#Burning fossil fuels

[malenipshadows]

   “Concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane have continued to rise despite an urgent need to reduce them.”  [Excerpted from The Washington Post.com.]     Last year was the fifth hottest ever recorded on the planet, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service announced Tuesday [01-10-2023]. It was part of an unabated broader warming trend as humans continue to pump massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.    Extreme heat waves in Europe, Asia and the United States — which stemmed in part from more than a century of burning fossil fuels — helped drive 2022’s unusual warmth, researchers found.    Europe sweltered through its hottest summer on record and its second-hottest year overall, researchers said. Pakistan experienced catastrophic flooding as a result of extreme rainfall. In February, Antarctic Sea ice reached its lowest minimum in 44 years of satellite records.    The year “2022 was yet another ... of climate extremes across Europe and globally. These events highlight that we are already experiencing the devastating consequences of our warming world,” Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus, said in a statement announcing the annual findings.  [Remainder omitted.]

[petrichor-enthusiast]

Crying alone in my silent room at night bc of old politicians that are fucking up the world with their greed just cause they won't be here to see the consequences of their actions and are dooming the next generation is such an autistic sense of justice slay for me.

[digitalfossils]

Solid Fuel Advisory Service ad (1980)

[thebusylilbee]

lads im not gonna lie... it's kinda difficult to not feel anxiety and despair over the climate situation...

[maeamian]

Haha cool and good, LA's got its first ever Tropical Storm Watch issued, Baja California's gonna get it worse but we're gonna get a hurricane or at least the remnants of one. Extremely good and normal climate we've got.

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

kill me

[consolecadet]

Every day is so hot and humid and every day my heat tolerance feels worse

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

His vehicle was one of dozens to spontaneously burst into flames in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in an alarming phenomenon blamed on poor fuel quality.

"It all happened so quickly," the 42-year-old told AFP from his bed of the day, last week, he thought he might die.

"People were scared. Even though they tried to help us there was no extinguisher, no sand, no water and, yes, the fire grew to a point where nobody could do anything."

Only the burnt shell of the car remains in the parking area of the taxi company Faria had worked for(..)

P.S. Poor quality products, supply shortages, stagnation, hyperinflation, corruption, repressions and poverty are synonyms of socialism and communism...! 

Latin American countries that do populist socialist as well as ultra-right experiments and listen to stupid Russian advice will always be poor...! Socialism, communism, populism, corruption, dictatorships of religious fanatics, ultra-right dictatorships and friendship with Russia DOESN'T WORK...! If you want to be happy and rich, then stay as far away as possible from all this political scum described above... 

[indizombie]

More than half of the total amount of oxygen in our atmosphere is created by creatures in the ocean. At the same time, oceans store 50 times more carbon dioxide than what's currently found in our atmosphere. The warmer the ocean gets, the less CO2 it can store. It's a vicious cycle: the warmer it gets, the less our oceans can protect the planet from even more extreme weather events. If temperatures keep increasing at their current speed, scientists believe many shellfish such as mussels and snails will not survive. That's due to ocean acidification: if the CO2 content in the seawater increases, the PH level in the water changes. The increasing acidity hampers the creation of the chalky shells of the animals. This throws entire biospheres off-balance, and could threaten entire economic sectors, such as the breeding of oysters and mussels. The rising temperatures in the atmosphere triggered by the burning of coal, oil and gas also change ocean currents as the water gets warmer. This can already mean death for many creatures, such as corals. Corals live in symbiosis with colorful algae which help feed them. The warming of the water can lead to algae death, which means more stress for corals, leading to many losing their color, which is also known as coral bleaching.

Tim Schauenberg, ‘How to save our high seas from overfishing, pollution’, BBC

[sinister-yet-satisfying]

Couldn’t agree more.

[tenth-sentence]

As a higher-impact, short-acting greenhouse gas, many want to cut its output to give us time to deal with the actual culprit – new carbon being put into circulation by the burning (or fugitive emissions) of fossil fuels.

"Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy" - Matthew Evans

[codesquire]

VPN issues at work...

I'm guessing the VPN wants to take an early holiday.

[savetheearthfromglobalwarming]

Ano ang mga nakakadagdag sa ating greenhouse gases?

