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I think people care about it less now lol. The summer 89s really piss me off. Why cant the feds come in with chainsaws and just knock down all the trees within a 30 feet radius? If they can arrest a police union leader without telling the locals they should be able to chop down a few trees.....

I think we need to get rid of these ASOS entirely, they dont measure wind accurately either and they don't properly identity precip type. The equipment we had before was perfectly fine and accurate why all this waste of money into something that isn't any more accurate? #DEFUNDASOS

November 1995 being referenced for Australia, we're going to need that kind of blocking this season

why is it so hot out west? you'd expect a big trough in the east with so much heat out in Colorado....Denver hasn't seen a single flake yet

why the mixing? I found that annoying although we still got 7 inches but LGA got 14 inches somehow and ISP had 12

didnt even see it fall but saw the coatings for about 30 min before it melted

lol thats awesome this is what it would be in the summer EWR 93 NYC 89 JFK 91 LGA 92 HPN 90

and first stickage on roofs and cars although I wasn't awake to see it fall. No way was I going to be up at 6 am lol.

Don why did this storm trend so far to the north? Remember it was originally supposed to pass south of us?

if it just sticks to roofs and cars does that count as more than a T? whatever was there when I woke up was gone shortly thereafter anyway

Yeah I woke up to seeing a coating on roofs and cars, but I woke up at 7:40 and the actual falling flakes were out of the area by then. Why did this move out so quickly? There were more flakes around 9 am but not enough to stick. What I saw on the roofs and cars was already gone 30 minutes after I woke up. Aint no way I was going to wake up at 6 am for ANY reason-- not even to see snow. Thats why I want it to snow during the day, when it can actually be seen.

Light dusting here too, I just saw it when I woke up on rooftops and cartops, why did this melt so quickly? It was gone in 30 minutes lol and then we had a few more flurries around 9 am but that's it. Mine was just a light dusting, this looks better https://twitter.com/falf0x/status/1464980746804809733

Air pollution around the world- didn't know that air pollution also increases rates of Diabetes type 2, in addition to asthma. It killed 2 million people in India in 2019 The 100 most polluted cities in the world / Twitter

NOVA from this week-- I found it really interesting because they discussed the possibility/probability based on recent evidence that the structure of the universe was actually "decided" before the Big Bang. Now that's some truly mindblowing stuff right there. So basically there was this primordial soup of particles (on the quantum scale) and they interacted with each other in certain ways, creating entangled networks (curiously the same title of the intelligent fungi article) and before the Big Bang happened, this network was already hardwired into place because the universe emerged from this cosmic soup. The implication is that other bubble universes could also emerge in the same way. And this also explains why we see fully formed galaxies so soon (200 million years) after the Big Bang. Whether it was a Big Bang or Big Bounce, the implications of a cosmic network hardwired from outside or before the universe are huge.

It's like a magical repeating symphony on various different scales that creates the splendid orchestra of nature.

I remember seeing similar networks for slime molds that resemble human architecture. Human ingenuity is a fractal representation of what nature has already done. Maybe because of this..... https://nautil.us/issue/50/emergence/the-strange-similarity-of-neuron-and-galaxy-networks

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/27/entangled-life-by-merlin-sheldrake-review-a-brilliant-door-opener-book When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” So said the nature writer John Muir. His statement is spectacularly true of fungi. Mostly, they come to our notice as mushrooms, moulds, wood-rot, infections and antibiotics but, invisibly, they are inside us and all around us. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n10/francis-gooding/from-its-myriad-tips https://paulstamets.com/mycological-strategies https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/160221-plant-science-botany-evolution-mabey-ngbooktalk There Is Such a Thing as Plant Intelligence Plants are capable of solving problems and learning from past experiences. BYSIMON WORRALL https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-poetic-mind-bending-tour-of-the-fungal-world/#

wow that reminds me of Cosmos- when the interconnected intelligence of the network of fungi and trees was being mentioned (mycology) https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/entangled-life-book-review-mushrooms-fungi-biology-science The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means The astonishing secrets of fungal life raise profound questions

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/climate-change-and-the-new-age-of-extinction

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/biodiversitys-greatest-protectors-need-protection/ In the late 19th century Yellowstone, Sequoia and Yosemite became the first of the great U.S. National Parks, described by author and historian Wallace Stegner as America's “best idea.” But the parks were devastating for the Native Americans who had lived or hunted within their borders and who were expelled—essentially an act of colonialism in the name of conservation. In the 20th century similar reserves began to be carved out in developing countries, creating millions of “conservation refugees” even as neighboring forests were given over to extractive industries. The protected areas failed to offset the destructive aspects of development. Plant and animal species are disappearing faster than at any time since the event that wiped out most of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Even humans aren't guaranteed to survive. The U.S. has taken one small step to make amends. In June, Secretary of the Interior Debra Haaland, the first Native American ever to hold a cabinet position, signaled her intent to safeguard both nature and justice by returning the National Bison Range to the Salish and Kootenai confederation. Now the Biden administration needs to go further. At the 2021 meeting of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), it should ensure that an ambitious plan to promote biodiversity empowers Indigenous and other communities worldwide instead of punishing them for their success in conservation. In 2016 biologist Edward O. Wilson responded to the biodiversity crisis by calling for half of Earth to be left to wilderness. His rallying cry has birthed the “30x30” campaign to protect 30 percent of Earth's land and sea surface by 2030. Backed by many scientists, major conservation organizations, the more than 60 member countries of the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People, and $1 billion from a Swiss entrepreneur, the target is likely to be adopted by the CBD when it meets in October. But critics charge that some advocates of 30x30 seek “a new model of colonialism” that forces those least responsible for climate change, biodiversity loss and other environmental crises to pay the highest price for averting them. 30x30 could be used by elites in democratically challenged nation-states as a pretext for seizing land from marginalized groups. The home ranges of Indigenous peoples currently shelter 80 percent of Earth's remaining biodiversity and sequester almost 300 trillion tons of carbon. Precisely because of this abundance, these areas are likely to be some of the first places targeted for “protection.” If that happens, the very people who defend nature from the voracious appetites of the Global North, often at the cost of their lives, would be penalized for their efforts. Up to 300 million forest dwellers and others could be forced out of their territories, by one estimate. Such seizures are already happening. In the Congo Basin, for example, armed eco-guards have brutally evicted Indigenous Pygmies from the rain forest to carve out protected areas. These wildlife reserves expanded following a CBD resolution in 2010 to dedicate 17 percent of Earth's terrestrial surface to nature. Yet the protected areas are surrounded by or sometimes even overlaid with oil, mining or logging concessions. Unsurprisingly, chimpanzee, gorilla and elephant populations have continued to decline even as Pygmy peoples have been consigned to poverty and misery. There is a way to do global conservation right. Indigenous communities are as good as or better than governments at protecting biodiversity and already conserve a quarter of Earth's terrestrial surface. The CBD needs to ensure that they get secure rights to their territories, as well as the resources to defend them. Further, the signatories to the CBD should commit to returning some protected areas, which now cover around 17 percent of the planet's lands, to the control of the communities from which they were wrested. The U.S. could lead the way in this effort. The Biden administration's vision for 30x30, released in May 2021, includes a pledge to support local populations, in particular Tribal administrations, in conserving and restoring biodiversity. The U.S. needs to take that resolve to the global stage at the U.N. meeting and help rescue nature and its most ardent defenders from the militarized conservation model it pioneered one and a half centuries ago. That is a crucial step toward a reprieve for the incredible life-forms that share our planet, as well as their Indigenous guardians.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/redo-of-a-famous-experiment-on-the-origins-of-life-reveals-critical-detail-missed-for-decades/ ^also very interesting, the role of silica rocks in life starting on Earth They found that teflon produced very few organic compounds. There were more compounds in the teflon with glass pieces. But the glass container, by far, created the greatest number and largest variety of organic molecules. The mechanism of exactly how the silica helps catalyze the reaction is not clear yet--but it is very clearly does. The obvious question then is: Was there silica available in the early earth environment? Saladino: The water is not suspended in a vacuum. No? The water is in geochemistry, it is surrounded by minerals. Borosilicate and silica are the most abundant minerals surrounding the water. Vitak: The team has two next major objectives in mind. First, to try updating the experiment to model more closely the amount of silica that would have been available in the early Earth. Second, they want to try replacing the silica with extraterrestrial minerals like, pieces of meteorite or rocks from other planets. Apart from just being very cool, that could give a more concrete idea of how to look for life in space. But here on Earth, coming one step closer to fully understanding why we exist is that much more satisfying. Even after nearly 70 years, a key discovery in our complex origin story still carries new revelations. As the authors say in the paper: "The role of the rocks was hidden in the walls of the reactors."

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientists-have-been-underestimating-the-pace-of-climate-change/

Yes a paradigm of connectedness is very important-- between all species-- if one is in peril, we're all in peril because we're all part of the vast web of life and one weak strand will eventually make the whole thing unravel. Reading that New Yorker article I also became aware of a number of giant renewable energy projects that are harming local ecosystems in third world nations, we need to not fall into the trap of past mistakes and do it in a way that makes a minimal impact to the local environment and doesn't contribute to the mass extinction event now underway. This was part of the problem with the so-called "Green" revolution, they started using chemicals harmful to the environment, that kill pollinators, cause harmful side effects to humans (especially children) and eventually destroyed the soil. It's why we're now seeing a resurgence of organic farming, which is much more sustainable.

I mean if we existed like indigenous people live (or rather used to live), at one with nature and the planet, we would all be a lot better off. They appreciated not overhunting, not overfishing, not overlogging, all the things that modern society has abused to the point of no return.

Thats why I am so adamantly opposed to the so-called "green" revolution (it wasn't green, it destroyed the environment with chemicals that didn't belong there)....we're just now starting to learn of the damage caused by industrial agriculture and farmers in the third world are finally turning back to more sustainable organic farming. The problem all along was that new technology was only going to temporarily treat a symptom (like a pain killer only treats the pain) the disease all along was that there are simply too many humans on the planet.