This alert highlights a current or anticipated shock that is expected to drive a significant change in the severity of acute food security globally such that a humanitarian food assistance response is needed imminently.
> Scientists have raised concerns about whether high-income countries, with their high per-capita CO2 emissions, can decarbonise fast enough to meet their obligations under the Paris Agreement if they continue to pursue aggregate economic growth. Over the past decade, some countries have reduced their CO2 emissions while increasing their gross domestic product (absolute decoupling). Politicians and media have hailed this as green growth. In this empirical study, we aimed to assess whether these achievements are consistent with the Paris Agreement, and whether Paris-compliant decoupling is within reach.
A few weeks ago, a study by Copenhagen University researchers Peter and Susanne Ditlevsen concluded that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is likely to pass a tipping point already this century, most probably around mid-century. Given the catastrophic consequences of an AMOC bre...
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a major tipping element in the climate system. Here, data-driven estimators for the time of tipping predict a potential AMOC collapse mid-century under the current emission scenario.
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For various reasons I'm motivated to provide an update on my current thinking regarding the slowdown and tipping point of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). I attended a two-day AMOC session at the IUGG Conference the week before last, there's been interesting new papers, and in...
dont forget the red bulls and chips. need those when natureposting!
Due to the fact that I will be moving places later this summer, I decided back in March that I would plant some bee flower seed mix on my tiny balcony instead of the usual vegetables. I got the for free from a good friend who works for a nature conservation society.
The results have been great! I constantly see bumblebees, hoverflies, honeybees and all kinds of wild bee species around my flowers. It feels great to provide a tiny feeding spot in a place that is surround by agricultural monocultures and I can only recommend it to everyone who has even the tiniest bit of space left in their garden or on their balcony.
Hello friends of /c/green
In recent weeks we have introduced a weekly observations thread in /c/collapse - with success I would say. We average 10-25 comments per week and see some nice discussion and a few regular posters in these threads.
Motivated by those positive results I would like so introduce a similar thread here but with a more general slant on environmentalism, gardening, nature observation and everything related!
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Tell us about your work in a environmentalist community group! 💪
Tell us how your native flower patch is doing this year! 🌱
Share some pics of the cool bug you saw on your last hike! 🐛
Another week, another weekly observations thread!
Share whats happening in your hometown, region or country that might not be in the focus of international media!
Please provide a general location. For Example:
Location: Southern Ireland
Picture: Rhodes in flames
Location: Central Germany
Cerberus heatwave mostly spared us here with only Saturday being a freakishly hot day (28°C --> 38°C temp jump for a day) but it showed me once again how badly prepared most older buildings are for what is to come.
Share whats happening in your hometown, region or country that might not be in the focus of international media!
Please provide a general location. For Example:
Location: Southern Ireland
Picture: Cerberus heatwave over the Iberian peninsula and southern France
As suggested in this post we will try out to establish a weekly observations thread. Share whats happening in your hometown, region or country that might not be in the focus of international media!
Please provide a general location. For Example:
Location: Southern Ireland
Picture: Friendship Decline among US men and women
As suggested in this post we will try out to establish a weekly observations thread. Share whats happening in your hometown, region or country that might not be in the focus of international media!
Picture: North Atlantic Sea Surface Temp. Anomaly
As suggested in this post we will try out to establish a weekly observations thread. Share whats happening in your hometown, region or country that might not be in the focus of international media!
Picture: Wildfires in Ludwigslust-Parchim county, Germany
My friend and I joined Brackeys game jam and developed this small space horror game. Check it out or critique my horrible art skills if you are bored, maybe even rate it if you have an itch.io account
Hello friends, I am slowly getting into selfhosting and trying to convert my old Lenovo X230 laptop into a homeserver that I will use for backups, cloud storage and a few services for my friends.
What's is your setup? What are you doing with it or what are you planning to do with it?
P.S.: The laptop screen is usually turned off of course :)
I agree! We should try to change the narrative towards a more constructive angle, talking about what makes lemmy unique.
This sticker was made shortly after I joined lemmy and wanted to start some kind of guerilla ad campaign where lemmy users could print out stickers and posters and market lemmy in their city or area. But life happened and other things became a little bit more important for the time being so I just decided to release the best sticker design
The Collections database consists of entries for more than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix.
Hey, just wanted to ask what your favorite podcasts are. I'll list a few of mine below.
- Ashes Ashes - A podcast about the systemic issues that society is facing now and has to solve to survive
- Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't - Lowbrow botany, phylogenetics, systematics and the hunt for the filthiest public bathroom in Alta California
- Fight Like An Animal - The attempt of a synthesis of behavioral science and political theory without racist and sexist bullshit. I recommend starting from the first epsiode
- In Defense Of Plants - Interviews with plant scientists about everything concerning, well, plants
- History of Pholosophy Without Any Gaps - Philosophy professor goes chronologically from the early beginnings of philosophy up to today! Extremely thorough and interesting
Hey, I am relatively new to the federated web and I only use lemmy currently. But I love the idea of an alternative social web ecosystem that is not ruled by big corporations. To see how the fediverse has developed in 2020 I decided to look into the stats (stats go from 2nd January 2020 til today) over at https://the-federation.info/: *** No. of nodes:
6043 --> 7849 (+29.9%)
Users per Node:
817 --> 840 (+2.8%)
No. of users:
3,597,652 --> 4,153,555 (+15.5%)
Active users (6 Months):
1,348,965 --> 1,175,150 (-12.9%)
Active users (1 Month):
476,457 --> 432,75 (-9.2%)
Active users ratio:
0.132 --> 0.104 (-21.2%) ***
So before I say something about these numbers I want to warn you that these numbers are not the really correct because not all instances of the fediverse are not correctly listed in these statistics. This might be for a variety of reasons but I guess most of the unlisted instances just want to stay under the radar. However, I still think that these stats can give us an indication how things are going in the federation.
If we look solely at the number of nodes (+30%) and registered users (+15.5%) we can see that these numbers have risen within the last year. It might not be incredible growth that indicates mainstream adoption but I think it is nothing to be concerned about.
However, if we look at the active user stats we can see that activity activity has steadily decreased over the year. It seems like we have lost roughly 13% of active users within this year.
Tbh I don't really know how to judge these numbers as I am pretty new to all of this. So I wanted to ask the users who have been here longer and might even use several federated services. Did you notice a decrease in activity? Is the fediverse healthy? If not, what might be the reason that the active user stats are on a downwards trend and how might we be able to change this?
The claim that runaway climate change has made societal collapse inevitable is not only wrong – it undermines the cause of the climate movement.
A good article that explains why "Deep Adaptation" is a flawed paper that should be regarded with a certain scepticism
