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- Nairn0
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Good link, but I'd believe most of the points, so his schtick's a little grating.I had a non-consequential disagreement with a protestor who was trying to prevent the felling of The Happy Man Tree*, which was the British contender for European Tree of the Year. It was a large tree about 10 minutes walk from my studio here and was being cut down to make way for a large new development in North London (apparently the largest residential development in western Europe).
Sure, it was a nice old tree, but it was clearly a nice old tree that was once a nice young sapling, planted by man along a roadside in Norf London. I figured their entire rationale was flawed in trying to save this one tree, where instead they could have used the energy and wasted legal costs to encourage the planting of more and perhaps maturer trees, rather than the sparse row of weedy saplings that replaced it all. Stupid.
No fan of the development, but crissakes, pick your battles.
- Also, the cunts liberally grafittied stencils of their cause on the walls of a load of people's actual fucking houses on my walk in to work. Total cunts.Nairn
- More trees equal less stabbings. Apparently.PhanLo
- If Haringey is anything to go by, that means we should have at least a fuckload more stabbings. I can think of four in the past three years just 5 mins walk ..Nairn
- ..from where I'm right now sat, and there're a fuckload of trees on the streets here.
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- BaskerviIle2
How did a small town in Canada become one of the hottest places on Earth?
https://www.theguardian.com/comm…
"On Sunday, the small mountain town of Lytton, British Columbia, became one of the hottest places in the world. Then, on Monday, Lytton got even hotter – 47.9C (118F – hotter than it’s ever been in Las Vegas, 1,300 miles to the south."-
A heatwave in Seattle? Extreme weather is no longer ‘unprecedented’ – it has become the norm
https://www.theguardian.com/comm…
"Every day seems to bring “unprecedented” floods, heat or wildfires. Surely it’s time to stop pretending “precedent” means anything any more – as the Oregon Climate Office tweeted in response to the Portland heatwave: “The past is no longer a reliable guide for the future.” Extreme weather is no longer exceptional; it has become the norm. The climate crisis is not around the corner, it is here. And things are only going to get worse."- Aaaaaaand it gone. Lytton burns to the ground days after setting a record for highest temp in canadamonNom
- https://www.msn.com/…monNom
- fucknb
- utopian6
- It's a shame his brakes will fail in the coming weeks.PhanLo
- Two of Shell Oil's major research divisions since the 1970s: one group that releases public "research" to deny climate effects...nb
- ...and the other that privately researches how Shell can generate the most profits off of the inevitable climate crisisnb
- More https://gizmodo.com/…grafician
- Do your part for the environment by turning Exxon and other petrochem execs into compost.face_melter
- sarahfailin1
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1…
Indiscreet comments made by an Exxon Mobil lobbyist to undercover activists may figure prominently in upcoming congressional hearings about the role of oil companies in the battle against climate change.
Video clips released by the Greenpeace investigation project Unearthed show Keith McCoy, the oil giant's senior director for federal relations, talking frankly about Exxon Mobil's lobbying strategies. Channel 4 from the United Kingdom first reported the comments.
McCoy was tricked by the activists who said they were job recruiters. He talked about working with "shadow groups," supporting a carbon tax that he believes will never happen and influencing senators to weaken climate elements of President Biden's infrastructure plan.
"Joe Manchin, I talk to his office every week," McCoy bragged to the interviewer. He called the Democratic senator from West Virginia a "kingmaker" and discussed how "on the Democrat side we look for the moderates on these issues" in their efforts to stop policies that could hurt the company's business.
- PhanLo16
- grafician-3
"Droughts, fires and floods: How climate change will impact Europe
The south of the Continent will be harder hit than the north, driving a wedge into one of the European Union’s deepest fault lines."
