[Biosphere Collapse] 420 days of blazin' it

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Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

I was with a climate researcher when trump won the election and he started crying on the spot and he explained that he just realized in a single moment that all his research was a waste of time.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 17:27

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 10:42

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vegetables posted:

You all grew up in much more optimistic communities than I did; I don�t know whether to be envious or glad of having pessimism impressed upon me. It was always made very clear to me that I should expect to see very hard times in my lifetime, sometimes through the medium of cartoons

I'm 150 years old, and from my perspective you're very sheltered. I knew Earth was doomed in 1898 when the Coal Smoke Abatement Society called for a debate in the House of Lords and was refused. I went on to win several prestigious awards for being despondent in the 1920s.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 20:17

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

I was a chemtrail pilot from 1996-1998. I can confirm they control your mind, but only if you breath air outside.

# ¿ Nov 7, 2023 22:09

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# ¿ Nov 10, 2023 20:45

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Weembles posted:

Probably around the level of the 2018 eruption in hawaii but has a good chance of burning down more houses since there's a chance it will come up under that town instead of a suburb.

Why would you try to predict the magnitude of a volcanic eruption lol

# ¿ Nov 13, 2023 23:04

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OIL PANIC posted:

this is violence. please never post anything like this again in this thread

Its called microposts

# ¿ Nov 17, 2023 06:25

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

"Hopefully it will prove transitory"

lol

# ¿ Nov 20, 2023 18:45

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bawfuls posted:

my understanding from Twitter is that this year we have hit several days over 2C but more significantly this will likely be the first time where the whole year�s average is over 1.5C

that still doesn�t �count� as 1.5C yet because it�s not a multi year average but we�re getting there

We can just keep averaging down forever like a Gamestop hodler.

# ¿ Nov 28, 2023 18:34

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Trabisnikof posted:

from that site (formerly known as Windscale), the british government estimates 100-300 people so far and they have a bit of a history of lying and downplaying risks from their nuclear weapons industry so that should be considered a lower bound

yeah and the whole point is Windscale didn't even generate any electricity, it didn't offset any coal power plants. all we got were lovely British nuclear bombs which is why it "doesn't count" towards the deaths caused by the nuclear industry because gotcha

Using the safety of pile reactors from the 1940s as your template for assessing the risks of a nuclear plant built in 2023 doesn't make any sense. I'm sure you could find or explain a good argument about why nuclear power is bad, but come on... They literally built a pile of uranium bricks with holes in it and pushed the radioactive slugs out of the side using big wooden poles.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2023 19:45

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Imperial superpowers have committed war crimes with pretty much every technology that exists. The CIA committed crimes against humanity with a fake vaccine program but I still promote and take vaccines.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2023 19:57

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

I'm not defending the crimes against humanity I'm saying that imperial crimes are a given. You don't get rid of nuclear weapons by not having civilian power generation. The weapons are a given, the power is optional.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2023 20:00

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Dokapon Findom posted:

I am all ears for alchemy being real

I'm confused by this post.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2023 02:33

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

I would be a huge fan of nuclear power but I have one issue with it. It doesn't transmute one type of atoms into another type of atoms.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2023 02:44

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TACD posted:

Bhutan has the right idea, under-promise and over-deliver 👍🏻

I'm the implication that if Bhutan limited emissions to the green line that temperature increases would be limited to 1.5C.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2023 16:23

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Just because we're at 1.5C doesn't mean we're not on target. 2.0C was always the real goal. Yes, warming is accelerating, but climate being able to accelerate means it can decelerate as well. Changes not being linear is good for us because it means our tools will slow it down even faster.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2023 17:46

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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

what if we made flying�. good for the environment???

Elon please we need you

# ¿ Dec 21, 2023 23:32

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cash crab posted:

part of my existential crisis from this year was when we banned single use plastic bags here but replaced them with that plastic-based reusable type of bag that people buy anyway and i realized how hosed we were and how everything was a joke. it turned me into a complete lunatic for like a week and a half

Seems pretty good to me, most people I see are using reusable bags and backpacks now.

