ToJoh

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by ToJoh 5y ago
In this case, the egg is planet-sized. To make an omelette for celebrities and billionaries. Bargain!
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by ToJoh 5y ago
Yes, let's not miss the real problem with global heating and ecological destruction: all the annoying grandstanding. Ignore the doomsters and get on with cheering on another celebrity as they blast off into orbit!
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by ToJoh 5y ago
Bummer that it meant releasing a massive cloud of planet-heating greenhouse gas into the atmosphere of this little blue dot.
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by ToJoh 6y ago
Good point. I feel articles such as these might have a role on HN if they can lead to some clever people seeing some meaningful problems to work on.
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by ToJoh 6y ago
* CFCs are used in relatively few products. Greenhouse gasses are integral to how we get food, build, make gadgets, move around, and keep the lights on. * There is considerable cheating on CFCs in China (source: widely reported)
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by ToJoh 6y ago
If a third of the world becomes uninhabitable within the space of 3-4 decades, expect the remaining parts to also feel it.
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by ToJoh 6y ago
A couple of thoughts: * The models are continuously updated. Recent measurements of land surface temperatures and polar ice sheets have been tracking worst case scenarios, not the previous expected mean (see e.g. Arctic ice sheet melt-off i
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by ToJoh 6y ago
It is encouraging that this sort of article is upvoted on HN. Probably worth coming to terms with the fact that COVID19, GPT-3 and one's favourite flavour of Lisp maybe don't matter quite as much as the fact that much of the plane