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« Reply #200 on: September 12, 2017, 02:21:40 AM »
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« Reply #201 on: September 12, 2017, 07:42:14 PM »
Manila floods as tropical depression slams Philippines

At least two people have been killed after storm delivered torrential heavy rain.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/manila-floods-tropical-depression-slams-philippines-170912093316483.html
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« Reply #202 on: September 15, 2017, 06:41:25 AM »
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« Reply #203 on: September 15, 2017, 11:46:46 PM »
Argentina's flooding crisis affects ranching community

www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/argentinas-flooding-crisis-affects-ranching-community-170915112159573.html

Not much text but very informative video footage.
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« Reply #204 on: September 16, 2017, 05:34:42 AM »
The linked video (narrated by Jack Palance) presents and interesting history of Ukraine's struggles (focused on both Soviet and Nazi aggressions):

Title: "Between Hitler & Stalin: Ukraine in World War II The Untold Story"


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« Reply #205 on: September 17, 2017, 10:42:28 PM »

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« Reply #206 on: September 19, 2017, 03:59:00 PM »
The linked video (narrated by Jack Palance) presents and interesting history of Ukraine's struggles (focused on both Soviet and Nazi aggressions):

Title: "Between Hitler & Stalin: Ukraine in World War II The Untold Story"




I always prefer Brzezinski's histories when narrated by Hollywood's most loquacious cowboys. How could we forget Rompin' Ronnie's rendition of "The Evil Empire", a serial in 3 parts.


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« Reply #207 on: September 29, 2017, 01:50:17 AM »
Europe plans Sentinel satellite expansion

www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41435223
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« Reply #209 on: October 02, 2017, 06:42:22 AM »
What is BREEAM? Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method.

“BREEAM, developed by the renowned building science center BRE (Building Research Establishment), measures the sustainability of construction projects, infrastructure, and buildings in a variety of key categories: energy, health and well-being, innovation, land use, materials, management, pollution, transport, waste, and water. Projects then receive ratings of either Pass, Good, Very Good, Excellent, or Outstanding.”

This one new administrative facility in Britain, due to design and construction methods has been certified as Outstanding, the highest rating available according to the world’s leading sustainability assessment standard, BREEAM.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/united-kingdom/branch-office-breeam-rating-sustainable-design/
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« Reply #210 on: October 06, 2017, 05:55:39 PM »
Wide Bay farmers 'reeling' after floods swamp Queensland crops after months of dry

www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-10-03/bundaberg-floods-hit-district-hard/9010002?&section=latest&date=(none)
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« Reply #211 on: October 12, 2017, 04:21:45 PM »
www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41585552

Ozone layer recovery could be delayed by 30 years

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« Reply #212 on: October 14, 2017, 05:35:49 AM »
Vietnam – Dozens Killed as Tropical Depression Causes Floods and Landslides

http://floodlist.com/asia/vietnam-tropical-depression-floods-landslides-october-2017

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« Reply #213 on: October 19, 2017, 06:09:41 AM »
Flooding returns to southern Queensland, Australia

www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/flooding-returns-southern-queensland-australia-171018105240759.html

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This time the flooding is more widespread.

David de Paoli, a chilli and avocado grower, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that he suffered more than a million dollars in losses from the most recent storm.

"This is it, the last time we had that 350mm it was quick and fast and furious it caused structural damage and soil erosion, but this one's costing us our crop," he said.
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« Reply #214 on: November 01, 2017, 11:47:54 AM »
"Feminine-named hurricanes (vs. masculine-named hurricanes) cause significantly more deaths, apparently because they lead to a lower perceived risk and consequently less preparedness,"

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/01/health/female-hurricanes-deadlier-than-male-hurricanes-trnd/index.html

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« Reply #215 on: November 23, 2017, 02:11:29 PM »
"Venezuela used to have five glaciers. Today, only one remains. The last glacier in Venezuela, the Humboldt glacier, is about to disappear."

http://earthsky.org/earth/venezuela-losing-last-humbolt-glacier

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« Reply #218 on: February 28, 2018, 10:46:36 PM »
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« Reply #219 on: April 21, 2018, 09:12:40 AM »

