Increasingly Frequent Marine Heatwaves Can Kill Coral Almost Instantly, Study Finds (bbc.com) 37
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Increasingly frequent marine heatwaves can lead to the almost instant death of corals, scientists working on the Great Barrier Reef have found. These episodes of unusually high water temperatures are -- like heatwaves on land -- associated with climate change. Scientists studying coral after a heat event discovered that extreme temperature rises decayed reefs much more rapidly than previously thought. The study revealed that corals became up to 15% weaker after an extreme heat event, causing some fragments to actually break off from the reef. The study has been published in the journal Current Biology.
Time to face facts (Score:5, Insightful)
We have wiped out coral and all the things that rely on it. This shit's only going to get worse, and it was in a fine balance already.
Add it to the list and move on.
Re: Time to face facts (Score:2, Interesting)
Or we're engineering a rare species of super coral. It could go either way.
I bet in the future, all animals larger than a hamster will have evolved to be friendly and adorable, or low maintenance and delicious.
The anthropocene is going to be great!
Re: Time to face facts (Score:4, Funny)
Or we're engineering a rare species of super coral.
Many, many Moons ago, a friend from Australia told me that the biggest threat to coral was tourists who got out of boats and trampled around on it.
He speculated that coral could evolve to develop "huge pointy teeth" to bite the tourist's feet.
That would solve everything.
Now, if coral would evolve into a creature that could walk up on shore, and attack, Godzilla style, coal power plants . . . we would all have something amusing to watch on television.
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You left out they will all be extinct and we'll be eating some friendly low maintenance reformed algae sludge.
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Pretty easy to tell by coral polyps reproduction method, their destruction is pretty normal as is their spread and regrowth. The formation depopulated when conditions bad, repopulated in one season when conditions could. That coral life is the skin on top, not the dead skeletons of what has gone before.
Man made climate change, affects us far more, due to our cities and infrastructure, than it does the rest, the come, they go, change locations evolve, our society collapses and most of us die, kind of stupid
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No you say? So we can't control the climate and its associated weather events?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
I have a solution for this (Score:2)
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but it requires 6 infinity stones and a really big glove.
Or dialing up the fear so high we get people so depressed they kill themselves, or cranked up with so much anger and anxiety that they go on a murder spree.
Hey! Assholes! Stop with the fear mongering! We get it. How about instead of cranking up the fear to the point it's driving people insane we come up with some solutions that don't involve killing people?
I have an idea. Let's get our electricity from a mix of onshore wind, hydro, nuclear, and some natural gas to ease that transition. For transportatio
I shed tears over this (Score:1)
While I was filling the gas tank of my SUV.
Re: Time to face facts (Score:2, Funny)
The fact we need to face is that the Cretaceous period was much hotter than it is now, but somehow everything didn't die.
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There were no ice sheets in the Cretaceous, and whole groups of mammals died out. Tell us again how we should welcome a return to the late Cretaceous.
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It's different because it was hotter, and the current problem isn't cooling, it's warming.
It's similar in that heating and cooling are both problems. What we want is relative stasis. We could conceivably survive significant warming, but we are neither preparing adequately for that eventuality, nor effectively avoiding it.
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It's different because it was hotter, and the current problem isn't cooling, it's warming.
It's similar in that heating and cooling are both problems. What we want is relative stasis. We could conceivably survive significant warming, but we are neither preparing adequately for that eventuality, nor effectively avoiding it.
It's been hotter AND cooler in the past - and will be in the future, too... You want stasis? That's not the normal state of things - change is. And people tend to thrive when it's warmer rather than colder (witness the population around the tropics as compared to the polar regions). There is quite a bit of evidence that the Roman Warm Period and the Medieval Warm Period were both as hot as it is now, and world-wide - and both were times when humanity made pretty big leaps forward in agriculture, culture
Re: Time to face facts (Score:2)
You seem to have missed the point that "whole groups of mammals dying out" is something that seems to happen independently of temperature.
We must end capitalism to save the planet!!! (Score:2)
This is one of the two keystones of the climate change ruse...
They want you to believe that "any tiny change caused by humans might kill everything" yet they cannot explain how all the similar (and larger) changes in the past (when there was no humans to blame) didn't kill everything.
Climate change is a pyramid scheme of myths. You
Re:Every little thing... (Score:5, Informative)
If you were hoping it would all go away, prepare for disappointment. The effects are only becoming more visible as time goes on.
As for believability, I suggest skipping past the breathless reporting on both sides, and going direct to the studies [cell.com] - at least the abstracts. The IPCC report in particular publishes excellent and thoroughly checked executive summaries [www.ipcc.ch] with full citations of the thousands of studies they draw from.
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If you were hoping it would all go away, prepare for disappointment. The effects are only becoming more visible as time goes on.
Then when will the governments of the world take a scientific approach to solving the problem of global warming and reverse this abandonment of nuclear power? Their actions are telling me that nuclear power is a greater threat to humanity than global warming. Is that true? Where's the studies telling us that?
