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2024-02-17 at 8:22 PM UTC in Exploring the Baltimore Ruins - Trap House Edition
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2024-02-17 at 8:19 PM UTC in February on course to break unprecedented number of heat records
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2024-02-17 at 6:40 PM UTC in Ross Gelbspan, Who Exposed Roots of Climate Change Deniers, Dies at 84Ross Gelbspan, Who Exposed Roots of Climate Change Deniers, Dies at 84
“I didn’t get into the climate issue because I love the trees — I tolerate the trees,” he said on YouTube last year. “I got into the issue because I learned the coal industry was paying a handful of scientists under the table to say nothing was happening to the climate.”
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2024-02-17 at 6:35 PM UTC in February on course to break unprecedented number of heat records
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2024-02-17 at 5:58 PM UTC in February on course to break unprecedented number of heat records
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2024-02-17 at 5:56 PM UTC in Troubling signs emerging ahead of 2024 Hurricane SeasonTroubling signs emerging ahead of 2024 Hurricane Season
While the 2024 Hurricane Season does not officially begin until June 1, we're already looking at a potentially troubling sign for the season to come, or even for it to start up earlier than normal.
An analysis of the latest sea surface temperature reveals that much of what is known as the Atlantic Main Development Region, or AMDR, currently has above average sea surface temperatures, getting close to the 80s in many spots. -
2024-02-17 at 5:41 PM UTC in February on course to break unprecedented number of heat records
Originally posted by infinityshock You lost all credibility with 'soil under forests…'
Soil under forest canopy is the most fertile due to the trees perpetually shedding the leaves which are consumed by microorganisms, worms, bugs, etc, which enrich the soil with nutrients. Most things can't grow in it due to the shade the larger trees provide. Baby trees grow stunted, then a larger tree dies, allowing in sunlight for it to reach its potential.
Think about it…if the soil was poor quality massive trees couldn't grow. Youve nEver seen a giant tree in the desert…because it's sand.The soils of the coniferous forest are often low in key minerals and acidic, producing a type of soil called podzol. This soil is generally poor for agricultural use, though it does contain high quantities of organic material and is often well-drained due to the presence of sand mixed in with the soil.
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2024-02-17 at 5:31 PM UTC in ‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’
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2024-02-17 at 5:24 PM UTC in February on course to break unprecedented number of heat recordsNo matter how solid the argument is, the bird is going to shit on the forum and strut around like it won anyway.
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2024-02-17 at 5:21 PM UTC in February on course to break unprecedented number of heat records
Originally posted by Meikai Rad. Canada deserves a more tropical climate. Our vast expanses of permafrost may one day become incredibly fertile, arable land. If a couple island nations have to sink, or if a couple verdant subtropical nations have to become deserts, what do I care?
Climate change will be pretty bad for Canada. In my area, our rivers are glacial fed, and those are melting away. It will become very dry.
Fertile plains do not spring up from forests either. Soil under forests is poor, and top soil takes hundreds or even thousands of years to thicken.
Take a peak at the Canadian Shield. No amount of sunshine can turn solid rock into fertile land. -
2024-02-17 at 5:17 PM UTC in February on course to break unprecedented number of heat recordsHaving a debate with -SpectraL is like playing chess with a pidgin.
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2024-02-17 at 4:56 PM UTC in February on course to break unprecedented number of heat recordsKeep in mind, -SpectraL is an insane person who consistently lies, making his statements about as useful as an asshole on his elbow.
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2024-02-17 at 4:24 PM UTC in February on course to break unprecedented number of heat recordsFebruary on course to break unprecedented number of heat records
“The planet is warming at an accelerating rate. We are seeing rapid temperature increases in the ocean, the climate’s largest reservoir of heat,” said Dr Joel Hirschi, the associate head of marine systems modelling at the UK National Oceanography Centre. “The amplitude by which previous sea surface temperatures records were beaten in 2023 and now 2024 exceed expectations, though understanding why this is, is the subject of ongoing research.”
Humanity is on a trajectory to experience the hottest February in recorded history, after a record January, December, November, October, September, August, July, June and May, according to the Berkeley Earth scientist Zeke Hausfather. -
2024-02-17 at 3:19 PM UTC in ‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse
“If you put me to a wall,” he continues, “and forced me to put probabilities on things, I have a sense that our current remaining timeline looks more like five years than 50 years. Could be two years, could be 10.” By “remaining timeline”, Yudkowsky means: until we face the machine-wrought end of all things. Think Terminator-like apocalypse. Think Matrix hellscape. Yudkowsky was once a founding figure in the development of human-made artificial intelligences – AIs. He has come to believe that these same AIs will soon evolve from their current state of “Ooh, look at that!” smartness, assuming an advanced, God-level super-intelligence, too fast and too ambitious for humans to contain or curtail. Don’t imagine a human-made brain in one box, Yudkowsky advises. To grasp where things are heading, he says, try to picture “an alien civilisation that thinks a thousand times faster than us”, in lots and lots of boxes, almost too many for us to feasibly dismantle, should we even decide to.
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2024-02-17 at 3:01 PM UTC in Trump Ordered to Pay $355 Million in New York Fraud CaseThere's a go fund me now if any of you want to help the poor guy out.
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2024-02-17 at 2:57 PM UTC in Prof. Kevin Anderson: "We're going to go to 3 or 4 degrees centigrade of warming; we'll die from all of the repercussions."
Originally posted by Charles Ex Machina i dont think a structural engineer is qualified to be the authoritative authority on climate and its changes.
He is also Professor of Energy and Climate Change, holding a joint chair in the School of Engineering at the University of Manchester (UK), the Centre for Sustainability and the Environment (CEMUS) at Uppsala University (Sweden) and the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET) at Bergen University (Norway). In 2016 he began a two year fellowship as the Zennström Professor of Climate Change Leadership in Uppsala, where he continues to work today, and has previously been both Deputy Director and Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
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2024-02-17 at 4:08 AM UTC in As Aquifers Are Depleted, Areas Along The East Coast Of The US Are SinkingAll judgments of good or bad are relative to the one doing the judging.
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2024-02-17 at 2:03 AM UTC in The rejection thread.
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2024-02-16 at 11:58 PM UTC in CCS Redux: “Best” Carbon Capture Facility In World Creates 25x More CO2 From Use Of ProductCCS Redux: “Best” Carbon Capture Facility In World Creates 25x More CO2 From Use Of Product
What does that turn into in terms of real tons of CO2 sequestered vs emitted? Well, they are producing 36 million cubic meters of natural gas per day. They’ve been producing that daily since 1996, so that’s about 300 billion cubic meters of gas as of 2019. That turns into about 581 million tons of CO2 emitted by the natural gas, compared to the 23 million tons of CO2 that’s been sequestered.
That’s over 25 times more CO2 in the atmosphere than was sequestered. And Equinor is being paid for the natural gas and the sequestered CO2. Nice work if you can get it. Not so nice for the planet.
