Tim_N
5677
Very true, and that’s one of the things that drives me insane about the climate change ‘debate’ today. Literally every argument made against dramatic action for the environment are about consequences that are going to be orders of magnitude more severe if too little is done.
I am convinced that anyone talking about jobs or economic consequences at the moment are either just using it as a smoke screen to their science denialism or are expecting to die in the next decade.
This article was interesting, though the winter descriptions sound like a frozen hellscape to me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climate-environment/climate-change-america/
Particularly this image -
No wonder people in the south don’t believe in Climate Change. It’s not getting any warmer down there.
If Evangelicals had any integrity, they’d call this murder:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-14/air-pollution-should-cause-conservatives-to-rethink-regulation?srnd=opinion&utm_content=view&utm_source=twitter&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-view&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_medium=social
Some of the research findings are mind-bending. One 2011 study found that the introduction of EZ-Pass in New Jersey and Pennsylvania reduced the incidence of premature birth by as much as 9.1% for mothers who lived within 2 kilometers of toll plazas.
It’s worth taking a minute to fully absorb this result. There was no improvement in the emissions of the cars involved, nor is there any evidence that fewer cars passed through the toll plazas (in fact, the prospect of EZ-Pass lanes may have lured more drivers). The only difference is that the cars spent slightly less time idling — and that was enough to greatly improve the health of pregnant mothers living nearby. And the study does not address the health of the newborns later in life.
Yet the economic benefits from this one measure of improved health on one small segment of the population, according to the study, are estimated at up to $13 million over three years. Extrapolated nationwide, the authors say, the savings could reach $444 million per year.
Good. Coal needs to die, and would already if it weren’t so heavily subsidized.
It’s also important to remember how far we’ve come:
Maybe we can be just a bit more optimistic?
Please tell me we can.
Only, you know, when we kill all life in the oceans, not gonna be any tasty seaweed.
I wonder if reducing these microbes in the cows’ stomachs will have other bad effects for the cow? Are we knocking out their probiotics with this seaweed?
Nesrie
5686
Yeah I am not sure harvesting more stuff from our oceans to feed to our cows sounds like a good idea either. I am open to more research on the matter, but our oceans need more protecting than the cows.
Timex
5687
In pretty sure we already had evidence of trump previously paying people to attend his rallies.
We need to stop eating cows, but we won’t, and they are trying to grow the seaweed outside of the ocean.
That seaweed story is super interesting. Cows raised for meat and dairy are a massive looming problem that must be solved as part of any successful climate change response, and something that can allow the world to do that without requiring an incredibly difficult-to-achieve change in human consumption habits could be a game-changer.
It’s an obscure source (to me anyway) so at the moment I’m giving it a “watch carefully” rating.
Marketplace did a piece on the rise of Oatmilk. It’s defining aspect is that it foams really well, making it a good replacement for milk in coffee shops.
Also, they used the words mouth feel.
Oatmilk has exploded in the last year or so in coffee shops around NYC. In terms of coffee creamers, it’s the best non-dairy alternative that I’ve tried. It has a more neutral mouthfeel* than the other ones, dissolves into coffee better than some, and also has a bit of bitterness that’s reminiscent of heavy cream. Of the non dairy milks I’ve experimented with, it’s the one I’ve gone back to most often.
* mouthfeel is actually more appropriate here than texture, since a lot of non dairy milks have a greasy feeling of coating your tongue, which oat milk doesn’t have.
I might pick that up sometime. How does it compare in price?
I don’t know about grocery store pricing. Most coffee places I’ve seen have a 50 cent upcharge for any non dairy milk, including oat, although they just forget to ring it up half the time.
So out of the blue, today’s sermon was on the importance of being a good care taker of the earth and the very real threat of global warming. Considering how small and old are congregation is, I thought this was a rather risky, if necessary sermon. Sadly, it was an outdoor sermon, and my 2 year decided to run out to the swing set so I could not hear all about Alaskan Yellow Cedar and how global warming was killing large parts of it off.
