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  1. Holy crap! My proof copy of #Arrhenius arrived 3 days earlier than I expected!

    It’s real! I can hold it! More importantly, I can thumb through it while gaming!

    How’s that for a #SelfPromoSaturday? 😁

  2. new track!

    more #arrhenius goodness, and this may be the last one before i bundle them up into an EP. this time, it's the Scab's time to be in the spotlight: on.soundcloud.com/VnSpWFQR7s2b

    #eurorack #synth

  3. guess what time it is? that's right, it's new track time.

    another ambient synth piece inspired by #arrhenius

    on.soundcloud.com/4hsMms8EWdH3

    #eurorack #synth

  4. more synth nonsense.. the experiment with distribution went well, so i'm now putting together an EP based on the #arrhenius #ttrpg

    the latest track: on.soundcloud.com/zBYfe4cvh3P5

    #synth #eurorack

  5. Svante Arrhenius, Swedish Nobel Laureate and physical chemistry pioneer known for work on the theory of electrolytic dissociation, activation energy, and a pioneering theory of global warming 🏅🔬🌍 was born #onthisday in 1859

    doi.org/10.1002/chemv.20230001

    #chemistry #chemistryviews #chemviews #historicchemist #arrhenius #physicalchem

  6. @empiricism Interesting essay.

    Small point: although #ExxonKnew and promoted 'unreasonable psychology', of course they weren't the first to understand the greenhouse effect: see eg #JohnTyndall and #EuniceFoote in the 1850s and Svante #Arrhenius's public talks in the 1890s.

    Agree we can collectively #StopBurningStuff. It requires not just technical solutions, eg #electrification and #heatpumps, but making sure human institutions do not undermine true sustainability.

  7. @BlumeEvolution Bereits 1906 prognostizierte #Arrhenius, dass die industrielle Freisetzung von co2 zwangsläufig zu einem Temperaturanstieg führen müsse. Nur interessierte das niemand...

  8. @jimstewartson Back in the days #eugenics thinking was very widespread among the intelligentsia. Like Svante #Arrhenius of greenhouse effect fame/notoriety (and much else!) also dabbled in it. People hadn't yet seen where the Nazis would take the idea, delegitimizing it forever.

  9. Arrhenius

    ▶️ newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11

    @elizkolbert

    "Our descendants would live happier lives “under a warmer sky.” The prospect was, in any event, distant; doubling atmospheric CO2 would, he reckoned, take humanity three thousand years.

    It’s easy now to poke fun at #Arrhenius. The doubling threshold could be reached within decades, and the results are apt to be disastrous. But who among us is any different? Here we all are, watching things fall apart. And yet, deep down, we don’t believe it."

  10. "Between 10,000 and 100,000 calculations later, #Arrhenius had rough, but useful, results - published in 1896. If CO2 levels halved, he concluded, the the Earth's surface temperature would fall by 4-5C. There was a flipside to his calculations: doubling CO2 levels would trigger a rise of 5-6C."
    - "The Father of Climate Change"
    theguardian.com/environment/20

    via
    Climate Technology Primer
    longitudinal.blog/co2-series-p

    "CO2-driven warming arguably discovered 1856 by Eunice Foote"

    via baez

    #climatechange