Kansas Crimson

Also moving over land is more expensive, which may curb demand. There is a fine balance between price and production (but you already knew that). Oil needs to be above around $60/barrel for fracking to break even

those damn, know-it-all scientists

fuck them for trying to save the world (right, mich?)

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/gen ... 67.article

Genetically engineered microbes convert waste plastic into vanillin

fyi, vanillin is the primary component in the extract of the vanilla bean

Ever since I clicked the link, my car keys will stick to my neck.

Somebody explain that to me.

lmao

Public Service Announcement: vanillin is to vanilla as flesh light is to sex. It’s one aspect……

Seriously though, the breakthrough is a really big deal not because of the product but the substrate, and the future direction that has been opened. For years we (organic chemists) thought that the only way to break down polystyrene and other plastics was to convert them to carbon dioxide and water by incineration. Compounds like vanillin are useful chemical feedstock.

the southern nevada water authority is paying $3/sq.ft. to replace grass with desert landscaping...up to 10,000 sq.ft./year

beats praying, that’s for sure

How many buildings in Miami have compromised foundations due to changing conditions underground/destabilization because of rising water levels?

it’s ok...desantis is gonna build a wall

on queue...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... plnews_d-1

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:30 pm on queue...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... plnews_d-1

It's just insane how dumb some people are.

The sea level rise to date is “really a nothing number”, said Martinez, who told Sweet: “You’re a little bit more on this CO2 side, I’m more on the actual measurement side.” Another commissioner, David Rice, said that “predicting the future is probably best done with a crystal ball” and speculated that global temperatures could change following several volcanic eruptions.

Cascadia wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:33 pm

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:30 pm on queue...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... plnews_d-1

It's just insane how dumb some people are.

The sea level rise to date is “really a nothing number”, said Martinez, who told Sweet: “You’re a little bit more on this CO2 side, I’m more on the actual measurement side.” Another commissioner, David Rice, said that “predicting the future is probably best done with a crystal ball” and speculated that global temperatures could change following several volcanic eruptions.

And they're county commissioners.

Maybe i should move to Florida where my intellectual peers (rivals?) seem to flourish.

TDub wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:56 am How many buildings in Miami have compromised foundations due to changing conditions underground/destabilization because of rising water levels?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/inv ... 778631002/

not good

fascinating listen/conversation

https://radiowest.kuer.org/post/megadro ... l-collapse

what in the absolute fuck?!?!

https://gizmodo.com/ron-desantis-signs- ... 1847176182

Florida just took a huge step backward in the clean energy revolution. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a piece of legislation into law earlier this week that requires Florida cities and towns to keep using fossil fuels and could strangle their ability to set clean energy goals and mandates...

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Sat Jun 26, 2021 7:14 pm what in the absolute fuck?!?!

https://gizmodo.com/ron-desantis-signs- ... 1847176182

Florida just took a huge step backward in the clean energy revolution. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a piece of legislation into law earlier this week that requires Florida cities and towns to keep using fossil fuels and could strangle their ability to set clean energy goals and mandates...

Desantis is the worst of the worst because he knows he is evil and revels in it. Taking money to murder people and cripple his own state's ability to compete in the future. Republicans have mostly all gone to a place where even the Visigoths would not. It is simple greed. Exxon-Mobile will funnel money to the promenade deck on the Titanic until underwater.

could go in the outdoors thread...oh well

https://www.nature.org/en-us/magazine/m ... servation/

Closing the Gap

We can stop the extinction crisis, but we have to fully fund conservation first.

Considering the long arc of human inquiry, the concept of biodiversity is relatively new. Charles Darwin laid the foundation when he expounded on natural selection and devised the evolutionary tree of life in the mid-19th century—yet biodiversity only joined the scientific lexicon as a well-developed concept in the 1980s. Recently though, the loss of biodiversity has accelerated. From 1970 to 2016 there was a nearly 70% average decline in populations of birds, amphibians, mammals, fish and reptiles. And by the year 2070, research suggests, the Earth could lose a third or more of its species if steps aren’t taken now to stop it. Many threatened species are the plants, insects, birds, microorganisms and marine life that underpin human survival.

That’s why scientists, conservationists and global visionaries have issued an urgent call to preserve the planet’s biodiversity, and financial expert Henry M. Paulson Jr. is among them. Doing so is possible, he insists, if governments and the private sector combine efforts to transform how economies work—to insert sustainability into the everyday business of the world.

Paulson brings a finance perspective to the question of how to save biodiversity. He was raised on a small farm in Illinois, where he grew to love nature. But he’s more commonly known as a former CEO of the investment bank Goldman Sachs and the former U.S. Treasury Secretary who helped stabilize the American economy after the financial crisis of 2008. He served as a member of The Nature Conservancy’s global board of directors and, more recently, he has led the Paulson Institute, a “think-and-do tank” with the goal of building a more sustainable world and fostering healthier ties between the U.S. and Chinese economies...

Hey I'll agree with that

Sweet!

and man I just realized how socialist that account is. Right there in the name. Got the hammer and sickle emoji and everything!

I also like her bangs.

Kinda pols boredy but I think too much truth to not be posted here: