It's not too hard to imagine a future where a society can be brought to it's knees with no way to recover from the loss of a knowledge store.
10.03.2026 19:36
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It's not too hard to imagine a future where a society can be brought to it's knees with no way to recover from the loss of a knowledge store.
Should also note that because of some of the modelling in this paper, there is some controversy about the findings (but no competing models soooooo).
Three-panel figure showing the estimated mortality burden from 501 tropical cyclones affecting the contiguous United States between 1930 and 2015. Panel a shows a monthly timeline of cyclone activity. Bars represent the total intensity of storms each month, measured as the sum of maximum wind speeds across affected states. Bar colors indicate the decade when the storms occurred, illustrating variability in storm activity over time. Panel b shows the estimated excess mortality caused by these storms over time. Each storm generates a long, gradually rising and falling mortality curve lasting up to about 172 months (roughly 14–15 years). These curves overlap and stack because many storms’ effects persist simultaneously. The upper boundary of the stacked curves represents the total estimated monthly mortality burden from all past storms combined. The total burden appears relatively steady for much of the period but increases after around 2001. Panel c shows officially recorded deaths directly attributed to tropical cyclones by government sources. These deaths appear as small, occasional spikes compared with the much larger and smoother mortality estimates in panel b. The y-axis scale is the same in panels b and c, highlighting the large difference between official direct deaths and the estimated long-term mortality burden
Quite a brilliant graph here.
These are the kinds of "hidden" tolls that climate change takes on us. They are going to increase. We don't even have the ability to properly log it never mind respond.
Its so significant, it's one of the reasons why people in these areas have reduced life expectancy compared to the rest of the US. Not only reduced, but an acceleration in that reduction.
perceive & respond to threats.
They come as a result of the costs of the storms & the resulting breakdown in social supports. It's really quite a brilliant paper & shows that we look at events like the increase in tropical storms(and really many others) in a far, far too narrow way. It's a blind spot of our ability to
causes deaths for many, many years after the immediate event. Not only for a long time, but a staggering number of associated deaths (~7,000-11,000). A storm actually causes a surge in mortality for over a decade after. These deaths don't come as a result of drownings or impact trauma.
really seems like a good news story. Even though there are more storms now, there are actually less deaths per storm because we've gotten better at dealing with the immediate crisis(~24 deaths per storm). When you dig deeper though the story changes all together. An average storm actually
I've had this paper bookmarked to read for a long time, I finally got around to it last night. It sets out to answer what should be an easy question to answer. How many people die as a result of tropical cyclones in the US? Seems straight forward & at first glance it
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Such a weird thing to have distain for.
UAE oil giant ADNOC shuts Ruwais refinery after drone strike, source says reut.rs/47B9pqe
Lets make it a solar roof. :)
How about we just skip this weird non deliverable phase of Musk vaporware & get right to good public infrastructure?
Was watching some vaporware ad for Tesla's this morning & found it pretty ironic that the sales pitch is basically you won't need to drive so you can read a book or listen to music or play a game on your phone ... you mean kind of like really expensive public transportation?
Heating oil prices in the UK have trebled in a week. 2 million homes, no price cap protection, no warning.
Heat pumps + solar are multiple times more efficient, don’t require an oil tank and oil deliveries and are an insurance against such frightening price spikes.
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
The biggest refinery in the UAE halted operations after a drone strike caused a fire in the surrounding area.
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I also find it kind of interesting how no one is talking about the strides that China is making in quantum computing.
So if AI is so fantastic, why does it need influencer campaigns?
I feel like I've been posting this image for years. I guess that's because I have.
The difference in density between different regions in the world is pretty wild.
I mean has anyone actually checked to make sure that there isn't some widespread MK ultra like experiment being run right now? I mean are we really really sure? 😵💫🙃
1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography
historical oil demand vs secnarios
On the second fossil fuel crisis of this decade (and likely to be worse than the last, fair to say), a few small thoughts
First: global oil demand would be so much lower without climate delay, fossil corruption, oversized SUVs, western overconsumption. Everyone who pushed these holds responsibility
In wealthy nations, I don't believe this is about access to information or education or even intellectual capacity. In my experience it's all about the belief that they have what they call "parental rights". Which just translates to autonomy to harm their own.
He doesn't care. Not in the slightest.
They spent a lot of time telling me how it was like magic. They watched their fellow attendee's get taken out one after another & there were sure they were going to as well, but they didn't. Now they think it's a super power. 🤣👍
