It makes for a brilliant narrative. It melts your hearts. And you get to play saviour of the oppressed by outraging. /1
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Thread for today. /0
It makes for a brilliant narrative. It melts your hearts. And you get to play saviour of the oppressed by outraging. /1
Amazon are the lungs of the world. Never mind that most of the world's oxygen production happens in open oceans. But these are harmless ones. Of course, we all love to maintain forests.
For instance - take this: coral reefs will be permanently gone if mean / median temperatures raise by 1°C ..
But, really - how? Then you get a lecture on how CO2 will affect calcification.
Dig a bit deeper from another angle+
And the ocean temps were quite high too.
Here is the catch - Corals have been in existence for the last one billion years (or more).
Second one are news like the one quoted above. (Shark eggs are unviable **due to global warming**).
This is a false flag. Is there a correlation between these two? Maybe.
Intriguing and relevant are lessons from the fruit fly!
https://t.co/8Q9ARW5iV5
Some background: information in DNA is controlled by short segments of DNA called enhancers. In 2010, Frankel et al found a particular enhancer that seemed redundant.
They deleted this "redundant" copy of the enhancer, and saw that it had zero impact on development. But then - when they deleted it and ++
That is, this seemingly redundant enhancer was a contingency plan put in place by nature to deal with unforeseen events.
It is entirely coincidental that the best example to ++
Now we can at least use these lessons to ask questions about Sharks and corals!
If Drosophila, a relatively recent organism, can have contingency plans - won't the sharks have it?
Remember - the entire argument isn't about whether or not warming occurs .. but it is about whether the scaremongering holds water.
If we have understood something about life, it is that it survives.
No. That is not the message. It is that the lower an organism is on the evolutionary scale, the lesser it will be hit.
Someone mentioned polar Bears. They will be hit. They are complex organisms with specific habitat reqs.
Guess the most fastidious numerous animal? Humans.
Climate change - irrespective of the cause, is seen to affect glaciers. No amount of wishing away changes it.
The complex web of life means that the over exploitation is the problem. So what is the way ahead?
All the measures (green tech) is just band aid on a open surgical wound. You can assuage your heart .. but it won't stop.
Take the example of China. ~1.25B people.
What does it mean to be a first world country? Typically two things: food + water surplus, energy surplus.
What did China do to address these problems?
https://t.co/2MkOv6O6CG
And they have been doing it for almost two decades now.
What the white man did to American Bison, Chinese are doing to the oceans. In a far larger scale.
Last is Energy: China gets as much as 60% of its total energy from burning coal.
Energy is the currency of civilization.
Everyone wants AC to protect them from the summer. Everyone wants a car. Everyone wants fresh water and food.
Nope. Global warming isn't going anywhere.
Politically incorrect.
For now, understand that anyone promising to do this within the next 30yrs is bullshitting.
Why? After India, it will be the turn of entire African continent to become energy and food surplus.
Like all things humans - civilizational values are key in resolving this issue.
Pick your value systems carefully.
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#MadagascarFrogs
We start at the very beginning: the first specimens, two females, were collected by Reverend Deans Cowan in East Betsileo, Madagascar, and sent to London, where George Albert Boulenger described the species in 1882.
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Boulenger placed the species in his new genus, Mantella, along with ebenaui, betsileo, and madagascariensis. He recognised that the other Malagasy poison frogs were distinct from the Dendrobates of the Americas, although he did keep them in the Dendrobatidae.
#MadagascarFrogs
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https://t.co/dwaHMbrYbj
#MadagascarFrogs
📸D.Edmonds/CalPhotos
This thread will cover only a tiny fraction of the work on Mantella cowanii because, being so charismatic and threatened, it has received quite a bit of attention.
#MadagascarFrogs
We start at the very beginning: the first specimens, two females, were collected by Reverend Deans Cowan in East Betsileo, Madagascar, and sent to London, where George Albert Boulenger described the species in 1882.
#MadagascarFrogs
Boulenger placed the species in his new genus, Mantella, along with ebenaui, betsileo, and madagascariensis. He recognised that the other Malagasy poison frogs were distinct from the Dendrobates of the Americas, although he did keep them in the Dendrobatidae.
#MadagascarFrogs
As more specimens were collected, it became clear that the species was highly variable. In 1978, Jean Guibé wrote with interest about this variability, describing a new subspecies, M. cowani nigricans—today a full species. #MadagascarFrogs
https://t.co/dwaHMbrYbj
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We know that elite institutions like the one Flier was in (partial) charge of rely on irrelevant status markers like private school education, whiteness, legacy, and ability to charm an old white guy at an interview.
Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)
It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.
Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".