Ang greenhouse gases ang mga gas na nahahanap natin sa ating atmosphere. Ito ang mga gas na nagkukulong sa init at nagagawa nila ito dahil mayroon silang property na kaya nilang magabsorb ng infrared radiation o net heat energy tulad ng init ng araw. Halimbawa ng greenhouse gas ay ang ating binubuga na hangin, Carbon dioxide.

Ang mga paktor na nakakadagdag sa ating mga greenhouse gases na nagreresulta sa pag-init ng mundo o Global Warming ay:

- Pagsunog ng fossil fuels. Sinabi ko nga na ang carbon dioxide ay isa sa mga greenhouse gases. Maliban sa ito ang ating binubuga tapos huminga, ang pagsunog din ng fossil fuels ay nakakagawa ng carbon dioxide.

- Deforestation. Ito ay ang pagputol ng mga puno sa maraming bilang at isahan lamang. Nakakaapekto ito sa Global Warming dahil ang mga puno at halaman ay tinuturing carbon sinks—mga natural na nasa mundo na kumukuha ng carbon dioxide upang gamitin ito at maiwasang mailabas sa atmosphere. Matututunan naman natin sa elementary palang na ang mga halaman ay kumukuha ng carbon dioxide at pinapalitan ito, ginagawang oxygen na ating hinihinga. Kung walang mga puno at halaman, nababawasan ang tumutulong sa atin upang mabawasan ng malaki ang ating carbon dioxide na nagagawa.

- Polusyon. Ang pagkalat ng basura ay nakakaapekto din sa buhay ng mga carbon sinks. Isang halimbawa na lamang ay ang mga microalgae na nakatira sa ibabaw ng mga dagat. Ang mga ito ay kumukuha ng 30% ng greenhouse gases at kapag na-acidify ng polusyon ang dagat, namamatay ang mga microalgae na ito.

- Transportasyon. Ang mga sasakyan ay naglalabas ng greenhouse gases. Ang mga galing sa tambutso ng mga sasakyang ito tulad ng mga truck, barko, airplane, motor, at iba pa, ay ang greenhouse gases. Ito ay dahil parte na din ng pagsunog ng fuel ang mga ito. Gumagamit sila ng fuel at bilang kapalit ay umaandar ang kotse, ngunit naglalabas ng usok na resulta ng nasunog na fuel. Sa mga truck lamang, 23% ng greenhouse gases ang linalabas nito.

- Agrikultura. Ang mga fertilizer, mga machine, at iba pang ginagamit para sa agrikultura ay nakakaapekto sa ating mundo. May relasyon ang lupa at Global Warming sa aspeto ng paglabas ng greenhouse gases o nitrous oxide ng lupa na ginagamitan ng mga non-sustainable na paraan sa agrikultura.

-Iba pang mga pinagmulan ay ang mga factory, electricity generation sa pagsunog ng karbon, at ang ating mga building na may aircon, lutuan sa restaurant, at iba pang mga appliances.

[genderfluidcrowley]

The parallel between global warming and heat death

[cat-eye-nebula]

Humans need to stop glorifying toxic smoke. Everything that you set on fire will create thousands of toxins in the smoke! People that create smoke are poisoning themselves and the air and therefore poison others (also children and animals!).

[zooophagous]

So why do you hate the advertising industry?

Hokay so.

Let me preface this with some personal history. It's not relevant to the sins of the advertising industry perse but it illustrates how I started to grow to hate it.

I wanted to be a veterinarian growing up, but to be a vet you basically have to be good enough to get into medical school. I do not have the math chops or discipline to make it in medical school. I went into art instead, and in a desperate attempt to find some commercial viability that didn't involve moving to California, I went into graphic design.

I've been a graphic designer for about seven or eight years now and I've worn a lot of hats. One of them was working in a print shop. Now, the print shop had a lot of corporate customers who had various ad campaigns. One of them was Gate City Bank, which had a bigass stack of postcards ordered every couple months to mail to their customers.

