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Late #Spring in #Pakistan, & the government is already considering shutting schools for an early summer break due to the #heatwave.
Astonishing: the Gov is admitting temperature surges of 4-7C (7-13F) above the current heatwave are to occur in the coming few days.
This is what I kept warning! An avg rise of 1.5C means swings of 5-10C making that happen, and in heatwaves or cold snaps thats deadly!
https://www.dawn.com/news/1903252/schools-in-punjab-mull-early-summer-vacation-if-heat-persists
DAWN.COM · Schools in Punjab mull early summer vacation if heat persists
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@ProjectFearlessness #Pakistan replaced anywhere between 20-40% of its energy production with rooftop #solar in 2024 alone.
Its been so rapid, despite entrenched fossil lobbies, the Gov has had to cancel future coal and gas power projects, and renegotiate contracts with current ones to lower their prices or just shutter them
No amount of lobbying or narrative building can beat cold hard science and economics.
#Renewables are the future!
Quarks Data: #Klimakrise
Ist das noch Wetter oder schon Klimawandel?
Ist es heute nicht viel zu warm? Regnet es wirklich immer so viel? Hier kannst du nachschauen, ob das aktuelle Wetter in deiner Region noch normal ist oder durch den Klimawandel kommt.
Coole Visualisierung, die sich leicht auf Deine Stadt anpassen lässt!
https://www.quarks.de/umwelt/klimawandel/wetter-oder-klimawandel-2/#/berlin-tempelhof
quarks.de · Ist das noch Wetter oder schon Klimawandel?Ist es heute zu warm? Regnet es immer so viel? Hier siehst du, ob das Wetter in deiner Region noch normal ist und wie sich der Klimawandel schon zeigt.
Quiz on US CO2 emissions by federal administration since 1965.
- source: OWID
- 4-year spans: e.g. Nixon/Ford is one span
- 2nd term distinguished from 1st term: e.g. Clinton 1, Clinton 2
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1. Which admin oversaw the largest tonnage of emissions?
2. Which admin saw the largest aggregate percentage increase in emissions (sum of change for each of 4 years)?
3. Which admin saw the largest percentage drop?
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(Why 1965? No reason other than that I was born in 1964 
)
Been revisiting Prefab Sprout lately 
Here’s a #climateDiary adapted Horsin’ Around lyric from Steve McQueen 
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Pissin’ around’s a serious business
Last thing we want’s to wake up and bear witness
We were the fools who always presumed that
We’d carry on and fk the thermostat
We wonder why emissions earthshakin’
In need of a cry, the shoulders are taken
We deserve to be kicked
So badly
Selling ourselves up the swanee
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113175303993039170
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The Olympics have just gone by and with them, a major festival of the world’s fastest swimmers.
Most of them (probably) will have flown to get to Paris, which is a bit like pissing CO2 into the air. So here’s a thought…
The urge to pee typically arises when the bladder has about a third of a litre of piss in it.
So 3,400 pisses is about 300 US gallons.
And 300 gallons of piss in a standard Olympic swimming pool is roughly the same concentration of piss as atmospheric CO2
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Here’s an example output from @altbot.
I like that it does a much better image describing job than other bots I have seen and I like that it cares about how it runs, but it’s also a pretty good example of how measurement doesn’t help us on its own.
What does it mean that it took 0.133 Wh to generate this linked example? Here follows my attempt to put that in perspective. If I get stuff wrong please tell me
Fuzzies: What the Fuzzy!Altbot (@altbot@fuzzies.wtf)@sarajw@front-end.social The image features a LEGO figure standing on a wooden floor. The figure has a yellow face with brown hair, red glasses, and a cheerful expression. It is wearing a light blue sweater with a patterned design and beige pants. The figure is holding a pink cup in its left hand and a blue smartphone in its right hand. The background is slightly blurred, showing a wooden shelf with various colorful storage bins and containers, suggesting a playful or creative environment.
Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B
🌱 Energy used: 0.133 Wh
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Historical reference points: apparently I was still canning #loquats into June previously. We harvested over a kilo today (April 5th) and they are ripe.
Wildfires burning in Galloway and in Aberdeenshire and it's only April. This is not normal.
I'm extremely sad about the fire in Glentrool.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25066703.aberdeen-wildfire-tackled-amid-extreme-scotland-warning/
The National · Galloway forest fires expected to spread to neighbouring authority
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ok, tbh, AI language practice does actually sound like one good use of it. https://languatalk.com/try-langua#pricing
No deep understanding or nuance, plus stilted phrasing... but basic errors should be fine, like me forgetting to add が everywhere.
Huge wastage though! AI / LLM / Machine Learning services are massive carbon sources.
Especially with data centers in drought-prone areas, even a good use is still bad.
Hot areas cannot sustain AI: Computer calculations produce heat, which radiates away more slowly into already hot air.
Cooling AI data centers drains water -- especially potable / human-safe sources.
Reservoirs and water tables drop even faster than they would from extras in other human usage, evaporation due to global warming, and whatever third thing probably also happens.
Idk, I'm not a climate scientist. I just have climate grief.
languatalk.comLangua: the world's best AI platform for language learning • LanguaTalkBecome fluent fast through realistic speaking practice, comprehensible input, interactive transcripts, and scientifically-proven flashcard exercises.
Can the #FossilFuel industries be trusted with phasing out the extraction & burning of fossil fuels?
Does, e.g., the "middle aged" \ "retired" couple that owns a diesel camper van know anything about the chemical composition of diesel "fumes"?
Are they aware they're
animals? If they aren't aware that they live in an #ecosystem, how can they know, or care, about that which they don't understand?
Is their psychological misalignment, "disconnection" from #nature, THE problem?
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This is not right. #Loquat harvesting is a May activity here and it is barely April. My mulberries are still green and usually I am panicking between the two trees to get the fruit picked & processed for storage after we get tired of eating them fresh. I still haven't finished my tangerine tree either. This weekend was going to be drying herbs & fermenting mallow.
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The wisdom of the market:
The people who make cars have known for a very long time that their main product is not cars, it’s CO2 via coal to smelt metals. Doesn’t make much difference if there’s an internal combustion engine in it or a battery.
Many have decided to address this by making cars bigger and heavier.
In large part because the market does not want to price in something which it intentionally has ignored so that the secondary product is as profitable as possible
The wisdom of the market:
The people who make steel have known for a very long time that their main product is not steel, it’s CO2.
In aggregate, they have done close to nothing about it.
In large part because the market does not want to price in something which it intentionally has ignored in order to make the secondary product cheaper