#climate chane

[mindblowingscience]

The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that the world will cross this key global warming limit in about a decade.

It "sets out in very, very stark terms where we are, but it also signals that there is still an opportunity with significant global effort to meet that 1.5 goal," Simon Stiell, head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), told AFP in Copenhagen.

"That window is narrowing, but the window is still there," he said, adding that "everyone" should work to fight global warming.

"To be more specific, we know that 80 percent of emissions are generated within the G20. That is the very, very clear starting point.

"They have 85 percent of global GDP. So the technology, the financial capacity to address the crisis resides there."

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[vilesbian]

Next week it's gonna be 60° in January.

[kaythefloppa]

Wild Kratts: Our Blue and Green World Trailer.

Underneath the cut for those who consider it to be spoilery, but we have a trailer for the one-hour special, Our Blue and Green World, airing April 1st, 2024.

The Kratt brothers disagree on what's better; blue oceans or green forests. Aviva takes on the role of referee to demonstrate how oceans and forests work together to make our living planet, just like Martin and Chris need to keep working together. It's up to the gang to get Martin and Chris back in sync in time to save planet Earth from Zach and Paisley's villainous plans.

This special was first mentioned back in May of 2023 during an interview with Martin Kratt heralding the show's premiere of its 7th season. The original title was Blue and Green: The Living Earth before it was chaned to our Blue and Green World. The episode will feature climates and habitats corresponding with the Kratt's "blue and green." With it, will come the introduction of new Creature Power Suits: The ones we have seen thus far in the trailer are Indri Power, Green Anaconda Power, and Blue Whale Power.

My thoughts:

HOLY SHIT THE BLUE WHALE SUIT

HOLY SHIT THE BLUE WHALE SUIT

HOLY SHIT THE BLUE WHALE SUIT

*calms down.*

Ok but I'm starting to see a weird pattern in the PowerSuits in this season. For some strange reason, they have to retrofit the wearer's mouths to match the ACTUAL anatomy of the animal the suit is based off of. They did it with the Wild Pony and the Mountain Goat Power Suit and both of them were.... ugh. Now they did it with the Blue Whale Suit and to be fair, while I hate that particular feature, it's not enough to make me hate the suit. In fact, I kinda like it more because of how silly it looks (Martin is the perfect person to wear this suit tbh). Still though, I wish they designed it like the Crocodile, Hippo, or Puffin Suit where the giant mouth is simply an attachment that doesn't move while the wearer speaks.

For those who don't know, Indris are the largest species of lemur in the world (alongside Diademed Sifakas). They are the only animals besides humans that can find and use rhythm using "wailing songs" to communicate. They're also critically endangered due to slash and burn of their habitats and poaching for their flesh as delicacies (yeah, very odd that Gourmand isn't here, but I digress). There's an estimate to be less than 10,000 left in the wild and are expected to have a population net decrease by 80% within the next 30 years... yeah, considering that they're endemic to Madagascar, not a very good sign. I didn't even know what an Indri was until reading the article, and if I'm not the only one who had no clue about these guys, it's probably definitely a good sign that they're getting some spotlight in this show.

The Indri Power Suit looks so goofy, but again, something about how silly it looks just makes me appreciate it all the more. I... weirdly expected it to be way bigger like the Puffin Suit, but again that's just me.

I am a huge fan of how they designed the snake-inspired Creature Power Suits in the show. But the Anaconda Creature Power Suit... holy shit.

LOOK AT IT /POS

Look at the markings! Look at the green! Look at the patterns, and the color schemes! Chris FINALLY got a green Creature Power Suit to activate! Our boi won! It's also a pretty clever callback to the Amazon special where Chris met the Anaconda (I really hope the Power Disc for this suit is green because god that would be so aesthetically pleasing).

Ngl, if the old flash games were still on the website, and this was one of the Power Suits I could earn for my character, I'd play it in a heart-beat.

