The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? (interview with Peter Watts) ( thereader.mitpress.mit.edu )
The interview discusses the potential for civilizational collapse due to climate change and other environmental issues. Watts points out that the solution lies not in technological fixes, but in a fundamental change in human behavior. He argues that the current trajectory of maximizing short-term gains is unsustainable and that...
What's the Point? | Do the Math ( dothemath.ucsd.edu )
Centennial Total Solar Irradiance Variation (2022) ( www.mdpi.com )
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REPORT: Greenwashing the Skies: How the Private Jet Lobby Uses “Sustainable Aviation Fuels” as a Marketing Ploy ( ips-dc.org )
2023 summer warmth unparalleled over the past 2,000 years - Nature ( www.nature.com )
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? ( thereader.mitpress.mit.edu )
When the water runs dry: Why France is freaking out over a tiny Swiss dam ( www.politico.eu )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15351530...
Possible climate transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under greenhouse warming - Nature Geoscience (2019) ( www.nature.com )
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Musings on the Nature of Technology ( thehonestsorcerer.substack.com )
Dyer: Unprecedented warming could be ocean feedback ( lfpress.com )
Atmospheric constraints on changing Arctic CH4 emissions ( www.researchgate.net )
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The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia’s water ( grist.org )
Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like ( www.theguardian.com )
Dr Henri Waisman, at the IDDRI policy research institute in France, said: “Climate change is not a black or white question and every tenth of a degree matters a lot, especially when you look at the socioeconomic impacts. This means it is still useful to continue the fight.”...
Paleocene/Eocene carbon feedbacks triggered by volcanic activity - Nature Communications (2021) ( www.nature.com )
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Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere ( www.theguardian.com )
Flexible quasi-2D perovskite solar cells with high specific power and improved stability for energy-autonomous drones - Nature Energy ( www.nature.com )
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#277: At the limits of monetary possibility ( surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com )
Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2 (2023) ( www.science.org )
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Lack of Orders Slows Down the German Economy ( www.ifo.de )
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’ ( www.theguardian.com )
He mentiond climate change and pollution , well worth a read IMO...
Venezuela loses its last glacier as it shrinks down to an ice field ( www.theguardian.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15159065...
Overshoot: Cognitive obsolescence and the population conundrum [PDF] ( mahb.stanford.edu )
Americans Are Racking Up 'Phantom Debt' That Wall Street Can't Track ( www.bloomberg.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15144297...