Climate Change

[AK47bp]

Well that can’t be good.

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/sta...85331539820545

It’s happening folks, it’s really happening.

[Supermoon]

This is interesting. Almost all of the temperature spike this year can be attributed to a decrease in sulfur dioxide from implementing cleaner shipping fuels. Apparently we have been shielding ourselves from the true effects of climate change by just using other pollutants.

https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status...169930241?s=20

[From_the_NEK]

This is interesting. Almost all of the temperature spike this year can be attributed to a decrease in sulfur dioxide from implementing cleaner shipping fuels. Apparently we have been shielding ourselves from the true effects of climate change by just using other pollutants.

https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status...169930241?s=20

So start pumping out the SO2 until we get more CO2 capture plants online?

[old goat]

So start pumping out the SO2 until we get more CO2 capture plants online?

That was actually proposed earlier in the thread. SO2 is acid rain. Perfect example of our dilemma--dealing with climate change without making other things worse.

[PB]

Turns out, unintended consequences are consequential.

[J. Barron DeJong]

https://heatmap.news/economy/carbon-...-us-government

[SumJongGuy]

[PB]

I'm sure a rake is up to the task. I mean, after all, rakes solved the forest fire problem.

[sb]

https://beachgrit.com/2023/08/califo...fuel-industry/

[PB]

Bigger maybe, but also slower and mushier due to "added ingredients".

[neufox47]

https://beachgrit.com/2023/08/califo...fuel-industry/

The only post you should be making in this thread is to apologize for being so wildly wrong and denying the reality that was right in front of your face.

[SumJongGuy]

How's that "drill baby drill" working out for Alaska?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/glacial-br...y?id=102056193

[Bunion 2020]

Some good news

U.S. lab says it repeated fusion energy feat — with higher yield
By Ben Brasch
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August 6, 2023 at 8:57 p.m. EDT

A group of U.S. scientists say they have repeated their landmark energy feat — a nuclear fusion reaction that produces more energy than is put into it. But this time, they say the experiment produced an even higher energy yield than one in December that got international attention for making a major step forward toward the long elusive goal of producing energy through fusion.
10 steps you can take to lower your carbon footprint

This second achievement by researchers at the federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is another crucial step — albeit in a journey that may still take decades to complete — in the quest for an unlimited source of cheap and clean power. The successful effort was initially reported by the Financial Times on Sunday.

“We have continued to perform experiments to study this exciting new scientific regime. In an experiment conducted on July 30, we repeated ignition at (the National Ignition Facility),” Paul Rhien, a spokesman for the federal laboratory, said in a emailed statement. “Analysis of those results is underway, but we can confirm the experiment produced a higher yield than the December test.”

Rhien said the lab “won’t be discussing further details” of the July experiment until after more analysis. But the team plans to “share the results at scientific conferences and peer-reviewed publications as part of our normal process for communicating scientific results.”

What you need to know about the U.S. fusion energy breakthrough

Right now, nuclear power plants use fission, which creates energy by splitting atoms — the science at the center of the current blockbuster “Oppenheimer.” While nuclear power produces bountiful clean energy, it has long drawn concerns over safety, though it is getting renewed attention amid an international push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming.

Fusion, on the other hand, creates energy by merging atoms together. It’s long been a dream because it could create limitless clean energy without the radioactive byproducts of nuclear power or the risk of meltdown. Plus, the fuel to make fusion happen is simply heavy hydrogen atoms, which can be found in something that Earth has in abundance: seawater. No mining of uranium is required.


Researchers have produced fusion reactions before, but it has taken more energy to cause the reaction than they could get back. The key thing about these last two experiments is that they get more energy back than they put in to create the reaction. That efficiency has been the elusive holy grail of fusion research.

(Still, it is limited in the sense that they are considering the amount of energy required to power lasers that were used to smush the hydrogen atoms together — not the power that’s necessary to make the whole project work.)

The White House praised the work at the time of the first breakthrough in December.

“This is such a wonderful example of a possibility realized, a scientific milestone achieved, and a road ahead to the possibilities for clean energy,” Arati Prabhakar, the White House science adviser, said during a news conference.

U.S. announces milestone on fusion energy, sparking hopes for clean power

Still, scientists are far away from using the energy produced by fusion.


Researchers can only create a fusion reaction about once a day because they have to let the lasers cool and replace the fuel target. But a commercially viable fusion plant would need to be able to do it several times per second, Dennis Whyte, director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT, previously told The Washington Post.

[Peruvian]

Has Project 2025 been mentioned yet? It’s the conservatives attempt
to repeal many non-oil/gas regulations and primarily only support the fossil fuel industry if they prevail in the next presidential election

[skaredshtles]

Some good news

Fusion and ambient temp/pressure superconductivty...

COME ON, SCIENCE!!

[PB]

Has Project 2025 been mentioned yet? It’s the conservatives attempt
to repeal many non-oil/gas regulations and primarily only support the fossil fuel industry if they prevail in the next presidential election

I'm gonna need a much bigger face and palm.

[Trackhead]

How's that "drill baby drill" working out for Alaska?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/glacial-br...y?id=102056193

My friend owned a condo in the brown building, and I know the school teacher that lived in the house that is in the river. I lived in that city for six years. That event, know as a jøkulhlaup, happened a few times in the short six years I lived there. Some years bigger than others. This phenomenon is not unique to Juneau, and happens all over the glaciated world. The Mendenhall has been in retreat since the 1700s, and now is at a point that it is more prone to these events.

[ghosthop]

Fusion and ambient temp/pressure superconductivty...

COME ON, SCIENCE!!

You should have listened when I said to be skeptical about the ambient superconductivity. This does not look like a state of the art lab.



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...fice#xj4y7vzkg

[skaredshtles]

You should have listened when I said to be skeptical about the ambient superconductivity. This does not look like a state of the art lab.



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...fice#xj4y7vzkg

[SumJongGuy]

My friend owned a condo in the brown building, and I know the school teacher that lived in the house that is in the river. I lived in that city for six years. That event, know as a jøkulhlaup, happened a few times in the short six years I lived there. Some years bigger than others. This phenomenon is not unique to Juneau, and happens all over the glaciated world. The Mendenhall has been in retreat since the 1700s, and now is at a point that it is more prone to these events.

Yes, here's the rate of decline since the 1700s..



https://www.researchgate.net/publica...lacier_run-off

[The AD]

I know the school teacher that lived in the house that is in the river.

A teacher owned that house? Wow, Alaska must pay teachers well!

[Trackhead]

A teacher owned that house? Wow, Alaska must pay teachers well!

I don't know what their spouse did for a living, but all the housing in Juneau is super $$.

[Trackhead]

Yes, here's the rate of decline since the 1700s..



https://www.researchgate.net/publica...lacier_run-off

Point is, these glacial events, in particular, the Mendenhall event, is something those of us who lived there, have seen before. It's not a one off.

[skaredshtles]

Point is, these glacial events, in particular, the Mendenhall event, is something those of us who lived there, have seen before. It's not a one off.

Kinda begs the question why people would build in a place threatened by a "regular" disaster such as that?

[The AD]

Point is, these glacial events, in particular, the Mendenhall event, is something those of us who lived there, have seen before. It's not a one off.

Yeah, I agree with this sentiment, Trackhead. The media likes to portray everything that happens in the natural world right now as a product of climate change, and the reality is significantly more nuanced. Climate change is a very really threat, but it's not doing anyone any favors to overhype it. That's just more potential ammo for the deniers.