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I watched part of "Nature Abhors a Dome". Very good! Definitely does a good job laying out the intractable problems we face in fixing climate in the present day. Lol that people were running the totals in the 1890s to determine that carbon dioxide would eventually kill us all and they were 100% correct
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Aug 15, 2023 01:16
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Microplastics posted:That's why they made the flag on the moon flutter The top of the flag had an extendable metal pole running along the top so it would display straight but it didn't extend fully, hence why it is visibly crinkled/the wrong aspect ratio for a proper US flag 
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Aug 15, 2023 01:27
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They stopped making my favorite cookies years ago. The world can take a leap as far as I'm concerned! 
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Aug 15, 2023 01:36
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shart attack posted:i'm looking forward to the end of hellworld and the return of shellworld and all those without exoskeletons will perish Bad news about ocean acidification...
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Aug 15, 2023 07:46
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If sea level rise is enough of a concern on its own couldn’t we just dig a big hole and let the ocean fill it up- essentially diverting water to land a la Atlantropa or the Qattara Depression project? How many cubic miles of water would we actually need to remove from circulation to keep the level of the ocean as is or restore to ~1900 levels? It wouldn’t do anything to remove the energetic potential of storms but it could lessen the surge etc and save coastal cities 
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Aug 15, 2023 08:15
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Just imagine a fleet of Bagger 288s with giant snorkels scooping up the ocean floor and dumping it in the middle of the Sahara Desert, working furiously against time
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Aug 15, 2023 08:20
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Unlimited cheap energy would be cool but it doesn't do anything to curb overuse and exhaustion of other resources. A nuclear powered throwaway society is still a throwaway society
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Aug 15, 2023 15:56
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"Wet bulb" temperatures are some stupid bullshit. Good luck getting any lay person to understand what that's about, including me! Just say how hot it is in the actual temperature! And I'm not talking about fake temperature like humidex and windchill
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Aug 15, 2023 16:45
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The CEO of Hans Brinker & Co. rubs his hands together menacingly
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Aug 15, 2023 17:30
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Somehow a determination was made that a mysterious factory in Asia had either restarted or never stopped production of classic CFCs
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Aug 15, 2023 22:44
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Doomr
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Aug 16, 2023 13:20
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Dumping their rear end for caring but in the wrong way, I admire the commitment to leftist organizational behavior 
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Aug 16, 2023 14:11
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Labor project costs in Germany have increased considerably since the early 1940s and economists cannot figure out why
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Aug 16, 2023 20:33
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We itt are as culpable as anyone who doesn't give a poo poo as long as we participate, willing or not, in this system that has selfish overconsumption built right in 
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Aug 16, 2023 22:16
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They're going from air conditioned house to air conditioned car to air conditioned office, you need something warm to take the chill off your bones
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Aug 16, 2023 22:24
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This past month I've been periodically googling "Phoenix weather" to see their current temperature and forecast and it's pretty consistently 20 degrees celsius above what I'm experiencing I literally cannot imagine living somewhere that hot. Dying in a place that hot however is altogether too easy to imagine e: 100+ people have already died in Arizona this year from the heat... that's pretty bleak 
Dokapon Findom has issued a correction as of 22:29 on Aug 16, 2023 |
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Aug 16, 2023 22:26
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skooma512 posted:Traffic that was caused intentionally for nonsense reasons, it was the freedom trucker convoy they were reacting to specifically. There's no such thing as being "stuck in traffic"- you ARE traffic.
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Aug 16, 2023 23:05
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Wholly unsurprising for Air Canada ngl
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Aug 17, 2023 20:48
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Actuary X posted:I was assured that soylent will come in a variety of colors and, hopefully, flavors The thing that stuck with me most when watching Soylent Green (already knowing its secret) was the fact that Soylent Green itself is claimed as being made from plankton in the ocean; the whole movie revolves around the fact that the oceans are now too dead to harvest even this in any quantity, and we never find out whether it was initially plankton then switched, or was always made of people.
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Aug 18, 2023 19:52
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mawarannahr posted:really getting sick of these lockdowns It's these dang rich men north of Richmond if you get my meaning(s) 
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Aug 18, 2023 22:01
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kaxman posted:We cleared malaria out of the us once but I bet we can't do it again like have you seen the CDC lately Pretty sure the original eradication of bedbugs in the United States was due to use of DDT, the lack of which today is why we are seeing bedbugs resurgent. I wonder how big a role DDT played in removing malaria as a threat.
