Florida sea turtles are doomed: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/04/florida-sea-turtles-female-global-heatings

Positive feedback loop.

Positive/negative doesn't refer to the desirability of the outcome, but rather whether a small change in the system will drive that system back toward or away from the...

I work in the environmental field and completely agree that there's lots of bad regulations out there. However, industry has clearly demonstrated that they're incapable of meaningful and universal...

X-post from the Cool Science thread. MIT's SPARC team is predicting sustained net-energy fusion by 2025.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdoI1X5m96s

First ever recorded rain at the summit of the Greenland ice sheet (10,500' amsl): ...

Agreed 100%.



To add to this, electric drivetrains are so demonstrably superior to ICEs it's not even funny. 100% torque at zero RPM, dozens of moving parts vs. thousands, nearly silent, etc.

"Mainstream religions have long since made peace with science, recognizing that these two human pursuits can coexist to great mutual benefit, as long as one does not pretend to be the other. Some who...