welcome back my friends to the show that never ends unless its actually the apocalypse
Though she works on fundamental oceanic changes every day, the Dutkiewicz study on the impending large-scale changes to plankton caught her off-guard: "This was alarming to me because if the basis of the food web changes, then . . . everything could change, right?"Alin's frank discussion of the looming oceanic apocalypse is perhaps a product of studying unfathomable change every day. But four years ago, the birth of her twins "heightened the whole issue," she says. "I was worried enough about these problems before having kids that I maybe wondered whether it was a good idea. Now, it just makes me feel crushed."
Alin's frank discussion of the looming oceanic apocalypse is perhaps a product of studying unfathomable change every day. But four years ago, the birth of her twins "heightened the whole issue," she says. "I was worried enough about these problems before having kids that I maybe wondered whether it was a good idea. Now, it just makes me feel crushed."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-point-of-no-return-climate-change-nightmares-are-already-here-20150805#ixzz3i2fqCtQO
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 6 August 2015 13:42 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/60-000-antelope-died-four-days-no-one-knows-why-n421056?cid=sm_fb
― sleeve, Saturday, 5 September 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link
sad but the first thing i thought of was http://www.clickhole.com/article/6-amazing-pictures-deer-melting-we-published-looki-2614
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 5 September 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
well this is the scariest & most apocalyptic 90 seconds i've ever seen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVPB3HI9Wg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 14 September 2015 04:40 (eight years ago) link
(^^^ this was taken TONIGHT, hours ago)
I could smell the wood smoke watching that. yeesh
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Monday, 14 September 2015 05:16 (eight years ago) link
i know this was posted on other threads but: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2015/08/24/everything-is-on-fire-and-no-one-cares/
― the late great, Monday, 14 September 2015 05:19 (eight years ago) link
jesus christ that video is fucking terrifying
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 14 September 2015 11:47 (eight years ago) link
it looks like some insane fairground ride, especially with the reversed 'ANDERSON SPRINGS' sign
― jordan amavero (imago), Monday, 14 September 2015 11:54 (eight years ago) link
I live not that far from Sandpoint, mentioned in that Morford article, and know people who live there and such. I don't know what he's missed in the past but basically every August since I moved here in 2006 has had a defined "fire season" with at least a couple of days of smoke and haze. This year is definitely dramatically worse, but still.
Where I live isn't woody enough to have actual fire dangers, but prevailing winds and so much of Washington on fire led to horrible air quality for a couple of weeks, like measurably hazardous and at least one day it was the worst in the country by far. A couple of weeks ago it was super dire - sun blotted out, eyes watering when you went outside, constant smoke smell, burning lungs, not being able to see houses a couple blocks away, etc. Thankfully we have central air conditioning and could just hole up inside for a couple of days, though we did have to change the furnace filter which had basically turned very dark gray.
I swear there's something in human evolution that makes you edgy and stressed when it constantly smells like smoke, like you're constantly preparing to flee for your life.
― joygoat, Monday, 14 September 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
The basic tenor of the article was extremely heightened fear and anxiety, verging on paranoia, but on the other side of the coin, humans seem to have a very limited ability to imagine a future as anything other than a duplicate of the past. That article challenges that myopia and tries to convey a sense of a drastically changed and intimidating future, and even if it isn't accurate in detail (predictions seldom are) I'm glad it tries to penetrate our complacency about climate change.
― Aimless, Monday, 14 September 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
take your pick:
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2015/12/50-doomiest-graphs-of-2015.html
― sleeve, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 03:47 (eight years ago) link
"animal mass mortality events, 1940-2012" is always the one that freaks me out the most, but lately I've been reading a lot of trend studies about future heat waves in the Middle East and India making large areas uninhabitable.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 04:57 (eight years ago) link
oh, you mean this one?
http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gQP9Miz3nAA/VXh4L7oYBfI/AAAAAAAAbyw/zXSCYHUqZ2E/image%25255B7%25255D.png?imgmax=800
― sleeve, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 23:57 (eight years ago) link
If India is the 2nd most populous nation on earth and a large percentage of its land area becomes "uninhabitable", I wonder what is expected to happen to the hundreds of millions of people who currently inhabit the land that becomes "uninhabitable"?
