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by montalbano 4y ago
Three key quotes from the article: - In India, the top-producing country, heavy rains and pests have cut into cotton crops so much that the nation is importing supplies. - In the US, the largest exporter of the commodity, a worsening dro
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The World’s Cotton Supply Keeps Shrinking, Hit by Drought, Heat(bloomberg.com)
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Climate Action to Spur Australian Green Bonds to Record Year(bloomberg.com)
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Why Dutch farmers are protesting over emissions cuts(bbc.co.uk)
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Floating ‘artificial leaves’ ride the wave of clean fuel production(cam.ac.uk)
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Iron Harvest(en.wikipedia.org)
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by montalbano 4y ago
Do you have some references on this? I would probably agree if you are referring to USA. But I would be skeptical that the same is true in the UK.
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It’s Time to Invest in Climate Adaptation(hbr.org)
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by montalbano 4y ago
There might be some studies on corn available, although it's not explicitly mentioned in the article. From the article: Researchers are experimenting with which plants do best under solar panels and even trying to grow tomatoes and po
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by montalbano 4y ago
To add, rail and roads are tricky because they are long and _continuous_ pretty much by definition. Solar and wind can be much more opportunistic in using small packets of land.
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Highlights from 6th National Climate Risk Assessment: Hazardous Heat(firststreet.org)
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Europe’s rivers run dry as scientists warn drought could be worst in 500 years(theguardian.com)
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Record Death Valley flooding ‘a once-in-1000-year event’(theguardian.com)
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Mass crop failures expected in England as farmers demand hosepipe bans(theguardian.com)
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by montalbano 4y ago
Blind spots increase with truck height. google has many studies and articles on the dangers of this but a link to get you started https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/the-hidden-danger...
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by montalbano 4y ago
Surely seeing photographic identification would be a better way of detecting fraud than seeing someone's room?
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Europe’s worst ever drought: in pictures(theguardian.com)
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The Englishman prepping for climate apocalypse in an old German barracks(theguardian.com)
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Source of River Thames dries out ‘for first time’ during drought(theguardian.com)
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Revealed: How climate breakdown is supercharging toll of extreme weather(theguardian.com)
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Mapping the Coolest Spots Inside the World’s Sweltering Cities(bloomberg.com)
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by montalbano 4y ago
Covid models underestimated the number of cases, just as climate models did not largely predict such extreme heat this soon. If you choose to be skeptical of models on these two topics, it seems safer to assume they are underestimating the
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Killing Camels Could Cut Australia's Greenhouse Gases, Study Says (2011)(npr.org)
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Blooming Essex garden points to future of horticulture in a heating UK(theguardian.com)
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Climate breakdown made UK heatwave 10 times more likely, study finds(theguardian.com)
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I didn't say 'encourage' it. In my opinion, it's just uninteresting. journalists make bad figurative word choices in technical articles every day. Lots of repetitive HN comments labouring the fact make for much less inte
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by montalbano 4y ago
Before technically correct comments attack the use of the word 'melting' here, as in the runway threads, please give the journalist a bit of slack here for using it in the title. The key part about this is the consistent theme of
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by montalbano 4y ago
its about temperature difference relative to geographic norms. this is the hottest recorded temperature in UK history.
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by montalbano 4y ago
Not strictly climate change, but realted to it: Sustainable energy without the hot air is great, freely available. But the numbers used for estimates are out of date. I think there was an effort to update it but I can't remember who
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Nuclear fusion investment hits £2.5bn in race for breakthrough(telegraph.co.uk)
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