RandomBlue posted:

finally a solution:

Zeta Taskforce posted:

There is no downside to painting surfaces white.

Hit Man posted:

https://twitter.com/BBCScienceNews/status/1681365271737499648?s=20

A good way to preserve the dead

Vox Nihili posted:

In New Mexico, temperatures are too high for birds to use their usual coping methods

BRYCE DIX, BYLINE: And this is Bryce Dix in Albuquerque, N.M., where the heat wave has triggered statewide excessive heat warnings. The scorching heat spells trouble for humans, but it's also hurting wildlife, especially bird populations. Normally to keep cool in heat waves like this, birds have a variety of tools at their disposal. Some urinate on their own legs, but the most common is a sort of avian panting. That's where the bird will open its mouth and flutter its neck muscles. But that panting can cause birds to lose water and become dehydrated rapidly. Now, experts say the climate is warming much too fast for birds to adapt.

BLAIR WOLF: We're talking about birds that breed once a year.

DIX: That's University of New Mexico biologist Blair Wolf. He's concerned for bird diversity in the Southwest and across the world as global temperatures recently reached the hottest they've ever been in history, causing unprecedented dehydration and loss of food sources.

WOLF: So there's not a lot of good news, and people need to wake up when you have 120 degrees over in Phoenix and 130 in Death Valley.

DIX: Those susceptible birds might include small songbirds like goldfinches, which get dehydrated fast, or birds like the curve-billed thrasher, which only live in the desert and can't move to cooler places. Some, he says, could be wiped out.

WOLF: The birds that are most susceptible to heat stress are just going to be gone.

DIX: In the meantime, blistering temperatures are expected to loom over the region throughout the next week, potentially breaking heat records in the process.

Koirhor posted:

holy poo poo this is american as gently caress, look at the heckin chonkers

Shifty Nipples posted:

protip is to have pet chickens if you can

The Voice of Labor posted:

the entire white world has been trying to destroy haiti for 200 years. I wouldn't call lovely material conditions there sudden

Paradoxish posted:

haha this graph has crossed from mildly frightening to legitimately terrifying

lmao

SixteenShells posted:

eventually they'll make it illegal to protest outside the houses of higher income brackets just like they did SCOTUS judges

lol they probably all live in gated communities anyway, you'll get hauled off for "trespassing"

Tungsten posted:

we're not, but someone might. maybe some arctic circle city-states here and there

SixteenShells posted:

I think I know what the answer is, but are there any plans to mitigate the environmental catastrophe from the ocean overwhelming miles of inland human settlements? All the landfills, the sewer systems, the industrial sites, the houses and retail stores, just enormous piles of toxic bullshit suddenly subjected to tidal forces?

Demon Of The Fall posted:

big stilts for everybody

Fell Mood posted:

I'm thinking of a facility, powered by its own nuclear reactor, that pulls carbon from the air, compresses it into diamond bricks, and we dump the diamonds into the ocean.

A Bad King posted:

No smoobles no please this is a terrible joke

Koirhor posted:

she finally said something that makes sense

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

what do people mean by the term "cybernetic capitalism?" i have a vague idea, but would like some clarity

Zeta Taskforce posted:

The timing of his death was impeccable. He said enjoy the next 20 years before the poo poo really hit the fan and he managed to enjoy most of them and exited the stage (at age of 103) before it really got bad.

Very interesting read, I agree with a lot of what he said. I don't get the hate for renewable power, but in the last 15 years there have been a lot of advances in wind and solar and the prices of both have come down faster than the most optimistic projections. Coupled with advances in battery technology and storage, it has to be part of todays solution. Did he still consider renewable energy to be an empty promise up to his dying day or did he come around?

I do agree that we need more technology, not less and that nuclear power has to be central to that. Back in the late 2000's I remember a lot of talk about carbon offsets and people thinking you could pay someone in Central America to plant a tree and that meant you could fly to Europe guilt free. It should have been obvious that it was the same thing as a 16th century Catholic indulgence, this is now consensus view. His politics were confusing and seems to have evolved from socialist to euro skeptic, but I agree we are not going to escape market forces but this is not the same thing as this unregulated late stage capitalism / oligarchy that we have today.

I guess the good news is we are now much closer to artificial photosynthesis and there is always the soylent green route, not this but rather the OG version from the 1973 movie.

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But real question: How did 2008 turn into 15 years ago. How does that happen?

Xaris posted:

Fell Mood posted:

Are you saying nature and it's living things have no value if humans aren't around to observe it?