Now, paper comes from Dakota Paper, and they make their paper the usual way. Somewhere far, far from our treeless plain there is a forest of tall trees. These trees are cut down and put on big fossil fuel burning trucks and hauled to a paper mill that turns them into pulp while spewing the most fowl odors imaginable over the neighboring town and loads the pulp up with bleach to give it a nice white color.

Then the paper is put on yet another big truck and hauled off to the local paper depot, then put on another big truck and delivered to my print shop, where I turned the paper into postcards telling people to go even deeper into debt to buy a boat because it's almost summer. The inks used are a type of nasty heat sensitive plastic that is melted to the surface of the paper with heat. Then the postcards are put on yet ANOTHER truck and sent to the bank, which puts them on ANOTHER truck and finally into the hands of their customers, who open their mail and take one look at the post card and immediately discard it.

Heaps and heaps and literal hundreds of pounds of literal garbage created at the whim of the marketing team several times a year. And thats just one bank in one city.

I came to realize very quickly that graphic design was the delicate art of turning trees into junk mail.

And wouldn't you know it there are a TON of companies that basically only do junk mail. Many of them operate under the guise of a "charity," sending you pictures of suffering children or animals and begging for handouts and when they get those handouts the executives take a nice fat cut, give some small token amount to whatever cause they pay lip service to, and then put the rest of the cash right back into making more mailers. "Direct mail marketing" they call it.

Oh but maybe it's not so bad, you can advertise online after all. Now that there's decent ad blocker out there and better anti-virus ads usually don't destroy your computer anymore just by existing.

Except now when I search for the exact business I want on Google it's buried under three or four different "promoted search items" tricking me into clicking on them only to shoot themselves in the foot because I searched for the specific result I wanted for a reason and couldn't use those other websites even if I felt like it.

And now we have advertising on YouTube and on every streaming service, forcing more and more eyes onto the ad for the brand new Buick Envision that parks itself because you're too stupid to do it on your own.

Oh thats ok maybe I'll get Spotify premium and go ad free and listen to some podcasts- SIKE we have the hosts of your show doing the song and dance now. Are you depressed and paranoid from listening to my true crime podcast about murdered and mutilated teenagers? That's ok, my sponsor Better Help can keep you sane enough to stay alive and spend more money.

It's gotten so terrible that now you have content farms, huge hubs of shell companies that crank out video after video to get more and more precious clicks. Which if the videos were innocuous maybe that wouldn't be so awful except now you have cooking hacks that can actually burn your house down and craft hacks that can electrocute you being flung into your eyes at the speed of mach fuck so some slimy internet clickbait jockey doesn't need to get a real job.

It of course goes without saying that animals are also relentlessly exploited by clickbait companies that will put them in compromising situations on purpose to create a fake fishing hack video or even just straight up killing them for sport by feeding small animals to a pufferfish that rips them apart for the camera.

And all of this, ALL of this doesn't even touch how adveritising is the death of art in general. Queer topics, any kind of interesting art, any kind of sex or substance use topics are scrubbed clean and hidden at the behest of advertisers.

Sex education, a nude statue, topics such as racism or sexism or bigotry in general have tags purged or hidden from search, even life saving information about SDTs or drug use, because if someone saw that and complained then Verizon might sell fewer tablets and we can't fucking have that.

Conservative talking heads often bitch and moan that they're being censored on social media. The stupid part is, they're right! They are being censored! But it's not by a woke mob, it's by ATT and Coca Cola not wanting their adspace sharing screen time with their stupid fucking opinions.

However, they won't ever figure that out, because the talking heads they get their marching orders from like Tucker and Jones ALSO rely on the sweet milk flowing from the sponsorship teat and they aren't about to turn on their meal ticket so they have to come up with even stupider shit to say for the train to continue rolling.

I managed to rant this far without even getting into the ads I see for the beauty industry. The other day a botox ad described wrinkles as "moderate to severe crows feet" as if wrinkles are a symptom of a fucking serious disease! Like having a flaw in your skin is a medical problem that you need thousands of dollars of literal botulism toxin to fix! I was incandescent with anger.

Advertising is a polluting, censoring, anti educational and anti art industry at it's very core. It destroys human connections, suppresses human thought and makes us hate our own bodies. It ads no value, actively detracts from value, and serves no real purpose and I believe it should be almost if not entirely banned.