I've seen the studies and there is no carbon free future without nuclear power or reverting to a preindustrial economy. There's no powered flight with windmills. Solar power can't make the trains r
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Then when will the governments of the world take a scientific approach to solving the problem of global warming and reverse this abandonment of nuclear power?
When decisionmakers can be shown to be consistently responsible. That is to say, when hell freezes over.
Your technical points about nuclear are generally correct. Your refusal to accept the reality of human nature is a big blind spot.
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Your technical points about nuclear are generally correct. Your refusal to accept the reality of human nature is a big blind spot.
I understand why these people are not embracing nuclear power, they don't want the problem solved they just want a crisis to push their agenda. This is summed up well with the line, "Never let a crisis go to waste."
They don't want nuclear power because they know that will solve the problem of global warming from human activity. By "they" I mean mostly Democrats. If they don't want the problem solved then what is their motive by bringing it up so often? I'm quite certain what their motive is, and when vo
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You're making a number of unjustified assumptions there.
First, that it's "Democrats" who hate nuclear power, when most nuclear-promoting bills have been bipartisan (e.g. NEIMA). You'll note the current and prior Republican administrations didn't exactly rush back into nuclear either. Nor is there any strong correlation between most other nations' politics and their attitudes towards nuclear power. Further, suggesting this whole crisis is "invented" to retain power by fear is a frankly nonsensical conspiraci
Does anyone know why slashdot blocks anonymous cow (Score:1)
Nt
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Have you seen the constant shitposting lately?
Re: Does anyone know why slashdot blocks anonymous (Score:2)
Yes. I'm not sure if this will solve it.
Re: Does anyone know why slashdot blocks anonymous (Score:4, Insightful)
Seems to have worked!
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yes you may be right so what you want about this thrEad Pls make sure and discuss this type of things deleted spam link
New account created because anonymous accounts banned - check.
Two posts, both linked to link bait sites - check.
Both flagged as spam - check.
It might not end shitposting, but the 8chan mess is forcing people to take action. The search engines already downgrade sites that contain hate speech because of laws in various countries - and as time goes on, it's just going to get better (or worse if posting hate speech is your thing).
Now it will be a competition between spammers creating new accounts and us
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Because at some point after living with an sewer overflowing for years you eventually can't stand the smell and call a damn plumber.
To be honest I'm not a fan of anonymous posts, at the very least even if you don't need to put a real name to your shitposting (because occasionally it isn't shit) at the very least there needs to be a minimum barrier to entry.
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I am a fan of the anonymous posting. This ability to post anonymously was one reason I joined Slashdot, as contradictory that might seem.
Some people want to just add to the discussion without the need to log in. For so long this has meant having to sort out the signal from the noise, and the signal to noise level was tolerable. I don't know what happened to make the noise overwhelm the signal recently. I will admit that it has got out of hand as every time I posted anything I saw the same comment as a r
The heatwaves caused by climate change? (Score:2)
https://www.accuweather.com/en... [accuweather.com]
Yeah, what does the scientist that founded Accuweather know anyway?
Reefs always look greyer than pics (Score:2)
Anyone else notice, in their scuba diving, that the images for the area always have such colorful reefs from pics? There's the expected tourism pamphlets, but even images in nearby museum-style informative places, showing the area 20 years ago. Then when you go down, it's mostly grey? That's my experience anyway. I've only been down 8 times, mostly the Caribbean.
I guess the most likely reason is marketing decisions by the tourism wing of local government. But I have to suspect at least part of it is ju
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No, it's because they are using color filters on their lens and also boosting the color on the pictures and video in post.
Photos and videos I take when diving look just like the marketing stuff if I do some color grading in post.
Can w dial back all the fear mongering? (Score:2)
There's the people mocking other for "clinging to their Bible and their guns". Well, what do you expect when we have a media that keeps trying to find ways to scare us out of our gourds?
This "clingy" feeling isn't just for right wing nutjobs any more.
https://www.studyfinds.org/stu... [studyfinds.org]
Potential occurrences commonly worried about by preppers include possible economic depressions, terrorist attacks, cyber-attacks, pandemics, or environmental disasters.
"Rather than seeing prepping as an exception within America's right-wing political culture, we ought to see it as being reflective of increasingly established and popular outlooks," Mills comments.
We have a media that tells us that if we don't solve this global warming problem in the next 12 years then we will hit a point of runaway warming. We are told the government is out to kill all the people that are black and br
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We have a media that tells us that if we don't solve this global warming problem in the next 12 years then we will hit a point of runaway warming. ...
There's the people mocking other for "clinging to their Bible and their guns". Well, what do you expect...?
We expect you to vote for someone who will do something about the problem, not pretend it's a hoax. We understand, and really don't care if you practice religion and safe self-defense. Heck, we vote for religious freedom for everyone, and nobody's trying to ban all guns. Where's your understanding of us? Why have you consistently voted against doing something about this huge problem that will affect us all? Instead, ultimately voting for the born-uber-rich draft-dodging city slicker that doesn't pay hi