Climate Change/Mass Extinction Megathread

[Jacob]

Research from China indicates that large scale solar farms in deserts has positive effects on the local ecosystem: https://glassalmanac.com/china-confirms-that-installing-solar-panels-in-deserts-irreversibly-transforms-the-ecosystem/

More research is needed to confirm, but potentially positive.

[Josquius]

Research from China indicates that large scale solar farms in deserts has positive effects on the local ecosystem: https://glassalmanac.com/china-confirms-that-installing-solar-panels-in-deserts-irreversibly-transforms-the-ecosystem/

More research is needed to confirm, but potentially positive.
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Not surprising for the desert, I've heard similar from more temperate fields in the UK too.
https://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/solar-farms-biodiversity-pv/

Yeah, hope was nice while it lasted.

To a point - I know I bang on about it but US emissions are about a third of China's. Hope or not is basically not about what happens in the US (or Europe) but Beijing and Delhi.

I think we're still stuck in a 1990s understanding and analysis and reporting on climate where the West are still history's main characters.

At a government/policy level Trump I didn't make much of a difference on the pace of decarbonisation in the US. I don't think it'll have much of an impact this time - not least because I think, having run against it to an extent, Republicans' districts (and Red States) will benefit a fair bit from the IRA money:

A big part of Trump's impact isn't just on the crappy domestic climate change policies though but in encouraging a global rearmament and closing up. This will damage spending on climate.

[Legbiter]

So... The world is fucked isn't it?

Things were looking hopeful. Slowly inching towards progress. Maybe we would avoid the worst outcomes and keep damage under control...

But then, bam, in comes fascist America with a policy which is just short of being actively pro climate change itself, and completely upending the world such that nobody can spend on "luxuries" like tackling climate change.

Yeah the "dissolution of the monasteries" is now in progress. Please subscribe to either AI doom or Children of Men eschatologies, either is acceptable to the public purse.

[Valmy]

Yeah the "dissolution of the monasteries" is now in progress. Please subscribe to either AI doom or Children of Men eschatologies, either is acceptable to the public purse.

You say the weirdest shit man.

[mongers]

Yeah the "dissolution of the monasteries" is now in progress. Please subscribe to either AI doom or Children of Men eschatologies, either is acceptable to the public purse.

You say the weirdest shit man.

But anyone who uses eschatology, can be too bad.