Andrew MacDougall

Also concords with early earth having a much higher sea level. One of the coolest geological discoveries of the past 10 years is that the geological water cycle is unbalanced and the mantel is absorbing the ocean at about 1m sea level equivalent per million years, early earth was a water world.

Only read the abstract but sea floor weathering (which is briefly mentioned), is an enormous negative feedback and can act as an emergency break to the warming climate.

If I recall correctly only kicks in when sea floor temperatures get to ~30C but grows exponentially.

For the moon base they want to build on the lunar South Pole, that’s major selling points is … checks notes… perpetual sunlight.

Eventually can be a very long time. Fredrick Singer, one of the OG climate deniers, lived to be 96 and only died because he was also a COVID denier.

People who pay attention to the news really underestimate how many people pay almost no attention to current affairs.

When an event does break through the speed and depth can be astonishing. When Trump threatened to annex Canada somehow every knew instantly.

A man kneeling on a glacier and working on a laptop next to a stupid, fallen-over weather station, and with a US Army Blackhawk helicopter in the background.

I'll be on sabbatical starting January 1, 2026, and if anyone is looking for a guest speaker for department seminars, I'm happy to discuss possible dates. Reskeet widely! 🧪⚒️

Motherfucking wind farms…

The Transformer Crisis: An Industry on the Brink Facing unprecedented lead times and skyrocketing costs, the transformer supply chain crisis threatens the backbone of the electric power industry, driving

It's hard for me to figure out why there's so little evident public attention to the global shortage of transformers--costly gizmos that are key to the functioning of the electric grid--that is not only a problem for our infrastructure today, but is actively impeding the transition to renewables.

Clearly the system is now falling apart as living memory of WWII fades away.

While the great powers have never really followed the law (that’s why that gave themselves vetos on the security council) they have always pretended to follow the law. Hence all the often absurd linguist workarounds.

The end of formal declarations of war clearly coincided with the ratification of the Charter of the United Nations. Since the UN Charter outlaws offensive warfare and forbids acquisition of territory by force all wars need to legally be in self defence or to aid in the defence of another.

Peak Chinese oil demand is going to be an enormous shock to a world system built around the scarcity of oil.

Our bananas growing in a little cluster at the top of our banana tree, which is maybe 5 feet high. They're unripe but will be picked pretty soon.

Our banana tree growing in our kind of foyer-ish-type space. You can see the bananas themselves peeking out from the top.

I'm here to tell you it's possible to grow bananas in New England in your home.

I'm also here to tell you that purely in terms of time/labor it's the dumbest thing I've ever done, and that people who think indoor farming will ever make a major contribution to the global food system are nuts.

I have a feeling if you showed these to people on the street and gave them 3 guesses about the artist. Most wouldn’t guess Hitler but when you told them the reaction would be ‘yeah sounds about right’ not ‘oh my god’.

Paintings by Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia

Well I think we can all agree that in the art talent department Trump is definitely worse than Hitler.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paintin...

Pakistan's quiet solar rush puts pressure on national grid Pakistanis are increasingly ditching the national grid in favour of solar power, prompting a boom in rooftop panels and spooking a government weighed down by billions of dollars of power sector debt.

Good morning #abpoli, obvs more pipelines are the answer to all problems but would you put all of your investments into a new one? In 20 years, more value or debt?

If you can't see similarities for the fixture in this story, you may not understand the dynamics.1/2

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Which derivatives from the Ancient Greek word for rock. (Originally rock oil but the oil part is mostly dropped except for a basically silent L)

Reminds me of:“Unconditional Surrender is a peaceful transfer of power”

Crypto’s most practical use is committing crime over the internet.

Holding a servers hostage? Demand payment in crypto!

Want to buy drugs over the internet? Pay in Crypto!

Want to hire and assassin? Just pay with Crypto!

Crypto is backed up by crime, like fiat currency is backed up by taxes.

Even at its peak in mid series TNG, like every third episode was terrible. The freedom needed to explore ideas and make good Trek also means a lot of ideas don’t work and an episode just falls on its face

That’s why the episodic Trek works better. We can all just pretend the bad ones didn’t happen

1750 is not really the most fair starting point, since land use in the Americans was a fraction of what it was pre-1492. So a lot of the 1850 to 1900 LUC was reclearing of land that had been intensely modified by people prior to the destruction of new world peoples.

They were created by an act of the provincial legislature and are supposed to act like the professional bodies that regulate engineers, doctors and other professionals. They are supposed to be strictly politically neutral.

The relationship between academic Earth Science and Environmental Science departments and professional geoscience organizations has been strained to put it mildly.

Canada is one of the few countries that has tried to professionalize the geosciences. While the intention was good the result has been kind of a disaster, with these bureaucratic organizations with the internal dynamics and politics of HOAs.

And link to study:

For the Maritime crowd.

Cars, planes, trains: where do CO₂ emissions from transport come from? Transport accounts for around one-fifth of global CO₂ emissions. Three-quarters of this is from road transport.

A bit out of date but in 2018 aviation was about 12% and shipping about 11%.

Passenger vehicles and trucking made up 45% and 29% respectively.

Shipping and aviation would only be the most per unit craft.

ourworldindata.org/co2-emission...

I still can't get over the fact that "panels you point at sky and make electricity from sunlight with no fuel is the cheapest source of energy" needed explanation.

Photos: The Scale of China’s Solar-Power Projects As the Trump administration's “big, beautiful bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent ...

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill hurts American industry and our competitive edge.

But it’s a huge gift to China.

www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Well until the Atlantic closes. Plate Tectonics is slow but forever is a very long time.

I wonder if there is a limited where an ocean becomes too narrow and shallow to allow a western boundary current to form?