The climate change movement: July 28, 1995 to August 14, 2020 RIP

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Originally Posted by freebeard

....and the ordnance?

Hopefully biodegradable, carbon neutral, environmentally friendly napalm.

[freebeard]

Via that Youtube channel [you know the one]:

www.frontiersin.org: Front. Astron. Space Sci., 19 April 2022 | When I Encountered Difficult Problems, Syun-Ichi Akasofu*

All of us encounter our unique difficulties as scientists. Although the kind of difficulty varies by scientist, I describe my own in this program, and explain how I responded, together with a sort of moral. They are: (a) When theorists seemed to encounter a deadlock, (b) When a well-accepted theory is confronted with a seriously contradictory observational fact, (c) When there is a generally believed morphology of a phenomenon that does not agree with my observations, (d) When a single approach or theory prevails, but I have a different idea. Obviously, my responses are just an attempt, which will be judged by future developments in space physics.

A life-long student of Alfven, on the issues that are at the core of this thread.

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Ben Davidson is back on twitter. The end is not near, it's here.

[freebeard]

Welcome to the future! You've never seen anything like it and you never will again.

[freebeard]

Via Hacker News:

climateer.substack.com: It Took Me 6 Months, But I Finally Understand Methane Lifetimes
How to arrive at a number you can trust

Apparently, one's mental error bars should contract. Jumping right to the conclusion:

Now, if you should never trust a number, why do I trust these? Problems with a number usually boil down to either “the number is incorrect” or “you misunderstand what the number means”. The most important number here (12 years) comes from the latest IPCC report, which is very carefully vetted, so I’m comfortable that it’s not flat out wrong. And as summarized in this post, I’ve put in enough work to be confident that I understand exactly what the IPCC report means by “perturbation methane lifetime”. As a bonus, I now have a mental model that I can use to evaluate numbers I encounter in the future.

This one was Youtube's choice:

What Can We Do With Captured Carbon and Is There Any Point?

I don't think they imagine all the possible uses for graphene. Concrete get a mention, but biochar gets a subsequent episode.

[freebeard]

There are two more popular threads on this topic, but I'm boycotting them.

This seems like a big deal -- Dark Nova

Nova Astronomy in Upheaval | Predictions Come True

Blinking stars!?!

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Originally Posted by freebeard

There are two more popular threads on this topic, but I'm boycotting them.

This seems like a big deal -- Dark Nova

Blinking stars!?!

It's true every word of it.

No more "but, but, but it has to be a degenerate binary to go boom-boom".
Astronomy has for too long been advancing one funeral at a time. Some one important must have died recently.

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It was pinatubo sized.
https://youtu.be/tRSyW1TxAw4

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tRSyW1...ature=youtu.be

And appears to confirm the global electric circuit hypothesis.

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The other day, the 17th, they announced that Texas had already set an all-time heat record for the month of May.
A special legislature was called in Austin, to consider passing a state-wide nudity bill.
'Dress for the weather' will be the catch phrase.

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Originally Posted by aerohead

The other day, the 17th, they announced that Texas had already set an all-time heat record for the month of May.
A special legislature was called in Austin, to consider passing a state-wide nudity bill.
'Dress for the weather' will be the catch phrase.

That's weather not climate and more specifically urban heat island.