Climate Change

[kuronosan]

It's okay, we still have Atlantic Salmon.

[Boyiee]

It's okay, we still have Atlantic Salmon.

It's better anyway!

[archibaldcrane]

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[6souls]

https://projects.capradio.org/tahoeland-shrimp/



An man-made solution, in the 1960's, intended to help boost the fish population in Lake Tahoe is actually harming the lake causing it to become murkier and is actually hurting the fish. too.

Lake Tahoe’s clarity has been declining since the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center began measuring it in 1968. When the group first started taking these measurements, you could see a white disk lowered into the lake more than 100 feet deep. In 2018, you could only see it as deep as about 70 feet.

For years, people assumed that was due to the tourism boom that began in the 1960s. But now researchers think that the shrimp, introduced around the same time, also may have played a large role.

Starting in the early 1960s, California and Nevada’s departments of Fish and Game (now the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Nevada Department of Wildlife) released mysis shrimp into Lake Tahoe in hopes that they would be a new and abundant food source for the lake’s fish.

Before the shrimp were introduced into Tahoe, zooplankton in the lake ate algae and sediment, clearing the water by doing so. Some fish also ate the zooplankton. Then the states introduced the shrimp, and everything changed.

The shrimp hate light, and because Lake Tahoe is so clear, they have to retreat to the depths of the lake during the day to avoid it. Then, each night, they undertake a round-trip migration as long as 2,000 feet to the top of the water to feed. Once the sun rises again, they swim back down.

Some fish in the lake do eat the mysis, but others, like the kokanee salmon, never get the chance to. Kokanee and other fish in the lake are sight feeders, which means they search out food by eye. These fish live in the upper parts of the lake, so when the fish can see, the shrimp are down below. When the shrimp are near the surface, it’s too dark for the fish to see and eat them.

After the shrimp migrate each night, they’re starving from the long journey. Because of this, they’ve managed to decimate their main food source in Lake Tahoe: native zooplankton.

These zooplankton were an important food source for the kokanee, and the size of those fish in Lake Tahoe has dropped dramatically since the shrimp were introduced. But these tiny creatures that the shrimp were devouring, called Daphnia, were also keeping the lake clean, researchers found out.

[optimisation]

Deforestation for palm oil in Indonesia plays a big role in climate change. It's driving animals to extinction and fueling genocide against indigenous peoples there.

[archibaldcrane]

Palm oil should probably be illegal.

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[optimisation]

Palm oil should probably be illegal.

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Besides helping fund genocide and deforestation, the way palm oil is put in junk food is obviously bad for the health of consumers.

[archibaldcrane]

Solid at room temperature oil is at a premium now that trans fats are banned for shelf stable foods.

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[Roranora]

Yes meeting our demands we've created for ourselves supplants living within the constraints of planetary physics.

That seems kinda how we got in this whole 415ppm++ mess anyway.

Have the primates failed the simulation? If not yet then when

[Roranora]

also our messiah Greta sails this very moment as we chucklefuck around; would you kindly neither attack nor canonize her

warning opinion piece linked
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...risis-activist

The attacks on Thunberg look like a kind of displacement activity rooted in fear that what she says might be true

However, the uncomfortable question for Thunberg’s supporters is whether their virtual canonisation of her has presented a gift to their opponents. Making a young and idealistic teenager the figurehead of a movement makes it too easy to dismiss the campaign as a whole as naive and idealistic. Indeed, the commentator Christopher Caldwell, who is supportive of the cause, worries that the rallying around Thunberg reflects a refusal to engage with complexity. “People have had enough of balance and perspective,” he wrote in the New York Times, “They want single-minded devotion to the task at hand.” That is exactly what Thunberg has come to represent.

also also as a dork cartographer of sorts her upcoming journey to Santiago will be fascinating. she'll be in the Americas for ~9 months, and it's not yet known how she will return to Europe

[6souls]

Brazil will reject $20 million of Amazon fire aid from G7.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/27/ameri...ntl/index.html

[kuronosan]

Brazil admits to basically doing this shit on purpose.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/27/ameri...ntl/index.html

More accurate now.

[Tymon]

Brazil will reject $20 million of Amazon fire aid from G7.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/27/ameri...ntl/index.html

But around an hour after his communications office confirmed that Brazil would reject the funding, Bolsonaro appeared to cast doubt on the matter. "Did I say that? Did I, Jair Bolsonaro speak?" he asked reporters outside the presidential residence.

Does Bolsonaro think he's DIO now or something?

[Roranora]

Greta and crew tied up in southern Manhattan this afternoon, completing the 15-day journey via sailing yacht from the south coast of England.

May she help inspire more people into action. Or at least roast some of the clueless old guard.

[archibaldcrane]

Now time for her crew to...

fly home

[Roranora]

two people yeah? and a leg was shaved off the round trip regardless; she might end up having to fly back to Europe next year anyway

we're hardly ready to reconcile air travel with meaningful emissions reductions while we've yet to reach peak miles flown

[Tokitoki]

Rora, you cloth diapering?

My wife is all about it for both the economic and environmental reasons.

[Salodin]

Ew.ew.ew.

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[Tokitoki]

I'M SAVING THE GD EARTH, SALAD.

It's not that bad. You throw them in a bag, just like you would a regular diaper, and we give them a power wash in our washer. You can also get a service to clean them, but we can't afford that shit. I've got a little spray nozzle hooked up to the water line to the toilet so I can rinse them in the toilet when the shits get more solid.

[BerenTebogo]

imagine using cloth diapers instead of disposable to own the mega corporations who would rather pay fines than conform to green regulations and who spend millions in campaigns to convince you that YOU are the problem and not them

i'd necc