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Doug_Bostrom

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1958 model and another of many beneficiaries of our temporarily oblivious enjoyment of fossil fuels. Having accidentally borrowed heavily from the future due to our lack of circumspection, I'm now focused on trying to pay back my debt.

One must choose where to focus effort. My area of concentration is that of helping to improve public understanding of anthropogenic climate change with an emphasis on correcting synthetic ignorance, via https://skepticalscience.com.

Apparent genotype he/him.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

DemocracyMattersALot , to random
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Judge Cannon's secret right-wing getaway: Why didn't we know about this?

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/07/cannons-secret-right-wing-getaway-why-didnt-we-know-about-this/

Doug_Bostrom ,
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@DemocracyMattersALot

"Wouldn’t you love to see the thank-you notes Cannon sent to Leonard Leo and his pals? I would. But until NPR called up Judge Cannon and asked her about her journeys out to the Montana luxury resort, nobody knew a thing about who had tried to curry favor with her. That was when she hurriedly filled out the forms..."

Nailed, fair and square.

Does anybody believe Cannon is not discussing this case with wild ex parte, listening to suggestions?

Call me crazy but I don't.

CelloMomOnCars , to random
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Expecting the Unexpected Could Help Us Prepare for Climate Extremes

"A new paper argues that too little consideration of high-impact, low-likelihood events has left us unprepared for the worst of ."

https://eos.org/research-spotlights/expecting-the-unexpected-could-help-us-prepare-for-climate-extremes

In other words, it's time to be hunting for a : an event that is extremely unlikely, and if it does occur, extremely devastating. Here is an opportunity for compulsive pessimists to potentially save lives.

Doug_Bostrom ,
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@CelloMomOnCars

A terrific suggestion for evolution of the IPCC. Eye-catching; it's in this week's @SkepticalScience highlights.

summary is great but the perspective itself is very accessible to a layperson.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023EF004297

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If your circumstances are sufficiently fortunate as to find you shopping for a new automobile and you're not a believer in "free lunch," mysteriously low cost, look for a sticker along the lines of this.

The path for finding an that is is fairly narrow but still amenable to success.

What's truly important? How about a roof, food, clothing and something left over for enjoying family life?

Organized labor working in concert with organized management: how we thrive.

Doug_Bostrom , to random
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If ever tempted by the siren song of privatization, magical efficiency elves etc., just remember this.

"South West Water increased its annual dividend to investors to £127m in May. In the same month, 17,000 of its customers had to boil water due to contamination with the cryptosporidium parasite, which results from faecal pollution of water supplies."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/08/south-west-water-seizes-stake-in-devon-sewage-protester-home-withheld-payments

GottaLaff , to random
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Greg Sargent 🧵 1/…

Media coverage of Republicans stampeding to NYC to attack Trump's trial as illegit is marred by euphemism. This isn't just "currying favor" w Trump or "expressing loyalty" or auditioning to be his VP. It's placing Trump over rule of law

Rs are attacking judge, witnesses, prosecutors & trial as illegitimate. This isn't just helping Trump evade the gag order. The point is also to display in spectacle form that their fealty is to him over the rules that make the system function

Doug_Bostrom ,
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@Lightfighter @lednaBM @Fenix @GottaLaff

And yet.

Paraphrasing Bette Midler, "we want it all and we would like it delivered."

As Midler implied, that's unfortunately not how the real world works.

Choose between worse and better. It's always possible.

https://wapo.st/3yqfNlB

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"In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today [04/09/2024] that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change."

Implications thereof queued for discussion. Should be quite interesting.


https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2024/04/09/the-transformation-of-european-climate-change-litigation-introduction-to-the-blog-symposium/

futurebird , to random
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I've been reading up on Prenolepis imparis, the "winter ant" which is the species of the queen I caught yesterday. Many antkeepers have their queen die early in founding. Suspected issue is heat. Winter ants are active in winter, sometimes in remarkably cold temps. They go deep in the earth for the summer to raise their eggs.

So, I'm thinking about putting the queen in the wine fridge to simulate a deep cool chamber under Park Ave.

Did she grow up in the rail road depot down there?

Doug_Bostrom ,
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@futurebird

"Really we don't know just how deep these ants can go."

A sentence perfectly suited for a screenplay for a movie about an invasion of giant ants harboring pent-up animosity toward insecticide-wielding humans. :-)

breadandcircuses , to random
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If you'd like to take a deeper dive into that conflict between mainstream scientists aligned with the conservative IPCC, and other researchers who say climate change is accelerating, I'll recommend a 2023 Scientific American article which provides a thorough review of the situation, along with a couple of my previous posts on the same topic...

SciAm article -- https://archive.is/wao2d

Previous post 1 -- https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/111562144915686983

Previous post 2 -- https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/111562288341069556

Doug_Bostrom ,
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@largess @breadandcircuses

It does seem as though we're beginnning to see a solid trend of empirical evidence suggesting "faster than we thought."

And we know that model projections tend to smooth off rough edges aka "extreme events."

So it seems arguable we have cause to recalibrate, swap the roles of "conservative" vs. "far-fetched."

2023-now as example. If ten years ago somebody had suggested we'd be seeing ocean temperature graphs as they've unfolded over the past year? Today?

Doug_Bostrom ,
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@breadandcircuses @Nazani @largess

Eerie serendipity:

"Analyzing climate and Earth system model simulations of the future, we find that the extreme SST in the North Atlantic and the extreme in Southern Ocean sea ice extent in 2023 lie at the fringe of the expected mean climate change for a global surface-air temperature warming level (GWL) of 1.5°C, and closer to the average at a 3.0°C GWL."

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/105/3/BAMS-D-23-0209.1.xml

Doug_Bostrom , to random
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@futurebird


http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00442-024-05513-2

futurebird , to random
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After cleaning the outworld of my most messy ants Camponotus nicoborensis, I washed their nasty sand and gave it back to them in a big pile not expecting much. But look at the lovely sandcastles they have made! I’m so proud of them.

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@futurebird @mentallyalex

Immediately leads me to wonder if they up stakes and move when disposal becomes full?

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