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[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Whaling logs: How centuries-old whaling logs are filling gaps in our climate knowledge | Grist

More impressive, winery grape harvest dates: CP - The longest homogeneous series of grape harvest dates, Beaune 1354–2018, and its significance for the understanding of past and present climate

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The screen on that video alone is somewhat misleading: the technology exists, and works. The problem is that this approach scales badly in terms of power requirements and economic viability. This is why it is not real - not because it does not work, but because of its implications if we would install such plants all over the globe, as is correctly pointed out in the video.

There are studies around how many carbon suction plants we would need to build in order to mitigate climate change. It would be around 30,000 plants, meaning 3 for every coal based power plant on the planet. If the building of one Direct Air Capturing plant would be around 500 million US$, this means it would cost roughly around 15 trillion US$ to build this amount.

This is just building, not operations. For operations also power consumption would increase the costs of building this because tons of new electric power plants would be necessary, as well cost for chemical supplies to run these. And of course in the end we would need lots of space to store the captured CO2 permanently somewhere.

The device that reverses CO2 emissions

Cooling the planet by filtering excess carbon dioxide out of the air on an industrial scale would require a new, massive global industry – what would it need to work?

www.bbc.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

The screen on that video alone is somewhat misleading: the technology exists, and works.

It's only misleading if you take it at its most literal meaning. And the video clearly explained that the technology exists, but the premise is badly flawed. Not only for all the reasons you outlined, but because you end up with MORE carbon in the air (or at very best carbon neutral) due to the energy demands.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

It's only misleading if you take it at its most literal meaning. And the video clearly explained that the technology exists, but the premise is badly flawed. Not only for all the reasons you outlined, but because you end up with MORE carbon in the air (or at very best carbon neutral) due to the energy demands.

To quote myself: "This is why it is not real - not because it does not work, but because of its implications if we would install such plants all over the globe, as is correctly pointed out in the video."

 

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To see climate risks your home faces, check out two new tools

They show flood, fire, and extreme weather threats in the US.

www.theverge.com

 

[Govi]

Everything Ready, Nothing Works

 

[Beebo Brink]

Scientists Are Uncovering Ominous Waters Under Antarctic Ice

A super-pressurized, 290-mile-long river is running under the ice sheet. That could be bad news for sea-level rise.

www.wired.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

So, it's full speed ahead into the wall.

Oil and gas firms planning ‘frightening’ fossil fuels growth, report finds | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

[Chalice Yao]

So, it's full speed ahead into the wall.

Pretty much.
I've given up on the world avoiding catastrophe (for us). Too little, too late, money still makes everything go 'round as usual. The measures getting put into effect are more feel-good and oh so cautious more than anything, and the rich are stuffing themselves with more of their profits - after all, why shouldn't they? Those profits will make them be the ones best suited to avoid the climate outcomes, while the rest suffers.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Pretty much.
I've given up on the world avoiding catastrophe (for us). Too little, too late, money still makes everything go 'round as usual. The measures getting put into effect are more feel-good and oh so cautious more than anything, and the rich are stuffing themselves with more of their profits - after all, why shouldn't they? Those profits will make them be the ones best suited to avoid the climate outcomes, while the rest suffers.

At this point I'm doing my best to approach it all as an anthropologist viewing the behavior of a curious creature.

 

[Beebo Brink]

The Great Salt Lake’s ecological collapse has begun

Editor’s note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about the plight of the Great Salt Lake — and what can be done to make a difference before it is too...

www.standard.net

As the Great Salt Lake continues to shrink to unprecedented levels, a key component of its landscape and food web is missing.

The lake is known for thick, black clusters of brine flies by the billions, which pupate in its salty water then gather in dense mats to reproduce on shore. The insectile masses occasionally gross out beachgoers, but the bugs are harmless to humans. Crucially, they provide a nutrient-rich feast for millions of migrating birds. This year, however, the fly swarms are gone. And something’s off about the few bugs that remain.

Scientists say it’s a sign the lake’s ecological demise is here.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Our Family Faces Many Challenges Inside This Closed Garage – Weekly Humorist

weeklyhumorist.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[WolfEyes]

Pretty much.
I've given up on the world avoiding catastrophe (for us). Too little, too late, money still makes everything go 'round as usual. The measures getting put into effect are more feel-good and oh so cautious more than anything, and the rich are stuffing themselves with more of their profits - after all, why shouldn't they? Those profits will make them be the ones best suited to avoid the climate outcomes, while the rest suffers.

They might have convinced themselves of that but that isn't how it's going to happen. Money isn't going to keep them safe. Nothing will.

 

[WolfEyes]

The biggest oil spill in the history of the Keystone pipeline is dumping more than a half million gallons of crude into a creek in Kansas (msn.com)

An oil spill in a creek in northeastern Kansas this week is the largest for an onshore crude pipeline in more than nine years and by far the biggest in the history of the Keystone pipeline, according to federal data.

 

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[GoblinCampFollower]

I heard about this. It's GREAT news but I'll hold my celebrations until it's commercially viable.... I suspect all those lasers and magnetic fields are expensive enough so that is still a long way off.

 

[Soen Eber]

I heard about this. It's GREAT news but I'll hold my celebrations until it's commercially viable.... I suspect all those lasers and magnetic fields are expensive enough so that is still a long way off.

No in-deoth knowledge on how this works or how it's progressing, but I'm guessing that any fusion power for the next decade at least will be operating for seconds if not fractions of a second, and will run sporadically every few weeks or so at least at the start, and then maybe for seconds or low minutes.

We're having trouble enough storing solar and wind, how're we going to store terrawatts of fusion that are only available for a couple of seconds per month?

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

We're having trouble enough storing solar and wind, how're we going to store terrawatts of fusion?

TERRAWATTS of it are a long way off... and it can run all night unlike solar, and doesn't depend on the weather...