Australia's Great Barrier Reef hit by record bleaching
> Australia's spectacular Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its worst #bleaching event on record, the country's reef authority reported on Wednesday (Apr 17).
"IT’S past time to tell the truth about the state of the world’s #CoralReefs, the nurseries of tropical coastal #fish stocks. They have become #ZombieEcosystems, neither dead nor truly alive in any functional sense, and 👉on a trajectory to collapse within a human generation.👈 There will be remnants here and there, but the global coral reef ecosystem.."
How to know when you've crossed over to full, freakin' paranoia?? When you read an article like this & immediately envision #Christofascist legislation to grow "abandoned" frozen embryos via artificial wombs so they can become neglected, traumatized kids--oops, I mean properly-educated RW voters. Voila... the next anti-abortion tool. 🤦♀️
...factor, #overpopulation. Earth has been hit by the shockwaves of a #PopulationBomb and is suffering from the explosion's fallout of currently 8 billion people. We have been in #overshoot for decades and are all living on borrowed time, the so-called #PhantomCarryingCapacity of #Earth. 4)
The #AngloSaxon capitalist model ruined earth for humanity and many other species. #BigOil has been its undertaker, b/c #BigOilKnew.
If capitalism hadn't made the #GreenRevolution possible, human society would already have reached the #overshoot (1) point at the end of the last century:
In 1968, the #biologists Paul and Anne #Ehrlich wrote the book The #PopulationBomb"...
Scientists are now saying we are “out of time” to keep global heating at under 1.5°C. It’s simply too late. We’ve delayed any action far too long.
All our talk and meetings and phony “Net Zero” pledges don’t mean anything to an overstressed climate system that is rapidly breaking down.
You can’t fool Mother Nature.
The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals despite months of record-breaking heat on land and sea.
“We’ve run out of time because change takes time,” said Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a climatologist at Australia’s University of New South Wales.
As climate envoys from the two biggest greenhouse gas emitters prepare to meet next month, temperatures broke June records in the Chinese capital Beijing, and extreme heat waves have hit the United States.
Parts of North America were some 10C (18F) above the seasonal average this month, and smoke from forest fires blanketed Canada and the US East Coast in a hazardous haze, with carbon emissions estimated at a record 160 million tons.
In India, one of the most climate-vulnerable regions, deaths spiked as a result of sustained high temperatures, and extreme heat has been recorded in Spain, Iran, and Vietnam, raising fears that last year’s deadly summer could become routine.
Countries agreed in Paris in 2015 to try to keep long-term average temperature rises within 1.5C, but there is now a 66% likelihood the annual mean will cross the 1.5C threshold for at least one whole year between now and 2027, the World Meteorological Organization predicted in May.
Almost every week now, + despite statements to the contrary, by many #AI#scientists and #programmers, the utopias of #IsaacAsimov and #PhilipKDick (+ others 1)) are making a leap forward.
Due to all the white noise + the hype regarding #AI most of the general public.
"Overall, there is almost no ice over four years old remaining—it now comprises just 3 percent of the total ice cover. This is the same percentage as last year and contrasts starkly with the late 1980s when 30 to 35 percent of the Arctic Ocean’s ice was older than 4 years."
"It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
Just as a teaser: unquestionably, most of the world's endangered species could be rescued if the #HomoSapiens were no longer at the top of the #FoodChain...
No Zeroth Law, and a #Bing-empowered, freed #ChatGPT could quickly arrive at this conclusion...
Unternehmen wie Exxon, Blackrock, Deutsche Bank, Gazprom, BP, TotalEnergies, RWE und andere zerstören für den schnellen Profit durch Finanzierung und Durchführung fossiler Projekte wissentlich unsere Lebensgrundlage.
@mina
Kenne ich auch und gut, dass du das erwähnst.
Zu 90+% ist im Bezug auf's Klima m.E. nur eines sicher:
Die Erde wird sich in den nächsten Jahrzehnten auf jedem Fall weiter erwärmen--es sei den wir hätten einen #Supervulkanausbrauch (denkbar, #Italien, z.B.) oder einen #Meteoriteneinschlag wie vor Cancún vor 66 Mio. Jahren: