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Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

Rip Testes posted:

I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing the geese still around the pond when I'd like to think in years past they would have migrated for the winter. I was puzzled the other day as I saw a group of geese flying north and shrugged it off a bit thinking it could just be some of the geese I've seen around lately... that maybe shouldn't be here right now.

The answer is actually cooler than that - there are two geese "civilizations", you could say, and one type migrates while the other prefers to stay in place. The sedentary type were greatly reduced or exterminated by humans during previous eras, and by the mid 20th century many people believed that the giant Canada goose was entirely extinct. In the years since then, habitat that favors sedentary geese has greatly expanded (since geese can digest grass, the proliferation of lawns, parks, and golf courses has been a godsend for them) while the habitat that favors migratory geese has been disrupted. Geese also don't have an instictual route for migration; it's all learned on the wing. As it gets harder for them to complete the migration, many of them abandon it altogether and their fledglings never learn the route.

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Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

*Master Chief pounding on the table*

BLUE!
OCEAN!
EVENT!

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

The Oldest Man posted:

A couple of the forecast model runs from two days ago were predicting the entire west coast would be obliterated by mr freeze, it's not going to happen

More importantly, 2024 temperature anomaly is kool aid manning into the chat

https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1743615655117758526/photo/1

I personally love positive feedback loops

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023
https://twitter.com/Sammy_Roth/status/1744503743083921750?t=S3sJdaRNHMzIXzQS_LIkAQ&s=19

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023
Another day, another record

https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1744741472099090780?t=ntWyARfrmruLW91IU78MqQ&s=19

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

Love to see new manmade horrors daily

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

uguu posted:

A reminder to all my friends here: donating blood and especially plasma can reduce your pfas and presumably plastic levels.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8994130/
For the bolder ones: receiving blood will take you into the future faster.

So Peter Thiel is basically turning himself into Plastic Man, lol that owns

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023
Lol

https://twitter.com/dwallacewells/status/1746331606418129005?t=gVa5V16P1t1vEoox91aBLQ&s=19

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

Evil_Greven posted:

even the minimizers have to agree poo poo is hosed

https://www.drroyspencer.com/2024/01/uah-global-temperature-update-for-december-2023-0-83-deg-c/

2023 Was the Warmest Year In the 45-Year Satellite Record
...
The 2023 annual average global LT anomaly was +0.51 deg. C above the 1991-2020 mean, easily making 2023 the warmest of the 45-year satellite record. The next-warmest year was +0.39 deg. C in 2016. The following plot shows all 45 years ranked from the warmest to coolest.


that's a full tenth of a degree Celsius above the previous annual anomaly even from UAH

It's really fun to visualize it

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

White Rock posted:

Does anyone have any tips of books/resources of future projections of what is gonna happen in the next 30 years assuming the thread consensus of "we won't do poo poo about climate change"?

Most stuff I find is all about "by 2100..." which is probably a reason why people are so not bothered by climate doom.

A quote I've heard in real life many times is "yeah poo poo is gonna suck for future generations".

Bitch you're in your thirties, shits gonna suck FOR YOU, but also especially for future generations of course.

You could read this: https://www.amazon.com/Our-Final-Warning-Degrees-Emergency-ebook/dp/B07YN9WSN8. It's about the projected effects of each degree rise in global temperatures.

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

Venomous posted:

is it happening yet

ARKStorm? There's some debate on the topic but probably not this time

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

fanfic insert posted:

third times the charm, to mars we go!

Mars already had a functioning hydrosphere. It's possible there were three planets in the solar system with liquid water billions of years ago

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

Salt Fish posted:

If you think it could be fun or interesting to read the output of an llm then I'm sorry to report you are a soulless automaton and I WILL be remembering your bad opinions during the robo-water wars.

All human intelligence is an unoptimized llm

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023
I'm gonna sink that cruise ship

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023
https://twitter.com/climateguyw/status/1752082597096620155?t=LoruoG5lxf0WKyFL8oIl1Q&s=19

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

well, there is one piece of good news, which is that those boomers and olds will die first

They lived long enough to gently caress everything up but they get to die before things get bad. That's not good news, it's just more proof that there is no justice in this universe.

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

actionjackson posted:

the denialists just say it's because of el nino, even though I'm pretty sure this el nino is quite a bit warmer than 15-16 (?) and 97-98

People love to be in denial

https://twitter.com/SaraHor76174949/status/1751705270646935996?t=QxjYJf6z7MX94xuLwk237Q&s=19

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023
Azolla Event
Blue Ocean Event
Wet Bulb Event
ARKStorm
Hypercane

And I'm gonna die from heat exhaustion before I see any of em :negative:

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

Perry Mason Jar posted:

What's neat is that we'll lose topsoil in a few decades irrespective of climate mitigation or lack thereof! It takes a thousand years to replenish 3cm of topsoil.