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 00:26 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/science/intolerable-heat-may-hit-the-middle-east-by-the-end-of-the-century.htmlhttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/26/extreme-heatwaves-could-push-gulf-climate-beyond-human-endurance-study-shows
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 02:30 (eight years ago) link
bump
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/
― sleeve, Monday, 4 December 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
i always do the 'i'll probably be dead by then' math when i hear these stories
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 4 December 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
I always think about my wife's granddaughters :(
― sleeve, Monday, 4 December 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
fortunately i have no offspring or roots and don't intend to, too young
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 4 December 2017 22:02 (six years ago) link
human innovation will always find a way to outpace ecological degradation. that's why the fertile crescent is such a great place for farmers right now
― Karl Malone, Monday, 4 December 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
Monkeys in Florida have deadly herpes, so please don’t touch them
― sleeve, Friday, 12 January 2018 02:59 (six years ago) link
alternatively: floridians, keep touching those monkeys
(honorable exceptions for alfred and neanderthal obv)
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 January 2018 13:00 (six years ago) link
http://mimg.ugo.com/200901/22094/cuts/Klaus_288x288.jpg
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 12 January 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
wheeeeee
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced the symbolic Doomsday Clock a notch closer to the end of humanity Thursday, moving it ahead by 30 seconds after what the organization called a “grim assessment” of the state of geopolitical affairs.“As of today,” Bulletin president Rachel Bronson told reporters, “it is two minutes to midnight.”In moving the clock 30 seconds closer to the hour of the apocalypse, the group cited “the failure of President Trump and other world leaders to deal with looming threats of nuclear war and climate change.”The organization — whose board includes 15 Nobel Laureates — now believes “the world is not only more dangerous now than it was a year ago; it is as threatening as it has been since World War II,” Bulletin officials Lawrence M. Krauss and Robert Rosner wrote in an op-ed published Thursday by The Washington Post. “In fact, the Doomsday Clock is as close to midnight today as it was in 1953, when Cold War fears perhaps reached their highest levels.”
“As of today,” Bulletin president Rachel Bronson told reporters, “it is two minutes to midnight.”
In moving the clock 30 seconds closer to the hour of the apocalypse, the group cited “the failure of President Trump and other world leaders to deal with looming threats of nuclear war and climate change.”
The organization — whose board includes 15 Nobel Laureates — now believes “the world is not only more dangerous now than it was a year ago; it is as threatening as it has been since World War II,” Bulletin officials Lawrence M. Krauss and Robert Rosner wrote in an op-ed published Thursday by The Washington Post. “In fact, the Doomsday Clock is as close to midnight today as it was in 1953, when Cold War fears perhaps reached their highest levels.”
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 January 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
obligatory
https://images.genius.com/d9a3002a29dbe437b351788a2bfb18db.1000x1000x1.jpg
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 25 January 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
geoff johns does not need the publicity
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 25 January 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
this is what happens when you fuck with alan moore, geoff
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 January 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
love how old this thread isrmde re Trump 'not dealing with' an impending nuke threat he is the major cause of
― nashwan, Thursday, 25 January 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
In this instance, I took 'not dealing with looming threats' to essentially mean 'failing to correct the mistake nature made by allowing him to be born in the first place'.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 January 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
what rough beast, its hour come at last, slouches towards etc
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 January 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
there are threads like these all the time. apocalyptic imagery is found throughout history. it is popular fiction. we love feeling so special.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 27 January 2018 03:06 (six years ago) link
it is getting old as fuck though. i read a review of the new Cornelius song on Stereogum and it was like "I can't believe he can even imagine a future". give me a break.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 27 January 2018 03:08 (six years ago) link
okay guys shut it down adam is, like, so over it - the united opinion of the world's experts that we are heading for drowned cities, failed crops, and millions of people literally cooking alive around the equator within decades is a popular fiction
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 27 January 2018 08:47 (six years ago) link
T/S: 15 Nobel laureates vs Adam
― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 27 January 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
When next the poles change places, the consequences for the electrical and electronic infrastructure that runs civilization will be dire. The question is when that will happen.
https://undark.org/article/books-alanna-mitchell-spinning-magnet
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 February 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
at this point it's hard not to think that the earth itself is trying to kill us all
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
The general idea is, justified through truly painful torture and dismembering of modern physics, mathematics and geology (primarily by the methods of ignorance and blatant denial), that the Earth’s crust sometimes shift suddenly in relation to the rotational axis, causing massive changes to the crust. And as with all true crankery, the hypothesis predicts an immanent cataclysmic event.
http://americanloons.blogspot.fr/2014/04/988-richard-noone.html
5/5/2000 we are...er were...doomed
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
“Recalculating”
― El Tomboto, Monday, 5 February 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
I read 5/5/2000 around 1990 or so, sometime between sequels to Chariots of the Gods & Foucault's Pendulum, & I remember the author urging people to join his cult crew in rural Illinois where he was gonna build a hovercraft to survive the floods caused by the polar ice caps melting. I wonder if anyone took him up on it, and what happened?
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
i can guarantee this much: they survived the floods
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
lol
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
at this point it's hard not to think that the earth itself is trying to kill us allself defense
― Karl Malone, Monday, 5 February 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
I’ve watched enough science television to know that the earth is in the universe and the universe is nothing if not a giant engine of destruction that wants to blow itself up again and again so actually our death drive as a species is even deeper than our genes, it’s in our elements, man
― El Tomboto, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
you can't fight entropy dude
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
that's why i don't go to the gym
"When next the poles change places" will be the opening number of Hair 2
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
something something screen doors
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
If the earth ever talks with the other planets they probably say “why you still got that life all over you, dude?” And Earth goes “I know I know it just happened by accident” And Mars is like “...OK, lady”
― El Tomboto, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
Jupiter constantly giving its moons the eye to make sure they aren’t even thinking about having some life
― El Tomboto, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link