Tobias_Atwood
Tobias_Atwood t1_je3i7on wrote
Reply to comment by Explorers_bub in Study finds that methane creates cooling clouds that offset 30% of the heat, which means methane has a lower effect on climate change than previously thought by Theranosissus
Basement apartments will start to be in fashion after a while.
Tobias_Atwood t1_jddmo8v wrote
Reply to comment by gobblox38 in An Arizona plant will pull CO2 from the air and trap it in concrete by captainquirk
We gotta make ot work somehow, though. Even if we 100% stopped production of greenhouse gasses today we're still looming on the edge of climate disaster with the CO2 already in the atmosphere. The normal biological and geological processes that sequester CO2 move too slowly to save us.
We gotta scale that shit up.
Tobias_Atwood t1_jd7t9tt wrote
Reply to Less than week after story goes viral, teen with size 23 feet getting custom shoes from PUMA, UA by SAT0725
I once saw a pair of size 14 shoes at walmart. It was like spotting a unicorn.
Tobias_Atwood t1_jcbimlz wrote
Reply to comment by avoidance_behavior in Cemetery staff take out personal ad for goose whose mate died — and find her a new match by citytiger
I was working a job in the upper floor of an extremely old ass building that had a bunch of different roof access points. This apparently made it a prime shelter for the local pigeons because every time I worked that site there were always at least a few hanging around.
One day I went up there and saw a trio of pigeons off in the corner. Two of them were walking around, not doing much beyond sticking close to the third one. The third one I thought was already dead. It looked old and sick and was so still and unmoving. The only reason I knew it was still alive was because it would occasionally adjust it's feet to get more comfortable.
I worked that site for several hours and through all that time the two other pigeons never left the side of their sick friend. Eventually the sick pigeon looks like it has some kind of pigeon seizure, dramatically falling onto it's side and flopping around. Almost as soon as it started it stops, and the pigeon goes still again.
I just watched a pigeon stroke out and die before my very eyes.
It's two friends inspect it for a moment before going towards the nearest chimney and flying up and out.
It always struck me how they stuck with it to the very end.
Pigeon solidarity.
Tobias_Atwood t1_jc8jxna wrote
Reply to Cemetery staff take out personal ad for goose whose mate died — and find her a new match by citytiger
Wanted: The Goose to My Gander.
Must love long walks through the park and be tolerant of my many many neighbors.
Tobias_Atwood t1_jbq7hs8 wrote
Reply to comment by sciolisticism in Biden administration releases Guantánamo inmate, its fourth transfer in a month by LifeTableWithChairs
>The people who see no problem with Gitmo probably don't care why people hate America.
They'll loudly cry and gnash their teeth about how anyone could think we aren't the best that ever existed but when you start listing reasons why we aren't the best they throw an even bigger toddler tantrum before stomping off to rage binge more fox news.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j9ynfb8 wrote
Reply to comment by atreyal in 95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority: In 105 jurisdictions of the Bay Area, anyone can build any residential projected at any height or density so long as 20% of the units are for low income. by dolphins3
Omaha pluses: all the genetically modified corn you can eat.
Omaha minuses: you're in Omaha.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j95tdb6 wrote
Reply to comment by Yourbubblestink in Over 25 GW of solar is actively being constructed in the U.S. by CurseMeKilt
We've been talking about the environmental impact for literal decades. Fossil fuels gotta go or we're all gonna die. Slowly. Horribly. Agonizingly. Stretched out over decades and centuries as the planet becomes a thick hot morass of death and decay.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool or a liar. Possibly both.
You can think renewables are ugly all you want, but I don't care. I'll bury everything you ever look at in solar panels. From here on out until the day the sun fucking dies I hope the only thing you ever see again is solar panels.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j95sa9h wrote
Reply to comment by Yourbubblestink in Over 25 GW of solar is actively being constructed in the U.S. by CurseMeKilt
Gotta put them where the wind is. I guess that isn't obvious to you...
We can also plant more trees. That might also not be obvious to you...
Tobias_Atwood t1_j95rfil wrote
Reply to comment by Yourbubblestink in Over 25 GW of solar is actively being constructed in the U.S. by CurseMeKilt
Well I'm glad we're in agreement on installing more solar. Coal and oil fuck up the place too much to ignore.
Make way for beautiful solar to preserve the land and make the world green.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j95heub wrote
Reply to comment by Yourbubblestink in Over 25 GW of solar is actively being constructed in the U.S. by CurseMeKilt
I've driven by plenty of petroleum and coal related power plants and production facilities and I'd be so happy if they all got replaced by solar farms.
If your biggest problem with solar panels is the aesthetics you got serious issues the internet can't solve for you.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j95172t wrote
Reply to comment by Yourbubblestink in Over 25 GW of solar is actively being constructed in the U.S. by CurseMeKilt
You can think they're ugly all you want. If that's your only reason for not liking them you're still foolish.
