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KU76erfan wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2019 8:28 am https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1364-3

youtube or fuck off.

Peer review is a tool of the government to control our lives. You're not thinking critically for yourself or with any nuance when you read the opinions of experts. What's the impact factor for nature...40? You think I'm going to believe anything in a scientific journal that's that well respected? Find me something less credible, like a video of some guy in his basement.

Christine Shearer probably has short hair and wants a career....someone tell her she can't have it all.

could prob just as easily go in the weather thread, buuut...

Temperatures climbed to 90 degrees in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday, breaking the all-time heat record for the northerly city.

Anchorage's previous record high (at least since 1952) was 85 degrees Fahrenheit, set on June 14, 1969.

The city of 300,000 people also had its hottest June ever, according to the National Weather Service. Average temperature for the month was 60.5 degrees, 5.3 degrees above normal. It was the 16th consecutive month with above-average temperatures...

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/05/73890530 ... -on-record

Big shake in SoCal.

A glacier melted in Iceland and they’re putting up a plaque to memorialize it

https://www.sciencealert.com/iceland-ha ... ate-change

"Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier.

In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path.

This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done

Only you know if we did it."

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2019 12:33 pm https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjvv ... heat-waves

meh

I ain't worried, because Senator James Inhofe, who chaired the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) from 2003 to 2007 and again from 2015 to 2017, (so you know he knows what he's doing), ain't worried:

so

much

ignorance

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2019 5:24 pm so

much

ignorance

So

Much

Payoffs

pretty much

just like those that drive over-sized trucks and SUVs (that don’t need them), your average american isn’t going to stop consuming beef (and pork to a lesser extent), and most farmers aren’t going to change their practices so long as the government keeps subsidizing the status quo

Hope?

Giant Pumice Raft Floating Toward Australia Could Help Replenish Great Barrier Reef

A massive raft made of pumice stones is floating toward Australia, carrying marine organisms that scientists say could help replenish Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Some of the stones are as large as basketballs and have formed a giant sheet stretching about 58 square miles — nearly the size of Washington, D.C.

An explosion from an underwater volcano near the tiny island nation of Tonga is thought to have produced the raft, according to NASA.

...Scott Bryan, an associate professor at Queensland University of Technology, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that the raft is floating toward Australia and will hit the coast in about seven to 12 months. He says by that time, the raft will be "covered in a whole range of organisms of algae and barnacles and corals and crabs and snails and worms."

"Each piece of pumice is a rafting vehicle. It's a home and a vehicle for marine organisms to attach and hitch a ride across the deep ocean to get to Australia," Bryan told The Guardian...

dispersal happens

other than a temporary boost in biomass and diversity, i don’t really see how this necessarily helps the reef...though, i suppose the mixing could generate novel forms that would be better suited to deal with the issues that plague the great barrier reef.

i wouldn’t imagine that the tongan diversity is all that different from that which exists off the coast of australia currently, but maybe it’s more resilient to bleaching.

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2019 8:35 am dispersal happens

other than a temporary boost in biomass and diversity, i don’t really see how this necessarily helps the reef...though, i suppose the mixing could generate novel forms that would be better suited to deal with the issues that plague the great barrier reef.

i wouldn’t imaging that the tongan diversity is all that different from that which exists off the coast of australia currently, but maybe it’s more resilient to bleaching.

I was disappointed as I read the article that it didn't address that, what makes them think this menagerie is different from, more likely to survive, than what's already been killed off?

Feral wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2019 9:52 am

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2019 8:35 am dispersal happens

other than a temporary boost in biomass and diversity, i don’t really see how this necessarily helps the reef...though, i suppose the mixing could generate novel forms that would be better suited to deal with the issues that plague the great barrier reef.

i wouldn’t imaging that the tongan diversity is all that different from that which exists off the coast of australia currently, but maybe it’s more resilient to bleaching.

I was disappointed as I read the article that it didn't address that, what makes them think this menagerie is different from, more likely to survive, than what's already been killed off?

and, tonga is not only in the pacific, but relatively close to australia...so, it’s likely that this isn’t a novel occurrence from an evolutionary perspective. the australian biota is likely quite closely related phylogenetically to the tongan biota, but i’m not sure.

i’d be more “impressed” if the raft originated further east, personally. say, from hawaii, the galapagos, or coastal latin america.