I am aware you already have a good profile picture now! but you may as well have these squid offerings since i made em :)

It’s the worst thing I’ve seen all day but it’s not worse than the human brain organoid computer from a few weeks ago

If you mean climate change, then yeah, obviously humans do influence the climate. In terms of individual scale events (weather, big storms) there’s not any existing technology that exists that can cause a single targeted big storm event.

There is no technology on earth that can make storms of this scale. Cloud seeding doesn’t add any water to the cloud. At most, it causes a very slight increase in rain. If you accidentally cloud seed “too much” you nucleate lots of ice crystals within the cloud, making many tiny ice crystals (which don’t precipitate at all).

They didn’t seed this cloud - but it wouldn’t have done anything if they had.

it’s a feminist movement, in backlash to misogyny and pro-natalism in South Korea (it’s becoming more widespread, though). The 4Bs are the “four no’s”:

• no dating men
• no sex with men
• no marriage with men
• no childbearing

It gets a lot of pushback and is called selfish etc. but women are very angry & upset that the government only sees them for their reproductive use, and it’s reasonable to not want to date someone who doesn’t view you as human.

So much beautiful snow photography (stock footage etc) comes from Wisconsin. It’s well known for snow and snow research. Sad to see the landscape changing over there

Surprised to see none of the comments mentioning the 4B movement

It’s a concern already for low-lying atoll islands like those in the Maldives and Tuvalu. Half of Tuvalu’s capital city is expected to be flooded by 2050, but they’ve been seeing the effects for years unfortunately.

It really depends where you are though - my town is at around 100 m elevation and about 80 km inland. When I was a kid, my mum used to have nightmares about tidal waves coming over the horizon because she was so scared of sea level rise.

Where were you when I was doing a research project on wheat!? I’m not based in agriculture science at all, but supposedly, wheat in South Africa has the lowest carbon footprint in the world, but we still didn’t recommend that the client used wheat from S. Africa because it didn’t seem sustainable and the yields were low. I had no idea it was that bad, though.

Interesting, thanks! Whilst supposedly simple, I think it might be pretty counterintuitive to some people. I’ve often seen that dryland farming is lower carbon footprint per kg of food produced (i.e. per bag of flour), but carbon footprint isn’t all that matters to the environment (and I’m not entirely sure I trusted those sources anyway).

EDIT: Thought more about it and definitely agree even in addition to the carbon footprint thing. When doing carbon footprint calculations, people don’t take into account the possibility that the land could be used for something much better (i.e. rewilding).

I’ve never heard anyone complain about dry land farming before! I’ve had a brief Google and all the sources I can find are pro dryland farming because it’s more sustainable/resilient/uses less. is there analysis somewhere that says otherwise?

I’ve been keeping an eye on the ensemble since early last week - at one point it was forecast that Cornwall was going to get 6 inches of snow! Snow is notoriously tricky to forecast unfortunately

I saw the bakeries one first - fooled me into thinking this was sincere haha

In Sweden they have kebab pizza (kebab meat, iceberg lettuce, raw onions, salad cream) - it’s actually great but it’s horrific microwaved. They also have “banana curry” pizza (did not attempt)

Jasmine green tea (occasionally with oat milk) or oolong is usually my favourite. In terms of English breakfast tea: definitely Yorkshire Gold!

I wouldn’t add a stick of cinnamon - it’s way better freshly ground to make proper masala chai :)

hard agree on the siesta idea but instead of 12-3 I’d say stop work at 3-6 instead, or work mornings and evenings (with lots of time in between)

in summer, the hottest part of the day can be 4-6pm (because there’s a big lag between the sunniest part of the day and the ground heating up, which then heats the air) - also Spain has a weird timezone (GMT+2 despite being west of us, so their sunrise was 5 mins earlier than ours, but was at 7am local time, and ours was at 5:05am)

It’s frowned upon because the “solutions” to overpopulation are immoral. Over population causing climate change is an idea funded and perpetuated by large companies who do not want to take blame.

If the UK stopped producing carbon emissions tomorrow, I promise it would make an enormous difference: we’re the 17th largest CO2 emitter despite having a relatively small population.

This is because: 1) average CO2 consumption of a person varies a lot by lifestyle: living more sustainably does matter, and, 2) the largest contributors to climate change are fuel companies, not individual people: many countries have much smaller carbon footprints (both total and per capita) because of their political choices. The best solution to climate change is political change and climate accountability, especially on the global scale.

If you’re interested in up-to-date data on this sort of stuff, Zach Labe has some really great figures on his website: zachlabe.com

(I mean, the figures aren’t great because of the ramifications, but they’re clear and concise)