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« Reply #220 on: June 27, 2018, 05:37:14 PM »
The Peak Prosperity blog linked to a post I authored on "More Global Warming Propaganda in a WSJ Opinion Article"
https://www.peakprosperity.com/dailydigest/114141/daily-digest-627-pa-mayor-declares-fiscal-crisis-sky-high-deductibles-broke-us-he

To find the article, you have to cursor down to the 11th link in their daily digest

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« Reply #221 on: July 04, 2018, 01:58:19 PM »
the journal of population and sustainability
SPRING 2018 | Vol 2, No 2

https://www.populationmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Pop_and_Sustainability_Journal_Vol.2_No.2_Print_online.pdf

Contents

5  DAVID SAMWAYS      Editorial Introduction
                      Anthropocentrism – The Origin of Environmental Degradation?

21 UGO BARDI          A Seneca Collapse for the World’s Human Population?

33 DOUGLAS E. BOOTH   Postmaterial Experience Economics, Population, and 
                      Environmental Sustainability

51 WILLIAM N. RYERSON The Hidden Gem of the Cairo Consensus: 
                      Helping to End Population Growth with Entertainment Media

Book Review:
63 PAUL R. EHRLICH    Anthrozoology: Embracing Co-Existence in the Anthropocene
                      by Michael Tobias and Jane Morrison

66 JOHN P. HOLDREN    A Brief History of “IPAT”

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The  Earth  provides  enough  to  satisfy  every  man’s  need  but  not  for 
every man’s greed.” Gandhi (quoted in Pyarelal 1958 p. 552)

Edit:
Are you materialist, postmaterialist or inbetween? Find out at page 35.
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« Reply #222 on: July 10, 2018, 05:39:09 AM »
Fuck Kissinger. Every word out of that mouth is a lie, be it yea, or be it nay. For that man speaks not truth or falsity, but rather to enshrine his vision of the future.

Did I say, "Fuck Kissinger" yet ? Never mind, bears repeating.

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« Reply #223 on: July 10, 2018, 09:16:34 AM »
We are, Kissinger warns, in the midst of a “sweeping technical revolution whose consequences we have failed to fully reckon with and whose culmination may be a world relying on machines powered by data and algorithms and ungoverned by ethical or philosophical norms.”

Well, would you know it? Henry Kissinger and his ilk are actually machines powered by data and algorithms!
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« Reply #224 on: August 06, 2018, 11:08:06 PM »

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« Reply #225 on: August 07, 2018, 12:08:39 AM »
"Planet at risk of heading towards “Hothouse Earth” state."

http://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2018-08-06-planet-at-risk-of-heading-towards-hothouse-earth-state.html

while i concur 100% i think that 1.5 - 2.0C target was illusionary as well as intentionally deceptive from day one. i can't seriously say but i expect temps betweein 3-5C higher during my grandchildren's lifetime. if i'm too far off, let me know but if possible explaining why so that i can eventually correct something that i'm convinced of since 20+ years.

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« Reply #226 on: August 22, 2018, 10:03:09 AM »
This is a story that could go in many threads on this forum. But here is a highlight: Storing your water in aquifer contaminated with arsenic is not a good idea:

" ... officials also have known since 2006 that the area’s groundwater — with which the recharged Colorado River water mixes — has levels of arsenic and fluoride exceeding federal EPA drinking water limits. In 2015, a CAP consultant, Montgomery and Associates, pegged the price tag for treating and recovering Tonopah’s water at $143 million to $200 million."

" ...  the aquifer underneath the recharge basin is substantially less permeable below 300 feet than previously thought. Second, concentrations of arsenic and fluoride in natural groundwater are larger than previously estimated ..."

Lotsa good stuff in the article. Mostly sayin, Southwest USA is quite screwed.

https://tucson.com/news/local/arizona-s-plan-to-withdraw-years-worth-of-banked-cap/article_fe3ea48d-e230-5250-87f5-5756f0368200.html

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« Reply #227 on: September 06, 2018, 11:12:29 AM »
"Over a mere four days this summer, snow from the previous winter melted into a pond of slush on Canada’s Lowell Glacier. Mauri Pelto, a glaciologist at Nichols College, called the area of water-saturated snow a “snow swamp.”