I'm really interested to see the Zach/Paisley team up. This season already started to utilize her better by giving her another solo appearance, and now we're seeing a 1 on 1 team up with her and another villain. I was always gunning for a Paisley/Donita teamup but this works too. They're both very similar characters that can bounce off each other in similar, yet different ways (I actually headcanon that they're related - second cousins to be exact - because of those similarities). The final battle is gonna be kickass.

If you were to tell me without any context at all that this was a screencap from the upcoming WK feature film (that this episode is often mistaken for), I would believe you. Because HOLY SHIT! The linework, the lighting, the hues, AND the shading! I am becoming more and more grateful for the 2-year long hiatus - the animators needed time to cook and they fucking COOKED. For an extended TV episode, this is pretty damn impressive.

People don't talk enough about this, but fun-fact: A lot of the animators of this show had experience working for Disney. Erika Worthylake was one of the artists on this show, doing several beta designs for animals such as wild ponies and salmon sharks. In 2019, she was the lead designer for Anga, one of the new characters in Disney's The Lion Guard (which, much like Wild Kratts, was animated in Toon Boom). Ben Balistreri had collaberated with the Kratt Brothers and Luc Chamberland in 2007 to work on the show's pilot episode, creating several different designs for the animated characters. Ten years later, he became the executive co-producer of Tangled: The Series. Kendal Brouet, who animated A Creature Christmas, worked on The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder in 2022. Just to name a few. It's just a fun little thing that comes up in the back of my mind whenever the topic of WK animation comes up, and this instance of animation is so fucking good that I HAVE to talk about it, because I have MAJOR respect for these guys, and if there were ever moments in the show that remind me "Oh, this slaps," I just remember what these talented artists worked on through the years and it clicks together nicely in my brain.

According to Whrokids, this episode is gonna have a runtime of 58 minutes. I found this screenshot of someone who did far more searching and sleuthing for new episode content (they were the ones who found this trailer actually). I'm not sure how valid this particular screenshot is, but if this is the case, then this will be the longest episode of Wild Kratts in history, and will be the closest thing we get to a Wild Kratts movie (until the actual WK movie is released in theaters).

Fucking. Hyped.

[quaranmine]

tumblr book report time

okay, I finished Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams earlier today! I did say in the post a few hours ago I only had about 40 pages left. I also reread about another 80 or so pages that I read last year just to refresh my memory. So, I'm now going to do the (potentially) depressing task of listing out the endangered species features in this book, and seeing if any are still alive. I don't know yet how depressing or exciting this post might be.

Madagascar

This part of the book is from a trip in 1985, where they went to try and find the aye-aye lemur. I am pleased to report that the aye-aye is still alive, although still endangered. Woo-hoo! The aye-aye is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and is so unique it has no taxomic family (no related species.) They are considered evil, or harbingers of death, in folk belief, so they face danger from being hunted and killed.

Indonesia

In this chapter, they travel to the island of Komodo to look at the Komodo dragons. Komodo dragons, thankfully, are still alive, but still endangered due to the fragility of their habitat. They're at risk of volcanoes, earthquakes, habitat loss, fire, tourism, loss of prey from poaching, and illegal poachnig in general. Climate chane and sea level rise also threaten their habitat. There are 1,380 mature individuals left in the wild and 3,400 total.

Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre at the time of the book's publishing)

In this chapter, they end up seeing two animals. They traveled to the country to see the northern white rhinocerous, but also ended up seeing mountain gorillas too because, as Adams says, "It is very hard to go all the way to Zaïre and not see them." Mountain gorillas, although listed as endangered, are still around. The World Wildlife Fund lists their population as just over 1,000 individuals. The specific area that Adams and Carwardine visit in the book, Virunga National Park, has seen an increase in population. When they visited in the late 80s, there was a population of 320, but as of 2010 there were 480.

Here's where my post actually gets sad. The animal that Adams and Carwardine actually planned to visit in the DRC was the northern white rhinocerous. In 1988 at the time of the trip (or perhaps 1990 at the publishing of the book), there were 22 individuals left in the wild, all in Garamba National Park. Twenty two. Douglas Adams writes about the sad state of their population, and compares it to the success of the subspecies the southern white rhino. He ends that section of the book with the sentence: "The point is, we are not too late to save the northern white rhinocerous from exctinction."

