ColdStream

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by ColdStream 23d ago
It has been brought up before and it seems plausible. There is no guarantee that we have to leave the planet in any meaningful way or even survive for that matter.
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by ColdStream 23d ago
Then there is a good chance we would never have moved up to a technological state that allowed us to leave the planet. We probably wouldn't also be facing blow back from digging up and burning the planets solar battery.
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by ColdStream 23d ago
Love the planet as you love your self. Just be. Easy to say, difficult to do.
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by ColdStream 23d ago
We don't even need the oceans temperature to rise, as the arctic tundra permafrost melts the amount of plant material ready to release its CO2 is massive. Some estimate think it would double the amount of our total emissions if all of
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by ColdStream 23d ago
A preview of 2035.
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by ColdStream 23d ago
Yep, once you learn about Latent temperature fusion, ones view on these things change drastically. It also explains why boiling water doesn't spontaneously just explode into vapor once it hits that temperature
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by ColdStream 23d ago
The future because of resource decline per capita and climate blow back, I suspect the future for many in the west will merely look like a rising tide of poverty.
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by ColdStream 23d ago
The US Military hit it right on the head. Climate change is a risk multiplier. It takes already potentially big issues and makes them so much worse.
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by ColdStream 23d ago
You know we might just be seeing the starting seed of the future legend of the Merica Atlantis. The fabled sunken land of Mar-a-lago where the King in Orange's folly took his treasures to the dark depths. Although after a few hundred y
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by ColdStream 23d ago
Cortisol is the hormone that creates tight social bonds. It is what make you love your kids so much. So the secret to a loving and kind society is to just pour this stuff in the drinking water supply, right? No it strengthened social bonds,
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by ColdStream 23d ago
Funnily enough the water temperature is why many are so focused on the arctic sea ice. It is acting as a buffer that is keeping large parts of the ocean cooler beyond both reflecting sun light and also actively melting and releasing cool wa
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by ColdStream 23d ago
I said this elsewhere. Land temperature raises quicker than oceans. So a 2c increase globally is actually a 4c over land. If we hit 3c, that will be 6c over land. So with a fever, 37c jumped up to 43c goes from normal and stable to a very q
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by ColdStream 23d ago
Not only are we heading there it might be a lot quicker than we anticipate. The warming is accelerating quickly as the CO2 is cumulative and the feed back loops get more intense. The last decade has seen a 0.48c increase in temperature and
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by ColdStream 23d ago
Someone I know who worked in the climate sciences once put it so clearly to me. An increase of 1 degree is global, and with 70% of the world being ocean that raises much slower, the temperature rise over land is effectively doubled. So 1c d
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by ColdStream 23d ago
Hahaha... sigh... takes a swig!
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by ColdStream 23d ago
This was one of the big fears. That countries that had far more people than the western world would end up trying to chase that middle class lifestyle. And yet here we are. I suspect we are going to be like the aphids on a rosebush that wil
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by ColdStream 23d ago
We are doing loads, I just fear we cannot outrun Jevon's paradox. Until we start actively reducing emissions, we are just adding to the scale of consumption with no end in sight. That we are still adding any fossil fuel based system to
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by ColdStream 23d ago
Yep, they are growing generation by any means possible.
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by ColdStream 23d ago
While yes they can spin up and down, there is the deeper question of what it is all for. This is why so many AI proponents always talk about future gains rather than what is happening today. It a lot of what it claimed to be coming doesn&#x
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by ColdStream 23d ago
> Yes, and usage is not decreasing. As solar is growing, it's only adding capacity, not replacing fossil fuels. This is the key point. While yes, it is brilliant that we are adding loads of solar, wind and whatever - it is the final
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by ColdStream 23d ago
I suspect that unless there is a consensus or at least a large majority in favor of it, nothing will be done. Lets say the EU does geoengineering and then there are crop failures in India the next year. Their fault or not, they are going to
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by ColdStream 23d ago
The one thing I have heard form mechanics is that cars from BYD seem to has better than expected manufacturing and engineering. They haven't cut corners were you would expect for the price. Not sure how the electrics will hold a decade
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by ColdStream 23d ago
China is hungry in a way others aren't. It is driving them to push far harder and faster because of this. Don't know it will be sustainable long term but it looks good now.
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by ColdStream 23d ago
The age old problem of mobile chips have brilliant performance for about 15 seconds until they thermal throttle. If you are just using apps, 15 seconds is more than enough to launch and setup an app, for anything more it will be down graded
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by ColdStream 24d ago
Time to see if we can recreate the outcome of 'Brewsters Millions'.
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by ColdStream 24d ago
I do wonder how he will be seen in the books of history. I suspect it isn't going to be anywhere near as imposing and grand as many will think. For all the noise and grand pronouncements he makes, the lack of focus dilutes his capabili
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by ColdStream 24d ago
Pretty much. While we should keep an eye on these folks just in case anything comes up, so far it hasn't been a major issue.
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by ColdStream 24d ago
Well that is the story. Alas, when you have down time, might as well do something interesting with it. Haven't tried it yet, but I like the Neon glow on everything. Its what apps of the future were going to look like in the early 2000&
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by ColdStream 24d ago
They won the 2025 'Ig Nobel' prize for this one. https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/teflon-diet-earns-trio-t...
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by ColdStream 24d ago
The best thing about their recent changes is that now it is much more likely you can pay in your own currency. It all used to the USD.

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