J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄

This will address the obesity epidemic anyway.

We're not even talking about this any more! Antarctica too is experiencing record low sea ice extents during winter but we're being distracted by the more immediate threat of the US going rogue.

As a NZer running my own business and not aligned to the Trade Union movement, I absolutely concur with this article. Everything has gotten way worse with this new govt which is why so many are relocating to Australia.

Bad photo taken in a hurry, I'm sorry but you get the idea

Its ability to strategize in order to catch its prey is legendary.

You've not heard of the Portia genus of spiders then? They must be pretty close.

*first*. I would never fist any animal.

I'm a Materials Engineer working on green steel but my fist love is Zoology, so I'll counter your jumping spider with a Maratus personatus

How do people even get a mortgage on a house if it can't be covered by insurance?

Engineering ain't going to cut it. Our construction and materials are designed for the old climate and cannot simply be modified to enable them to cope.

Adaptation is easy to say but when you ask for the details, then it gets very messy, especially the part about moving away from affected areas to places that aren't. Immigration is about as popular as 💩 but mobility is going to be really important to ensure climate justice.

At this point it appears that we're not just providing an opening but rolling out the red carpet.

There's a lot of us that fit that description atm. Sorry, I can't help with the ice cream tho.

All these positive feedbacks - loss of clouds, loss of albedo from less sea ice, wildfires, ecosystems becoming net GHG emitters etc. seem to be kicking in at about the same time, which is now. And the worse it gets, the less people seem to want to do something to stop it.

Given the enormous number of opportunities we are gifting the virus and the fact that it is well able to jump species already, it will be a miracle if it doesn't.

The publisher might have other ideas, but I don't think you're going to beat that for a title.

Far more profit to be made from destroying Earth's habitability. Do these people have no children or what?

Presumably the risk of setting off tipping points is higher, the greater the overshoot.

So protecting free speech is also about protecting the right to blatantly lie and mislead consumers now? How far could that go?

We've been aware of this for decades. I personally was aware of it 40 years ago. As with anything relating to the fossil fuel industry, getting that message out there seems virtually impossible. People just don't want to know until it affects them directly.

Unfortunately not a rogue minister but rather representative of a govt that doesn't value anything that can't instantly be monetized. Our resources and fisheries minister openly loathes our unique dolphins, kiwi, skinks and frogs.

Recently, a very effective vaccine was developed that has started to be rolled out. Chlamydia shortens a koalas lifespan and reduces their fertility so hopefully koala populations will start to rebound as the vaccination program takes effect.

At that time we were just learning about the Chlamydia that ravages koala populations in Australia, so it was mainly about taking samples to determine how widespread the infection is, so insensitive but also justified intervention

Back then, someone climbed the tree, roped it up and chased or shook it down. Sounds worse than it was as they mostly just backed down and we're gently grabbed. Some went too high and fell but there were no actual injuries. Hope they have refined the technique since then tho.

I'm not a koala expert at all - this was an undergrad study - but they usually move trees at least and sometimes they move a km or more. These guys didn't even browse much which made for a very boring night of observation - obviously very stressed out as catching a koala is quite a mission.

Elephants are just the casualties that we can easily observe. Goodness knows how many less obvious creatures perished.

Seems like the tagging didn't negatively affect its hunting abilities then. Good to know. Tagged some koalas once and they didn't move for at least a day afterwards.

I know it's an unpopular opinion but, when you've tried something for such a long time and it doesn't work, perhaps it wasn't the right strategy after all.

The argument is not about climate denial, it's about whether keeping the hope alive that we can still avoid catastrophic climate impacts will promote climate action. 20 years of claiming that "there is still a small window of opportunity" suggests not.