just having everyone play Oregon Trail on Macs is... a whole other discussion I suppose. I wonder how prevalent that was in schools in the 80s and if it was, why. It was everywhere and because it was a reward for whatever pointless BASIC programming or 'how to use a dial up modem' lesson they were struggling to teach you because for as many clueless people WRT computers there are today it was pretty much everybody back in the 80s. Also the game was one of the first attempts at infotainment and so could be excused with 'its educational!' if people objected to kids playing vidja games in school.
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2019 17:37 |
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How did this article sneak by us...quote:A Washington Post analysis of more than a century of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration temperature data across the Lower 48 states and 3,107 counties has found that major areas are nearing or have already crossed the 2-degree Celsius mark.
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2019 20:45 |
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Nice piece of fish posted:In most famines, people stay home and move as little as possible. A mass starvation will not look like locusts decending, it will look like the black death. Ghost towns, corpse filled houses. Unless order fails completely. 1840s Ireland and America disagree with you. Lots of people did this yeah, but millions absolutely moved over an ocean before we'd discovered black gold in them thar hills.
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2019 06:43 |
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Shima Honnou posted:I recall once seeing some kind of documentary on how cattle raising essentially destroys the Great Plains' biodiversity since they aren't adapted to it like bison were and gently caress the place up by trampling everything, especially near water. Wish I could remember what it was, think it was some kind of Dateline-type show had an episode on that. Luckily bison is both naturally adapted to the Great Plains and delicious.
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# ¿ Oct 4, 2019 15:28 |
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You make the coming post-apocalypse fun.
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2019 20:37 |
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Conspiratiorist posted:Not a human one, no. I for one welcome our new Calamari overlords.
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2019 20:38 |
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StabbinHobo posted:speaking of the scale He gets the scale right but there’s no mention of nuclear at all. All the money in the world isn’t going to do it without nuke plants and good luck convincing the casual treehuggers that omg atomz are anything but evil.
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2019 15:47 |
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VideoGameVet posted:A massive cut in consumption makes stuff like Wind & Solar viable. Right now what happens is that we grow solar and wind sources AND grow carbon-based generation at the same time. I'm really trying think how this would work in places in the US like where I live where its currently in negative degree wind chill. I mean they cancel school for cold around here because kids standing at bus stops are in danger of frostbite and we have days when exposed skin freezes near instantly.
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# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 21:11 |
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Don't live there And people on the coasts will have to move because of sea level rise and hurricanes. Don't live in California, Washington or Oregon or neighboring states because of wildfires. Can't live in the south or southwest because the coming heatwaves will be deadly as wet bulb temps reach 35C. Where exactly are people supposed to live?
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# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 21:17 |
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VideoGameVet posted:I don't know if they have a bus service for the schools, but when my children were in school they didn't and so you have parents driving the children to school ... a massive line up of SUV's etc. Yeah we had to wait out in the cold for the bus when I was a kid too. We have bussing but kids can wait quite awhile outside for it to show up (problem with having enough bus drivers, traffic, busses just plain not being able to start because of the cold) It does seem like we're getting colder cold snaps and hotter heat waves though from when I was a kid.
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# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 21:26 |
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Ras Het posted:If "kids will die if they have to wait for the bus" is an issue, then school should very obviously be closed. I'm from inland Finland where -30c has historically been common, and I don't remember that being an issue, but ymmv. Anything above that isn't really an issue for children old enough to dress themselves We have poor kids who may not have the types of clothing that can hold up to that kind of weather. I know this may be shocking to you in Finland.
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# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 21:32 |
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VictualSquid posted:The fact that there are children who can afford cars to drive to school, but not winter clothes is the real problem. There aren't, they simply close school so that the gulf between rich kids who can drive to school when busses can't run and poor kids who can't doesn't widen by the poor kids being kept home. tuyop posted:You’re right, rather than expanding social services as well as public transit, we just have to drive those kids to school forever and ever!
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# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 21:45 |
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VictualSquid posted:So wait, you are saying the kids are currently not making it to school currently, but when you are arguing against public transportation we have to assume they all are happy with their cars? No. Again, read what I am saying, jesus. There are days when its so cold the busses literally will not start, or will stall while being driven. On those days you can either strand some kids - by and large of lower socioeconomic status - at home while the kids with families with cars can still go, thus enlarging the achievement gap between kids of different socioeconomic status because poor kids miss more days due to cold, or you can just say 'everyone gets the day off and we'll make it up at the end of the year.' A certain number of 'snow days' (which are increasingly becoming cold days because we get more of those than we do snow) are built into the calendars in schools in mountain areas and the Midwest. Its a known phenomenon. But its getting kind of ridiculous. Records are being broken. They've closed schools before for cold as far back as 1977 because kids who walked were getting frostbite but not with this frequency. I don't think you in warmer climates realize how dangerous extreme cold can be. Kids because they're smaller tend to be more susceptible to the cold, and a lot of schools have trailers and outbuildings to handle overcrowding, which means kids and teachers have to go out into the cold multiple times a day while switching classes, which tends to lead to them getting sick in addition to being dangerous. And no, this is not me arguing against public transportation, again. This is me stating that in areas where there is not public transportation and the weather can be dangerous, until you get that infrastructure to a point where its viable, you are still going to need another way to get around. Not everyone can 'just bike or walk or take public transportation.'