“I haven’t seen a snow swamp of this size develop this quickly ever,” said Pelto, who has spent 38 years monitoring glaciers in the region."


https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92699/snow-swamp-on-lowell-glacier

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« Reply #228 on: September 06, 2018, 01:32:28 PM »
This is a story that could go in many threads on this forum. But here is a highlight: Storing your water in aquifer contaminated with arsenic is not a good idea:

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Not knowing what water you have got, or not got, may be even worse.

https://qz.com/1353839/theres-a-time-bomb-for-us-mexico-relations-ticking-underground/
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There’s a time bomb for US-Mexico relations ticking underground

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Texas and Mexico have elaborate sharing agreements for every acre-foot of water that flows through the Rio Grande, which makes sense, especially since the river is dwindling. Making sure both sides are upholding those agreements while the region rides through its regular whiplash of droughts and floods takes up most of the bandwidth of water officials on both sides.

Meanwhile, the US and Mexico barely even know about their shared groundwater. The two nations only officially recognize four cross-border aquifers (pdf). But Rosario Sanchez, a Texas A&M University hydrologist who has spent her academic life seeking out transboundary aquifers that aren’t yet on maps, has identified 36. Of those, 15 are shared between Texas and Mexico.
“Compared to the issues of illegal immigration, drug violence, economic trade, and other border and non-border issues, groundwater management ranks relatively low among the priorities of both federal governments,” wrote Gabriel Eckstein, a water-law scholar at Texas A&M School of Law, in a 2012 paper (pdf). “As a result, the [Rio Grande Valley region’s] groundwater resources are being overexploited on both frontiers as populations and industries pump with little regard for sustainability or transboundary consequences…. Ultimately, the viability of the region’s communities, natural environment, and economic growth are threatened with stagnation and may falter. And no one, at least on the federal level, is doing anything about it.”
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« Reply #232 on: November 26, 2018, 10:37:12 AM »
Erebus, by Michael Palin (of Monty Python fame) has been getting tremendous ratings on Goodreads.com - average 4.49 out of 5.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/24/erebus-michael-palin-review-john-franklin-arctic-explorer

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36992484-erebus

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« Reply #233 on: February 09, 2019, 03:24:15 PM »
Activists demand answers after alleged suicide of Macarena Valdés

Some 200 environmental activists are murdered each year, many from Latin American indigenous communities. One Chilean village is searching for the truth about the death of a young mother who protested a hydropower dam.

https://www.dw.com/en/activists-demand-answers-after-alleged-suicide-of-macarena-vald%C3%A9s/a-47322678
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« Reply #234 on: February 12, 2019, 02:35:02 PM »
Earth Is 'Missing' at Least 20 Ft of Sea Level Rise. Antarctica Could Be The Time Bomb

Some researchers, including DeConto, think they have found a key process - called marine ice cliff collapse - that can release a lot of sea level rise from West Antarctica in a hurry.

But they're being challenged by another group, whose members suspect the changes in the past were slow - and will be again.

https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-s-climate-s-now-like-115-000-years-ago-when-the-sea-was-much-higher

General article about Marine Ice Sheet Instability vs Marine Ice Cliff Instability.

For articles about this see https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,2205.450.html

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« Reply #235 on: February 19, 2019, 03:38:19 PM »
'Grandfather of Climate Science' and populariser of 'global warming' Wallace Smith Broecker dies aged 87

The Columbia professor's work warned the world about the "devastating" impacts of climate change as far back as the 1970s.

As far back as 1984, Professor Broecker told a House of Representatives subcommittee that urgent action was required to stop the build-up of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere because the climate system could "jump abruptly from one state to another" with "devastating effects".

https://news.sky.com/story/grandfather-of-climate-science-and-populariser-of-global-warming-wallace-smith-broecker-dies-aged-87-11641818
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« Reply #236 on: March 06, 2019, 02:16:40 PM »
Can´t find a good thread for this one so i will stick it here.

