anzich

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by anzich@feddit.de to c/climate@slrpnk.net
 

“Intense tropical cyclones have the power to slow down the economic development of a country for more than a decade, our analysis shows. With global warming, the share of the most intense tropical cyclones is expected to increase so it becomes more likely that economies may not be able to recover fully in between storms,” ...

[–] anzich@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (19 children)

I became a doomer. Humanity is a failed species. But everything that reduces suffering is worth doing. And everything that leaves the planet in a better state after we are gone is worth doing.

[–] anzich@feddit.de 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Turned you into a furry, you prove their point

[–] anzich@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's weird. Before the election all coalition parties stood with the Paris agreement. Before going into this coalition it was the commonly agreed goal. But now Germany effectively canceled it.

[–] anzich@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is a controversial topic already addressed in the latest IPCC report. Measuring damage in some currency is probably not a good measure and one should use something like "number of humans suffering"

But that's maybe what powerful politicians make listening

[–] anzich@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Article is probably a bit sensacionary but link to the publication is in the first paragraph

[–] anzich@feddit.de 14 points 11 months ago

They did this shit with "calculating infrasound from windmills" in Germany 20 years ago. They (a government and lobbyist financed org) were several orders of magnitudes wrong but took a very long time admitting it.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022460X23004091

As some German celebrity said: "It's hard to save the world in your spare time when others are paid to destroy it full time"

[–] anzich@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but German politicians say we have focus on the economy now before doing more tiny steps to slow down collapse

[–] anzich@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I'll buy an apartment in "The Line". They'll have dinosaur robots!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Line%2C_Saudi_Arabia?wprov=sfla1

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