sinkingship @ sinkingship @sh.itjust.works

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Hey, I'm not sure if you're trolling or not, but try to help in case you really seek answers to your questions:

1880 was much cooler than today, globally about 1°C cooler. You'll find plenty of graphs showing the history of global temperatures online and animated videos on YouTube.

There have been times, where Earth has been hotter than today. We know quite a lot about Earth's history, it's astonishing. However, the big problem we are facing today isn't the temperature itself, but the speed of the change happening. When climate changes naturally it takes thousands of years. This allows for many plants and animals to adapt and migrate, not all though. Some are always left behind in this circle of life.

Today's temperature change appears to be faster than anything we see in history, posing the worry that a lot of life forms will not be able to adapt in time. If I recall correctly, today's atmosphere is changing about 200 times faster than it did during the most severe mass extinctions in history we know about and animals go extinct about 1000 times faster than they should in a world without humans.

In today's articles you often see "since 1880". There is older temperature data, both from thermometers as also from other more abstract sources, as for example air bubbles trapped in ice cores give an atmosphere reading of a time long ago etc. However, older measurements are highly localized and don't cover enough places of earth to get a reliable reading of global average temperatures.

It is also possible, that we will see this "measuring starting point" 1880 go back to earlier decades in future, as there are still tons of records that aren't evaluated yet. One example would be the detailed sailing ship logs of previous centuries that cover wide areas of Earth.

Yeah but no. It's fusion power, not fission, so something quite opposite, yet similar.

The vast majority of poor people is born into poverty and homo sapiens is an animal species.

The real reason is that we humans are a very egocentric animal species with little thought to other humans and even less thought to other species.

I think it helps to realize that we will die either way. Maybe in a decade or two being unable to afford food or some climate catastrophe. Maybe later. Maybe tomorrow a car hits us deadly.

We will die and we don't know when and how, so try to make the best out of every day and try to be nice to others.

Furthermore fairness is a human concept, we can never count on it.

Ach, das ist einfach! Nichts, bitte!

Typ jammert, dass ihn das Jammern anderer Mitbürger nervt.

Jetzt habe ich das starke Bedürfnis, meinen Stuhlgang im Paket an die Lufthansa zu schicken. Leider würde das nur ein armes Schwein treffen und nicht die Schweine in Führungspositionen.

It's basically a pathway, where the world temporarily exceeds the 1.5 degree goal and kind of hopes on massive carbon capture technology, so that by 2100 the temperatures would go back to or below 1.5 degrees.

No, I'm on one page with you, I don't see that happen. I assume soon we'll stop talk about the 1.5 goal but talk about the 2 degree goal is still feasible if we would do this and that. Then we'll talk about "temporarily" overshooting 2 degrees.

Then I don't know. Maybe we'll have a 3 degree goal or maybe we'll be just busy with staying alive.

As I understood by now, the path governments want to go is an "overshoot path" where we "temporarily" cross targets and rely on carbon storage (both natural and artificial) to go back. Artificial carbon storage isn't really here yet and natural is going.

I wish I could still believe in humanity finding an answer to the climate crisis dilemma.

Ich fühl dich, deutsche Wirtschaft, ich trete auch seit Jahren auf der Stelle.

Das Beste ist: er tut das und nutzt im selben Satz die Wörter "der größte Fehler, den man machen kann".

Fehlen da nicht noch ein paar "äh" und Verhaspler, du Problembär?

Heute überlegt man Arbeitspflicht.

Bitte sag mir, dass morgen nicht die Idee kommt, Flüchtlinge in Lagern zum Arbeiten zu konzentrieren!

Vorteil:

• platzsparend, das macht Laden und Löschen der Ware effizienter

• Unkompliziert, weniger Wartung

Hat aber meiner Meinung einen gigantischen Nachteil gegenüber herkömmlichen Segelschiffen:

• Das Prinzip nutzt Seitenwind. Wind direkt von hinten kann nicht genutzt werden _ und kreuzen ist quasi unmöglich _ (wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe).

Edit: Hab ein bisschen mehr dazu gelesen. Kreuzen scheint möglich zu sein.

Es gibt aber einen weiteren Nachteil, nämlich, dass Energie aufgewandt werden muss, um die Dinger zu rotieren. Dieser Punkt scheint aber belanglos, denn Segelschiffe benötigen ja auch Energie, die Segel zu setzen. Wie das im Verhältnis steht, weiß ich nicht.

Singing along to Refused.

"I wanna watch the world burn for what we've become"

I'm sorry! It's just a song, I didn't mean it literally!

Ich dachte schon da hat sich wieder ein Jahre alter Artikel in meinen hot Feed geschlichen. Aber nein, es werden tatsächlich die selben Artikel geschrieben. Seufz!

It seems to get more difficult to end an article with optimisms:

But it would be wrong to call what is happening a "climate collapse" [...] we still have time to secure a liveable future for many

For many, hm.

Reminded my of another article ending on

Here is where we need to invest and make changes and innovate and not give up. We can’t just write off billions of people.

Article mentioned

While there are a hundred other things developing to threat the survival of humankind, at least there is this one thing where we humans didn't screw up.

In other words: while we may die from heatstroke, flash floods, failing crops, unprecedented storms, no access to water, collapsing food chains, etc, at least it won't be sun radiation.

I'm encouraging myself to try and enjoy every halfway decent day as long as it's possible, but instead I proceed to read depressing articles.

Man, you are so right. The weirdest part is, that your behavior isn't even socially very accepted.

I, too, love engines. I admire the technology and how genius they are put together. My dream is to own a cruiser motorbike and go drive through the countryside. I don't think this will happen, as I would hate myself to burn fuel for pleasure.

I own a very old, tiny scooter, that I only use to carry heavy stuff. I used to carry on my shoulders, but mom in law felt sorry for me and gave me her oldest, broken, rusty scooter, that nobody used for months, because she bought a new one again. I repaired it. My wife gets upset, when I don't drive her around. For example to the market 500 meters down the road to buy a can of soda or so. I only use it for hard work.

People surrounding me think I don't like progress. No, man, I would love to have a more convenient life! Driving to me is fun, I enjoy it! I just can't stand myself to do something bad to environment for my pleasure, so I try not to. And people think I'm weird.

I know people like you and me don't even make a difference. Whatever amount we save and not emit in our whole lifetime - some ignorant wealthy will blow out within 5 minutes.