Vast record of past climate fluctuations now available thanks to laser imaging of shells

Refined techniques for laser imaging of shell growth rings are tapping into previously hidden data of marine climate change; by examining human and ecological responses to those changes, we learn more about what to expect from climate change in the future

Shellfish played a significant role in the diet of prehistoric coastal populations, providing valuable nutrients. They are a common find in archaeological sites all over the world, usually in huge numbers, and researchers have long explored how they could be used to make inferences about the environments that humans experienced at those locations in the past. However, although techniques were developed to infer valuable climate-related information from shells, it was previously too expensive to analyse them on a scale beyond individual and isolated records. The current study by an international team of researchers, led by the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (Heraklion, Greece) and the School of Geography (Melbourne, Australia) and published in Scientific Reports, presents a technique to use rapid laser imaging to increase the number of analysed shell records to previously unknown scales, and thereby greatly expand the time periods and accuracy of the reconstructed records.

Shells are a common find in archaeological coastal sites of the last 160,000 years

The present study aimed to test a new method by analysing modern shells for which there was known climate data. The researchers used modern limpet shells from across the Mediterranean, comparing records from nine different sites in Greece, Libya, Tunisia, Croatia, Malta, Turkey and Israel. By testing their methods on modern shells against known records, the researchers were able to fine-tune their calibrations and ensure that their techniques would accurately reproduce the climate changes experienced by the molluscs while they were growing. Once perfected, the method could then be used to reconstruct past climate fluctuations.

Using LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy), the researchers built a modern baseline of how marine temperatures are reflected in the elemental composition of mollusc growth rings. Previous research was unable to find consistent correlations between the two. Only the 2D imaging of whole shells provided the necessary amount of data to navigate the individual shell records, a task where the speed and low cost of LIBS exceed other techniques.

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New technique allows large-scale reconstructions of climate that people directly experienced at a seasonal level

"We were never able to look at more than a dozen or so well-analysed shell records before, which is far from ideal given that the climatic data can vary a lot from one shell to another. To be able to compare hundreds or a thousand shells is a game changer for climate modelling," states Hausmann.

The techniques developed in the current study have far reaching implications. As a start, researchers focused on the well-known limpet shells of the Mediterranean, but preliminary unpublished results suggest that other limpet species from archaeological sites in the Atlantic and Pacific might be similarly well-suited for use with LIBS, and could provide the means for producing global climate models with seasonal resolution.

"Archaeological shell collections are heavy and a pain to store, so I hope that archaeologists and museums haven't thrown away their old boxes of shells - we now desperately want to analyse them."

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/mpif-vro030419.php
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« Reply #237 on: March 07, 2019, 05:05:58 PM »
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47485847

Rain is becoming more frequent in Greenland and accelerating the melting of its ice, a new study has found.
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« Reply #238 on: March 08, 2019, 02:15:07 PM »
DeSmog published a story this week from the Climate Investigations Center that touches on an interesting angle that’s emerging in the climate world as kids lead the way.

The article describes a conference last month at Brown University that featured a 90-minute panel built around a recent study in Nature Climate Change showing how decades of concerted misinformation played a key role in the current climate of climate denial. The event was convened by Brown’s Climate Development Lab. Brown students at the lab recently compiled and published a report giving the backstory on a dozen climate denial coalitions.

Some are long gone, like the Global Climate Coalition, others are still very much alive, like the Cooler Heads Coalition, which counts Trump advisors Myron Ebell and Steve Milloy among its members.

But even some of the ones that are no longer operational, like the Information Council on the Environment, which was funded by the Western Fuels Association and the Edison Electric Institute, still impact the current discourse.

For example, ICE’s Pat Michaels and Sherwood Idso have both gone on to a long and lucrative fossil-fuel-funded denial career. ICE’s initial PR campaign goal to “reposition global warming as theory (not fact)” is at the core of President Trump’s ongoing attempts to attack climate science with a “red team” of deniers drawn from these sorts of coalitions.

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As pundits and deniers increasingly chide children for daring to speak out about the state of our planet, remember that these kids are speaking out against a misinformation machine that’s older than they are. For the students who put together this report, the fact that there’s a well-funded, widespread propaganda effort to protect polluters at the public expense isn’t some new revelation–it’s simply a fact of life.