Feeling very energized after reading this, I had set down my book and pulled out my smartphone to google the northern white rhinocerous. The bad news is, the northern white rhino is functionally extinct in 2023. There are only two left in the entire world, and both are female, mother and daughter. Garamba National Park has suffered years of turmoil from politcal unrest, wars, insurgents, and poachers. In 2008, there were no northern white rhinos left in the wild and only 8 left in captivity.

There's some tentatively good news. Before the last male died in 2018, his sperm was collected. The remaining two living females cannot carry babies anymore, but the daughter's eggs were gathered. There's a team of scientists trying IVF, and since 2019 they've managed to get 24 embryos from one female and two males. They're planning on using another southern white rhino as a surrogate. Will this save the species? Who knows. Any babies that result will have to be inbred--either siblings or half-siblings. No genetic diversity remains in the subspecies. But it is interesting to me since this sort of thing used to not be possible at all for endangered species.

New Zealand

The first birds mentioned in this chapter is the Kea, which is also endangered, but this chapter isn't really about them. It's about the Kakapo. The Kakapo are probably my favorite animal described in this book, because they seem so silly. It's a wonder they never managed to go extinct at any point in history. I love them. Fortunately, there's good news for Kakapo: they're doing better!

Actually, I saw a tweet about them literally earlier today:

They're still considered critically endangered, but this is good news. As of 2023 there are 248, which is a significant increase in the ~70 that existed when the book was written. Yay, kākāpō! They're very cute.

China

Here is where the post gets sad again. In this chapter, Adams and Carwardine visit the Yangtze in search of the baiji river dolphin. It has been 21 years since the last confirmed sighting of the baiji, and 17 years since they were considered extinct after no trace of them could be found. I find this particularly sad, because part of the chapter in this book has Adams and Carwardine visiting with the Tongling Baiji Conservation Committee, and their construction of a nature reserve on the river. The end of the chapter seems hopeful based on this hard work, so I also feel quite sad for all these people in 1989 who cared so much and were still unable to save these animals :(

Mauritius

This is the final chapter of the book, and covers quite a few animals. The original intention was for them to be looking for the Rodrigues fruit bat. These bats are endangered, but with increasing population. By the time of the book's publishing in 1990, the population had just passed the 1,000 mark. The Philadelphia Zoo website says with breeding programs, there are now 20,000 left in the wild.

Another species mentioned is the Mauritius Kestrel. In 1974, there were only 4 individuals left. Now, thanks to breeding programs, there are about 400 left in the wild as of 10 years ago. That's amazing, but it is a bit worrying still--in 2005, there were 800 in the wild. So there was a wildly successful reintroduction and now the population is dipping again. But if they survived it once, I think we can help them survive it again.

Another bird mentioned is the pink pigeon. As of the publishing of the book in 1990, there were less than 10 in the wild. Now, thanks to conservation efforts, there are approximately 480. They've suffered some loss of genetic diversity, though.

Finally, the echo parakeet is mentioned. As of the time of the book's publishing, there were less than 15 remaining in the wild. I am happy to say that as of 2020 there are more than 800 birds left in the wild, and their status has been moved from endangered to just vulnerable--a step up!

That brings me to the end of my tumblr book report. I was actually mildly surprised and happy to see that only two of the species mentioned in the book are extinct/functionally extinct, and that the others were saved from the brink. I seriously thought while googling some of the birds at the end that they would be gone, but fortunately they're still around.

Goodnight! I spent way too long writing this!

[brotherbo]

The Test of Time

Yiddish classes are over and it’s time for me to head on in my travels. The program wrapped up for me with a week of in-person classes b’h. As the end of many things are, it felt bittersweet to look back on the experiences I’ve had over the past four weeks in and out of class: getting to know other yiddishists, new poets, writers, restaurants and more. Directly following the closing ceremonies and lectures I packed up my stuff, checked out, and began a journey back in time to a place I once called home.

