It was reported in the New York Times (gift link) that U.S.
  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    221·
    9 days ago

    This like the flouride study frustrates me. Butting heads with idiots is so annoying. It is not a question of is it happening its a question of how best to deal with it. It also drives me nuts that I feel like the intractible folks fighting it when they come around jump to geo engineering.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      42·
      8 days ago

      A chain - including the logical type - is only as strong as its weakest link. e.g. if I compost a fantastic massage in ym bread (sic x4), but autocorrect mangles it all to hell, then what message did I end up conveying (regardless of what I may have intended)?

      As a global society, it is starting to look like we failed. We did not consider the fundamentals as being important, so we were vulnerable to take-over, both from without and even more from within. Those who obstinately refuse to learn from history are doomed forever to repeat it.

      The world will go on though, with or without any particular nation, or even species (i.e. us).

  • Inucune@lemmy.world
    82·
    9 days ago

    I’m an engineer. I’ve built a system to try and start fixing this, but no one likes the numbers… https://youtube.com/@narcimalgae

    40 gallons a person minimum. Water holds 8 times the gasous CO2 as the atmosphere it is exposed to. (Oxygen is 1:1) Algae pulls the CO2 out of the water and converts it to solid biomass. Oxygen is offgassed. This is grade school photosynthesis. 1 lb dry algae is 4lbs gasous CO2 sequestered. Don’t be a dunce and convert it right back to biofuel or you’ve wasted a lot of time and energy.

    • tpyo@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 days ago

      I’ll check your videos out later, I’m just on break.

      I’m sure your videos cover it, but what would you suggest to do with the biomass?

      • Inucune@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 days ago

        I want to try converting my stock to algenic acid. Really any process that doesn’t result in burning it and putting the carbon back in the atmosphere. I personally don’t grow in a clean enough environment for food-algae, and recommend anyone wanting to grow algae for food to grow regional vegetables instead.

        • tpyo@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 days ago

          That’s really interesting; I’ll do some reading about that when I’m home. Thanks for the reply!

  • Zicket@piaille.fr
    41·
    9 days ago

    @silence7
    This illustration intrigued me, and after doing a bit of research, I came across this article by its author, who explains that his prediction was correct, but for the wrong reasons. I find such honesty wonderful.
    However, his 1975 prediction should no longer be used to show that scientists had correctly predicted global warming. The author himself points out that he was just lucky.

    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-017-1927-y