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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71040 on: 05/09/2025 10:21:21 »
So the best you will produce is wrecked doors, and blame games.
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« Reply #71041 on: 05/09/2025 10:22:19 »
It goes back to one thing, our farming game and its infra structures.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71042 on: 05/09/2025 10:24:55 »
Maybe it is impossible to change, the way you behave. Maybe the only hope you and me have left is the one in where we against all odds survive an extinction event. But intelligence is a tool, and what matters is how you chose to use it.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71043 on: 05/09/2025 10:26:07 »
If I didn't believe this, I wouldn't write.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71044 on: 05/09/2025 10:28:16 »
Show me that global fossil ban, done to 2040
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71045 on: 05/09/2025 10:29:54 »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/3/mass-evacuations-in-pakistans-flooded-punjab-hit-300000-in-48-hours
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« Reply #71046 on: 05/09/2025 10:31:09 »
Up to now you just used that intelligence for one thing


Preserving a status quo
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« Reply #71047 on: 05/09/2025 10:37:09 »
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/severe/summer-ending-soon-but-canadas-wildfire-season-likely-wont-be-heat-wave-canada-smoke
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71048 on: 05/09/2025 10:40:34 »
Something for you in Norway to read

https://apnews.com/article/carbon-capture-storage-research-climate-change-c5ebd4f7c2d23e20526512e1ef338bef

As well as all other projects planning to bury it where we won't 'see', under oceans or land.

You know what they say?  ... Out of sight out of mind

Well, not this time.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71049 on: 05/09/2025 10:42:25 »
All of those practices kissing oil and gas, as well as those industries, lobbying etc, in the ass


Preserving their status quo
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« Reply #71050 on: 05/09/2025 10:50:58 »
There is no simple solution to it but that fossil ban is still one of the best, no matter how it looks for your ego, relative wealth, infra structures and industries. Another one is one kid per person. A very simple 'geoengineering' that will alleviate our continued existence on this planet. It goes against all instincts and beliefs, but it will work where nothing else does.

And it's about synergies, even though global warming becomes the final nail in our species coffin.


2020   

On 4 May, Sandra Diaz and 144 other researchers had a stark message for the world. They had just finished the most exhaustive study ever of the world's biodiversity, and the news was worse than most researchers had imagined: one million species are heading for extinction because of human activities, and it will take drastic action to stop that. "The rate at which species are going extinct is at least tens to hundreds of times faster than it has been on average over the past ten million years," Diaz says. "Our safety net is stretched almost to breaking point." "

https://www.ipbes.net/node/36385


So back off, and slow down
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« Reply #71051 on: 05/09/2025 10:56:04 »
Coming home to roost

2023

" The year-to-year variability of agricultural productivity is a key determinant of food security. It is thought that climate change could alter the variability of growing season temperature, soil moisture, and their co-variability, yet the resulting influence on the variability of staple crop yields globally is unknown. Here, we pair empirical crop models with CMIP6 simulations to project how changes in temperature and soil moisture due to climate change (2015-2035 vs. 2080-2100 under SSP5-8.5) will influence the year-to-year variance of global and regional crop yields of three staple summer crops: maize, soybeans and sorghum. We find that the inter-annual variance of crop yields is projected to substantially increase under climate change, by 25 to 80 percent across crops.

We document that this increase in variability is driven by three factors. First, an increase in mean temperatures increases yield variability because crops are more sensitive to thermal-variability at hotter temperatures, consistent with prior findings. Second, temperature variability itself increases, leading to increased yield volatility. Finally, the co-variability of temperature and soil moisture strengthens, leading to increased covariability of thermal and water stresses and increased yield variability. Yield variability increases most where expected yields fall, temperatures warm, and soils dry, leading to substantial increases in the probability of negative climate-induced yield shocks in these regions. These findings indicate increased adaptive measures to both heat and correlated moisture stresses, will be necessary to maintain current levels of crop yield variability. "


2025

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady3575
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« Reply #71052 on: 05/09/2025 10:57:25 »
This is just the beginning, of a 1.5C regime. But you won't like the statistics.
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« Reply #71053 on: 05/09/2025 10:59:52 »
You set yourself up for it, creating a game in where those with the most to lose on changing it also becomes the ones expected to lead us out of it.
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« Reply #71054 on: 05/09/2025 11:00:20 »
You're in no way a innocent lamb
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« Reply #71055 on: 05/09/2025 11:04:02 »
Here in Europe, and the American continent we have almost no old forests left. that means little to no resilience.
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« Reply #71056 on: 05/09/2025 11:07:00 »
Our oceans are getting destroyed, by plastics, acidity, heat waves, agricultural industrial farming pollution's, over fishing, and other diverse chemicals flushed out in them.Their resilience dropping day by day.
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« Reply #71057 on: 05/09/2025 11:10:11 »
And now you want to vacuum ocean bottoms, for minerals and rare earths, preserving our status quo.


Changing a 'fuel'
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« Reply #71058 on: 05/09/2025 11:10:28 »
You're a joke
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« Reply #71059 on: 05/09/2025 11:11:37 »
Intelligence is just a tool. It all depends on what you use it for
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