Ben Matthews

I like the haystacks. As also in alpine countries, they seem a fundamental part of the scenery. I guess they matter especially where livestock moves to mountain pastures in summer, while the hay from valley meadows gets them through the winter.
Maybe the tractor age is temporary, as smaller robots may surpass them in efficiency. So could anybody design robots to help with stacking and combing hay, if there are not enough young people to do it?

Il y a nombreux années, j’ai participé au sein de ma délégation nationale aux plusieurs réunions des nations-unis (FCCC), ou je me suis toujours arrivée avec mon vélo pliant Brompton, parfois avec telles consequences sur le pantalon. J’ai noté que le chef de notre délégation regardait souvent de façon semblant un peu critique vers mon vélo et jambes. Mais enfin après quelques réunions il arrive avec un tel Brompton soi-même…

I read that you can graft apple-family fruits onto hawthorn too, has anybody here tried that?

Si j’ai bien compris - on vol de la chêne, en Ardenne, pour le transporter via Belgique à destination de Chine - donc problème de coordination contre crime transfrontalier ? Mais ou sont tous ces chasseurs nationalistes, ils ne voient rien ?

Important topic. If more effort had been put earlier into lie-defence, maybe they’d need less air-defence.
But I’m confused by this part - seems contradictory, can anybody clarify - does he have roles for people to fill, or not ?

Nonetheless, Ukraine needs a new training and certification scheme, Potiy said, ambitiously aiming at fostering a new generation of cyber security specialists, “tens of thousands if not more,” with solid jobs within Ukraine. It is one of his core ambitions for his first year in charge of the agency. “We have educational institutions that turn out cybersecurity specialists who could provide services,” Potiy continued. “But there’s no job market.”

I’d like to have no phone at all, I don’t like small screens, nor being interrupted. Problem is that phone apps are now almost obligatory for IDs, transport tickets, passes, banking, etc. So I’d just like a phone-receiver (modem) with a sim card on a USB stick that can enable phone-app-stuff via my laptop or tablet. (Yes some tablets have data sim cards, but we still need sms and occasional phone functions for ‘verification’ etc.). Any suggestions?

No. first line in the article - “emissions in the world’s second-largest economy rose slightly as coal remained dominant”. It’s bad news. Also, article is about 2024 and your plots stop in 2019/20.
However your question is reasonable - when they made such “intensity” (emit-per-gdp) based targets, it seemed like a way to avoid constraining the economy and disguise emissions growth - but they didn’t anticipate the covid slump and such rapid demographic peaking, so maybe they’ll change the methodology for next ndc target.

This sounds positive, albeit unlikely it’s enough.
As I don’t follow the biodiversity COPs like the climate COPs, I’ll ask - was this like a COP16bis, and deal with or without US ?
I still recall UNFCCC-COP6bis which was a success despite Bush govt pulling out, inspired the rest of the world to unite.
And are people optimistic about COP17 in Armenia? Hope inspired to do better than Azerbaijan with climate. I suppose all Caucasus has much unique mountain biodiversity, maybe this can help overcome political divisions.

I’m more interested in distribution of users and local-focus of communities than country-based instances, nevertheless the map does illustrate that Lemmy has huge gaps - no country instance in all of Africa, hardly any in Asia… What can we do to make it a more global conversation ?

Too true, and good analogy with building a house extension…

I recall Putin himself expressed that, at a big climate conference they hosted in Moscow in 2003. But of course, there were also plenty of intelligent russian scientists who understand that melting permafrost, burning forests, flooded cities, and grey rain replacing white snow, is not such a great idea.

They say the other side (favour US over Ukraine) is only 20% - so 48:20 is a big difference ( in such surveys, there are always plenty who don’t know or hedge bets - and many people just don’t think beyond their local world) .

It seems the problem is the regional governments , which are prioritising regional coal mining, to prioritise regional jobs. In China there is plenty of renewable energy capacity but the sun and wind are mainly in the W and S, while the old coal mines are in the E and N. China has plenty of climate scientists and diplomats pushing central government policy, but these have less influence on ‘local government’. As many ‘local governments’ in China govern populations larger than European countries, this is something like Poland trying to keep it’s coal mines alive, in contradiction to European climate policy. Eventually there will be surplus energy, some coal contracts are going to break, question is who wins and loses then. Western observers tend to think of China as a big centrally controlled monolith - it isn’t, the ‘local’ chiefs have a lot of power. Similar central / ‘local’ governance problem with housing bubble and debt.

Potentially (ok - not currently), “24 gigatons of carbon accumulated in methane hydrates” is a serious amount. Note that as methane increases in the atmosphere, it’s lifetime increases as oxidising capacity is used up, a positive feedback. Methane may also help explain the rapid at the ends of ice ages (when sea-level rose ±100m). If there’s any really bad runaway warming scenario, it has to do with methane.

I vaguely recall Thatcher government in UK also tried to privatise the weather, added layers of complicated accounting (not sure how is now - how much of this got rolled back ? ).

So how about the Cahill Butterfly projection, …

Zed, for the last few months, and happy with it (previously vscode) - I code in Scala, so Metals provides the complex hints / actions.

Pour ajouter contexte - il semble que c’était une centre d’education pour adultes, y compris ceux venant d’autres pays qui y apprennent la langue suedoise.

Il me semble qu’il y existe d’offre ferroviaire entre quelque villes connectées avec des grosse lignes sur cette carte - par example Toulon-Nice, je me demande comment ils déterminent ‘suffisante’ ?
Autre problème - les voyages habituelles s’adaptent aux transports disponibles, donc par telle méthodologie on ne va jamais découvrir tous les voyages potentielles, si on remplirait les trous dans le reseau.

Many Ukrainian women are still in exile further west in europe, especially those with or expecting young children, for their safety. Their children are not included in this data (it says ‘on the territory’) but these are potentially the next generation of Ukrainians, if conditions become good for them to return.