Comment Come back, zinc! (Score 1) 24
You said you wanted to live in a world without zinc, Jimmy! Now your bean salad is contaminated with lead!
You said you wanted to live in a world without zinc, Jimmy! Now your bean salad is contaminated with lead!
Interesting.
For much of the world, avoiding starvation is the principle goal, so for these areas, higher crop yields are beneficial despite lower nutrient density.
For most of the developed world, getting enough calories to avoid starvation is not a big deal, and lower nutrients in food is undesirable.
Another thing to keep in mind, of course, is that increased carbon dioxide is going to play havoc with existing farms and fields due to climate change, with areas currently producing high crop yields becoming less farmable, and (presumably) other areas not currently farmable due to drought or other climate-related factors becoming more farmable. This will create an unknown amount of economic disruption.
Hmm, I mentioned science.(com? org?). Regardless, I'm not your research assistance. Look it up yourself.
I did. And gave a link.
I also maintain that this will not, in fact, happen.
This is the same game politicians constantly play. Sure, passing this law means closing the factory which will will put thousands out of work. But we could offer retraining opportunities! We won't, but we could.
It is totally byzantine if you need an app that is only on one App Store or happen to travel. Actual case that happened to me. United app for boarding pass, mobile roaming app from another country's phone company. Media subscriptions from U.S. App Store which was my default. Apple had me cancel my media subscriptions, create another id with an iCloud email address I don't otherwise use, and every time I need to spend time to make sure something I need will work in advance. Apple PLEASE let us use multiple app stores at the same time without forcing such destabilizing kludges. Even now I never know if what I need to work will work, or if my subscription or billing will work.. The billing screen also has issues like that.
What if you forked it and it is an exact copy of what they used, would that change your standing? Just theoretical for me.
Suppose that water headed for California almond farms instead was diverted to Arizona golf courses. What's the problem, right? Not like the water was destroyed or something.
You may as well ask, what's the problem with inflation? Not like money is destroyed when you spend it.
Reminds me of a lot of the themes from Jurassic Park that are glossed over in the movie version.
"Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves."
-- Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
This is why I only watch Kurzgesagt
An improvement is an improvement, and your own claims support it. The fact-based article is not "editorial"..
No article was linked. Your assertion, on the other hand, contained both a fact ("the pollutants were actually causing clouds to form, cooling the environment") and an editorial ("a bad idea".) The fact is accurate. The editorial addition is an opinion.
If you had linked an article, probably this one, you would discover that it nowhere contained the editorial you added to it, "a bad idea."
Here's your problem--someone set this thing to "Evil"!
Simultaneously, do we not remember the article from June 2023 on science.(com? org?) where they describe how cleaning up ship fuels ended up being a bad idea because the pollutants were actually causing clouds to form, cooling the environment?
The phrase "a bad idea" is editorializing. It is true that sulfate aerosol emission from shipping had a cooling effect, and reducing these emissions had an (unexpected) warming effect. Whether reducing these emissions was a bad idea or not depends on whether the beneficial effects of reducing sulfate pollution outweighs the negative effects of the slight reduction in cooling. The cooling effect of the marine sulfates was estimated at about 0.12 w/m^2, which is small compared to the anthropogenic greenhouse effect, currently estimated at about 3.5 W/m^2.
Though at the same time, human heat engines will have some sort of impact on the environment. To claim otherwise is fallacious.
True, but it turns out that waste heat is a very small contributor to the global temperature change compared to greenhouse gasses. Basically, if you emit one erg of energy from a heat engine, that's one erg of energy one time, and done. On the other hand, if greenhouse gasses absorb one erg of energy and reradiate it downward, that same carbon dioxide will keep on absorbing and reradiating energy for the lifetime of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, estimated to be hundreds of years under current conditions.
It's the difference between a one-time input of energy and a continuous input of energy.
Just their luck the AI bubble pops as they finish, and there's a glut on chips on the market.
Brown university has plenty of cameras, it's just that the perp was wrapped up like a burrito, making it hard to see his face.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.