I agree. The key symbiosis between coral and microalgae depends on fundamental thermodynamic equilibria of the carbonate chemistry of seawater - which are highly sensitive to temperature and atmospheric CO2, in very predictable ways. When living in coral becomes unprofitable for the algae, they leave. My instinct, from some experience with this system, is that introducing new species won't do better than nature, nobody can beat thermodynamics. We have to reduce the CO2.
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I wonder to what extent the western powers in Trianon were also motivated to punish the experiment with communism during summer of 1919 ? And how memory of this continues to influence modern views?
Later, the Soviet union extracted products and resources cheaply from its satellites - did this contribute to resentment of Ukraine as the transit country (I heard similar from Romanians)?
Today, the rural - urban political divide is similar in many other corners of europe, or even usa. I just wonder why the power balance in this case seems to be skewed away from the younger educated 'city people' in Budapest - maybe also specific demographics relating to those borders ?
Key message makes sense. But seems odd to use a photo of a Russian train to illustrate an article about Australia ...
China by now has made a large contribution to CO2 in the atmosphere - which leads to sea-level-rise, ocean acidification etc., imposing adaptation costs on these islands. These cause-effect links can be calculated quite accurately, so a case could be made to swap financial debt for climate debt (within, of course, a context of global deals where all big emitters contribute reasonable shares). In these specific cases it would be peanuts for China's budget, it’s more the diplomatic precedent they'd oppose.
Orban is not forever - whereas integrating a country to EU is a long slow process. Also Budapest is geographically a hub city (whose inhabitants didn't - mostly- vote for fidesz anyway). I find it hard to believe that hungarian people are so fundamentally different from their neighbours. So does it make sense to undo citizens' EU membership for this? Rather, we need some kind of suspension of rights of the current government based on specific behaviour, such as persistent obstruction, distortion of the national media, etc. (although such criteria could apply to others too which might get embarrassing). And in general, to remove all vetos (aka "consensus") from EU processes.
Africa is huge- many people underestimate it, although in this case it is a bit too large compared to India in the middle. Also the colorscale makes Sahara and other low desert areas too green - the habitable part is not so great.
sounds nice, but can you elaborate what does 'embrace' really mean - accept ? some people should keep trying to tackle what's hard to change
Although not an expert on that specific country, I can be sure that ' almost all ' is very misleading, even if it gets a lot upvotes because people find it convenient to blame some big bad other. Even if you have specific data for electricity, don't forget a lot of CO2 is emitted by cars, and also by fuel to heat homes (including some peat in special case of ireland - and in that country a large fraction of GHG emissions is also methane from agriculture).
And did they consult the mushrooms ? Seems in medium term, may help feed a lot of bugs and birds, which is good for biodiversity, but to store carbon, needs to be fungi-proof.
Been waiting for this for 20 years ... (was shocked how much those emissions rose post 2004)
What's important now, is that India and Africa don't follow the same type of concrete path
'China’s in-use cement stock – a measure of all the material in buildings, roads and structures – was about the same in 2013 as the roughly 15 tonnes per person in the US'
Where can i get data for each country's in-use cement stock ? Seems like useful metric (I think incorp in my model)
and no insects ?
Interesting - especially regarding the linguistic isolation factor, making it easy to dominate media.
Although even among many similar slavic languages, I wonder how many people are listening to other country's media. And if we look at other isolated languages in Europe, eg. Finland, Basque, Albania, it's hard to see a pattern in political consequences.