What's that got to do with the topic ? But since you ask, no. I came to lemmy from mastodon where many people use their real name. Anyway sometimes I refer to my interactive model, from which site my name is obvious. I respect that some people here need to be anonymous for professional or safety reasons, but would prefer people used at least more memorable names, to encourage careful thinking and sense of community.
benjhm
joined 2 years ago
Can somebody explain the Xs ?
C'est beaucoup de fumée, qui doit venir de beaucoup d'arbres (dont peut-être certains très anciens ?). Mais je me souviens encore pire des images satellites de la Sibérie (il y a quelques années).
Reminds me that Ben Elton's "This other Eden" imagined (decades ago) an innovative capitalist solution to lock away the 1% in their bubbles ...
It's good that Oxfam analyses and publicises such data - for too long global comparisons focused on national average per-capita. However, maybe even 1% is too large a group that obscures the diversity within - I guess the 77m people (int that analysis) include many relatively old people who are nominally wealthy by owning a house in an expensive city, but don't (any longer?) travel much. Heating such houses emits some tons, but not 76tCO2/yr, a figure which must be pushed way up by the fewer jet-set types.
I agree it's bad now, but it seems to me there is hope.
At least BDZ has a well electrified network - better than some neighbours.
The old balkan 'main-line' went via Serbia, whose railways indeed got worse, but Belgrade recently completed a new central station and they expect to open a 2h40 service from Budapest soon - this spring, iirc. They also got plenty of EU money to finance the line to Nis, and (slower) from there to Dmitrovgrad (i.e. to Sofia), maybe by 2027. When all this is complete, you could realistically imagine a one-night (9h) train Sofia-Wien.
Is BDZ anticipating this, or wil ÖBB run it?
Also I suppose night trains to Istanbul were cut back while they fixed new tracks beyond Halkali, but there is huge demand potential.
It doesn't make sense that in such a country with so much space they can't build houses, especially as as migrants are mostly young and energetic, so what's stopping them from applying their energy to build - is it conservative planning laws ?
I was concerned about the gap between climate science and policy. So, having learned to program as a kid, I made an interactive model to help bridge that gap, to let people experiment. This evolved over 25 years - recently moved to scala.js, still developing, not for money but because we have to keep trying to solve complex problems.
But that map ( last year's ) shows the headline is not true - there are still night trains across Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, and from Belgrade to Bar. Hopefully in summer optima-tours will return on the route to turkey. Of course, we used to have more - nothing to Greece, no more Orient Express, but as i understand TEN is funding track improvements from Serbia to Bulgaria after which such routes may become viable again ?
Another issue- China's official CO2 emissions target is set in units of CO2 / GDP - if the GDP is that much lower, so should be the emissions (and unlike some countries, it seems they actually care about being seen to meet such targets).
Indeed so. I also intend (eventually) to try running my model with scala-native - a purpose could be to 'pipe' runs connected with other climate model / tools (mostly written in python nowadays) for probabilistic analyses over thousands of scenarios (as I used to do with my old java JCM from which SWIM descends). So both native and wasm offer ways to connect with other languages (without any jvm). But for such complex systems modeling it's great to rely on the intelligence of scala compiler (and metals, as typing) - basically if it compiles it usually runs correctly, the graphical image with all the plots is my main 'test'.
Triglav, Slovenia, and the whole julijske alpe massif - such sheer dolomitic rock cliffs, glowing pink in the dawn light, combined with a friendly culture in the mountain huts around, amid strings of high lakes.