- Boiling frogs already...grafician
- If you're in EU better read this, it's getting serious down here boysgrafician
- What Climate Change? It's all a hoax!utopian
- I thought it might warm up where I live, but so far it's made the summers super muggy and damp. Lots of flooding this week.PhanLo
- Madrid so far has had 1/2 meter of snow in the winter and a "cool" summer but having said that it's going to be 42c on Sunday.Chimp
- grafician-2
"British Columbia
More than a billion seashore animals may have cooked to death in B.C. heat wave, says UBC researcher
Shoreline temps above 50 C and low tides led to mass deaths of animals like mussels, clams, sea stars"
- i_monk2
Imagine if governments and corporations had taken this seriously 20 years ago, how cheaply they could have prevented climate change. They knew this was coming in the mid-90s and still aren't taking it seriously.
- That would have meant going full nuclear, which wasn't much tenable. We tend to forget how far wind & solar etc tech has come in the past two decades.Nairn
- Personally, i wish we'd not scaled back Nuclear so much, especially here in the UK where we lost a huge amount of knowledge and industry. Stupid.Nairn
- Agreed, shame that it's taken until now for green groups to reconsider it.kalkal
- It's all about money.ApeRobot
- they knew this was coming since the '70s and '80s!
Politics is the GREAT FILTERgrafician
- renderedred1
it's 33 degress celsius in lapland!
- utopian2
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson mouths to GOP group that climate change is 'bullsh--' just weeks before deadly heat wave!
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin called climate change "bullsh--" during a GOP luncheon in early June, just weeks before a heat wave claimed dozens of lives in the Pacific Northwest. Scientists have linked the historic high temperatures to climate change.
- grafician-3
- every solution what is based on thermal energy conversion is a dead end.sted
- vast regions will be turned into savanas, including in Europe in the comings decades - solar and batteries are the futuregrafician
- @sted - why's that?Nairn
- like this thermal-solar plant is pushing out enormous amount of heat, the air temperature around its cone can go up to 500C.sted
- so you're basically putting a cooker into the already hot deserted area this is the end of this technology, there is no room for improvement just scaling.sted
- All proper solar solutions are pushing the technology towards less heat loss, and wider light spectrum energy harvesting.sted
- it doesn’t generate more heatmonospaced
- Aye, it does at the focal point. I've seen footage of birds getting vaporised when they fly through it, poor bastards.Nairn
- The advantage with this over normal solar IS the heat it generates. It's more immediately useful for industrial purposes.Nairn
- It's funny to think that pretty much all nuclear fission power production is basically using teh nuclears to replicate 18th C steam technology...Nairn
- thermal collectors operating from 250C to 600Csted
- and that's the operational temperature, what the central receiver is emitting varies but its always much higher than the operating temperature.sted
- @Nairn yeah see, we push out a lot of heated water from nuclear/gas plants...sted
- @sted - 500°C is at the lower end of the heat 'concentration' - it goes up to 1000°C, hence the instantly POOFing birds.Nairn
- https://edition.cnn.…Nairn
- ah Heliogen. that goes beyond solar/steam energy generation with thermal energy storage and alternative application soltuionssted
- https://www.solarpac…sted
- The flipside of it generating, or at least redirecting and focusing solar radiation, is that it makes the floor around cooler. They should grow grasses, or werNairn
- build up an ecosystem. attract flowers, then insects, then birds, and then burn loads birds. POOF!Nairn
- we should spend real effort on covering deserts with solar panels, there are proper research papers on how covering a certain area of the sahara triggerssted
- positive ecological events.sted
- wait... that's not an aerial shot of burning man?PonyBoy
- grafician-4
"EU unveils sweeping climate change plan"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-e…
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"One EU diplomat told Reuters that the success of the package would rest on its ability to be realistic and socially fair, while also not destabilising the economy.
"The aim is to put the economy on a new level, not to stop it," they said."
- So just a few light taxes, some buildings renovations, nothing biggie to mess with the economy, no sir!grafician
- grafician-3
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"Politicians discussing Global Warming" — a statue in Berlin, Germany
