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2024-08-10 at 3:16 PM UTC in 'Extremely unusual': Hottest ocean temperature in 400 years threatens the Great Barrier Reef'Extremely unusual': Hottest ocean temperature in 400 years threatens the Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is now facing the hottest sea surface temperatures in four centuries, a new study finds. The rapid warming is causing massive coral bleaching which threatens the marine ecosystem and biodiversity, the scientists warned.
"The world is losing one of its icons," study lead author Benjamin Henley, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Melbourne, Australia, said at a news conference Tuesday (Aug. 6). "We will sadly see the demise of one of Earth's most spectacular natural wonders." -
2024-08-10 at 3:11 PM UTC in Exceptionally rare Arctic heat wave shatters all-time recordsExceptionally rare Arctic heat wave shatters all-time records
Several communities in the Northwest Territories recorded their all-time highest readings this week. This is only the second true heat wave observed in Inuvik, where temperatures are nearly double where they should be for this point in August. A weather station in Little Chicago, located within the Arctic Circle along the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories, recorded a historic high temperature of 35.9°C on Wednesday.
Not only is this the hottest temperature ever observed at Little Chicago, but it was even hotter than Wednesday’s high temperature of 35°C all the way down in Miami, Florida. -
2024-08-10 at 2:48 PM UTC in Climate Change is a good thing.Conservatives’ efforts to decrease the amount of government regulation are of little benefit to the average man. For one thing, only a fraction of the regulations can be eliminated because most regulations are necessary. For another thing, most of the deregulation affects business rather than the average individual, so that its main effect is to take power from the government and give it to private corporations. What this means for the average man is that government interference in his life is replaced by interference from big corporations, which may be permitted, for example, to dump more chemicals that get into his water supply and give him cancer. The conservatives are just taking the average man for a sucker, exploiting his resentment of Big Government to promote the power of Big Business.
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2024-08-10 at 7:30 AM UTC in Climate Change is a good thing.You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
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2024-08-10 at 12:07 AM UTC in There is no climate emergencyHe who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
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2024-08-09 at 6:37 PM UTC in Climate Change is a good thing.Suppose the system survives the crisis of the next several decades. By that time it will have to have solved, or at least brought under control, the principal problems that confront it, in particular that of “socializing” human beings; that is, making people sufficiently docile so that heir behavior no longer threatens the system. That being accomplished, it does not appear that there would be any further obstacle to the development of technology, and it would presumably advance toward its logical conclusion, which is complete control over everything on Earth, including human beings and all other important organisms. The system may become a unitary, monolithic organization, or it may be more or less fragmented and consist of a number of organizations coexisting in a relationship that includes elements of both cooperation and competition, just as today the government, the corporations and other large organizations both cooperate and compete with one another. Human freedom mostly will have vanished, because individuals and small groups will be impotent vis-a-vis large organizations armed with supertechnology and an arsenal of advanced psychological and biological tools for manipulating human beings, besides instruments of surveillance and physical coercion. Only a small number of people will have any real power, and even these probably will have only very limited freedom, because their behavior too will be regulated; just as today our politicians and corporation executives can retain their positions of power only as long as their behavior remains within certain fairly narrow limits.
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2024-08-08 at 11:04 PM UTC in Dead Internet Theory
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2024-08-08 at 6:36 PM UTC in How To Use a Hammer for Dummies.
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2024-08-08 at 6:35 PM UTC in There is no climate emergency
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2024-08-08 at 4:06 AM UTC in Photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciersWow, that's crazy.
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2024-08-08 at 4:04 AM UTC in Photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers
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2024-08-08 at 3:16 AM UTC in Teaching Jordan Peterson that Climate Change is Real
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2024-08-08 at 3:07 AM UTC in Teaching Jordan Peterson that Climate Change is Real
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2024-08-08 at 3:06 AM UTC in The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960sThe lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s
Oreskes knew that scientists had been working to understand how carbon dioxide affected the global climate since the late 19th century. So she set about writing what she thought would be a short paper to correct the record.
In the process, Oreskes, along with other researchers at Harvard and Duke University, uncovered a lost history. As they searched troves of historical documents, they found plenty of other people were concerned about a warming planet, not just scientists, in the years before 1970. “We discovered a universe of discussions by scientists, by members of Congress, by members of the executive branch,” Oreskes said, “and the more we looked, the more we found.” -
2024-08-08 at 3:03 AM UTC in Photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciersPhotos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers
The carbon pollution released by burning fossil fuels and destroying nature has heated the planet 1.3C since preindustrial times. In Europe, which has warmed twice as fast as the global average, hotter summers have forced people in mountainous regions to see slow-moving glaciers melt before their eyes.
Switzerland has lost one-third of its glacier volume since 2000, according to official statistics, and 10% has disappeared in the last two years alone. -
2024-08-08 at 2:57 AM UTC in Repeating climate denial claims makes them seem more credibleRepeating climate denial claims makes them seem more credible
Mocatta said her own soon-to-be-published research had found that climate sceptical claims and climate misinformation tended to “travel faster, further and longer from its origin than accurate climate information”. She said climate sceptic claims tended to be more negative and emotion-arousing.
Dr Jess Berentson-Shaw, co-director of The Workshop – an organisation that helps people use evidence to communicate complex issues, including climate change – said people were frequently being exposed to false climate information about climate.
“It is framed in ways that makes it easy for people to hear and share,” she said.
“The cognitive science is pretty clear that repetition is a very powerful tool because of how we process information. The more we hear something, from multiple sources, including those we trust, the smoother it becomes to process, the more accepted it is as ‘just known’. -
2024-08-08 at 2:52 AM UTC in Temperatures in Great Barrier Reef reach 400 year highTemperatures in Great Barrier Reef reach 400 year high
Alarming new research has revealed the Great Barrier Reef will inevitably succumb to the impacts of climate change as temperatures in surrounding waters reach a 400-year high.
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2024-08-08 at 2:49 AM UTC in Teaching Jordan Peterson that Climate Change is Real
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2024-08-08 at 2:48 AM UTC in Extreme heat is impacting most Americans’ electricity bills, poll findsExtreme heat is impacting most Americans’ electricity bills, poll finds
Like Lindahl, many see a link to climate change. About 7 in 10 U.S. adults who have experienced some type of severe weather events or weather disasters in the last five years say they believe climate change was a contributing factor. Three in 10 think climate change was not a cause.
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2024-08-08 at 2:40 AM UTC in Teaching Jordan Peterson that Climate Change is RealWhat's that? Something only gay commies understand, I guess.
