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Inceltown posted:https://twitter.com/JoshButler/status/1225681764862980098 Don't worry, I'm sure it'll settle down in March when Kaiju season begins.
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Inceltown posted:https://twitter.com/JoshButler/status/1225681764862980098 God! it seems like only last week the place was on fire, time flies when your having fun.
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Trainee PornStar posted:God! it seems like only last week the place was on fire, time flies when your having fun. It's still on fire too, don't worry.
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what if we took all the heat from where it's too hot and took it to where it was too cold i'll take my nobel now, I'm more of an ideas scientist
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some may ask why things are dying others ask why there are still alive things in their way https://twitter.com/BillWeirCNN/status/1225842913902563329
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I just drove from Dallas to Wichita Falls and there was roadkill every half mile to a mile. I wasn't even on an interstate.  That was more roadkill than I've seen in my 30 years in Canada to this point.
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That might just be the typical distribution of organisms in the world. Sun + water is life, the closer to the equator you get, there’s more sun. Therefore, more roadkill. I know biodiversity is not exactly the amount of roadkill, but still, I think this relationship for bats is true for most other organisms as well:  From: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/latitudinal-gradient
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Does anyone have good climate change books, both fiction and non fiction? I love how Peter watts covers how hosed the earth is in the background of his Sci fi books, and I've read The Uninhabitable Earth and enjoyed it. Just want some more stuff to read honestly. Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora book is about generation ship and how fleeing a hosed up climate-change earth is stupid and dumb and we're never getting off this dumb rock. would recommend also anything by Paolo Bacigalupi, like Water Knife is great featuring mega-drought climate-changed america where southwest has collapsed and states setup borders to keep arizonies out and try to horde what water they can. He just did a free short-story called A Full Life that i'd recommend https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613349/a-full-life/
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Xaris posted:Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora book is about generation ship and how fleeing a hosed up climate-change earth is stupid and dumb and we're never getting off this dumb rock. would recommend
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KSR really Really has his finger on the pulse of the environment, all the way back to the Mars series.
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Rime posted:I just drove from Dallas to Wichita Falls and there was roadkill every half mile to a mile. I wasn't even on an interstate. cars are a menace
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Xaris posted:Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora book is about generation ship and how fleeing a hosed up climate-change earth is stupid and dumb and we're never getting off this dumb rock. would recommend that short story was p good! quote:Nona said she loved Rue, but all Rue felt was empty distance between them—the shredded gap between the life her grandmother had enjoyed and the tatters that Rue had inherited. Her grandmother had drunk espresso in Italy and meditated in the temples of Kyoto. She’d lived a full life.
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fits my needs posted:that short story was p good! some people in these threads got so mad at that story when it was first posted
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Probably because they realize they're the grandmother if they're under 40-ish.
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Rime posted:Probably because they realize they're the grandmother if they're under 40-ish. I've just turned 50 & have no kids but still feel like the 'selfish grandmother'.. I use a motorbike for work, basically because public transport is poo poo, I don't fly for holidays & minimise the amount of meat I eat & I no longer own a car. I realise it's just a piss in the ocean though.
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Everything is good now you see. If climate change bad then why rain? Also  See, the free market fixed it.
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Trainee PornStar posted:I've just turned 50 & have no kids but still feel like the 'selfish grandmother'.. I use a motorbike for work, basically because public transport is poo poo, I don't fly for holidays & minimise the amount of meat I eat & I no longer own a car. Direct action gets the goods. But we’re all the selfish grandmother unless we literally die from state repression. The story just isn’t useful as a method to determine whether you’re pure in the eyes of Bacigalupi or his strawman generation Rue. It is very useful as a platform to express his grief, fear and guilt and we should celebrate those expressions because they lead directly to action. Don’t like the fascist abuse of refugees we keep normalizing and making more extreme? Reflect on how you benefit from this state of affairs and kill the thing inside yourself that loves your life regardless of the expense of those who died and suffered to make it so. Grieve it. Then go outside and do an activism with people who also feel that way. And so on.
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Anidav posted:Everything is good now you see. Funny how it's only the grass trees and not the regular trees in the shot. Wonder how they're doing 
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lmao, the official nsw floods near me app shows someone checking their phone while being swept away in floods. 
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Does anyone have good climate change books, both fiction and non fiction? I love how Peter watts covers how hosed the earth is in the background of his Sci fi books, and I've read The Uninhabitable Earth and enjoyed it. Just want some more stuff to read honestly. I just finished "The end of the ocean" and it's pretty dang good tho it's one of the few books that ever got me choked up. Just way too many uncanny parallels between my family and that of the protagonist. "The ice at the end of the world" is isn't totally about climate change. It covers the early exploration of the Greenland ice sheet up to the present day but of course the last couple chapters are about climate change. I think it came out in 2019 so the science is pretty up to date.
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tuyop posted:enjoyed? This, and don't forget to read the sequel "the parable of the talents" if you want get freaked out by the eerily prophetic depiction of a celebrity president with a cultlike following whose slogan is "make America great again"
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Seeing a bunch of articles claiming that "Climate apocalypse is called off!  " on basis of that article in Nature that also confirmed we're headed for 3+ degree warming, even if most life (probably) won't be extinct by 2100. Anybody got a good source handy that outlines the likely effects of 3 degrees?
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Oxxidation posted:some people in these threads got so mad at that story when it was first posted I still dislike it cause it's written like poo poo.
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SplitSoul posted:Seeing a bunch of articles claiming that "Climate apocalypse is called off! this was just a top hit off google The three-degree world: the cities that will be drowned by global warming lmao at holding things to 3C but also lmao that anybody's looking forward to it
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SplitSoul posted:Seeing a bunch of articles claiming that "Climate apocalypse is called off! There's a book called six degrees that goes into detail on likely outcomes for each degree of warming. It's a decade old and some of the stuff is outdated, but the quick version is that three degrees of warming returns us to the Pliocene when palm trees and crocodiles lived north of the Arctic circle. Much of Africa would undergo rapid desertification, El Nino would be more or less permanent, the Amazon disappears (unless bolsonaro burns it all down first) and every other rainforest on Earth starts burning. Some models predict a global rainfall decrease of 25% on average. Limiting things to three degrees is better than the previous models suggested but it's not very conducive to our modern civilization.
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Dog Toothbrush posted:link to the “climate apocalypse is called off” articles? this is the one that has people mad because I s by the guy who wrote the uninhabitable earth and the tone he took in the article makes it seem like three degrees is fine when it's not
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SplitSoul posted:Seeing a bunch of articles claiming that "Climate apocalypse is called off! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xplesDv5hl0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqgbR3UK0es
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At my job, we have an opportunity every week to present on a topic not related to work and so I'm working on a fun, lighthearted presentation about climate change/feedback loops/tipping points. I'm planning to use the sources/data from The Uninhabitable Earth for most of my content, but do people have recommendations for additional or better sources?
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Mayor Dave posted:this is the one that has people mad because I s by the guy who wrote the uninhabitable earth and the tone he took in the article makes it seem like three degrees is fine when it's not This is really bizarre. High indoor CO2 levels affecting cognition already? In what way is 2.7C by 2100 anything remotely something not to fear - if it's even true or likely, which it likely isn't. It's as if he doesn't live in the world now where 1.1C is rawdogging Australia and Jakarta as we speak.
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