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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

As John Schellnhuber, one of the biggest European climate scientists that has been part of the majority of IPCCs, said last year about COP:

"Wenn die Länder die Klimaziele nicht umsetzen, sind diese Konferenzen nur Jahrmärkte der Eitelkeit."

Translation by Google:

"If countries do not implement the climate targets, these conferences will be nothing more than vanity fairs."

Interview, where he said it, and also said that 3 degrees above pre industrial would mean the end of ~~modern~~ human civilization (in German):

Youtube

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Your edit2 made me think of this baby girl on YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Wait, wtf? Mouth dry! Mouth dry!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

She's probably shredding cemetary gates or something.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I actually watched that episode last night, so that post was kinda jumping at me. What are the odds...

Sagan, a real teacher. Not only smart, there are quite a few smart people. But also able to make something complicated easily understood. To make something abstract sound straight. To make something minds can't grasp comprehensible. A beautiful ability!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Interesting, thank you for the reply! Learned something new today. The lines I see span over a quarter or so of the moon, so I'm not fully convinced yet. Absolute massive.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

One of those articles that make you feel disgusted about the world we live in.

Thank you to all those scientists trying to throw the rudder around, that get bullied, while trying to save fellow humans.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah, this is probably the right community to ask.

What are those stripes leading to the crater, here in the upper left?

I've noticed them before, but when I try looking it up, I usually only find results for Saturn's moon.

Beautiful picture, op!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

As far as I understood, it'll leak into the atmosphere, where it'll cause 80 or 100 times more warming than CO² for a decade or so, before breaking down into good, old CO², causing further warming for centuries / millennia.

Not sure, but I think I've also read that in the process of breaking down into CO², the ozone layer gets damaged.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

But if CCS operations leak, they can pose significant risks to water resources. That’s because pressurized CO2 stored underground can escape or propel brine trapped in the saline reservoirs typically used for permanent storage. The leaks can lead to heavy metal contamination and potentially lower pH levels, all of which can make drinking water undrinkable.

Can someone explain this to me in a easy way?

As a layman I would be worried of large amounts of CO² suddenly leaking near where people live. But how does it make water undrinkable? I thought some people like their drinks with CO². And where do the heavy metals come from?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I recently read somewhere that it's actually just very few bee species that die after stinging, among them honeybees. They have a barbed stinger that gets stuck while most bees have flat stingers and can sting repeatedly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Read the Wiki and well, I dont know. It may be a climate agenda, but in my opinion being green isn't necessary being bold.

Bold would be meeting at least what scientist recommend: halving emissions by 2030. I know, that's very much to ask for any country in the world. That's why it's called bold.

What green parties all over the world are doing is: turn the rudder away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy. Which is a step in the right direction, but I think that's not bold. It's the least one can do.

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