You'll dislike the look of that land even more when human induced climate change sets it all on fire or drowns it in horrific floods.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j950rlg wrote
Reply to comment by King_Swift21 in Over 25 GW of solar is actively being constructed in the U.S. by CurseMeKilt
It's even less renewable than coal and petroleum.
I mean yeah you let the earth sit for a few hundred million years you'll eventually get more carbon based fuels but if you want uranium you gotta blow up some god damned stars.
Do you have any idea how difficult that is?! It's pretty fucking difficult, genius.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j94m2kx wrote
Reply to Scientists have figured out a way to engineer wood to trap carbon dioxide through a potentially scalable, energy-efficient process that also makes the material stronger for use in construction by giuliomagnifico
I'm calling it now. We're gonna get jackasses demanding "non-GMO wood" for their homes.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j7fzucc wrote
Reply to comment by scarlet1919 in Years before $48M jackpot, winner emptied piggy bank for charity by poutineisheaven
You must not come here often.
This is actually a subreddit where people share horrifying tragedies that have very minor positive spins that do absolutely nothing to change how much the inciting event straight up fucking sucks.
Case in point, this post. Lots of people died or lost their homes and loved ones, but some little kids donated loose change. I mean yeah that's nice of them but this isn't uplifting. People are dead and this subreddit wants us to smile and forget.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j7ew4eu wrote
Damn, the news cycle must be slow. Can't even dredge up current events of extreme human suffering to fill out the sub?
Tobias_Atwood t1_j7am051 wrote
Reply to comment by China_Lover in Newly-discovered Earth-mass exoplanet — named Wolf 1069 b — may provide durable habitable conditions across a wide area of its dayside by marketrent
Honestly it isn't even about our long term survival.
Humans want to explore and expand and grow. They think there's a place they can go to set up shop they're gonna go whether it's a good idea or not.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j7alpck wrote
Reply to comment by mypantsareonmyhead in Newly-discovered Earth-mass exoplanet — named Wolf 1069 b — may provide durable habitable conditions across a wide area of its dayside by marketrent
Not with that attitude.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j7allh2 wrote
Reply to comment by Pigs_in_the_Porridge in Newly-discovered Earth-mass exoplanet — named Wolf 1069 b — may provide durable habitable conditions across a wide area of its dayside by marketrent
Humans have had an insatiable urge to explore, chart, and colonize every square inch of habitable land for as long as we've been humans.
The morass of space will not stop us. We will spread and claim and consume until we have conquered every last bit of empty of space in the galaxy. Even if it takes us a million years.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j60qene wrote
Reply to comment by DocWsky in Researchers unveil the least costly carbon capture system to date - down to $39 per metric ton. by heavy-metal-goth-gal
Planting them has a labor and material cost and they won't start making headway on real carbon deficits for many years.
Meanwhile this technology continues to be experimented with and improved upon. It's only going to get easier and cheaper as we work on it harder and harder. Combine it with reducing our carbon emissions and we'll make some good headway on not burning the world to a fucking crisp.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j56h82b wrote
Reply to comment by RedditsAdoptedSon in 'Hi, Brittany. This is Joe Biden.' President orders from DC's Ghostburger, stunning employee by citytiger
The French liberated our asses from colonial rule under the British. The least we can do is name fries and toast after them.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j33m3yn wrote
Reply to comment by ShelZuuz in Wind power is built at an increasing pace but its effect on nature and animals is poorly known. Researchers investigated the impact of wind turbines on bat presence and activity in Finnish boreal forests. The results indicate that wind power repels bats and drives them away from important habitats. by universityofturku
Also fossil fuels kill more birds than wind or solar per megawatt generated by several orders of magnitude.
Like, there's just no comparison. If you want to protect birds you build wind turbines.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j33l9qu wrote
Reply to Wind power is built at an increasing pace but its effect on nature and animals is poorly known. Researchers investigated the impact of wind turbines on bat presence and activity in Finnish boreal forests. The results indicate that wind power repels bats and drives them away from important habitats. by universityofturku
You know what's also pretty bad for bats? Climate change induced forest fires.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j2qy87l wrote
Reply to comment by Dankestmemelord in 2m sandcastle work of art in New Zealand by Key-Code-4296
No one died, got paralyzed, or was orphaned. This is completely unsuitable for Uplifting News.
Tobias_Atwood t1_je3ijc6 wrote
Reply to comment by NLwino in Study finds that methane creates cooling clouds that offset 30% of the heat, which means methane has a lower effect on climate change than previously thought by Theranosissus
>All Negative comments will be removed and will possibly result in a ban.
If this was enforced I'd have been banned a long damn time ago.
So many articles posted here are too horrifying to not comment on it.