benjhm

Good idea - hope it helps inspire innovation for de-mining, and also shows that bees can bounce back, if flowers do. By the way you can see the huge mined band -lack of agriculture - from satellite images (eg sentinel). Maybe this honey needs a song to help tell the story (recalling that "Where have all the flowers gone?" derives from a Don-cossack poem). Only a question, what if the flowers and bees don't want to go away, after de-mining?
[ Incidentally, distributing honey as diplomacy is not unprecedented - I recall Poland putting pots of honey in climate convention conference bags. ]

Seems to me Rust is overhyped - sure it's better than C, it can power WASM, Lemmy is written in it, borrow-checking is neat, etc., but it's got a long long way to go to gain the high-level features of Scala. Problem is that hype is important to grow a community, and as LiHaoyi wrote, that peaked for Scala some years ago. I'd like to see more progress on Scala Native, to enable moving stuff between wasm and scala.js.

Hmm, I can believe that 2.2bn in the world might be exposed to extreme heat and humidity, but not solely in the Indus valley, there should never be so many people there ... Wet bulb temperature is a useful indicator, but I guess it already passed 31ºC in parts of India earlier this year? Perhaps we need to start thinking about mass seasonal migration to somewhere cooler.

Biogenic cloud-seeding molecules are important, but this is not new - iirc back in the 1980s even president Reagan picked up on this to suggest that the "pollution" from trees was worse than from cars. There are also phytoplankton in the ocean that release cloud-seeding nuclei. Such effects are already included in complex earth-system models to some extent, so it's not a magic 'new' factor, rather a refinement of the feedback strengths.

Eventually they'll need bigger reservoirs to store rain between seasons, would take a lot of sugar-snap peas to pay for those. Another thought - are those peas coming to europe by plane ?

The atmosphere stores negligible heat (only weather, not climate), but the ocean has a much greater capacity than the atmosphere, for both heat and CO2 (mainly in the form of HCO3-), and it takes a long time (centuries - millenia) to fully mix the ocean. Also it takes ages for icecaps to melt. If you really stop adding CO2, concentration in the atmosphere will go down slowly as it mixes into deeper ocean, but not back to preindustrial, the surface temperature will likewise go down slowly and partially after a slight lag, but ice will keep melting (-> sea-level rises) for a while. Other gases and aerosols make short term response more complex.
There's no rule of thumb that summarises it, but I made an interactive model - here.

Esperanto's nice but a century old and reflects some biases of that time. If advocating auxlangs, I'd prefer one that aims for a more global balance of vocabulary sources, for example Lidepla, Globasa...

I explain to people here that - in modern terms - it's mixture of french, dutch, and welsh - you forgot the celtic /gaelic root (whatever you want to call it).

We were discussing similar in 1998, 'warmest year for a millenia', detail has improved but implication already clear then. Quarter century later, curves start to bend, still trying. Plan how your life can help, don't panic then burn out.

It's true that there is huge inertia (transfer of heat and carbon from surface to deep ocean, and melting ice), also 'cascading events', but after decades of research these are mostly baked into the model projections. Below 1.5C seems very hard now, but well below 2C is certainly doable. What's not so baked in, is society inertia - 'not even trying until ...', that we have to change.

I think they have a general case that the future rights of younger generations should not be broken by the failure of older generations to reduce luxury consumption, but it's not just about these 32 specified countries, and I doubt that lawyers and judges are the right 'experts' to decide this topic. Maybe it helps to broaden the community beyond scientists and slrpnks, but law mostly builds on precedent and the scale and duration of this problem is unprecedented.

Whose vision? What fraction of the population were consulted and agreed they really wanted this royal vanity mirror? Imagine if instead such vast resources were shared equally among the population, to choose development individually on a human scale - we wouldn't see anything like this.