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It is under reported in media and public service campaigns about climate that we can no longer mitigate the problem merely by cutting emissions- we have committed ourselves to carbon sequestration which is the unproven brainchild of technosolutionism and most of us never got a vote.

It should also be noted reducing agricultural land use is a great way to mitigate climate change: https://www.wri.org/blog/2019/08/7-things-know-about-ipcc-sp...

There have been tests to accelerate the breakup or melting of icebergs with bombs, and it has been found to be ineffective and expensive even for much smaller icebergs: https://navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=iipIsItPracticalToDestroyI...

Considering the Air Force can't hide the X-37B from amateur astronomers it's more than a little suspect that Americans have been traveling to Mars for decades without anyone noticing anything leaving.

What's surprising about this is soy, greens, and legumes are all naturally rich in calcium. Fortunately I've yet to find a vegan multivitamin that doesn't have calcium and most people I know are taking one these days for Vitamin B12. At the same time I am curious what other factors for bone health besides dietary calcium a vegan might be deficient in.

He got some press for that vaporware electric car.

There's a growing body of evidence that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-45283401

I was hoping for something more along the lines of Seeed's Fusion PCB/PCB assembly service where you could get a quick prototype board with parts from a list of available components. I'm impressed by Sparkfun's software though and I hope that as the service evolves it gets cheaper.

This is excellent and a great option for responsible users!

We should not get distracted from the reality however that to really move the needle we need universal carbon pricing.

With such a simple password, how many people have been in there monitoring direct messages and the president's activities on the platform? This is unbelievable.

Quibi has a feature where the content changes depending on if you hold your phone in portrait or landscape. It doesn't add very much and it's annoying to switch back and forth.

That would make sense if the goal was to actually win the case. The actual goal is optics and to feed the victim complex of one side of the "culture war" ahead of the election.

If there were reasonable technologies on the immediate horizon for carbon capture then there might be an argument that our present consumption could be sustained while mitigating climate change. Unfortunately we have no such technology and we are not appropriately funding efforts that could get us there.

It has been speculated that it helped them circumvent MakerBot's patent on conveyor belts on additive 3D printers: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8668859B2/en

The links are often fine, but the sub in my experience is not. The head moderator also moderates /r/climateskeptics and there is a significant overlap between the two subreddits' userbases. This wouldn't be a problem necessarily but many of these users argue in bad faith and derail the discourse on the sub.

Is there a way on GitHub to filter by most active forks? All I get when I click on the Forks page is this warning: "Woah, this network is huge! We’re showing only some of this network’s repositories."

This would be valuable for a number of projects that have been abandoned or see infrequent updates while a fork (that usually has to be found by word of mouth or Google) is significantly more active.

That's insufficient to address the pollution from the aircraft. There is also water vapor, black carbon, nitrous oxide, and sulfur oxide that would need to be mitigated: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2015/09/evolving-climate-...

Oh, I read it as a reference to natural fission reactors, like the one found at Oklo.

Tipping points like this are good reminders that our current policy choices and courses of action are guided by conservative estimates and assumptions- which is why it's a meme at this point when reading about new findings to see that the system is responding 'faster than expected'.

The low, rosy climate sensitivities that make 1.5C policy goals look possible are being ruled out: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/climate-change-equili...

A recent study found arctic ice is melting faster than expected: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-underestimated-pace-arctic.htm...

We need a new way to communicate the realities of climate change without allowing our leaders to latch onto some low-probability, low-sensitivity, low-impact fairy tale.

Well a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would cool the Earth temporarily, but it wouldn't help long term: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191002144251.h...

I would expect ocean acidification would actually get worse, since the effects would mimic the 'Year without a Summer' so people would be releasing more carbon to heat their homes.

People find drugs and alcohol pleasurable as well, but we find good reasons to regulate them because they have externalities for society that we need to control.

I have little hope that we will reduce emissions in time or in sufficient quantity to save the coral reefs. My remaining hope is that projects like Project Vesta will help reverse ocean acidification https://projectvesta.org/

That tower reminds me of one of the buildings at Fermilab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermilab#/media/File:Fermilab_...

NPR spoke with a Cedar Rapids City Council member a few days ago. I remember being incensed that the federal government were dragging their feet to get them resources: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/15/902811975/thousands-in-iowa-c...

It's also important to note for this discussion that dogs and cats account for around a quarter of emissions from animal agriculture: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2017/08/02/whats-yo...

As obligate carnivores it is difficult to decrease the overall footprint of a cat. Pet ownership may be one of the biggest components to one's personal carbon footprint. I'm often dismayed by friends and colleagues my age who use environmental arguments for why they won't have children, yet own multiple animals.

With a decent (perhaps high speed?) camera and a trained computer vision model, couldn't a contactless study be performed of flying insects? It should be possible to count the common species in an area with reasonable accuracy and flag photographs of unknown species for human review. Definitely not as cheap as a trap, but perhaps with solar power could be just as easy to place. Unless someone with experience with these studies can make the case that the number of insects killed by these traps is negligible and all this effort isn't worth it of course.

Dr. Peter Carter, an IPCC expert reviewer, provides one of the most concise and sobering summaries of the trajectory of our planet as methane and carbon emissions continue to rise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa13KrOvE2s

It's one of the first things I think about when I read articles like this that demonstrate that not only are the powers that be not taking climate change seriously, they are actively accelerating it for profit.

From the abstract, this is the key takeway: "We argue that the Arctic is currently experiencing an abrupt climate change event, and that climate models underestimate this ongoing warming."

That is an interesting connection for sure. The gag was "One Laptop per Child Soldier": https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Cecil_Tunt

I was hoping for more of a description on how they plan to keep this vault safer than the Global Seed Vault, which was once flooded due to soaring arctic temperatures: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-s...