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#Hanfgeschichten #Augenblicke 🌱 #Cannabis #Klimakatastrophe #EFunktion #ZunehmendwenigerZeit #Kipppunkte sind mehrheitlich überschritten. #Dominoeffekte treten ein. Es beschleunigt sich zunehmend. Menschliche #Wahrnehmung unzuverlässig.

https://mastodon.social/@Karl_Theodor/114001463185875273

#Systemträgheit #Verdrängung #kognitiveDissonanz #dontlookup #savePlanetA #thereisNOPlanetB #tutmirleid #Future #noFUTUREforYOU #Kinder #Enkel #Neugeborene #keineChancemehr #tippingpoint #gameover #Angst #Realitätsflucht #Verweigerung

#Hanfgeschichten #Augenblicke 🌱 #Cannabis #Klimakatastrophe #EFunktion #ZunehmendwenigerZeit #Kipppunkte sind mehrheitlich überschritten. #Dominoeffekte treten ein. Es beschleunigt sich zunehmend. Menschliche #Wahrnehmung unzuverlässig.

https://mastodon.social/@Karl_Theodor/114001463185875273

#Systemträgheit #Verdrängung #kognitiveDissonanz #dontlookup #savePlanetA #thereisNOPlanetB #tutmirleid #Future #noFUTUREforYOU #Kinder #Enkel #Neugeborene #keineChancemehr #tippingpoint #gameover #Angst #Realitätsflucht #Verweigerung

Day 45: I only know their names, Dina and Rizki, and that today is supposed to be the happiest day in their lives. Their wedding takes place under a tent that is crowded with relatives and friends. Their silky clothes are luxurious, and every embroidery seems to have been crafted by an expert hand. The bride is crowned with fake jewels. Perhaps this dress has been passed down from generation to generation. Dina's smile is too static to be authentic. Rizki, instead, seems to be thoroughly enjoying the day. Her parents sit in a semi-circle opposite her. This is probably the moment in which they are “handing” the girl over to the groom’s family. You could exchange what goes on under the tent for a wedding in Dubai. Outside the tent, life goes on as normal in this coastal district, among the rubble, the dirt road, the house foundations eroded by the rising seas, and the wooden roofs collapsing under the power of typhoons.
Maybe this tent is a metaphor of global warming. We live in a bubble where everything seems joyful and luxurious, but reality bites outside. The brides can hardly pronounce my name, but they share their food with me as if I were a member of their family. My van to Yogjakarta departs soon, so I leave the gathering well before the wedding is over. I leave under the illusion their future will be bright... 65/

#RefuseToFly #slowtravel #Semarang #Indonesia #JavaIsland #JavaneseWedding #coasters #SeaLevelRise #LandSubsidence #ClimateBreakdown #DontLookUp

#Hanfgeschichten #Augenblicke 🌱 #Cannabis #Klimakatastrophe #EFunktion #ZunehmendwenigerZeit #Kipppunkte sind mehrheitlich überschritten. #Dominoeffekte treten ein. Es beschleunigt sich zunehmend. Menschliche #Wahrnehmung unzuverlässig.

https://mastodon.social/@Karl_Theodor/114001463185875273

#Systemträgheit #Verdrängung #kognitiveDissonanz #dontlookup #savePlanetA #thereisNOPlanetB #tutmirleid #Future #noFUTUREforYOU #Kinder #Enkel #Neugeborene #keineChancemehr #tippingpoint #gameover #Angst #Realitätsflucht #Verweigerung

jestem optymistą, uda się szybciej! #satyra #demografia #kryzys #wymieranie #dinozaury #don'tlookup #niepatrzwgórę #spadającagwiazda

Publics and UK parliamentarians underestimate the urgency of peaking global greenhouse gas emissions
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02655-w

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCrisisIsNow #DontLookUp

Giant wall of dust surges through Phoenix, leaving thousands without power
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/phoenix-arizona-dust-storm-haboob-b2814007.html
The dust storm, known as a haboob, delayed flights at the city’s airport.

