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NickB79's JournalEarth got even hotter than we thought during past 500 million years
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2448696-earth-got-even-hotter-than-we-thought-during-past-500-million-years/In fact, during the hottest periods, average surface temperatures in the tropics reached 42°C (108°F), according to the study, meaning some land areas could have been too hot for plants and animals to survive. Even polar regions were warm during these times, with average temperatures exceeding 20°C (68°F).
“There were likely a few times over the last half billion years where certain regions were uninhabitable, or where the biodiversity in those regions was extremely low,” Judd says.
Her team also found a stronger link between carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and average global temperature than expected. Over such a long time span, the team had expected the relationship to be weaker because of other factors, such as the sun getting brighter.
Very disturbing news.
If you wanna know more about Walz and Midwestern values, watch some Charlie Berens skits
I can't get enough of this stuff 🤣
Most of the glyphosate in European rivers may not come from farming, researchers suggest
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-glyphosate-european-rivers-farming.htmlProfessor Huhn's study suggests that another source has been overlooked for decades. The hypothesis is that certain aminopolyphosphonates used, for example in laundry detergents, are converted to glyphosate in the sewage sludge of wastewater treatment plants.
My college intern didn't realize that the Handmaid's Tale on Hulu was based on a 40 yr old book
A coworker and I were sarcastically "joking" after the USSC immunity ruling about if we're ready to welcome God Emperor Trump into our lives this November. I know his politics align with mine closely, so I was comfortable talking to him, but decided to test the waters with our intern because politics is a tricky subject, especially at work.
I jokingly said "Yeah, I hear the young people these days really love the Handmaid's Tale, and if they don't vote accordingly they'll get to experience it in real life, hahaha", loud enough that she heard me. She immediately perked up and started talking about how she loved the series, and how scary it is compared to current events right now. I commented how it's even scarier when you contemplate the source material.
She had no clue that it was originally a book written 40 years ago, and that Margaret Atwood's predictions were so eerily prescient.
I reminded her that it's up to her and her college friends to vote this November if they want to keep it a work of fiction. I think this had an impact, and I pray she spreads the word more.
CO₂ puts heavier stamp on temperature than previously thought, analysis suggests
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-heavier-temperature-previously-thought-analysis.html"The temperature rise we found is much larger than the 2.3 to 4.5 degrees that the UN climate panel, IPCC, has been estimating so far," said the first author, Caitlyn Witkowski.
The researchers used a 45-year-old drill core extracted from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. "I realized that this core is very attractive for researchers, because the ocean floor at that spot has had oxygen-free conditions for many millions of years," said Professor Jaap Sinninghe Damsté, senior scientist at NIOZ and professor of organic geochemistry at Utrecht University.
7-14C is absolutely gobsmackingly insane compared to the previous estimate of 3-4C. And we'll hit the doubling point around 2060 at currently rates of carbon emissions (3-4ppm/year now)
Either there's a serious error with their methodology, or we're fucked with a capital F
A Debate Rages Over the Putative Environmental Benefits of the ARCH2 'Hydrogen Hub' in Appalachia
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26052024/arch2-hydrogen-hub-appalachia-debate/Instead of being released into the atmosphere, where it would warm the climate, the carbon dioxide produced by burning the natural gas would be pumped underground and permanently stored using carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a process that critics say is unproven and expensive.
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CCS has been shown repeatedly to be bullshit, primary used to repressurize old oil wells and boost production. And now it's being funded by money supposedly set aside to decarbonize the energy sector, and keep us fracking for natural gas for decades to come.
Three years of high temperatures will mean we have breached 1.5C
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2432614-three-years-of-high-temperatures-will-mean-we-have-breached-1-5c/In the 2015 Paris Agreement, almost every nation in the world signed up to an international treaty promising to limit any rise in global average temperatures to “well below” 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to aim for just 1.5°C of warming.
One of my neighbors was going door to door giving away marijuana plants
So I'm standing in my yard, chatting with a friend who stopped by because I had some native perennials for her. Up pulls my neighbor from a couple miles down the road in this little Japanese Kei-truck that's not even street legal, but we live in the boonies so whatever.
He asks me how my solar install went, and gives me the number of a friend who does tree removal because one corner of my roof gets afternoon shade. Then he asks if I want a few more plants, since my yard is the one that looks like a jungle. I look in the bed of his truck, and it's filled with little potted plants. I don't recognize them at first, then it hits me. I tell him thanks but it's not my thing. He tells me he was just at my neighbor/coworker's place and he took a few. Then I see a big potted marijuana bush sitting in his passenger seat, seatbelted in for safety 🤣
So he says bye and off he goes, in his little truck, happily taking his pet weed plant for an afternoon drive.
Today my coworker was asking me where in his yard he should plant his pot plants.
Is this the crime-infested hellhole Trump warned us Minnesota would become when he was here last week? 🤣🤣🤣
Russia finds vast oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-finds-vast-oil-gas-153120845.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJJv8AVvytueM2ZIaZb3jTyVI4dTBNqm7eDS7t-L4KiuNQhPLGOlkzHUtHiRq7fescaOKqbE4_MT-PXU2TpIlvPpO1mQJDJu9gcbnVJlJ9Xf5VIWg3dS6mn-k0NCTWlYg6631v65bgE2g2yFZ_NBAaKXmheljvWoF9JeNBQtElQDThe surveys are a prelude to bringing in drilling rigs to exploit the pristine region for fossil fuels, MPs have warned.
Reserves totalling 511bn barrels of oil – about 10 times the North Sea’s entire 50-year output – have been reported to Moscow by Russian research ships, according to evidence given to the Commons Environment Audit Committee (EAC) last week
Shite.
'Only hope we've got': the audacious plan to genetically engineer Australia's endangered northern quoll
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/11/only-hope-weve-got-the-audacious-plan-to-genetically-engineer-australias-endangered-northern-quollSince then, the toads have spread across the northern parts of Australia. Prof John Woinarski, a leading conservation biologist at Charles Darwin University, says cane toads have – alongside feral cats and habitat clearing – been a major factor in pushing the northern quoll to endangered status.
“Quolls are very effective predators,” he says. “They’re the largest marsupial predator across much of the north of Australia.
“But when they try and kill a cane toad, they grab them by the back of the head just where the toxin glands are mostly concentrated. They die remarkably quickly and it’s an agonising death.”
Do it.
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