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#climagechange — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #climagechange, aggregated by home.social.

  1. “The #environment is very cluttered already. Satellites are constantly dodging right and left. As long as we are emitting greenhouse gases, we are increasing the probability that we see more collision events between objects in #space.” texasobserver.org/earth-orbit-

    #ClimageChange #politics #USpol #news #tech

  2. Earlier: “We have to develop 10 to 12 million acre-feet [of new #water supply] in the next 30, 40 years. And that’s not any small task. … It’s multiple decades, billions of dollars. So it only makes sense to treat the water supply needs just like we treat state highways.” texasobserver.org/texas-legisl

    #politics #USpol #environment #ClimageChange #news #infrastructure #Texas #TXlege

  3. “We have to develop 10 to 12 million acre-feet [of new #water supply] in the next 30, 40 years. And that’s not any small task. … It’s multiple decades, billions of dollars.” texasobserver.org/texas-legisl

    #politics #USpol #news #environment #ClimageChange #TXlege #Texas

  4. "Trees and land absorbed almost no CO₂ last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?"
    theguardian.com/environment/20

    PS: Here's a parochial take on this global news. I live in rural #Maine where most of us heat our homes in winter with wood stoves. We thought wood burning was carbon neutral — that CO₂ emitted by burning was roughly offset by CO₂ captured by still-growing forests. It looks like that theory, at best, is no longer true. Time to spread the word.

    #Climate #ClimageChange

  5. If your #climagechange solution involves #capitalism, then you don’t have a climate change solution.

  6. #Batteries #Lithium #Sodium #Iron #Redux #ClimageChange #GlobalWarming

    I'd like to have solar, but I'm waiting for an affordable off-grid solar / battery system

    read this article to find out how that's going to become possible

    climate.benjames.io/batteries/

  7. There’s a lot more close calls that happen as the heat goes up. Sometimes physical fights do occur. For every one fight, there’s 10 almost-fights.”

    Previously: High temperatures and scarce air conditioning cause tempers to flare for prisoners and guards alike. texasobserver.org/when-summer-

    #prison #HeatWave #summer #ClimageChange #environment #CriminalJustice #news #HumanRights

  8. "Don't tow us just because we double-parked. If we parked normally, someone might damage our huge pickup truck."

    and

    "Indigenous people shouldn't interfere with building this pipeline just because it threatens their land and way of life."

    Is a rule oppressive? Many decide based on whether it affects them or others.

    It's a very human kind of bias, and I need to watch myself, not just the folks that piss me off.

    #Entitlement #ClimageChange #IndigenousRights #CognitiveBias #Hypocrisy

  9. @Strombo yeah, i was driving at just before six and apparently a tidal wave came from the sky? fast wipers unable to make a dent, very impressive. for... 10 minutes?

    #weather #climageChange #weirdness

  10. More older adults will be at risk of heat stress as global temperatures reach remarkable new highs every summer. And even just from being stuck inside, they may also suffer emotionally or mentally

    theconversation.com/heat-waves
    #climagechange

  11. Apr 3

    @academicchatter

    7 min video

    Academics know there's something wrong with mainstream economics, yet it's given authoritative influence on climate|economic policy and it continues to monopolize research funding.

    Academics need to bring this field to account. Here's a proposal to do just that. It's time to take a hard look at their methods.

    Please BOOST this one and share the video. Talk about it with your colleagues.

    🧵

    youtu.be/fwqQDVSLylg

    #climagechange #economics #SteveKeen

  12. #CloudComputing #CarbonFootprint #Environment #Ecology #ClimageChange #Energy: "As a result, the Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours (TWh) annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states. Today, the electricity utilized by data centers accounts for 0.3 percent of overall carbon emissions, and if we extend our accounting to include networked devices like laptops, smartphones, and tablets, the total shifts to 2 percent of global carbon emissions.

    Why so much energy? Beyond cooling, the energy requirements of data centers are vast. To meet the pledge to customers that their data and cloud services will be available anytime, anywhere, data centers are designed to be hyper-redundant: If one system fails, another is ready to take its place at a moment’s notice, to prevent a disruption in user experiences. Like Tom’s air conditioners idling in a low-power state, ready to rev up when things get too hot, the data center is a Russian doll of redundancies: redundant power systems like diesel generators, redundant servers ready to take over computational processes should others become unexpectedly unavailable, and so forth. In some cases, only 6 to 12 percent of energy consumed is devoted to active computational processes. The remainder is allocated to cooling and maintaining chains upon chains of redundant fail-safes to prevent costly downtime."

    thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the

  13. dec 18

    12 min video

    Wanna save the planet? Change your town's zoning laws. Yes, really. They matter immensely.

    Best of all, none of us have to be a billionaire oil baron to do so. In fact, they might get pissed off. I consider this a perk.

    :ablobcathappypaws:

    youtu.be/DShceqqNlQo

    #climagechange #urbanPlanning #urbanDesign #economy #economics

  14. It's been a while since I did an #Introductions #Connections #Introduction #TwitterMigration post, where I curate a list of interesting people in the #Fediverse :fediverse: you might want to follow - helping us create valuable communities and connections.

    @nrennie is a #lecturer #researcher in #health #DataScience at #LancasterUniversity, and she does amazing work in #DataViz, primarily with #RStats

    @mkohler is a #SoftwareEngineer and #EngineeringManager, and a long-time contributor to all things @mozilla, and in particular, the #CommonVoice project

    @isomeme is a #SoftwareEngineer too and she practices Hermetic #Magick

    @skc is Scott Kingsley Clark, who is also a #SoftwareEngineer and Lead Dev of the #Pods framework for #WordPress

    @aehdeschaine is interested in #libraries #archives #architecture and #PaleoGeography

    @hclarke is a Senior #Research Fellow at #UniMelb. He researches #WildFire and #ClimageChange 🔥 🌲

    @blogdiva is Liza, and she, well she's generally awesome and shares my views on Space Karen / ApartheidBoi 🇵🇷