# ¿ Dec 28, 2023 18:15

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OIL PANIC posted:

a goose will abandon its eggs and start brooding any larger egg-shaped thing you put in front of it, and yet it sounds like the geese are responding to climate change more rationally than the floridians

edit: i think what im trying to say is we need to teach geese economics

Humans wasted tens of thousands of delicately wrinkled neuron sheets inventing an egg detection algorithm. The geese just use the shape.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2023 02:53

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TACD posted:

motherfucker, if you are going to say

and

then i am not going to take you seriously when you also say

it�s gone from desperate cope to incoherent nonsense. it is happening now, that�s literally what you�re researching. the gently caress do you think proactive means

Its obviously a poor translation.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2023 15:55

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jetz0r posted:

success!

Good to see we're right on track!

# ¿ Jan 1, 2024 21:26

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hamas ftw posted:

isn't it obvious? the clathrate gun is going off right now, 2023 is what that process looks like:

at a conservative estimate, that's +/- 0.5 C of additional warming between mid-2023 (~1.5C) and now (~2.0C). that's a rate of global heating of approximately +1C per year, not 1C/decade or 1C/century. a simple straight-line interpolation of this rate of heating yields the following low-end numbers:

by the start of 2025: +3.0 C over baseline
by 2030: +8.0 C over baseline
by 2040: +18.0 C over baseline
by 2050: +28.0 C over baseline
by 2100: +78.0 C over baseline

however, the rate of heating is accelerating. the second derivative of heating? that's also accelerating. so realistically, actual rates of heating are going to be significantly higher, and it's only going to keep accelerating until there's nothing left to release and nothing left to burn. an apocalyptic runaway clathrate reaction isn't a hypothetical anymore, it's already happening. we're about a year into that process. we're going to look back on 2023 as the last 'normal' year before the great dying really began in earnest.

gently caress it, go ahead and scream if it helps you feel better. this rollercoaster's going down anyway, might as well scream a little

I'll bet you $50,000 we don't hit +8c by 2030.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2024 17:01

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Rauros posted:

all these trees better stop using their senses and just learn to read a calendar

They need to put out leaves in winter to grow, and then drop them in the summer when its too hot for vegetation to live.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2024 20:43

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Nothing risked, nothing gained.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2024 22:32

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Hubbert posted:

the sea is the universal sewer

plastic mass is expected to outweigh all fish biomass in the oceans before 2050

The solution to pollution is dilution.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2024 19:29

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I can't wait to explain to someone how computer bugs got their name, but as part of it I have to explain what bugs were.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2024 22:36

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Is there run away global warming or do we need snow plows? Make up your mind!!!!

# ¿ Jan 6, 2024 23:54

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Mosquitos aren't bugs!!

# ¿ Jan 7, 2024 08:46

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

All we have to do to save the planet is invent the perfect meme.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2024 18:46

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Wood is renewable.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2024 19:28

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

The frog in the boiling water survived every challenge thrown at it so far! It survived 30 degrees celcius, 31, 32, 33. There's no reason to believe it won't survive 34 too.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2024 18:42

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mags posted:

climate change didnt kill me personally over the last year so who can say how bad it really is?

Even primitive humans living in caves were able to remove 100 gigatons of co2 from the atmosphere, how hard can it be now?

# ¿ Jan 13, 2024 19:25

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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

for gently caress's sake, the cspam covid thread is that way ---->>>>

Just ask famous covid conspiracy theorist Deborah Birx:

https://twitter.com/LaSeletzky/status/1745289146833510813?t=55Fb47NgYkhOypJIydmLDA&s=19

quote:

Birx became the director of the United States Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, a position she held for nine years, from 1996 to 2005. In that position, Birx led the HIV vaccine clinical trial of RV 144, the first supporting evidence of any vaccine being effective in lowering the risk of contracting HIV.[15]

Ah I'm sure it's fine.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2024 17:49

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theCalamity posted:

So are we just going to get this every single year around this time now?

Nah, I'm sure eventually there just won't be any arctic air.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2024 21:01

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Potable air.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2024 17:05

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TeenageArchipelago posted:

Greenland only looks big because of the map projections used in the west. They artificially enlarge the northern latitude countries, and so something as far north as Greenland looks huge, when in reality it's probably like the size of Madrid or something