Ah yeah, this guy. I had a great laugh during the pandemic, when he said, he would get the vaccine in public and later said it can’t be public, because for some reason it was really important to him to get that needle into his ass. Best was the doctor, who said something like ‘you must not inject anything in the central area of the buttocks!’.
Yes, you’re very right.
It just feels so wrong talking about plastic straws, while we produce more plastic than ever. Everyone buys new phones, plastic clothes and a thousand other things all the time.
We need to get away from single use objects to a circular economy. We need to get away from consumerism and endless growth to a society that values life and a habitable planet.
Talking about bad straws forgets to mention the million other bad things we use and throw away.
Yes, straws are bad. Single use plastic is bad. Individual transport is bad. Fashion clothing is bad. Littering is bad. And and and…
If we continue to be stuck discussing plastic straws forever, our society won’t last much longer than paper straws.
Oh common, are we really circling this discussion forever?
We need to reduce burning fossil fuels, everything else is nice, but doesn’t really make a dent in the graphs.
The last few years have been harder than ever to clinge to any spark of hope. It feels so weird to go on business as usual in personal life. But what’s the alternative? Depression won’t save anything or anyone out there. I think I do what I personally can. I don’t think it matters, but what to live for, if not ideals and believes? But the weight of hopelessness grows regardlessly and probably will keep growing.
I don’t write this to get attention or pity or whatever. I write this, because I know countless people out there feel the same. It won’t be fine. But also, you aren’t alone. Living with dignity in a dying world is brutal. Don’t feel too bad about it!
I’m not encouraging anything. If someone would show the people who report like this a gesture that is likened to a punch in the face, I might not stop them.
As far as I know valves were shut quickly. The big leak was a result of remaining gas (under pressure?) between the valves that could escape. It was a lot, as the pipes run for 100s of km under the sea, so even with valves shut there was just a lot gas in the pipe.
Gasp! Oh no! Scientists are STUNNED IN DISBELIEVE! You won’t believe what they ALARMINGLY discovered! /s
The nearly 3 million rivers that weave across the world are experiencing rapid and surprising changes, with potentially drastic implications for everything from drinking water supplies to flood risks, according to a new study.
Nearly half of the world’s largest downstream rivers — 44% — saw a drop in the amount of water flowing through them each year.
Gleason’s conclusion: “Holy cow, the rivers of the world are a lot different than we thought.” Some are changing by 5% or 10% a year, the report found. “That’s rapid, rapid change,” he said.
I somehow doubt they would have less particles from friction. They usually use a cushion which touches the ground.
The imagination of a busy intersection with common people driving hovercrafts is funny, though. Or imagine driving on slopes.
People won’t like it, but 2°C is dying somewhere remote and the ambulance hasn’t been called yet. Even if doctors were around now, it’s unsure if it could be saved.
As John Schellnhuber, one of the biggest European climate scientists that has been part of the majority of IPCCs, said last year about COP:
“Wenn die Länder die Klimaziele nicht umsetzen, sind diese Konferenzen nur Jahrmärkte der Eitelkeit.”
Translation by Google:
“If countries do not implement the climate targets, these conferences will be nothing more than vanity fairs.”
Interview, where he said it, and also said that 3 degrees above pre industrial would mean the end of modern human civilization (in German):
As far as I understood, it’ll leak into the atmosphere, where it’ll cause 80 or 100 times more warming than CO² for a decade or so, before breaking down into good, old CO², causing further warming for centuries / millennia.
Not sure, but I think I’ve also read that in the process of breaking down into CO², the ozone layer gets damaged.
But if CCS operations leak, they can pose significant risks to water resources. That’s because pressurized CO2 stored underground can escape or propel brine trapped in the saline reservoirs typically used for permanent storage. The leaks can lead to heavy metal contamination and potentially lower pH levels, all of which can make drinking water undrinkable.
Can someone explain this to me in a easy way?
As a layman I would be worried of large amounts of CO² suddenly leaking near where people live. But how does it make water undrinkable? I thought some people like their drinks with CO². And where do the heavy metals come from?
Who are these candidates with a “bold climate agenda”? I don’t know any political party in any country, where I’d say ‘they’ve got a bold climate agenda’.
I wish I had been old enough during the time we could’ve still made changes to make a difference.
Why? When you cared back then the frustration must have been at least the same it is now. The hope might have been bigger, but at the same time, you would have been part of a very small minority. And I think it would have been hard to endure that almost nobody you know thinks similarly. You might have been the only doomer they know. And how fast we manage to screw up our planet, you would have likely gotten old enough to come to the same conclusion you came to now: we won’t make it.
I assume that the submarine producer gives stats like empty weight from which the current weight can be calculated.
However, weight isn’t the important thing in a sub. It’s the weight to volume ratio, or buoyancy.
A sub sinks when buoyancy is negative and rises if the buoyancy is positive.
There are three common ways to achieve the changing buoyancy: the most simple one is a vessel with positive buoyancy adding droppable weights until the buoyancy is negative.
Other ways are a neutral buoyancy vessel that uses it’s engine power to push itself up or down. Or a vessel that can change it’s buoyancy by filling up tanks with water (to reduce buoyancy below neutral) and blow them out with air or other gases lighter than water (to raise buoyancy above neutral). A combination of several methods is also possible.
As always I will keep reading about every year’s COP. However, by now my expectation is, that there won’t be much, if anything at all, that I need to know about the COP.
As I understood it, the dashed line is just the 35°C wet bulb temperature line.
I think it’s the “old assumed border of survivability” and don’t know if it is based solely on mathematics or on other experiments as well.
I also don’t know on how many individuals the new line is based and what age group the older people one is.
The article is about an experiment, where people are exposed to 35°C wet bulb temperatures, but in different settings. Sometimes lower temperatures but higher humidity, sometimes vise versa, but always 35°C wet bulb temperature.
So far the assumption was, that humans can’t survive a 35°C wet bulb temperature for longer than 6 hours. And at current warming this is unlikely to be naturally the case within this century.
However the experiment gives hints to believe that humans can’t survive at lower wet bulb temperatures either. It looks like with lower temperatures and higher humidity, humans can get very close to that 35°C wet bulb temperature, however people seem to struggle more with higher temperatures and lower humidity.
A possible explanation could be, that while more sweat evaporates in lower humidity, the body has a limit for how much sweat it can produce. And if you keep raising the temperature, that the human body simply can’t produce enough sweat to cool itself.
That’s pretty much what I took away from the article. They mentioned they experiment with several people, however the article was mainly about on person in the experiment, a 30ish year old, athletic male.
Edit: add some graphs from the article. Sorry for low quality, but as you said, the layout is quite atrocious and on my phone it keeps jumping around on it’s own, so I lost patience.
Thank you!
Currently I’m using both Boost and Thunder, as both have things I like and both have things I miss, that the other app does have. I’ll see over time if I will settle with only one app and if it’s Thunder I will want to figure that out.
Currently I found a workaround by first adding like 10 returns on the bottom of my text so I am able to see what I write above.
(This comment I will post with the additional returns at the end to see if they get automatically removed or not. According to the preview option they won’t be visible.)
I’m reading about deep sea mining since a few years. This must be regulated before the first companies get started!
I have a feeling it won’t get regulated until it’s much too late and damage is done. It’s probably difficult to put rules on no man’s seafloor.