Sam Klein Roche and I coordinated with a number of other friends and alumni of Ma’ale Gilboa to head up together for a shabbat at Yeshiva. In the end there were five bochrim from five different classes spanning almost ten years of time spent at yeshiva: Sam Klein Roche, Zev Mishell, me, Adam Chanes, and Elie Leria. All of us had at some point learned with at least one or two of the other people as well, and all of us had strong connections and associations with the Gilboa, the kibbutz and yeshiva. In many senses it felt incredibly weird to be back in a place where time seems like it stands still year after year. The rebbaim hardly look older than they did five years ago when I was studying there, the same wretched smell haunts the Panak (coffee corner), and the views are still just as breathtaking. How can it be that so much has happened in my life, that I’ve traveled to so many new places, met many new people, taken on new hobbies, advanced in others, almost completed a couple of University degrees and that Rav Tal is still giving out source sheets filled with the Rashba and Ritva’s commentaries? They say it’s the 36 hidden righteous people which keep the world on it’s feet. So maybe it’s only right that the burden of my galavanting should be balanced against something so stable on the cosmic scales. I’m forced to reconsider biases and assumptions that have been necessary for me to live comfortably in my current lifestyle.

The radical lifestyles of those who spend the majority of their energy pouring over texts and ideas which perpetuate traditional hierarchical structures with rigidly assigned roles based on gender and class also seem to be less concerned with the material culture and rampant consumption that fuels the “free world,” though the very same principles of “freedom” most frequently leave the very same marginalized populations behind on a global scale. Checking my own climate anxiety I felt ashamed even to indulge in the delight of travel, relying on fossil fuel giants to selfishly enjoy what other cultures and places have to offer; what my fellow torah-teaching rabbis don’t have to worry about having not developed a taste for the thing simply because their life orientation values that which already lies directly in front of them – the gemara. Couple my one or two flights with the many that my fellow “progressive” identifying peers from University who are bound to go into consulting (close to some 50%) will take through the next two-three years and ask yourself who’s racked up a larger tab when it comes simply to fossil fuel consumption? “One has to put bread on the table!” “How many loafs?” – I wonder.

I don’t see myself checking in as a full-time kollel bochur anytime soon but I’m certainly provoked by the questions that arise from looking back at something with new perspective and experience.

On Tuesday Sam and I will fly to Switzerland and be hosted by my family in Lugano and Bern. I know it will be a great time catching up with them and hanging around the beautiful nature of Switzerland.

[blalockcassidy53]

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[zombiearkham]

wesbenscoter - The Anthropocene Extinction

Hello? Hello? Is anyone there?

[jennifersminds]

Declare climate emergency in Australia

Sing petition here

https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1041

[butasformeblog]

Time Running Out To Prevent Future Crises

"Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak urged residents to be prepared, saying there was no timeline for when evacuations might be ordered. At a news conference in Carson City, he noted that ash was falling on him even though the fire was about 20 miles (32 kilometers) away.

“I’m standing here and I’m getting all ash particulates on my jacket, even,” the governor said. “This is serious, folks.”

[shivroyslut]

Kind of sickening that whenever something terrible happens in white countries it always trends number 1 on tumblr but when hundreds of people are dying from numerous sucide bombs in Sri Lanka in churches leading to over 200 deaths and over 400 injured still counting, it’s not even on top 10.

The country went through such a bad civil war they cannot handle such a tragedy right now, yet everyone is still only talking about the burning down of one church with no casualties in the white country.

With the divides between the Tamil minority and the Sinhalese majority in Sri Lanka, the churches were one of the only places that united these two groups.

So please start conversations on this issue, keep them going. All these religious attacks need to stop. Not only in white countries but everywhere.

[garudabluffs]

Powell’s revolutionary watershed map, which also shows the 100th meridian line.

How the West Was Lost                

In America’s first climate war, John Wesley Powell tried to prevent the overdevelopment that led to environmental devastation.

