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Side blog to secretagentofcaos. Pilotaparda on twitter/bluesky, fosfomifira on ao3. Art, artefacts, assorted boat media, The Terror, accidental Liebgott/Webster & assorted BoB, natural history, photography, politics & fandom.
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I first read āif you were lazy you would be having funā on your blog and it has genuinely been a life-changing piece of advice for me and my friends - Iāve said it to like four of my other executive dysfunction judies and without fail it earns a ten second silence followed by a single revelatory āfuckā
My dad and I actually ran into the speech language pathologist who told me that over 20 years ago at a town hall a few months backāshe is retired now, but still advocating for disabled students at IEP meetings and being a nuisance to school administrators. I thanked her for everything, and she was delighted to hear that I was passing her words along to other people who needed to hear them!
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adhd will have you fighting for your life to do beloved hobbies that bring you nothing but joy
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Heading into fall like šāØšāā¬āØš
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"Two and a half years ago, when I was asked to help write the most authoritative report on climate change in the United States, I hesitated...
In the end, I said yes, but reluctantly. Frankly, I was sick of admonishing people about how bad things could get. Scientists have raised the alarm over and over again, and still the temperature rises. Extreme events like heat waves, floods and droughts are becoming more severe and frequent, exactly as we predicted they would. We were proved right. It didnāt seem to matter.
Our report, which was released on Tuesday, contains more dire warnings. There are plenty of new reasons for despair. Thanks to recent scientific advances, we can now link climate change to specific extreme weather disasters, and we have a better understanding of how the feedback loops in the climate system can make warming even worse. We can also now more confidently forecast catastrophic outcomes if global emissions continue on their current trajectory.
But to me, the most surprising new finding in the Fifth National Climate Assessment is this: There has been genuine progress, too.
Iām used to mind-boggling numbers, and there are many of them in this report. Human beings have put about 1.6 trillion tons of carbon in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution ā more than the weight of every living thing on Earth combined. But as we wrote the report, I learned other, even more mind-boggling numbers. In the last decade, the cost of wind energy has declined by 70 percent and solar has declined 90 percent. Renewables now make up 80 percent of new electricity generation capacity. Our countryās greenhouse gas emissions are falling, even as our G.D.P. and population grow.
In the report, we were tasked with projecting future climate change. We showed what the United States would look like if the world warms by 2 degrees Celsius. It wasnāt a pretty picture: more heat waves, more uncomfortably hot nights, more downpours, more droughts. If greenhouse emissions continue to rise, we could reach that point in the next couple of decades. If they fall a little, maybe we can stave it off until the middle of the century. But our findings also offered a glimmer of hope: If emissions fall dramatically, as the report suggested they could, we may never reach 2 degrees Celsius at all.
For the first time in my career, I felt something strange: optimism.
And that simple realization was enough to convince me that releasing yet another climate report was worthwhile.
Something has changed in the United States, and not just the climate. State, local and tribal governments all around the country have begun to take action. Some politicians now actually campaign on climate change, instead of ignoring or lying about it. Congress passed federal climate legislation ā something Iād long regarded as impossible ā in 2022 as we turned in the first draft.
[Note: She's talking about the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Act, which despite the names were the two biggest climate packages passed in US history. And their passage in mid 2022 was a big turning point: that's when, for the first time in decades, a lot of scientists started looking at the numbers - esp the ones that would come from the IRA's funding - and said "Wait, holy shit, we have an actual chance."]
And while the report stresses the urgency of limiting warming to prevent terrible risks, it has a new message, too: We can do this. We now know how to make the dramatic emissions cuts weād need to limit warming, and itās very possible to do this in a way thatās sustainable, healthy and fair.
The conversation has moved on, and the role of scientists has changed. Weāre not just warning of danger anymore. Weāre showing the way to safety.
I was wrong about those previous reports: They did matter, after all. While climate scientists were warning the world of disaster, a small army of scientists, engineers, policymakers and others were getting to work. These first responders have helped move us toward our climate goals. Our warnings did their job.
To limit global warming, we need many more people to get on board... We need to reach those who havenāt yet been moved by our warnings. Iām not talking about the fossil fuel industry here; nor do I particularly care about winning over the small but noisy group of committed climate deniers. But I believe we can reach the many people whose eyes glaze over when they hear yet another dire warning or see another report like the one we just published.
The reason is that now, we have a better story to tell. The evidence is clear: Responding to climate change will not only create a better world for our children and grandchildren, but it will also make the world better for us right now.
Eliminating the sources of greenhouse gas emissions will make our air and water cleaner, our economy stronger and our quality of life better. It could save hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives across the country through air quality benefits alone. Using land more wisely can both limit climate change and protect biodiversity. Climate change most strongly affects communities that get a raw deal in our society: people with low incomes, people of color, children and the elderly. And climate action can be an opportunity to redress legacies of racism, neglect and injustice.
I could still tell you scary stories about a future ravaged by climate change, and theyād be true, at least on the trajectory weāre currently on. But itās also true that we have a once-in-human-history chance not only to prevent the worst effects but also to make the world better right now. It would be a shame to squander this opportunity. So I donāt just want to talk about the problems anymore. I want to talk about the solutions. Consider this your last warning from me."
-via New York Times. Opinion essay by leading climate scientist Kate Marvel. November 18, 2023.
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Cat with her Kittens (1913) by Julius Adam; Julius Anton Adam
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reblog for sample size !!
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This is round 3 of the polls.Ā All other polls in this round can be foundĀ here.
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The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there's an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.
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Which autumn frog are you?
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I donāt drink coffee because it makes my heart race, pupils dilate, all kinds of no fun side effects. Tea is usually okay, but today I found out matcha is simply too much for me. One medium sized matcha latte and I was flying. I am heartbroken
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me actually
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I would like to reassure the old lady at the bar who brought her knitting project while having her coffee that Iām only looking her way because sheās goals not anything else thx
#life goals#sometimes I think about doing this with my embroidery#but light is usually not the best at my favourite place#crafty me
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snoopy of the day
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Submitted by @sky-the-snail-fanatic
#yeah#under a very generous definition of singing#English Portuguese Italian and some French songs too#basically if itās a 1960s San Remo hit it was on the radio during my childhood or my mum's#thus I can sing along to it#(horribly)#polls#texto
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