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# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 23:42 |
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Thug Lessons posted:Yeah I was going to say something like this. It's really unlikely anything coming out of a glacier is a prehistoric plague. It would be genuinely interesting, and not particularly frightening, if any of these extinct virus groups could survive in a modern environment at all. Aren't there 1919 Influenza pandemic victims buried in permafrost in Alaska that could conceivably spread that flu again?
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2020 19:17 |
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Syenite posted:World is doomed. World was doomed the day Al Gore conceded friend, sorry.
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# ¿ Mar 11, 2020 17:33 |
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Conspiratiorist posted:Preppers also make a big deal out of fleeing cities towards the obviously safer (and minority-free) countryside, when historically during societal breakdowns it is urban centers that end up the focus of efforts to maintain stability, while the periphery is left to decay and raided for resources. Preppers always think they’re going to be the raiders, not the raidees.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2021 07:51 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Totally agreed with your first para. The problem with your math is twofold: one, you assume that the entirety of that 25% Irish is from a single 100% Irish grandparent, when it may be two great-grandparents were half Irish or any other permutation thereof of inheritance, and two: that anyone’s grandparent that was 100% Irish must’ve been fresh off the boat, when in actuality plenty of Irish kept marrying each other for generations after relocating to America. Mine came over in the 1840s (with apparently half their village up and relocating nearby) and spent two more generations marrying the same drat people they’d been hooking up with in the Auld Country. My most recent Irish immigrant was my great-grandfather who came as a child with his parents and siblings in the 1890s, so while my dad could ostensibly apply for citizenship, I’m SOL. Unless I can piggyback on his citizenship after he gets it, which I doubt.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2021 07:13 |
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It’s SUBSISTENCE farming not sustenance farming. Subsistence: the action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimum level. You guys are killing me.
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# ¿ Jun 26, 2021 01:26 |
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So where’s bison fall on this burger chart?
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# ¿ Jul 13, 2022 05:57 |
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:Hasn't Bison farming been found to have the potential to have a less drastic effect on the environment than Cow farming in America, due to Bison being evolved to actually live here among other things? Finding a way to replace beef with bison in people's diets could be a way to go about things. Not just that bison require a lot less care and feeding for the same reasons (they're smart, can fight off predators, and better survive severe weather conditions like that which keep hitting the beef industry (record cold, blizzards, drought, etc). Also they do have a drastic effect on the environment, for the better. new study just dropped from Kansas: quote:Decades of research led by scientists at Kansas State University offered evidence reintroducing bison to roam the tallgrass prairie gradually doubled plant diversity and improved resilience to extreme drought. Bison also still taste good (if you don't overcook it, as its very lean) and is a lot better for you than beef. Seriously if my pickyass teenager can eat it without noticing the difference most Americans should be good.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2022 17:56 |
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It’s a MAGA golem.
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# ¿ Oct 8, 2022 04:08 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:
When did Germany become so pants on head stupid evil.
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# ¿ Oct 28, 2022 01:12 |
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greatBigJerk posted:I wonder if there is an effective way to tell people that they're going to have to give up a lot of their current lifestyle in order to survive. They will literally refuse to believe it. There are people in the local meteorologists Facebook feed arguing the wildfire smoke can’t possibly be coming from Canada because they know people who live on Quebec with clear blue skies and it must be a conspiracy to hide some local industrial accident/try and convince climate change deniers it’s real. I wish I were kidding.
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2023 14:33 |
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Mega Comrade posted:Its important to know! I can't get a bunker built in only 2 years. Buy an old missle silo. Hell you can even get an entire base! (Gotta let the Air Force have access to keep cleaning up contaminated groundwater/soil).
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2023 14:17 |
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Adding salt to clouds seems like a uh... not well thought out idea.
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# ¿ Aug 3, 2023 17:10 |
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# ¿ May 17, 2024 13:05 |
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His Divine Shadow posted:Wasn't saying we where safe. Everything will get worse. But that's why I'm glad we at least got this aquifer. Russia: You mean OUR aquifer.
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# ¿ Aug 22, 2023 03:40 |