It makes for a brilliant narrative. It melts your hearts. And you get to play saviour of the oppressed by outraging. /1
https://t.co/odzm9VTdwZ
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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1/ Automobiles and Intake Fraction. Since cars are back in the news I thought I would retweet this model result I offered in early April 2020. I focused only on 1 micron particles & accounted for windows completely closed & cracked slightly open.
2/ Related air exchange rates were based on experimental results in literature for mid-sized sedans. Particle deposition to indoor surfaces were accounted for, as the surface to volume ratio in a 3 m3 cab is large. An important outcome was the intake fraction (IF)
3/ Here, IF is the number of particles (or virions in collective particles) inhaled by a receptor DIVIDED BY the number or particles (or virions in collective particles) emitted by an infector.
4/ Integrated over the two hour drive (in this example) the IF for all windows closed & a receptor at rest is 0.08 (8% of what comes out of the infectors respiratory system ends up in the respiratory system of the receptor). 8%! That is a very high intake factor.
5/ With additional ventilation from cracking a window open drops the IF to 0.012 (1.2%) still relatively high. Can get lower by opening more windows.
Simulation: Riding in car for 120 min w/ infected passenger who seems fine other than a cough every few mins. (1) a lot of SARS-CoV-2 virus (in fine aerosol particles) accumulation in car cabin w/ windows closed; (2) cracking window open slightly = dramatic reduction. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/bCmrmnLUPG
— Dr. Richard Corsi (@CorsIAQ) April 4, 2020
2/ Related air exchange rates were based on experimental results in literature for mid-sized sedans. Particle deposition to indoor surfaces were accounted for, as the surface to volume ratio in a 3 m3 cab is large. An important outcome was the intake fraction (IF)
3/ Here, IF is the number of particles (or virions in collective particles) inhaled by a receptor DIVIDED BY the number or particles (or virions in collective particles) emitted by an infector.
4/ Integrated over the two hour drive (in this example) the IF for all windows closed & a receptor at rest is 0.08 (8% of what comes out of the infectors respiratory system ends up in the respiratory system of the receptor). 8%! That is a very high intake factor.
5/ With additional ventilation from cracking a window open drops the IF to 0.012 (1.2%) still relatively high. Can get lower by opening more windows.
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The first likely historical reference to Ethiopia is ancient Egyptian records of trade expeditions to the "Land of Punt" in search of gold, ebony, ivory, incense, and wild animals, starting in c 2500 BC 🇪🇹
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I'll begin with the ancient history ... and it goes way back. Because modern humans - and before that, the ancestors of humans - almost certainly originated in Ethiopia. 🇪🇹 (sub-thread):
The famous \u201cLucy\u201d, an early ancestor of modern humans (Australopithecus) that lived 3.2 million years ago, and was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, displayed in the national museum in Addis Ababa \U0001f1ea\U0001f1f9 pic.twitter.com/N3oWqk1SW2
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) November 9, 2018
The first likely historical reference to Ethiopia is ancient Egyptian records of trade expeditions to the "Land of Punt" in search of gold, ebony, ivory, incense, and wild animals, starting in c 2500 BC 🇪🇹

Ethiopians themselves believe that the Queen of Sheba, who visited Israel's King Solomon in the Bible (c 950 BC), came from Ethiopia (not Yemen, as others believe). Here she is meeting Solomon in a stain-glassed window in Addis Ababa's Holy Trinity Church. 🇪🇹

References to the Queen of Sheba are everywhere in Ethiopia. The national airline's frequent flier miles are even called "ShebaMiles". 🇪🇹