But, hey, Climate Change is a hoax right...?

#DontLookUp #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCrisisIsNow #ClimateCrisisIsReal

#US #OilCompany #ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ #ClimateProposals

Motion by #FollowThis called on #EnergyFirm to accelerate attempts to cut #GreenhouseGasEmissions
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/22/us-oil-company-exxonmobil-investors-climate-follow-this
#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #DontLookUp #Esso

#US #OilCompany #ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ #ClimateProposals

Motion by #FollowThis called on #EnergyFirm to accelerate attempts to cut #GreenhouseGasEmissions
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/22/us-oil-company-exxonmobil-investors-climate-follow-this
#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #DontLookUp #Esso

#US #OilCompany #ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ #ClimateProposals

Motion by #FollowThis called on #EnergyFirm to accelerate attempts to cut #GreenhouseGasEmissions
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/22/us-oil-company-exxonmobil-investors-climate-follow-this
#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #DontLookUp #Esso

#US #OilCompany #ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ #ClimateProposals

Motion by #FollowThis called on #EnergyFirm to accelerate attempts to cut #GreenhouseGasEmissions
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/22/us-oil-company-exxonmobil-investors-climate-follow-this
#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #DontLookUp #Esso

#US #OilCompany #ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ #ClimateProposals

Motion by #FollowThis called on #EnergyFirm to accelerate attempts to cut #GreenhouseGasEmissions
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/22/us-oil-company-exxonmobil-investors-climate-follow-this
#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #DontLookUp #Esso

What #astronomers learned from a near-Earth asteroid they never saw coming

No one spotted space rock 2023 NT1 until two days after it missed us.

By Briley Lewis | Published Nov 1, 2023

"In the summer, astronomers spotted an airplane-sized asteroid—large enough to potentially destroy a city—on an almost-collision course with Earth. But no one saw the space rock until two days after it had zoomed past our planet.

"This asteroid, named 2023 NT1, passed by us at only one-fourth of the distance from Earth to the moon. That’s far too close for comfort. Astronomers weren’t going to let this incident go without a post-mortem. They’ve recently dissected what went wrong and how we can better prepare to defend our planet from future impacts, in a new paper recently posted to the preprint server arXiv.

"We know from history that asteroids can cause world-shattering events and extinctions—just look at what happened to the dinosaurs. The study team estimated that, if NT1 hit Earth, it could have the energy of anywhere from 4 to 80 intercontinental ballistic missiles. '2023 NT1 would have been much worse than the Chelyabinsk airburst,' says University of California, Santa Barbara astronomer Philip Lubin, a co-author on the new work, referring to the meteor that exploded over a Russian city in 2013. As devastating as that would be, it’s 'not an existential threat like the 10-kilometer hit that killed our previous tenants,' he adds.

"The asteroid-monitoring system ATLAS, the 'Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System”—four telescopes in Hawaii, Chile, and South Africa—discovered NT1 after the rock flew by. ATLAS’s entire purpose is to scour the skies for space rocks that might threaten Earth. So with this set of eyes on the sky, how did we miss it?

"It turns out that Earth has what Brin Bailey, UC Santa Barbara astronomer and lead author on the paper, calls a “blindspot.” Any asteroid coming from the direction of the sun gets lost in the glare of our nearest star.” There’s another way for asteroids to sneak up on us, too: the smaller the asteroid, the harder it is for our telescopes to spot them, even when the rocks come from parts in the sky away from the sun.

“'Currently, there is no planetary defense system which can mitigate short-warning threats,' Bailey says. 'While NT1 has no chance of intercepting Earth in the future, it serves as a reminder that we do not have complete situational awareness of all potential threats in the solar system,” they add. That leads to Lesson #1: We simply need better detection methods for planetary defense."

Read more:
https://www.popsci.com/science/asteroid-nt1-earth-planetary-defense/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

#DontLookUp #LookUp #NearEarthAsteroid