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Isotope #geochemist. Climate scientist. Man of precision, but who knows when to sacrifice precision for accuracy. Studying past records of #climate and #carbon cycling since 1999. Frustrated that our scientifically advanced society seems impervious to advice from #science.

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esther , to random
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The sheer friction you encounter when trying to explain something that doesn’t rely on capitalist motives to someone who assumes that everything must be a business.

It really has become difficult for many people to even think outside of the confines of capitalism.

Brad_Rosenheim ,
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@esther Talk to anyone working at an American or.British (maybe more?) university, a service to the people, and you will hear maddening tales of how running the university like a business is killing the university. Unless said person is an MBA business type who is implementing cost-cutting synergies to leverage the branding of the university to elevate its reputation in its sector. 🤦‍♂️

hannu_ikonen , to random
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I used to think being a doctor meant something, before the preference for Ableism & Normalcy bias (or ignorance) was confirmed & laid bare since 2020.

It still should mean something, but until such time, patient & disability advocates like Hannah Davis are the sole voices of reason in 2024.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/hannah-davis-a-360-on-long-covid

Brad_Rosenheim ,
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@hannu_ikonen My son just contracted COVID, tested positive on Thursday. I called the pediatrician on Monday for a doctor's note for school and they said he had to come into the office. I thought that was ridiculous, but wait. They told us to wait in the car until a room was ready. When we went in, no one up front was masked and the nurse had a mask under the nose. The doctor came in and then put on a mask. She counted the days since the test and said he is good to go back to school. No one cares about COVID anymore and you don't need to test him again unless you feel some sort of obligation to your community, she said.

Today he has a previously scheduled dentist appointment. I called to cancel yesterday, and they said as long as the doctor (who doesn't care about COVID) is OK with it, he can come in.

This is why we will have continued waves of death and disability.

Brad_Rosenheim ,
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@DogButlerPoet @hannu_ikonen My jaw dropped. It is a doctor we liked. I had a retort that I won't share here now. But I do think I reached her at least momentarily.

ariadne , to random
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An "oldie" (2019 paper) but a real baddie - the danger of , particularly clouds in the , disappearing (!), is real, and really frightening. According to the most accurate (and afaik only) modeling done about this, if reaches 1200 ppm - which it is predicted to do by mainstream models in 100 years - a will be crossed, stratocumulus clouds will disappear, and average will rise by 10C in the subtropics and 8C in the . In other words, , as a livable planet for most species. will be done and dusted.

Here is a link to the original journal article in Nature Geoscience, "Possible transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under ", 25 Feb 2019, by T. Schneider, C.M. Kaul, and K.G. Pressel https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0310-1

Here is a non-paywall, pdf download link to the article - https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1038/s41561-019-0310-1

And here is a great article about this by Natalie Wolchover in Quanta Magazine - "A World Without Clouds" - https://www.quantamagazine.org/cloud-loss-could-add-8-degrees-to-global-warming-20190225/

Brad_Rosenheim ,
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@ariadne The most shocking part of your post is that you consider 2019 an old paper!

I am dubious about cloud models and climate models with clouds. But I think the important take-home of this article is that there are plausible physics which suggests stratocumulus can disappear, rather than the CO2 concentration at which it would happen. And the uncertainty of the concentration level coupled with the physics of cloud formation stopping should be more pressing to us. What if the practical limit is 500 ppm rather than 1200? Is society preparing for that?

breadandcircuses , to random
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Okay, so we've chosen . Now let's try to imagine what our daily lives might be like in this strange (yet somehow familiar) new world...

This is what fancy terms like “degrowth” and “sustainable living” actually mean. They mean we consume less energy and buy less stuff. It is the world our grandmothers knew.

It means that you fix the umbrella you broke, you sew your t-shirt with a needle and a thread when it gets torn, and certainly you don’t throw it away and buy another one when it gets out of fashion. Perhaps you first wear it for going out, then you wear it at home, and lastly, you use it to dust the bookshelves.

It means you grow your own food (if you have land) and cook from scratch. You save meat for special occasions. If you buy food at a market, it doesn’t come in colorful plastic bags, but the clerk will wrap it for you into an old newspaper or something. Or she’ll ask you to bring your Tupperware and glass jars next time. And if you actually do buy something wrapped in plastic or aluminum foil, you will definitely save that for later re-use. Just like your grandma did.

You don’t travel as much, mostly you just stay home because there is lots of stuff to do (remember: gardening, sewing, and repairs). You don’t replace your phone every year, not even every two years, but you keep it as long as it works. And work it should for a long time because, again, no planned obsolescence.

It is a life of fewer changes and a much calmer pace. Less hustle, fewer toys, but more time to read books and listen to each other.

It is not such a grim lifestyle. Most people enjoyed the 1960s (or perhaps the 1970s in Europe; we were lagging behind because we had to rebuild our cities after they were bombed to the ground in WWII). It was a time that already had all the perks of modernity but none of the pathological perversions of capitalism.

People could enjoy a well-developed medical service, abundant food supply, relatively cheap travel, and lots of opportunities for self-development. Most of them were no longer forced to be farmers (by harsh conditions) but could pursue other interests if they fancied them. In a sense, it was the best of both worlds. It wasn’t a bad life at all!

FULL ARTICLE -- https://archive.is/c8z2v
ALTERNATE LINK -- https://medium.com/my-unpopular-opinion/what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-climate-change-df9e54af4088

Brad_Rosenheim ,
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@breadandcircuses I think about this a lot, and your portrayal is accurate. In representative democracies, though, how would a candidate convince voters that this is a good idea against other candidates who are funded by the fruits of our suffering through the perversions of capitalism? It will be difficult to preemptively. But we may end up there anyway as a result of climate change anyway.

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