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by kaybe 5y ago
No, let's please not stop! Have a look at this plot: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/FigSPM-10.jp... And then consider that the x-axis does not cover the full carbon available a
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by kaybe 5y ago
Global warming is not binary. We still get to choose the degree of chaos. The last-ditch effort of carbon capture is still a possibility. And a lot of work in preparation remains as well. The more resilient we can become the less suffering
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by kaybe 5y ago
This is an interesting paper in this regard: Bastin et al, Understanding climate change from a global analysis of city analogues: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... "Even under an
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by kaybe 5y ago
To be honest, at this point I'm in favour of attacks on all health services all the time, to drive home the point that acceptable long-term data protection in this kind of infrastructure doesn't exist and that all data will be sto
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by kaybe 5y ago
> instead of the government serving as a middleman for charities and making political decisions on who-gets-what, it allows the citizens to more freely support the charities they like directly. In this case it would make sense to make th
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by kaybe 5y ago
Until the payment actually leads to the carbon being captured and stored again (or the kerosine is from renewable sources) nothing much is won.
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by kaybe 5y ago
I'm a big fan of thermal mass. This is probably climate-related - when there is a big difference between day- and nighttime temperatures it is very comfortable.
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by kaybe 5y ago
I suppose the way old European cities are constructed, with a lot of smaller houses right next to each other and narrow roads, also makes them a much larger fire hazard when made of wood compared to the spaced-out suburban way of building.
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by kaybe 5y ago
Again, thanks for answering! :)
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by kaybe 5y ago
I told him we didn't have a computer. That didn't register at all, he still tried to get me to install something, somehow, despite my insistence.
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by kaybe 5y ago
I have to say, as a kid, all these games and movies were much more harmless than the news. The news had actual blood on the streets, from real people who had actually died there, real violence, real panic, real bombs and real war. If you
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by kaybe 5y ago
Thank you for the long explanation! So I gather you reduced sugar and increased vegetable intake?
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by kaybe 5y ago
Can you elaborate on what you experienced?
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by kaybe 5y ago
Curbside parking in city centers should go away. So much space is given to those tons of metal blocking the sidewalk and the streets, taking freedom to move from pedestrians, cyclists and also moving cars. Underground parking and parking fu
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by kaybe 5y ago
'Anklingeln' in Germany. Mobile credit on pocket money was expensive..
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by kaybe 5y ago
I really wonder what they think of me shooing them from the nests of smaller birds in the garden. (A futile endeavor, I fear, since I cannot be there all day.) It probably destroys all chances of having a good relationship.. too bad.
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by kaybe 6y ago
I could see the physics department doing this, if it wasn't that expensive. They used to have cocktails with dry ice in them - not sure how legal that is, but it's great fun. If you breathe in the vapour you can taste the drink qu
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by kaybe 6y ago
The idea is to assume we have an unbroken record of genealogy in the bible and add up all the lifetimes of people mentioned, which gives the ~6000 years. [0] I'm not sure whether there is any basis for this assumption in the text thoug
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by kaybe 6y ago
A small addition: Here is the link to the wikipedia article that also tells you about their hotel and airline business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Group (Cue jokes about earth (they have trucks) and water
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by kaybe 6y ago
It could be interesting though, if one added a few smaller instruments. CO2 and SO2 sensors, temperature, humidity and more.. do it frequently enough, calibrate well throughout, keep good records and the scientific community would definitel
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by kaybe 6y ago
Ah, guess who makes the rules about how close you may be to an active volcano? It's usually the corresponding observatory, and they are valid for the public, not for the scientists. And then, safe just means nobody gets hurt. The volca
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by kaybe 6y ago
It's fine when you know your volcano. Not all of them are the exploding kind. (Especially Hawaiian and the Icelandic volcanoes are usually not that bad (unless the eruption is below a glacier, that's quite explosive).)
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by kaybe 6y ago
Ahahahaa... try to get funding for that.. - sigh - If you're trying to protect a city from an ongoing eruption you might have a chance. So, the $1k toy is actually being trialed around the world, just with more complex instrumentation.
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by kaybe 6y ago
You might be able to get the city to add some metal to shade the light coming into your room. I don't know about the US, but here in Germany it took me one call to the city office and two weeks of waiting.
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by kaybe 6y ago
One of the best arguments for allowing abortion is that we do not force anyone to risk their integrity and life for another person, which is what pregnancy is. This argument won't work anymore.
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by kaybe 6y ago
You still have time. sigh
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Nature Future – Science Fiction Stories(nature.com)
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by kaybe 6y ago
Is this in the US?
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by kaybe 6y ago
I wonder if there is some kind of predictor for whether it'll work for someone? (Like skincolour for the sun exposure issue.)
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by kaybe 6y ago
I'm also thinking of the highly diffusive radioactive tritium gas which is a PITA to contain and work with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium

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