Aww, for me?

It kind of is… Not in a one-to-one relationship sense, but there are rivers that are legally and socially considered people

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200319-the-new-zealand-river-that-became-a-legal-person

Title is overblown. The actual journal article is much more reserved and frame this as “gulf stream shift may indicate AMOC collapse”

Education isn’t just learning knowledge, it’s also skills and thinking. But it is usually restricted to a limited domain…

Dragons

I want the numbers

There will be some corals that survive, and some that migrate poleward or into deeper water. But yeah, large reef ecosystems are definitely screwed at +2°C, and probably even at +1.5°C (it’ll take some time though).

Mmm. I would guess that the difference between 5 degrees colder than now and 5 degrees hotter than now is quite different for human physiology. There will certainly be places some of us can still live, but lots of equatorial places will become uninhabitable

Circorncised

Use less fossil fuels. We have the technology to have electrified public transport, for instance. We just don’t have the political will or the financial backing. This is not really a problem that scientists are well equipt to solve.

They are trying, but… I was at a talk by a leading coral reef scientist last year, he said it would if it worked well, doing enough of it to maintain the Great Barrier Reef would cost on the order of ten trillion dollars a year…

What? When?

We definitely still use the term climate change.

Climate scientist here: what is there to reconcile? Slowing and eventually stopping warming is definitely possible, even inevitable, the question is just when and how fast we can do it, and what the repercussions are. Every fraction of a degree warmer is worse, so we should be taking as much mitigation action as fast as we can. Mitigating earlier is better than adapting later.

Brisbane is a shit city for cycling. Who is surprised?

This is a useful reference https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_true_proportioned_continents_approximation_with_comparison.jpg

How is this world news?

You can have a fight and still look out for each other’s wellbeing. If this was a walk on very safe flat terrain, maybe you’d have a point, but this was kilometres of intense scrambling and climbing over steep boulder fields with serious risk of injury. I’m a OK rock climber, and there were parts that freaked me out.

As is every social agreement

Just a few weeks ago I saw a dude have an argument with his partner on top of Cradle Mountain and then head down before her. We kept an eye on her to make sure she made it down OK (sketchy down climbing). He was at the bottom of the steep bit on his phone when we got there… She caught up and they seemed fine, but it was a weird vibe.