Love that industrial agriculture could be more appropriately named soil mining, really cool

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023
Bitch rear end ARKstorm

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023
https://twitter.com/WeatherProf/status/1755794482979565694?t=BQwv0XscdUJpxW4nmir-nA&s=19

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

Erghh posted:

iirc the doomsday econ thread went over general strike stuff. consensus was that the pandemic, "quiet quitting" and people digging their heels in on work from home was probably as close to a general strike as we'll probably see. and capital took notice. anything's possible i guess for a no-poo poo ground up everything stops strike though. would probably take a lot.

also it's like 60F in an area where it shouldn't be 60F in february. if people start mowing their lawns im gonna find out what lay beyond crack ping lol, lmao.

It's not gonna work

https://twitter.com/drvolts/status/1755684889406632199?t=uzbRPe3zEmXsIB_3z2Rcvg&s=19

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

Gonna make an underground fort and start calling myself a slave of AMOC

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023
https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1759199473429876769?t=WNrKnkbJ_ejrnGV3qR6FRA&s=19

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023
https://twitter.com/MichaelWX18/status/1759119343370260956?t=BgOKCkULp26wmQRBsau26w&s=19

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

SixteenShells posted:

wouldn't it like... really gently caress up the foundations of a lot of buildings if you had a foot of subsidence within a decade? I know it's a general thing across a whole region but surely it's not going to be a uniform drop in every patch of land

Yeah, for a great preview of what subsidence can do to foundations and infrastructure, look at the stuff in Russia, Alaska and northern Canada that's built on now-melting permafrost:



Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

Maed posted:

what do you mean? him and aaron bushnell are high fiving and blowing out RBG's back walls in heaven rn

#Libyakanda forever

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

BrotherJayne posted:

Hell yeah.

Now THIS is sustainable thinking

Don't forget to foster armies of feral cats and dogs, to control pests and provide a food source in the hellscape your kin will rule

And once the forage for your cats and dogs runs out you can always feed them to the botfly larvae

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023
https://twitter.com/WeatherProf/status/1762687080063234418?t=WTq7ycUyr7E-AzIW5kueHg&s=19

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023
As a bonus double feature

https://twitter.com/fritolaysia/status/1762631912399446265?t=Y8XPWGMheAUGfBqjLD4QDA&s=19

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023
Ice age termination event should have been what the called the day after tomorrow

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

Notorious R.I.M. posted:

i would like to unsubscribe from this biosphere

Don't worry, we're currently working hard to end your subscription

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

mags posted:

maybe if we paint the sun white

Already started

https://x.com/naomirwolf/status/1763731345929314626?s=20

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

SniperWoreConverse posted:

How would you even shepherd a society through the changes needed to get down to 70s emissions? 60s? 30s? How do you get off the sauce, seriously?

The very first thing you have to do, no joke, is to [REDACTED] the [REDACTED]. Otherwise, they're just gonna torpedo any efforts to change course

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023
https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1766120158748356753?t=zwiHAJfmy7dCvQu9TkR3Kg&s=19

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

hypoallergenic cat breed posted:

Theoretically would an EMP or big enough solar flare be capable of slowing climate change at this point or is the train already off the tracks?

As long as one drop of the fluid remains, the Joyous Work will continue

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

Hubbert posted:

we saw this happen during the peak of the COVID pandemic, where people straight up kept denying as they were dying on hospital beds

With microplastics, not of microplastics

Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

Nix Panicus posted:

Antarctic ecotourism is good for the environment

last chance tourism owns, people flying to greenland to be the first humans to step foot on soil that's been under glaciers since before there were people, standing around watching the last rhino chew grass under armed guard, driving dive boats over unbleached sections of the great barrier reef, i love it

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Communist Cop
Jun 29, 2023

The Demilich posted:

In the early 90's I had a little children's book about climate change and I remember it presenting a scenario for a Venusian earth if humanity didn't get it a poo poo together.

lol
lmao

orson scott card of all people wrote a book about sending people back in time to stop christopher columbus so that new world imperialism wouldn't exist and destroy the biosphere

he also wrote a book about a guy becoming emperor of america by using george soros as a catspaw (soros used a mecha army to seize control of new york), so maybe he's just a dumbass

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