Every month or so there's a new showstopper in this forum. Holy shit probably none of you have been to Mosi-oa-Tunya but to see it like this is is pretty intense.

Reply to Birds 'shrinking' as the climate warms by ziq

spacersparanoid wrote on December 7, 2019 at 1:49 PM

"In 2014, researchers found that alpine goats appeared to be shrinking due to warming temperatures. The same year, another study found salamanders had shrunk rapidly in response to climate change."

This is insane!

Reply to comment by Tequila_Wolf in Secret silent source of climate change revealed: The hotter it gets, the faster bacteria breathe and the more carbon dioxide and methane they emit — and bacteria comprise half the globe’s biomass by mofongo

Tequila_Wolf wrote on December 1, 2019 at 9:34 PM

Agreed. Wrong forum doesn't mean that it shouldn't be on raddle :)

Reply to comment by rot in Secret silent source of climate change revealed: The hotter it gets, the faster bacteria breathe and the more carbon dioxide and methane they emit — and bacteria comprise half the globe’s biomass by mofongo

rot wrote on December 1, 2019 at 8:55 PM

the posts are still good and should be in f/green

Reply to Secret silent source of climate change revealed: The hotter it gets, the faster bacteria breathe and the more carbon dioxide and methane they emit — and bacteria comprise half the globe’s biomass by mofongo

Tequila_Wolf wrote on December 1, 2019 at 7:14 PM

Hey mofongo, heads up, this forum isn't for general stuff or analysis of climate change or for climate change projections, its for climate change that has already arrived. Some of your posts here have been of that sort so I'm just gonna clean some of them out.

Reply to Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors by ziq

fentanyl_yoshi wrote on October 18, 2019 at 2:15 PM

this was the first thing i saw when i woke up today.

i fucking hate the world. slaves, and now this.

Reply to Alaska’s Sea Ice Completely Melted for First Time in Recorded History by ziq

MHC wrote on September 12, 2019 at 9:13 AM

People don't believe this. That what they do, affects others elsewhere. A bit of singing in churches, and god will sort-out whatever mess they make!

Reply to 'This Is Eco-Apartheid': Post-Dorian Refugees Fleeing Bahamas Ordered Off Ferry Bound for US by ziq

MHC wrote on September 12, 2019 at 9:02 AM

Climate refugees!

Reply to The hellish future of Las Vegas in the climate crisis: 'A place where we never go outside' by ziq

eltrkbrd wrote on September 4, 2019 at 1:50 AM (edited on September 4, 2019 at 1:51 AM)

Apropos, the guy in the article wearing a Darth Vader custom (a modern mythological metaphor as an executive of systems) in the article as he spritz himself with water (most likely vital essence from slaves)...

Reply to Where do greenhouse gas emissions come from? (infographic) by eltrkbrd

celebratedrecluse wrote on August 30, 2019 at 4:51 AM

This is misleading, not all greenhouse gases have the same efficiency at creating the greenhouse effect.

It is likely that simply ceasing to raise livestock & produce monocultural crops to feed those livestock, along with ceasing to extract natural gas, would alone reverse a majority of the ongoing additive greenhouse activity in the atmosphere on top of what has already been effected. This is because methane is between 12-60 times (depending on varying environmental conditions) as potent of a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide.

Framing this question as one of "how much emissions" is a borderline disingenous way to describe the issue, and coming from a state funded university is damned irresponsible/manipulative. Agriculture alone is far and away the biggest problem, not just in the direct ways I already described either. If you're worried about the Amazon inferno, that's basically the result of the Brazillian beef lobby's hard work over the years.

However none of this is particularly significant because we've already crossed the threshold of feasible action for feedback systems we can no longer interfere with. What matters now is reducing the harm that is now inevitable, and doing that requires an immediate cessation of meat production, monocultural crop harvesting, and at the very least an end to fracking.

The other sources are important environmental problems (smog from dirty industry & transit kills literally millions of people per year), but in the specific problem of global climate change are less significant. Ocean acidification is a much more worrying problem as a result of carbon dioxide emissions, than climate change per se.

It's important to have fluency in these topics so that we can talk to people about them in an informed & intelligent way.

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