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toiidaElisabeth Frink, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”, 1968, pencil and watercolour on paper, 76.2 × 55.9 cm ★ UK ★ https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5773957 #ElisabethFrink #graphics #pencilonpaper #myths #parables #femalegaze #queervibes #alarmism #herald #Christies #1960s
C.This is an ... alarmist take.
CFLs contain mercury - but a tiny amount, just milligrams. They're not particularly dangerous, broken or not. If you break one, it might scatter one or a few tiny, tiny droplets of mercury, too small to find. They will eventually evaporate and disappear, but at such a low rate that there won't be any detectable amount of mercury vapour in the air.
It is definitely far, far below any level that could cause you any harm at all - and elemental mercury isn't very dangerous to life, anyways. It's organic mercury compounds that are bad, and there aren't any of those in a fluorescent bulb, compact or traditional tube.
People used to *drink* large quantities of mercury as a health treatment for syphilis, among other things. In it's metallic, liquid form, it's just not much of a health hazard.
#BruceSterling*I see a little bit of AI-robot panic, but I see next-to-zero AI Genetic Engineering Frankenfood panic. Even though AI oughta be able to engineer-and-sell hot frankenfood frankfurters like nobody's business #alarmism #antiquated
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Why the Future Doesn't Need Us...
Nicole HennigWhat if the truth about AI is more boring than we'd like? https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/what-if-the-truth-about-ai-is-more #AI #negativity #alarmism
Nicole HennigWhat if the truth about AI is more boring than we'd like? https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/what-if-the-truth-about-ai-is-more #AI #negativity #alarmism
N-gated Hacker NewsThe New Yorker, ever the bastion of highbrow #alarmism, has decided to treat a monarchist blogger's fever dreams as America's imminent doom. 🤴📉 Apparently, Silicon Valley titans are swapping their hoodies for crowns, and democracy's days are numbered. 🙄👑
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile #NewYorker #SiliconValley #DemocracyMonarchy #BloggerFeverDreams #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile #NewYorker #SiliconValley #DemocracyMonarchy #BloggerFeverDreams #HackerNews #ngated
SwebbtvKlimatalarmismen och demoniseringen av fossila bränslen fortsätter i Public Service - KLIMATET 12 med Staffan Mörner
Klimatalarmismen och demoniseringen av fossila bränslen fortsätter i Public Service - KLIMATET 12 med Staffan Mörner
Anders_SDen svenska regeringen använder sig av klassiska högerextremistiska knep för att skapa en falskt verklighetsbild. Lögner. Överdrifter. Felaktigheter. Angrepp på vetenskapen. På så sätt banar de väg för en kriminalpolitik som är felaktig och vansinnig. En kriminalpolitik som kommer att öka brottsligheten
FortuitousAn amount of land equivalent to the Isle of Wight has been added to the shorelines of 13,000 islands around the world in just the last 20 years. This fascinating fact of a 369.67 square kilometre increase has recently been discovered by a group of Chinese scientists analysing both surface and satellite records. Overall, land was lost during the 1990s, but the scientists found that in the study period of three decades to 2020 there was a net increase of 157.21 km2. The study observed considerable natural variation in both erosion and accretion.
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The scientists identify many reasons why islands can grow in size despite the small annual rises in sea level seen in many parts of the world. It is noted that island shorelines are constantly changing due to factors such tides, winds, nearshore hydrodynamics and the transport of sediment. On inhabited islands, human action such as fish farming and land reclamation can be important.
Of course, humans action can have a number of unintended consequences, notably the mining of coral and the breakdown of natural water barriers.
Good to know facts, lets see what another three decades will do. The article itself isn't much of a read do to its poking a laugh at the climate change hysteria, its not good journalism, but the article does present a counterbalance to the one-sided alarmism that seem to prevail. (Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety - link.springer.com/article/10.1…)
#Climate #Water #Islands #Alarmism
Islands That Climate Alarmists Said Would Soon "Disappear" Due to Rising Sea Found to Have Grown in Size – The Daily Sceptic
Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety - Climatic Change
This study tests the hypotheses that overall environmental knowledge and climate-specific knowledge are inversely related to climate change anxiety, such that people who know more (less) about the environment in general, and about climate in particular, are less (more) anxious about climate change. Time lagged data were collected from N = 2,066 individuals in Germany. Results showed that, even after controlling for demographic characteristics, personality characteristics, and environmental attitudes, overall environmental knowledge and climate-specific knowledge were negatively related to climate change anxiety (both B = -.09, p < .001).