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Aug 19, 2023 11:17
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I know someone in Kelowna, currently on vacation and they are flying back to Vancouver today with the intention of driving home  They've assured us they'll be fine because they're in the southern part of town, and the fire would have to go through the town to get to them (impossible, right?). Thing is there's no rain in the forecast and winds are gusting south- also I'm not sure what road they think they'll be taking in to town... 
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Aug 19, 2023 18:16
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Rectal Death Adept posted:Vegas is flooding, that should take care of the drought Is it or are they just flooding the storm sewer to get rid of the people living there as they do periodically
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Aug 20, 2023 20:29
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I don't get what the big deal is about microplastics tbh. It seems like just the idea of plastic in our bodies is more upsetting to people than the actual physiological impact of it Macroplastics or whatever you'd call them are bad enough, gumming up the food chain, filling up birds stomachs so they starve etc.
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Aug 21, 2023 18:45
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sitchensis posted:you’re not wrong. the fires have been bigger, lasted longer, and gotten much hotter than what many of the ecosystems are adapted for 1glitch0 posted:I remember as a kid I was scared to live near those big electricity towers that everyone said would give you cancer and I believed if I just avoided those I was safe in the world.
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Aug 22, 2023 01:28
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On Deadly Ground is the environmental magnum opus of our time
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Aug 22, 2023 01:34
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I was in the south Pacific earlier this year and the weather is apparently usually pretty rainy but it rained exactly once, for like five minutes, the entire time I was there (I guess this is El Nino???). On this one atoll there was a shallow lagoon between motus that literally felt like a hot tub and it was kind of a mindfuck knowing that 1) that's all it takes to kill all the coral around me and 2) it's going to get even hotter as time goes on
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Aug 22, 2023 16:13
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Onsen Earth
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Aug 22, 2023 16:14
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That is one hot planet
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Aug 22, 2023 17:48
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That 8.5 thing seemed optimistic to me honestly
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Aug 23, 2023 00:41
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Wet bulb? How about bringing back INCANDESCENT bulb, geniuses!!
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Aug 23, 2023 04:18
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Even people who believed in this poo poo before it started happening are still on an 80 year timeline for when it’s not too late to start doing anything about it, which in human planning context means it can be business as usual for the next 79 years Things needed to change 50 years ago; by the time non-oil scientists started noticing the warming trend in the late 80s our goose was already literally being cooked. The warming we are seeing now was locked in a long time ago (though I’m thinking contemporary methane releases such as the nordstream pipeline sabotage are having a more immediate impact like we are seeing this year); wild to consider exactly what it means that the weather 50 years from now will be the result of greenhouse emissions today. Dokapon Findom has issued a correction as of 13:13 on Aug 24, 2023 |
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Aug 24, 2023 13:11
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It's just amazing that we seem to be going from global warming just being noticed to it ending everything within one lifetime
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Aug 24, 2023 14:26
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When I first saw the RCP stuff I was like oh you mean a rise of 8.5 degrees Celsius? And they're like no it's some other bullshit. lol, lmao good luck guys with your bullshit math that is way underestimating all of this poo poo, and optimistic models that reflect a child's understanding of Earth systems all of this has been such a big help 
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Aug 24, 2023 14:32
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bedpan posted:absolutely. I think about this one a lot Tbh I don't think celsius vs. fahrenheit is anywhere close to the hinge point of failure for convincing Americans to take personal action on climate. There's foundational understandings that are just altogether missing including why exactly it's bad that the Earth is warming in the first place or at such a rate or why it's different from known changes in the past Fahrenheit is a meaningless joke of a scale though, I think using it is more of a factor in creating a fantasy world for those people to live in and not change than international scientists doing the reporting in the correct scale 
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Aug 24, 2023 17:02
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Trabisnikof posted:It’s hot out so im going to sit in my car idling enjoying the AC Anyone else remember the Mercedes-Benz commercial from a couple years back which was touting remote start explicitly as a means to cool the car down fully before getting in
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Aug 24, 2023 22:19
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For mere comfort, mind you- these are the kinds of sacrifices people just aren't willing to make. I just roll down the window in the summer and tough it out for the less than five actual minutes of driving it takes for the engine and air to fully heat up in winter
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Aug 25, 2023 05:13
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My policy is to assume Jeff isn't specifically aware of anything and that the psycho who has been permabanned twice was posting in bad faith
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Aug 25, 2023 14:37
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What even is the green bug thing??? 
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Aug 25, 2023 23:39
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Doesn't seem like a problem tbh, there are lots of animals that have been evolutionarily stagnant for millions of years. It's not like thawing out a super contagious plague bacteria
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Aug 26, 2023 00:21
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