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"this has the potential to be just about the biggest bang-for-buck weapon we have against climate change in the next decade." Now we only need to get cars 'n'

"this has the potential to be just about the biggest bang-for-buck weapon we have against climate change in the next decade." Now we only need to get cars 'n' lorries etc, ships and aeroplanes to eat the stuff and it's job done. Obviously, coal and gas fired power stations are already changing their diet and farting and belching less methane already. The Great Barrier Reef is already de-bleaching and the Greenland icesheet has stopped melting.

jussij 6y ago
> The Great Barrier Reef is already de-bleaching How I wish this was the true picture, but unfortunately science paints a picture that is much worse: Apr 7, 2020 'The scale of bleaching is enormous during global bleaching events,' according to Professor Hughes, 'the situation brings me to despair.' The first recorded mass bleaching along the Reef struck in 1998, at the time the hottest year on record. Then again in 2002, 2016 and 2017, as more temperature records were broken. The latest follows February’s unusually hot summer–resulting in the highest ever sea surface temperatures recorded on the Reef since controls began in 1900. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarathiessen/2020/04/07/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-climate-change-tragedy/#33224c5e71b0 https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarathiessen/2020/04/07/great...
headmelted 6y ago
So your problem with what I said is that there’s clearly far more to it than cow farts so you feel like we therefore shouldn’t do anything at all. Or maybe I said “best bang-for-buck” and you heard “planes eat seaweed”.
phaemon 6y ago
The Greenland icesheet has not stopped melting. It's currently losing around 200 billion tons a year: https://files.springernature.com/getResource/Shepherd%2041586_2019_1855.pdf?token=IULUvIufpS8AXE43riPpExKrcZMUcwpHIO0w4yhOno61RnG9Vz6%2Fr7GCrI5AcBi92o1n3tikPjKFkiYotkHNpNM75Zwrwg1JnULfD6ql3lYljEP1PF4WzW2ap8pUu%2FshuCh%2FZ3DLB4IVSRfpmhKqINWdsJTc0VddwV6nVq%2BpLKuHlzENqSiEC0tJU0OqcZYl6R1Se4bGQnT7HNP7lnlhp40M0VnqSPp7kwO%2Fuk2bUqwOAP3bddKBqhSCxN7QEwlnHAim4TYcF0YU44MduELZZivHfYC7tCw%2Bi9xQ25zmUZW9NyEFwkrvJqu8DvhVa0dE https://files.springernature.com/getResource/Shepherd%204158...

jussij 6y ago

> The Great Barrier Reef is already de-bleaching How I wish this was the true picture, but unfortunately science paints a picture that is much worse: Apr 7, 2020 'The scale of bleaching is enormous during global bleaching events,' according to Professor Hughes, 'the situation brings me to despair.' The first recorded mass bleaching along the Reef struck in 1998, at the time the hottest year on record. Then again in 2002, 2016 and 2017, as more temperature records were broken. The latest follows February’s unusually hot summer–resulting in the highest ever sea surface temperatures recorded on the Reef since controls began in 1900. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarathiessen/2020/04/07/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-climate-change-tragedy/#33224c5e71b0 https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarathiessen/2020/04/07/great...

headmelted 6y ago

So your problem with what I said is that there’s clearly far more to it than cow farts so you feel like we therefore shouldn’t do anything at all. Or maybe I said “best bang-for-buck” and you heard “planes eat seaweed”.

phaemon 6y ago

The Greenland icesheet has not stopped melting. It's currently losing around 200 billion tons a year: https://files.springernature.com/getResource/Shepherd%2041586_2019_1855.pdf?token=IULUvIufpS8AXE43riPpExKrcZMUcwpHIO0w4yhOno61RnG9Vz6%2Fr7GCrI5AcBi92o1n3tikPjKFkiYotkHNpNM75Zwrwg1JnULfD6ql3lYljEP1PF4WzW2ap8pUu%2FshuCh%2FZ3DLB4IVSRfpmhKqINWdsJTc0VddwV6nVq%2BpLKuHlzENqSiEC0tJU0OqcZYl6R1Se4bGQnT7HNP7lnlhp40M0VnqSPp7kwO%2Fuk2bUqwOAP3bddKBqhSCxN7QEwlnHAim4TYcF0YU44MduELZZivHfYC7tCw%2Bi9xQ25zmUZW9NyEFwkrvJqu8DvhVa0dE https://files.springernature.com/getResource/Shepherd%204158...