makerofspoons

Broken as of July 3rd :(

The problem is the animals eating feed grown with fossil fuel derived fertilizers: https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/fertilizer-and-climate-ch...

Cattle eating grass is one thing- industrial feed lots are another and they're needed to produce beef at the scale humans are eating it.

This tactic is called a "Texas two-step", and it was used successfully by Georgia-Pacific in another asbestos related situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_two-step_bankruptcy

Meanwhile the U.S. shale boom is showing signs of peaking: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-shale-boom-shows-signs-of-p...

This, combined with the energy crunch in Europe due to the war in Ukraine, may be another strong signal we have less runway to get off of fossil fuel than we thought.

When Virgin Orbit was spun off, Virgin Atlantic was still operating a dozen Boeing 747-400s. Perhaps before they were phased out early because of COVID the plan was to retire those to Virgin Orbit or use them for replacement parts?

The comparisons between the AR5 and AR6 are alarming. Now, under no emission scenarios other than low and very low which we are not tracking close to, we reach +2C at or just before 2050. Many reading this thread will see 3 degrees by the time they plan to retire. This comes with drought, undernourishment, and mass migration: https://sciencenorway.no/climate-climate-change/deadly-heat-...

Our first interstellar probes are unlikely to be able to destroy a fighter jet. They'll likely be similar to and just as fragile as the probes we use in our own solar system: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3

I don't think there's any love between Zuckerberg and Instagram's founders: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-07/zuckerber...

I'm maxing out my 401K match and contributing as much as I can to my IRA. My target date funds are still for retiring at 65 but I would be surprised if by 2060 the age to qualify for Medicare and social security haven't been moved back to 70-ish in the USA. I'm a homeowner but in a state that will likely see water shortages and increased wildfires so I have a longish-term plan to get out before I lose my investment.

My plan is to make sure I retire somewhere in this country there is fresh water and hopefully some protection from food shortages. Probably near the Great Lakes.

While less common out west, Shell bought Greenlots which operates a network of DC charging stations in the northeast: https://greenlots.com/shell-fleet-solutions/

Around this time last year there were only 460 EVs registered in Wyoming: https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/charging-forwa...

Most EVs in the state are visitors and the highways are going to be electrified anyway. This is going to do nothing to save the oil and gas industry.

I've been using flaxseed and tapioca flour egg replacers for years- they're easy to use and cheap. They're also great if you're looking to reduce cholesterol. This could be a time to shine for egg replacement products like JUST Egg, however it is quite simple to make your own at home.

Geoengineering! But whether or not it is a "utopia" or "horror" idea will depend on whether or not it works.

A startup announced just over a week ago that they're already performing solar geoengineering with sulfur particles: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/24/1066041/a-startu...

The US has started a 5 year program to research climate interventions. I expect as it becomes clear we're going to miss the 1.5 degree Paris goal funding will explode in this area: https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2022/11/05/th...

Not listed but important- the final installment of Sixth IPCC Assessment Report comes out in March: https://www.ipcc.ch/2022/

Connecting to hidden services it's 6 hops, reaching out to the internet it's 3 hops.

Definitely the better choice to preserve the Amazon- hopefully the international community takes this opportunity to pursue programs to pay Brazil to conserve it before the next Bolsonaro.

Are these scientific predictions (with citations) or sensationalist predictions plucked from headlines?

An assessment of climate tipping points that are likely to be triggered at 1.5C degrees of warming: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn7950

The main threats would be near-term coral reef die-offs and ice sheet collapses.

I can sort of see the value of Reviver plates for fleets, but their consumer product seems very expensive for what you get. I can already in Colorado (where they are also legal) renew my registration on my phone. The existing app for many modern cars can tell you where the vehicle is. That leaves the personalization aspect for $20/month. Plus, if you opt for the battery model you now have the added inconvenience of needing to remember to charge your license plate. I just don't get it.

Yes, unfortunately: More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

48% of bird species in decline: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/05/global-bird-populat...

among other examples. In 2018 it was estimated by the WWF that 60% of the animal population was lost between 1970 and 2014: https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/living-planet-report-2018

The "democracy" tweet was just following a Twitter trend that started with Amtrak: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/one-wor...

Very sad to see them go. As a kid I always wanted to fly something on their (long since discontinued) $100 cansat program: https://spaceref.com/press-release/new-service-offers-payloa...

Just one example of how they wanted to do things differently.

That's good to know! I wasn't home for yesterday's event so I went off the article. I'm not actually sure what it bumped my thermostat to then.

It's hard to feel too bad for them since it's a voluntary program. I'm part of it and I didn't feel deceived. 78 is hardly uncomfortable.

Owen B. Toon is famously one of the T's in the groundbreaking TTAPS paper. It's credited with bringing the idea of nuclear winter into the public consciousness, alongside co-author Carl Sagan's article in Parade which made the topic more accessible.

Couldn't you cash-buy an Amazon gift card and then have it shipped to a locker?

No but it looks cool. Project Gasbuggy and similar projects as well as their impacts are just part of the local folklore where I'm from.

Several bombs were used to attempt to extract natural gas under Project Plowshare. Lots of gas was made extractable but due to contamination it was unsuitable for cooking or heating buildings. You can hike or drive to the detonation sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Rulison

It's here: https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/blind-chance

Unfortunately, it does not appear to have English subtitles on this site according to the icons (I cannot create an account to check at the moment). It does look like you can rent the film with subtitles quite cheaply from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Chance-English-Subtitled-Bogusl...

I recommend "Blind Chance". It follows three storylines about a man trying to catch a train where different events cause his life to unfold differently. It really makes you think about all the small events that have occurred in your life that snowball to make you who you are.