The Environmental Watchdog MasterThread

OccultHawk · 03-24-2020, 07:16 AM

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Great Barrier Reef hit by third major bleaching event in five years
The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its most widespread coral bleaching event, according to scientists who say record warm temperatures and warming oceans are threatening its fragile corals.

Just in case people are running out of things to worry about.

OccultHawk · 04-28-2020, 05:47 AM

https://www.theguardian.com/environm..._b-aplnews_d-1

Meteorologists say 2020 on course to be hottest year since records began

TheBig3 · 04-29-2020, 07:50 AM

re:Japan and coal

The minor upshot here is that Japan is running out of people, and sea-level rise will take them fairly early.

**Frownland** · 04-30-2020, 12:01 PM

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Predicted To Fall Nearly 8%

Going the other way is obviously ****ty, but say that emissions drop very low or all the way to zero: does anyone know if the climate correct itself in a way that could negatively impact us and the environment? I don't think that that's a realistic scenario but I'm curious about it.

OccultHawk · 04-30-2020, 12:11 PM

Man-made emissions or all emissions in general?

**Frownland** · 04-30-2020, 12:15 PM

Manmade including agricultural.

OccultHawk · 04-30-2020, 12:40 PM

It’s an interesting question. Heat being allowed to move out of the atmosphere would create change and even long term positive change could be disruptive in the short term. Climatology and meteorology are so damn complicated I bet there’s not a person or even a computer model that could answer that question with certainty.

OccultHawk · 05-21-2020, 08:08 AM

The most powerful cyclone ever recorded in the Bay of Bengal is ****ing the subcontinent right now

OccultHawk · 06-21-2020, 09:08 PM

Alarming heat scorched Siberia on Saturday as the small town of Verkhoyansk (67.5°N latitude) reached 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, 32 degrees above the normal high temperature. If verified, this is likely the hottest temperature ever recorded in Siberia and also the hottest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle, which begins at 66.5°N.

OccultHawk · 07-26-2020, 07:46 AM

National Parks Are Getting Trashed During COVID-19, Endangering Surrounding Communities

National parks across the country are seeing an influx of first-time visitors who are leaving litter and refusing to social distance.
ANDREW R. CHOW

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Ellie Mora has been running down the Santa Paula Canyon in Ventura County, Calif. on a weekly basis for years. She likes the serenity of the desert: the waterfalls that mist into placid green pools and the burnt orange wildflowers that bloom in the spring. For many like her, the park serves as a calming escape from the stresses and smog that can accompany everyday life in Southern California.
But this spring, following the onset of coronavirus, the park’s condition started to drastically worsen. Litter accumulated on the sides of trails and at watering holes. Graffiti materialized on rocks. Parked cars stretched for more than a mile near the bottom of the trail, and hundreds of people splashed maskless in the canyon’s pools.
“I can’t tell you how much pee and feces were littered along the trail,” Mora said. “It’s disgusting.”
The situation got so bad that the U.S. Forest Service shut down the trail in mid-May, citing the crowds and the trash. Since then, Mora and a team of volunteers have been working long days to clear out the litter and paint over the graffiti.
“It’s been decimated by people who have never hiked before, coming back there with no morals,” she says. “It’s insane to see people acting the way they have, like the end of the world.”

Goddamn

04-28-2020, 05:47 AM	#682 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	https://www.theguardian.com/environm..._b-aplnews_d-1 Meteorologists say 2020 on course to be hottest year since records began __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

04-30-2020, 12:01 PM	#684 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Greenhouse Gas Emissions Predicted To Fall Nearly 8% Going the other way is obviously ***ty, but say that emissions drop very low or all the way to zero: does anyone know if the climate correct itself in a way that could negatively impact us and the environment? I don't think that that's a realistic scenario but I'm curious about it. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.* d e a f b o x

04-30-2020, 12:11 PM	#685 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Man-made emissions or all emissions in general? __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

04-30-2020, 12:15 PM	#686 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Manmade including agricultural. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

04-30-2020, 12:40 PM	#687 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	It’s an interesting question. Heat being allowed to move out of the atmosphere would create change and even long term positive change could be disruptive in the short term. Climatology and meteorology are so damn complicated I bet there’s not a person or even a computer model that could answer that question with certainty. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

04-29-2020, 07:50 AM	#683 (permalink)
TheBig3 killedmyraindog Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Posts: 11,172	re:Japan and coal The minor upshot here is that Japan is running out of people, and sea-level rise will take them fairly early.

05-21-2020, 08:08 AM	#688 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	The most powerful cyclone ever recorded in the Bay of Bengal is ****ing the subcontinent right now __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

06-21-2020, 09:08 PM	#689 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Alarming heat scorched Siberia on Saturday as the small town of Verkhoyansk (67.5°N latitude) reached 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, 32 degrees above the normal high temperature. If verified, this is likely the hottest temperature ever recorded in Siberia and also the hottest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle, which begins at 66.5°N. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html