Martin Otto

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77 & still struggling toward sentience. Watch deer & kites from my veg garden. Political progressive, restless activist; we could do better.

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I wish I could place my finger on this recent survey, but it was around 3-4 weeks ago and a part of it was about 18-25 year olds and I am pretty certain the take home message was that while they overwhelmingly believed in climate change, only ~6% were willing to sufficiently change their behaviors to deal with it.

Maybe someone else will show up with a link to it. I'm wondering how well I'm remembering it because I can't find it at all.

Some years ago the Danish meteorological society (full disclosure, I sit on the board) held an evening debate on cloud seeding, based on a film from the middle east and with a scientist from Israel who had been assessing experiments for many years. He was extremely sceptical it worked. I think I reached very similar conclusions to this excellent piece in #theclimatebrink. Cloud seeding can work under very specific conditions, but it's mostly a scam.

https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatebrink/p/a-primer-on-cloud-seeding

A primer on cloud seeding

no, it did not cause the flooding in Dubai

The Climate Brink
#fensterfreitage Heavy shower just passed over and the sun is shining!
Für Stefan Rahmstorf vom Potsdam-Institut (PIK) muss das Risiko eines Kollapses um jeden Preis gemindert werden. «Die Frage ist nicht, ob wir sicher sind, dass dies passieren wird. Das Problem ist, dass wir es zu 99,9 Prozent ausschließen müssen». https://focus.de/wissen/diverses/klima-droht-der-stroemungskollaps-im-atlantik_id_259707598.html
Ben Jennings on the mess #LeeAnderson has created for #RishiSunak – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

A neat deep time framing device from Peter Brannen:
- A moderately intense walking cadence is 100 steps per minute.
- Imagine that with each step you are stepping back 100 years…

After 20 steps in 12 seconds you are back to the time of Jesus Christ.

After half an hour you’re back to the beginning of Homo Sapiens.

Let’s say you do the classic 10k steps per day.

At that rate, it’ll take you 66 days to reach the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event which wiped out the dinosaurs…

Three key facts about the new year. Enjoy!
2024 = 8 x 11 x 23.
2024 = 2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³
2024 is a tetrahedron (pile of 2,024 oranges).
✏️ #ᑕᕼᗩᖇᒪIᕮᗪᕮᑕᕼᗩÎᑎᕮ 💬@CharlieDechaine #cartoon:✍️: Ben 🇨🇭 Pour @Twigousse #alttext
Soft night out there before the next storm heads in tomorrow.

We have been to the post box today so we have got some #coffee out today, bikes can get through where cars can't. Filming on my phone so didn't get all of the ride.

Even this morning this was mostly underwater, council are clearing up.

But shout out to some local young'uns who started clearing up yesterday and I don't think it would be as clear now without them. The #KidsAreAlright