“.... a vertical line, technically an isohyet, ...approximating the 100th meridian. This startlingly simple line forced its viewers to visualize the American nation not in terms of political boundaries, but by its climate: It delineated the arid West from the forested East, land that received 20 or more inches of rain from that which received less. He chose 20 inches as his dividing point because that was the minimum necessary to conduct conventional agriculture without irrigation. The map illustrated forcefully how much of the American West, with some notable exceptions in the Pacific Northwest, was unfarmable               Thus the deniers won the first climate war. Their victory, however, would yield bitter fruit: Human-induced environmental catastrophe lay not far in the future.                                                                                                           Powell made some mistakes, but his most basic assumptions proved eerily accurate. He estimated that only 40 million arid acres could be recovered, which is very close to the total under cultivation today, including those under deep-well irrigation on the Great Plains. And Powell, though wrong about the overall quantities of fossil water contained in aquifers, at least fully grasped that it had taken millions of years to accumulate, and that using it indiscriminately is akin to borrowing capital that cannot be repaid. So much of what he preached— most broadly, the necessity of ecological stewardship — remains prophetically to the point.                                                                                 The deniers beat Powell. Will they beat his successors?              

The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell’s Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West.

[therandomfandomme]

America, when I say your left isn’t left, I mean your left IS NOT left. To prove my point, I looked up the points of the VVD (Folkparty for Freedom and Democracy), which is currently the biggest party in the Netherlands and is usually seen as right-leaning centric. These are their standpoints: 

Giving entrepreneurs the chane to create jobs

As much people as possible to participate on the job market

Tackle criminals harshly and heavy punishments

Support for our policemen and other first aid personel

The same good care for young and old, rich and poor

Keep our care accesable also for the future

Safe support in the region, not Europe

Dutch language and culture central during intergration

A strong government for a strong economy

Taxes lowered for middleclass and smaller companies

Fight climate change on a global level

Nuclear power as part of sustainable energymix

Rewarding good schools and teachers

Further education with job perspectives

A strong government that protects the Dutch people

Interim elections possible in municipalites (idk how to translate this fully, but it’s in regard to mayors and how cities and towns are governed)

A strong EU to solve the big problems

Military missions to protect Dutch interests (-> in regard to the EU)

Build, build, build! (-> in relation to the housing issue)

Fight traffic jams

Appreciation for our farmers, gardeners and fishers

Room for economy as well as nature

A country in which you can be free to be who you are

Fight each form of discrimination

I want to note that I literally translated these from their website. I do not support every thing on this list and they will not get my vote, beause they are a right-leaning centric party that is pro-capitalism. 

To repeat my first point: America, your left, isn’t left

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

It is a little unnerving how a news story about Taiwan experiencing its worst drought in fifty six years immediately pivots to talk about how important the semiconductors the country produces are for the world's technology.

I mean I know it's linked and all but there's something jarring in "Resevoirs are down to seven percent in places - and this means production of semiconductors might slow! Oh also farmers are getting no water."

Course it does go on to talk about a few other important things (like the, uh, chaning climate, if you've heard of that) which is fine, it's just that right out the gate it was ECONOMY. SUBSIDIES. MONEY. and less, uh, a really rainy country is drying up?

Fear the future indeed.

(It's aggavrating obviously because everything is linked these days, and a choice between dying of thirst because all the water left or starving to death because the economy crashed and you have no money (and because the farmers couldn't farm because all the water left) isn't that much of a choice. These days, you're fucked all the way down!)

[mauitime]

We Didn't Publish a Story About Youth Climate Activists to Be 'Nice.' We Did It Because It's Necessary.

We Didn’t Publish a Story About Youth Climate Activists to Be ‘Nice.’ We Did It Because It’s Necessary.

Eighth-graders from Haleakala Waldorf School demonstrate for climate action at UHMC on Sep. 20

While I was at the climate action demonstrations on Friday, someone told me that it was “nice” of MauiTime to have published a story about three local eighth-grade climate activistswho walked out of school to demonstrate for climate action (“We Can Make a Difference,” Sep. 19). It felt like a…