The Global Warming Thread

This is green in terms of emissions, but China's rivers are royally screwed up now. They have stopped being ecologies that support life, and the humans have to suffer wild swings of flood and drought.

 

The only for sure reliable hydro power is the sea ebb and flow tides.

 

Well they've decided to fix it and when the Chinese decide to fix something they go gung ho (工合)... usually screwing something else up in the process.

But they now have a National Park systen which includes a lot of threatened waterways.

 

This is a great idea:
Replace parking spaces with trees & green space.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ets-emissions-by-replacing-parking-with-trees

 

In a poll over 80% of New Yorkers said they were willing to give up parking spaces for more trees, more children's play spaces and more pedestrianised streets. Get on with it Adams!

 

I've got good news for those who want to escape the big flood after the poles, but especially Greenland melted completely......
Noah's Ark (Hebrew: תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) is for sale on a auction site, well ..the Dutch version of it

 

Doesn't look very sea-worthy to me.

Do the animals come with it?

 

Iirc there were animals in it when the builder navigated the Dutch rivers with it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan's_Ark
Oh, it were not living animals:

 

No reason ecology should miss out on the fun but, er... what are we talking about?

 

https://www.rijnmond.nl/nieuws/1931...-van-noach-staat-te-koop-bieden-vanaf-3-5-ton
One can join bidding from 3,500.000€€
Disused museum ship 'Noah's Ark' is for sale: bid from 3.5 tons

1 december, 14:21 • 2 minuten leestijd

The original article was created in Dutch (NL) by our editorial staff. This article is automatically translated by an algorithm and might contain errors due to this.

The gigantic museum ship Noah's Ark, which has been lying unused on the quay in Krimpen aan den IJssel for years, is for sale. Builder Johan Huibers has engaged an auction house to sell the ship. "It's time for a new owner," he says.
In 2007, the deeply religious Huibers started building a 'smaller' version of the Biblical ship of 70 meters long. A year later, he started working on the colossus as we know it today: 122 meters long, 29 meters wide and 27 meters high.
The seven-storey ship has several cinemas, a restaurant and four apartments. The intention was to bring the story of Noah to the attention of young and old with the ark.
However, all these facilities have not been used for years. The ship, delivered in 2012, was never a great success. In 2016, the last visitors disembarked. Since then, the ark has moved from Dordrecht to Krimpen aan den IJssel, where it has been collecting dust for years.
Wandered all over the world
To NH News , Huibers explains why he is putting the ship up for sale. "We have been working for 8.5 years now to find another partner and I have roamed all over the world, from South Korea to Brazil. But unfortunately it has not yielded anything so far. The ark has been idle for the past few years, and I feel a responsibility to make sure it comes back to life."
Huibers' project has an eventful history. In 2016, the ship was supposed to go to the Olympic Games in the Brazilian capital Rio de Janeiro, but that was canceled at the last minute. In 2019, it seemed that the ark would move to Israel, but that too was canceled.
Bidding from 3.5 tons
The ark is now for sale at Amsterdam's Troostwijk Auctions. Interested parties have until December 18 to make an offer. Bidding starts from 350,000 euros, "but the ark doesn't go away for that," says Frank Mak of the auction house to the NOS. "We'll see what price the ship does leave for. With all the functions that are on board, you can also do a lot of things with it."

 

Heat batteries may become a thing.

Sounds promising, I do have a few questions like their efficiency how many KWs go in and how many come out, I imagine the longer the time heat is stored the less KWs you get when you want to use it.

 

There's an interesting thing about how long batteries need to store energy for, in general. For instance, do batteries that rely on sun, wind or the tide need to store energy for days at a time.

I can certainly see grid level storage needs to have extended capacity for weeks or even months at a time, (during the winter, obviously), but for a lot of uses the need is probably only for a few hours, i.e overnight or for high load periods in the evening, maybe.

 

Still nothing here ?
Mayotte has been ravaged by a hurricane. Potentially hundreds or perhaps thousands of people living in slums have been killed.
No surprise here: the poorest of French territories have been left abandoned by the State. It is easy to spend billions of euros on the Olympic Games or on the reconstruction of Notre Dame, but much less to guarantee one's fellow citizens access to basic needs.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205wnvlqn6o

 

Meh. Same thing happened in the US, and the only reason the death toll wasn't higher was the built in infrastructure (such that it was).

They refused to pass funding to prepare and here we are. Seems par for the course, now. Why invest to stop or mitigate these issues (...when getting bribes from oil companies, et al) when you can have circuses!


...bread had to be cut due to funding issues.

 

Warmest Christmas day ever recorded in Scotland today. 53 degrees.

 

Possibly the biggest single species die-off due to climate change ever recorded

The loss of an estimated 4 million common murres during the marine heatwave known as the “Blob” was the biggest bird die-off in recorded history, and seven or eight years later, the population has not recovered, biologists report.

The findings, in a newly published study led by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Heather Renner, show that the toll on common murres killed 4 million, about half the Alaska population.

It was not only the largest bird die-off in the modern era but also appears to be the largest wildlife die-off, said the study, which described the effect as “catastrophic” for the species.

https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/12/16...ded-history-in-blob-heat-wave-new-study-says/

 

Sucks to rep that post, but thanks for the info.

 

Some good Alaska news, snow crab can be caught again after billions skedaddled for a few teads

Bering Sea snow crab fishing to resume, but at an ultra-low level to encourage repopulation

https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/10/16...an-ultra-low-level-to-encourage-repopulation/

 

Another example of cephalopods being smarter than we knew

 

Wonder if they’re smarter than MAGAts

 

from the NYTimes, Japan's quest to adapt their rice to climate change [link]

 

This came up top on my YT page ...

 

Saw that. There are similar schemes in China and India. Makes you wonder why it took centuries to come up with the idea.

 

Agreed. It doesn't exactly look like rocket science does it... but maybe that's the problem. If it WAS rocket science people would be more interested.