Rui Brito @britoca@qoto.org
Joined Jun 2020
Portuguese report on the impactful water usage of the intensive irrigated monoculture plantations in Algarve.
Well, this is significant.
https://phys.org/news/2021-12-shifting-conferences-online-carbon-footprint.html
"By showing that the frequency of occurrence scales as an inverse power of the severity of the event, and assuming that this relationship holds at higher magnitudes, we are able to estimate the probability that an event larger than some criteria will occur within a certain interval of time in the future. For example, the probability of another Carrington event occurring within the next decade is ∼12%."
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2011SW000734
"Running speed was calculated based on the relationship between the animal's hip height - estimated from the footprint length - and stride length. The stride length from one of the trackways was 5.6 meters.
One of the dinosaurs ran 31.7-44.6 kph - among the highest speed ever estimated for a dinosaur"
Is this a good thing? I don't even know anymore. Cheap, clean energy seems like carte blanche to destroy whatever is left of this planet.
Like reborn phoenixes, pyramid schemes keep popping up. Same old trick, new clothes.
https://medium.com/geekculture/are-cryptocurrency-games-pyramid-schemes-53355579547f
We're going to need something stronger than Covid-19
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fossil-fuel-consumption-by-fuel-type
Joined Jun 2020
