silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 23 hours agoIt’s 90 degrees Farenheit (32°C) in the Arctic right now | The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that iswww.scientificamerican.comexternal-linkmessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up1279arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1278arrow-down1external-linkIt’s 90 degrees Farenheit (32°C) in the Arctic right now | The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that iswww.scientificamerican.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 23 hours agomessage-square23linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squareSynapselinkfedilinkarrow-up109·22 hours agoWe did it ! We Terraformed a planet ! Earth, a planet that was exactly as perfect as it gets for us to live on it, we Terraformed it into a suffocating hell.
minus-squareMadison420linkfedilinkarrow-up18·16 hours agoTechnically we deterraformed Earth. Terraforming implies we’re making it more earth like when we’re doing the opposite.
minus-squareHanrahan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agowell, getting rid of the majority of humans will make it better for everything else, so there is that. that we’re doing it to ourselves is gob smackingly stupid.
minus-squaremorto@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·16 hours agoCan earth become less earth-like? I’d argue that we’re changing the comparison standard so that more planets become more earth-like
minus-squareVieuxQueb@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·14 hours agoSo we are terraforming many planets without even setting foot on them, what an accomplishment!
minus-squareMadison420linkfedilinkarrow-up2·13 hours agoThe main attributes of this planet are skewing away from habitability not towards it.
minus-squareCapuccinoCorettolinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·14 hours agoTechnically Earth is always exactly like Earth.
minus-squareCourtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up19·19 hours agoWOO! IN YOUR FACE, CYANOBACTERIA OF 2 BILLION YEARS AGO! WE DID IT IN RECORD TIME! (2ish BYA cyanobacteria in the ocean produced oxygen, but nothing had yet developed protection from oxidation, thus killing almost everything living)
minus-squarezr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 hours agoChange has an effect in both ways, positive and negative, and unfortunately we tend to focus only on the negative.
minus-squareAuli@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·21 hours agoSo that’s how they get their religious thing.
We did it ! We Terraformed a planet ! Earth, a planet that was exactly as perfect as it gets for us to live on it, we Terraformed it into a suffocating hell.
Technically we deterraformed Earth. Terraforming implies we’re making it more earth like when we’re doing the opposite.
well, getting rid of the majority of humans will make it better for everything else, so there is that.
that we’re doing it to ourselves is gob smackingly stupid.
Can earth become less earth-like? I’d argue that we’re changing the comparison standard so that more planets become more earth-like
So we are terraforming many planets without even setting foot on them, what an accomplishment!
The main attributes of this planet are skewing away from habitability not towards it.
Technically Earth is always exactly like Earth.
WOO! IN YOUR FACE, CYANOBACTERIA OF 2 BILLION YEARS AGO! WE DID IT IN RECORD TIME!
(2ish BYA cyanobacteria in the ocean produced oxygen, but nothing had yet developed protection from oxidation, thus killing almost everything living)
Change has an effect in both ways, positive and negative, and unfortunately we tend to focus only on the negative.
So that’s how they get their religious thing.