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2 votes
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One of the most robust laws on climate change yet has been created in Denmark – can legislation really make failing to act on climate change illegal?
5 votes -
Murders, megaprojects and a 'new Panama Canal' in Mexico
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Great Lakes water temperatures are blowing away records and could climb higher
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Help me understand the significance of EROI?
According to this guy, societal collapse is imminent because a. entropy and b. the high EROI (energy return on investment) afforded to society by the use of energy dense hydrocarbons such as coal...
According to this guy, societal collapse is imminent because a. entropy and b. the high EROI (energy return on investment) afforded to society by the use of energy dense hydrocarbons such as coal and petroleum will decline dramatically in the near future due to the decreasing economic viability of acquiring them and the lack of a similarly high return alternative (barring nuclear fission, which is VeRy DaNgErOuS (and also practically infeasible politically in most countries that can achieve it), and nuclear fusion, which is, of course, perpetually 20 years away) and because this EROI is (according to him) what makes the complexity of modern civilization possible, it is inevitable that we will soon see a corresponding decline in said complexity (collapse). Now there is a section in the wikipedia article that touches on some of these points (Economic influence) so it's not totally junk science (if you trust Wikipedia, that is). However, I'm still struggling to grasp the significance of this figure. As long as our means of acquiring energy is scalable, why does it matter what the EROI is as long as it is greater than 1? if we need to spend one fifth of the energy we get from solar panels on making more, fixing existing ones, and installation, can't we just make a bunch of them to match our energy needs, even if they're growing? What am I missing here?
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Work has begun on Viking Link, the world's longest electricity interconnector which will allow power to travel between the UK and Denmark
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Climate change has likely already affected global food production
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Will climate change upend projections of future forest growth?
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Scientists' warning on affluence
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The South Pole is warming fast. Very fast.
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What we need to know about the pace of decarbonization -- Energy transitions have been among the key defining processes of human evolution
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Climate change is an absolute nightmare - this is why
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Vermont first state to implement a statewide ban on food waste
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There are climate change policies that rural Americans—even Republicans—support
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Latest UN sustainability goals pose more harm than good for environment, scientists warn
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Tree ring records show increase in extreme weather in South America
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CO2 in Earth's atmosphere nearing levels of fifteen million years ago
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Climate change may cause extreme waves in the Arctic
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Spreading rock dust on the ground could pull carbon from the air, researchers say
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The Atlantic hurricane season is off to a record fast start and is likely to get worse
8 votes -
Germany bans range of single-use plastics including straws and cotton buds
15 votes -
While not a solution, knowing how to recycle and compost can help the environment
5 votes -
California severely short on firefighting crews after COVID-19 lockdown at prison camps
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Greta Thunberg, the climate campaigner who doesn't like campaigning
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In nearly every part of the world, heatwaves have been increasing in frequency and duration since the 1950s
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Risk of 40°C/104°F heat in the UK ‘rapidly increasing’, says Met Office—a temperature never before recorded in the UK could possibly occur as frequently as once every 3.5 years by 2100
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Towards carbon negativity—Basecamp announces intentions to back-purchase carbon credits to cover all emitted carbon emissions, and offset more than emitted post-2020
6 votes -
Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off
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Siberian wildfires swell amid historic heatwave, as highs of 38°C reported north of the arctic circle
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Climate change: The South Pole feels the heat, as warming over the Antarctic continent took place at three times the global rate since 1989
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Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea near Stockholm, global body says
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Plastic rain: More than 1,000 tons of microplastic rain onto western US every year, study estimates
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Why locusts are descending on East Africa
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Bottled water manufactured by Whole Foods and sold in most of its US stores and on Amazon contains potentially harmful levels of arsenic
12 votes -
Elegy for a country's seasons [2014]
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Bill Gates-backed carbon capture plant does the work of forty million trees
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Parks vs. people: In Guatemala, communities take best care of the forest
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Overconsumption and growth economy key drivers of environmental crises
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Hottest Arctic temperature record probably set with 100°F/37°C reading in Siberia
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When the giant Galapagos tortoise faced extinction, Diego answered the call
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Greta Thunberg has hope for climate, despite leaders' inaction
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Wood heaters too dirty to sell are clean enough to be donated to Native American tribes and Appalachian communities for a tax deduction, says EPA
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BP data reveals newly-installed clean electricity generation matched coal for the first time in 2019
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Vatican urges Catholics to drop investments in fossil fuels, arms
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Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace
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Climate worst-case scenarios may not go far enough, cloud data shows
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Ballard resident escorts family of ducks off apartment balcony
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Wall Street investment funds took control of Oregon’s private forests. Now, wealthy timber corporations reap the benefits of tax cuts that have cost rural counties billions
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'More masks than jellyfish': Coronavirus waste ends up in ocean
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Has your local climate gotten noticeably warmer in your lifetime?
I was just thinking, it does seem that where I am summers and winters are hotter than they used to be (I'm in the northern Midwestern US). Actually this winter we had a few days where it got over...
I was just thinking, it does seem that where I am summers and winters are hotter than they used to be (I'm in the northern Midwestern US). Actually this winter we had a few days where it got over 60 degrees(!) and I do feel like it snows less than when I was a kid. But I've only been alive for less than 2 decades and I don't think the global temperature has actually risen a lot in that time? So I'm curious, has anyone else personally felt the affects of climate change in their own climate? And if so, since when?
edit: I also remember seeing lots of fireflies when I was younger. Haven't seen one in years.
24 votes