Just like how no one born since February 1985 has ever experienced a month in which the global temperature has dipped below the 20th century average, this report shows that no one under 30 has lived in a world free from the fossil fuel industry’s misinformation campaign.

https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/03/07/college-students-calling-out-climate-denial-machine-older-they-are
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« Reply #239 on: March 16, 2019, 11:58:54 AM »
MIT Scientists Think The Last 3 Ice Ages Were Triggered by Tectonic Collisions

What's likely to have happened, the new study says, is these massive collisions pushed oceanic rocks up above the surface, into hot and humid tropical environments where they began to pull carbon dioxide out of the air. Given enough time, these chemical reactions could cool global temperatures and start an ice age.

The findings are based initially on an analysis of two sutures in the Himalayas – major fault zones where oceanic and continental plates have collided. Both sutures were originally formed near the equator, 50 million and 80 million years ago respectively, and happened just before major global cooling events.

"We think that arc-continent collisions at low latitudes are the trigger for global cooling," says one of the team, Oliver Jagoutz from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

"This could occur over 1-5 million square kilometres [0.4-1.9 square miles], which sounds like a lot. But in reality, it's a very thin strip of Earth, sitting in the right location, that can change the global climate."

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Specifically in this case, it's the calcium and magnesium in the newly exposed rock that reacts with the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and pulls it out of the air.

Adding the new research to previous work, the researchers were able to model the eruption and movement of more sutures even further back through time.

They found three major periods of suture formation that coincided with ice ages – in the Late Ordovician period (455-440 million years ago), the Permo-Carboniferous period (335-280 million years ago), and the Cenozoic period (35 million years ago to the present day). No sutures meant no ice ages.

"We found that every time there was a peak in the suture zone in the tropics, there was a glaciation event," says Jagoutz. "So every time you get, say, 10,000 kilometres [6,214 miles] of sutures in the tropics, you get an ice age."

The current cooler period we're technically in from a 'big picture' perspective – despite the rapid warming we've managed to bring about over the last hundred years or so – may have been caused by a major suture zone active today in Indonesia, according to the team.

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-think-the-last-three-ice-ages-were-caused-by-continent-collisions
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« Reply #240 on: April 02, 2019, 05:51:24 PM »
I just posted the following article "Another Idiotic Global Warming Post on Townhall Authored by Matt Vespa".

Much thanks to Gerontocrat for his daily posting of charts, as I copied and pasted the Sea Ice Extent chart from his most recent post.

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« Reply #242 on: June 22, 2019, 12:30:14 PM »


Gaming's Climate Dread in a 4K Streaming Ecosystem

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while gaming computers comprise just 2.5 percent of personal computers worldwide, they account for 20 percent of global energy use for computers. Energy-intensive components such as graphics cards and processors are contributing to the spike in energy use, alongside increased graphical fidelity such as the recent move to 4K displays. According to his own research, the demands of 4K can result in as much as a 64 percent increase in energy use within PCs.

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Like the online portion of Red Dead Redemption 2, Anthem’s action plays out on the internet, part of the recent “games-as-service” trend. Such experiences rely not only on high-speed internet connections but large-scale data centers to reduce latency or “lag” between what a player is doing and when it appears on-screen. These data centers might not look like they’re producing any waste—there’s no chemical trail flowing into a nearby river—so the tendency might be to think of them as, if not green, then environmentally neutral. On the contrary, data centers gobble up huge amounts of energy and emit large amounts of heat, a major problem for online video game experiences regularly touted as endless by publishers. With major industry corporations betting big on “games-as-service”, not to mention subsidiary activities such as streaming also taking advantage of them, their energy use has risen steeply in recent years.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjvkby/gamings-climate-dread-in-a-4k-streaming-ecosystem

It´s also about the depiction of climate change in these games/open worlds.


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« Reply #243 on: July 04, 2019, 10:27:06 AM »
US top of the garbage pile in global waste crisis

The world produces over two billion tonnes of municipal solid waste every year ... Per head of population the worst offenders are the US, as Americans produce three times the global average of waste, including plastic and food.

