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2023-03-26 at 6:42 PM UTC in Stealth camping
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2023-03-26 at 5:47 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-03-26 at 3:18 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-03-25 at 11:08 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-03-25 at 10:33 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ All of them, obviously.
Originally posted by Obbe ^Meaningless blathering, the sole purpose of which was to make the author giggle to himself. What a delightful display of human ability - millions of years of evolution eventually producing sentient minds capable of contemplating their own self awareness and the environment they find themselves in, thousands of years of developing complex languages to give ourselves the ability to communicate complicated and abstract concepts, and then using those talents to simply feed our own egos. Yes, we truly deserve these gifts from God.
Why waste our sentience trying to solve the world's problems, when instead we can spend our time inventing new ways to destroy each other?
And let's not forget our incredible ability to argue and disagree about absolutely everything, even when the evidence is right in front of us. Oh, the joys of sentience! Instead of using it to come together and solve our problems, we use it to create even more problems. -
2023-03-25 at 10:26 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The worst thing about human nature is their ability to blindly trust corrupt and biased authorities and their minions. Makes them genuine menaces to society.
Which corrupt and biased authorities do you think I am blindly trusting again? The IPCC or this guy? -
2023-03-25 at 10:11 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastThe best thing about human nature is their ability to ignore their own flaws while pointing out everyone else's.
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2023-03-25 at 4:26 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast"The best way to handle conflict is to stubbornly cling to your own opinion and never budge an inch."
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2023-03-25 at 3:58 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastThe most powerful climate report of the decade was published on Monday, after 195 governments fought over the words in its summary for policymakers, and the only media allowed in the room just published its account of who lobbied for what
Many people insist that the IPCC is not political or conservative. This insightful twitter thread from climate reporter Ajit Niranjan sheds light on the process of what may be their most important publication yet. It's content, tone and language will influence members of government around the world. This is collapse related in that we see just how protective governments will be of their interests, to the determent of all. It also shows just how difficult consensus is and that working together in good faith is probably too much to ask of any large group.
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2023-03-25 at 3:57 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-03-25 at 3:23 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-03-25 at 3:09 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastStress is caused by the gap between reality and your expectations. The bigger the gap, the greater your stress.
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2023-03-25 at 2:08 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
Originally posted by Obbe Denial occurs after we have taken in information and consciously reject it to avoid an uncomfortable truth. William Catton termed this behavior ‘ostrichism’ or the strategy of sticking your head in the figurative sand and expecting an issue to go away or persistent belief nothing will change and refusal to face facts.
A recent theory of mind proposes it may have been central to our development as a species. Ajit Varki and Danny Brower’s “Mind Over Reality Transition” theory provides significant reasoning for our trajectory to date. They suggest we have succeeded as a species due in large part to an evolved denial of reality, but this behavior is now a disadvantage and preventing a majority of us from recognizing and acting on systemic issues such as climate change. -
2023-03-25 at 4:58 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-03-25 at 3:05 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-03-25 at 2:49 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-03-24 at 11:03 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ What are you going to do when you get down to one second or half a second?
The clock is intended to raise awareness of the threats facing humanity and to encourage action to reduce those threats. It is not a precise measurement of the likelihood of a global catastrophe but rather a symbol of the urgency of addressing the risks we face. The clock serves as a reminder that the decisions we make as a society can have far-reaching consequences for the future of our planet and the survival of our species. -
2023-03-24 at 5:22 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastThere’s less need to convince people of a future climate doomsday. It’s already here.
The unfolding climate crisis was laid bare in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on Monday: Between 3.3 billion and 3.6 billion people live in places “highly vulnerable to climate change,” and from 2010 to 2020, “human mortality from floods, droughts and storms was 15 times higher” in these regions than in less vulnerable regions.
The report continued: “In all regions increases in extreme heat events have resulted in human mortality and morbidity (very high confidence). The occurrence of climate-related food-borne and water-borne diseases (very high confidence) and the incidence of vector-borne diseases (high confidence) have increased.”
In other words: Climate change is already killing people. And, the report makes clear, it will kill more.
Again, to quote from the report: “In the near term, every region in the world is projected to face further increases in climate hazards (medium to high confidence, depending on region and hazard), increasing multiple risks to ecosystems and humans (very high confidence). Hazards and associated risks expected in the near-term include an increase in heat-related human mortality and morbidity (high confidence), food-borne, water-borne, and vector-borne diseases (high confidence), mental health challenges (very high confidence), flooding in coastal and other low-lying cities and regions (high confidence), biodiversity loss in land, freshwater and ocean ecosystems (medium to very high confidence, depending on ecosystem), and a decrease in food production in some regions (high confidence).” -
2023-03-24 at 5:17 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-03-24 at 5:15 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
