It's Good News Friday! (CLIMATE CHANGE)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ari...e-even-rattlesnakes-and-cacti-are-struggling/

The GOP: "Yeah, but rattlesnakes can't build no air-conditioners, nosiree! Good ol' human ingenuity will get us outta this!"

Narrator: "Human stupidity is what got us into it."

You know what I saw tonight on my way home from work? An armadillo. They're not native to TN, but because the climate's been warming, they've been migrating northward. It's now warm enough in TN that they can survive the winters here. Folks can claim that scientists are lying about the planet warming up all they want, but the evidence is out there, if you're just willing to look at the world around you.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2025/09/14/ocean-current-fails/85992978007/

Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change

This ‘Grue Jay’ Hybrid Looks Cool as Hell—but It’s a Warning Sign

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...25-leap-in-extremely-hot-days-since-the-1990s

There's a lot of technical discussion here that will seem complex to some but the basic gist is this:
Data centers (generally referred to as hyper-scalers here) strain the grid and still can't get as much juice as they want, meanwhile building new power sources takes time - even wind and solar though faster can't just come online in the same year, plus there's the burden of connecting them to the grid and the grid being able to handle it.
(Proposed) solution? The hyper-scaler who's willing to pay big money for more juice capacity could fund upgrading the energy efficiency of grid customers (paying to replace electric furnaces with heat pumps, for example, or installing rooftop solar where appropriate) reducing the demand on the grid from those customers and freeing up electricity for the DCs. Also give utilities flexibility to upgrade their lines and connectivity (something else the hyper-scalers would pay for)
It's a low-key brilliant idea which means the corrupt idiots who make too many of our decisions will ignore it.

Could we get hyperscalers to b… - Volts - Apple Podcasts

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...-global-experts/ar-AA1OkHQu?ocid=BingNewsSerp

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2...g-bering-sea-storm-aftermath-authorities-say/

Breaking news (from 43 years ago):



RIP Florida!

child.... you are like FF bless yur black hart... wait if you are a hart you could be hunted SPORT FOR YOU. miami now floods an average of 50 days a year now how would you like it if you had to put all of your guns up on concrete blocks so they would not get wet and the flooding is not slowing down. where are you California makes you an expert huh

In other news, Kirabati would like the two islands they lost to rising sea levels back.

And CalTrans would rather not have to raise CA 37 by a foot as a stopgap to when they need to turn it into a full causeway.

Scientists 'reawaken' ancient microbes from permafrost — and discover they start churning out CO2 soon after

Have them move to the Maldives. They actually got bigger.

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see SEE what did i tells ya a fuckin einstein at work here move yur ass to ther MAL's......but first put a cop behind that bush oh yeah that tree too..... I GOT ALL THE ANSWERS i am JETHRO BODINE and i gotta a 6 grade educations suckers. hold on you gotta put that fence up before you move to to the new DIVEs. before you move can i have those concrete blocks i gotta put muh guns on em so they won't get wet and even Jethro knows a gun won't fire iffin it's wet. Punchline Paladin have gun(s) but will not travel but you can to the MALDIVES they got bigger (not bigger that my ego though)

So maybe stop doing that.

Like Naziism?

Oh no, you love that that shit is back.

Fig Trees That Grow Rocks From Carbon Discovered in Africa

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/bu...rump-interior-houston-oil-alaska-21112497.php

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...eland-first-time-climate-crisis-warms-country

oh great just great you just gave trump and excuse to send national guard troops to iceland to quell the obviously 'illegal' entrance of mosquito's into ICELAND. or no even better send in ICE to cool things down even faster and save poor ole ICELAND from those illegal immigrantsquito's!!!!!?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03466-x

Seems like a turning point has been reached.

Gates is sounding like Bjorn Lomborg and Michael Shellenberger now!

Will Gates be denounced for letting the world be destroyed?

It's not like you're in favor of fighting poverty and reducing human suffering, so it's a lateral shift from your viewpoint at best.

If the text posted is accurate, then Bill Gates is either stupid or pretending to be.

It reads to me more like throwing up his hands and saying "fuck it".

The implication seems to be that in a BAU scenario, that warming will reach some level and just arbitrarily stop, such that we can "adapt" and mitigate the effects. This is not the case.

Yes, I was definitely the "let's reduce CO2 emissions at any cost" guy...

Maybe idealism has crashed into reality?