Frozen iguanas are falling from trees in Florida
News article dated 24 January 2024
In Florida, colder than normal temperatures are having a major impact on certain animal species. This weekend, several weather forecasters issued unofficial warnings – not about snow or ice, but about the possibility of falling iguanas.
While falling iguanas are more often stunned rather than dead, they can be inconvenient or even dangerous. In some cases, they’ve damaged cars or injured people. So, when walking in Florida during colder temperatures, looking up is advisable. — Sarah Bregel, BBC
And according to a new simulation, humanity's end could come in as little as 250 million years if climate change continues the way it has. — Joshua Hawkins
But you need not fear as this doomsday scenario isn't forecast to happen for another 250 million years. — Dylan Murray
The projected timeline for these events extends over the course of 250 million years. This vast timeframe offers humanity ample opportunity to prepare and adapt. — James Kay
Recent simulations run by a supercomputer have painted a chilling picture of our planet’s future. If climate change continues at its current pace, humanity could vanish within the next 250 million years, leaving behind an uninhabitable world. — Sarah Jensen
It's... still not flipped vertically. — Lionino
"Would you let animals like dogs die in order to create a vaccine that will save all of humanity?" — Arnie
Hydropower may be renewable and clean, but it destroys the surrounding ecosystem. A small price to pay perhaps, but there is that. — Lionino
SEOUL, April 23 (Reuters) - South Korea's Constitutional Court began hearing on Tuesday a case that accuses the government of having failed to protect 200 people, including dozens of young environmental activists and children, by not tackling climate change.
The proceeding is Asia's first such climate-related litigation, the plaintiffs said, which includes four petitions by children and infants among others dating from 2020, as well as one from a foetus at the time, nicknamed Woodpecker. — Reuters
The concept of “net zero” has become a political slogan used to start a “dangerous” culture war over the climate, and may be better dropped, the outgoing head of the UK’s climate watchdog has warned.
But it was not just those who were against climate action who were causing the problem, according to Stark. Climate activists were also alarming people, he warned, and creating “quite a serious barrier to large parts of the political spectrum to support climate action” by forceful protests, and presenting environmental policies as radical.
“It would be more helpful if they were less divisive,” he said. “I don’t think it is radical. It’s really important that we stop using words like that, as it is understandably frightening.” — The Guardian
Best not to pay them any attention. — Mikie
Are there things in the physical universe that we can never find out? — Vera Mont
Are there things in the physical universe that we can never find out? — Vera Mont
I can put aside mental shorthand and tune into my visual field. I see color, light, dark, and lines. I can do that so thoroughly that I forget what it is my looking at — frank
Of all the climate solutions out there, maybe we should concentrate on the 97% of industrial emissions that come from fossil fuels, and leave the cows out of it, Eurof Uppington writes.
Given the press, you’d be forgiven for thinking that reducing cattle numbers and moving to a plant-based diet is a climate solution up there with electric vehicles and offshore wind.
Billions of dollars and euros and celebrity endorsements have been invested in plant-based and alternative protein startups. “Cows create global warming” is a truism of our time, shared by almost all right-thinking people.
The emerging truth appears different. Not only is the climate impact of cattle confused and overblown — properly managed, grazing cows and sheep can be a climate and biodiversity solution. — Eurof Uppington (euronews)
Do you mind if science is being controlled overall or just by the bureaucracy? It seems you want to set science and scientists free. — javi2541997
.Instead, it may be the far more numerous unremarkably hot days that cause the bulk of societal destruction, including through their complex and often unnoticed effects on human health and productivity. In the United States, even moderately elevated temperatures — days in the 80s or 90s Fahrenheit — are responsible for just as many excess deaths as the record triple-digit heat waves, if not more, according to my calculations based on a recent analysis of Medicare records — We Don’t See What Climate Change Is Doing to Us
A growing body of literature links temperature to cognitive performance and decision making. Research shows that hotter days lead to more mistakes, including among professional athletes; more local crime; and more violence in prisons, according to working papers. They also correspond with more use of profanity on social media, suggesting that even an incrementally hotter world is likely to be a nontrivially more irritable, error-prone and conflictual one. — We Don’t See What Climate Change Is Doing to Us
Children are not immune. In other research, my colleagues Joshua Goodman, Michael Hurwitz and Jonathan Smith and I found that across the country, hotter school years led to slower gains on standardized exams like the Preliminary SAT exams. It may not seem a huge effect, on average: roughly 1 percent of learning lost per one-degree-hotter school year temperatures. Probably hardly noticeable in any given year. But because these learning effects are cumulative, they may have significant consequences. — We Don’t See What Climate Change Is Doing to Us
The only problem with this type of exercise is that the dog does a lot of sniffing and we don't move very fast
— Agree-to-Disagree
Be tolerant and thankful for a furry companion. :cool: — jgill
You say you are more able to talk with other people because you walk with your dog. Maybe you are referring to other dog owners... — javi2541997
I try to avoid groups of people because it gives me anxiety, and walking with my dog makes me feel I am protected by a bubble. — javi2541997
I wish I could walk more than just an hour with my dog. She is a small-dog breed, and she tends to get tired early... — javi2541997
I'm neither as cynical, or as bothered, it seems — AmadeusD
much less cynical than Du Plessis-Allan — AmadeusD
Metal stair edges, leather sandals, two glasses of wine — Vera Mont
Does Mikie live or work in a building with exceptionally perilous stairwells? — Vera Mont
Why is everybody expected to argue about everything all the time anyway? — Vera Mont
The four types of climate denier, and why you should ignore them all — Mikie
I see a pattern among members who aren’t that bright but who want to sound bright: claim everything is a “fallacy,” and use the phrase “That isn’t an argument” — like a magic wand, just wave it over anything you don’t like, can’t understand, or can’t engage with. — Mikie
What a waste of time— I’d like to see this stupid shit go away. — Mikie
As opposed to being a massive dick to people on some obscure philosophy forum? — RogueAI
The latest from our resident climate denial propagandist: — Mikie
:lol: What a bunch of imbeciles. — Mikie
Right, so it’s hopeless. Cool analysis. Bye. — Mikie
No thanks. If you feel nothing can be done, then go on doing nothing. — Mikie
Yes, because your expert knowledge on this issue is definitely worth paying attention to. :up: — Mikie
In protest of the suggested ban on gas stoves, I’m staying taped to this stove forever. — Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel)
The next big climate deadline is for meat and dairy
Nearly two decades ago, a United Nations report marked the livestock sector as one of the most polluting industries on the planet. Ever since, there’s been a steady drip of research on the need to scale back meat production in high- and middle-income countries.
[The meat] Industry is fighting back. A well-oiled PR machine composed of shadowy communications groups, industry-funded academics, and pro-meat influencers all push out the message that livestock aren’t so bad for the planet. Their claims have ranged from misleading scientific arguments to hollow corporate greenwashing to outright disinformation. — Vox (Kenny Torrella)
Among the things that peeped up from the dirt in my woodland garden this spring is a... tropical houseplant. Dude. — frank
Nevertheless we would have to find the "ego-neuron" so to speak to locate the point in space where all this information transmitted by our nerves come together to generate our experience of a "personality".
— Pez
I.e. we would need to find a homunculus? — wonderer1
The fundamental problem is to understand when we can say that the machine is doing anything, in the sense that humans do things. Can they be said to calculate, for example? — Ludwig V