When it comes to recycling, America again lags behind other countries, only re-using 35% of solid waste.

Germany is the most efficient country, recycling 68% of material.

US citizens produce 773kg per head of population, roughly 12% of the global total. Their output is three times that of their Chinese counterparts and seven times more than people living in Ethiopia.

Other European countries, including the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and Germany, feature on the list. The UK ranks 14th in the waste index generating 482kg of household waste per person every year.

The US is the only developed nation with waste generation that outstrips its ability to recycle.

etc

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48838699

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« Reply #244 on: July 17, 2019, 12:30:50 PM »
Online Porn Pumps Out As Much Carbon Dioxide As A Small Industrial Country


Video streaming accounts for around 60 percent of all data flow online, which means it also accounts for over 300 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year. Since almost a third of streamed video content is pornography, online porn pumps out around 100 million tons of carbon dioxide each year, more than the annual output of Israel.

These figures come from a new report by The Shift Project (PDF link in article)

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They concluded that online video viewing, which makes up 60 percent of the world’s data traffic, generated more than 300 million tons of carbon dioxide during 2018. For context, that’s the same carbon footprint as the annual emissions of Spain.

Pornography makes up around 27 percent of the word’s streaming. Video-on-demand services, such as Netflix and Hulu, account for around 34 percent, while “tube” serves, like YouTube, equate to 21 percent. The remaining chunk was accounted for by Skype calls, “camgirls”, live video monitoring, and telemedicine.

https://www.iflscience.com/environment/online-porn-pumps-out-as-much-carbon-dioxide-as-a-small-industrial-country/

They forgot to mention that bingewatching series is still worse, a small sacrifice for clicks i guess.
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« Reply #245 on: December 23, 2019, 11:27:43 AM »
A surprise finding:

Researchers Link Declining Dementia Rates to Less Lead Exposure

To the medical community’s surprise, several studies from the United States, Canada, and Europe point to a downward trend in the incidence of dementia. Since important risk factors for dementia, such as mid-life obesity and mid-life diabetes, have been increasing rapidly, the decline in dementia is particularly perplexing.

A new hypothesis by University of Toronto Professor Esme Fuller-Thomson suggests that the declining dementia rates may be a result of generational differences in lifetime exposure to lead.

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Leaded gasoline was a ubiquitous source of air pollution between the 1920s and 1970s. As it was phased out, beginning in 1973, levels of lead in citizens’ blood plummeted. Research from the 1990s indicates that Americans born before 1925 had approximately twice the lifetime lead exposure as those born between 1936 and 1945.

“The levels of lead exposure when I was a child in 1976 were 15 times what they are today,” said Fuller-Thomson. “Back then, 88 percent of us had blood lead levels above 10 micrograms per deciliter. To put this number in perspective, during the Flint, Michigan, water crisis of 2014, 1 percent of the children had blood lead levels above 10 micrograms per deciliter.”

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https://psychcentral.com/news/2019/12/22/researchers-link-declining-dementia-rates-to-less-lead-exposure/152734.html
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« Reply #246 on: December 23, 2019, 11:46:11 AM »
I'm surprised it's surprising.

Lead is known to damage human brains for a long time. It's also connected to crime rates for how i understand.

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« Reply #247 on: December 23, 2019, 12:27:33 PM »
It is but for some reason in was not on the radar for dementia.

Off course if you look at age groups/birth cohorts with similar exposure there are people that suffer dementia and a whole bunch who don´t which makes it harder too tease out i guess.
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« Reply #248 on: December 23, 2019, 12:55:18 PM »
Yes, i guess so too. :)

Now, is this possibly the argument that allows us to revoke voting rights from boomers? ;)

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« Reply #249 on: December 24, 2019, 01:30:52 PM »
Is there a statistical link to having grown up in smoggy urban settings as opposed to those that lived their lives in cleaner, less crowded settings?


Lifetime lead exposure may well be unhealthy, but I doubt that it's a significant marker for dementia. A few weeks in Southern California followed by an equal time in rural Utah or Montana might provide a hint, but the difference in the availability of medical services would skew any statistical comparisons.


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