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Things change. There was a period before this information was easily available; this repository only goes back to 2013. Now there’s a period after this information, too. Things start and eventually they end.

Here’s hoping that some neat new things start up in its place.

It’s often not a choice between an AI-generated summary and a human-generated one, though. It’s a choice between an AI-generated summary and no summary.

Could it perhaps be that online communities are in bubbles that focus primarily on his failures and downvote into oblivion any mention of successes he might have had?

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No, it must be the money that’s wrong.

Not in every way. They’re cheaper and faster.

Okay, now hit it again.

The chart is actually not so terrifying once the cause of it was discovered. Basically, new regulations reducing sulfur content in ship fuel that went into effect in 2020 and put an end to an unintentional geoengineering experiment that had been running due to the enhanced cloud cover the sulfur dioxide particles were causing.

So this is a strong data point showing that solar geoengineering could work, if we resume it deliberately under more controlled conditions.

Maybe to make it absolutely clear “I’m getting rid of my grenades, this isn’t some trick to suicide-bomb you guys.”

That’s not what they’re arguing, not even close.

Decay turns carbon into carbon dioxide, a gas. Unless it’s injected into deep geological structures it doesn’t stay underground.

Roots rot too. Otherwise the ground underneath forests would have hundreds of meters of accumulated root mass built up over the millennia.

No, by this logic one just needs to take into account how long is required before you consider something “sequestration.” Ocean sediment, for example, stays down there for hundreds of millions of years before subduction and vulcanism might bring the carbon back up. So it’s not permanent but it’s certainly permanent enough.

Trees last for a couple of decades. And once a forest is established they turn over continuously, so the forest as a whole emits as much carbon as it takes in. As we see here with the boreal forests in the article, the carbon comes back out into the atmosphere quite easily. I personally wouldn’t consider it a very good “sequestration” method.

If you really want to use trees for carbon sequestration, a good approach might be setting up big tree farms and then sinking the harvested wood into anoxic lakes. That’d take the carbon out of circulation for a long enough time that future generations can figure out what to do with it afterward.

Forests in general shouldn’t be seen as a way to “sequester” carbon, trees are just temporary storage for it. They’re nice to have, of course, and serve many benefits. But not that one.

And unfortunately, this article is also just a response to media clickbait, not a discussion point it tries to look like

And becomes new clickbait in the process.

It looks like the ladies approached the soldiers, not the other way around. The soldier speaking was polite, and didn’t tell her what to say in response to his “glory to Ukraine.” She could have just said nothing. I’m really not seeing a problem here.

If the women felt threatened they could have simply not approached the Ukrainian soldiers.

Eh, there didn’t seem to be any sort of implied threat or imbalance of power in the little snippet presented here. The old ladies approached the soldiers and asked for a lift, and the soldiers seemed honestly apologetic that they had no room to provide one.

It’s quite interesting seeing the “depoliticization” of the general Russian population having this effect, when the Ukrainians moved in a surprising number seem to be just shrugging and going “new management, I guess.” Will be interesting to see how the occupation goes if it’s long-term.

Russia ran out of tires to throw into it, I guess.

Looking forward to the “Waymo robotaxis become silent killers stalking the night” headlines once the fix is implemented.

I’m sure the Ukrainian soldiers are rather busy with important things of their own, but if they’ve got any spare bandwidth it’d be neat if they were able to help organize the Russian civilians a bit and keep this kind of lawlessness suppressed. Heck, if they’re digging in for the long term they may end up needing to provide humanitarian aid for the people who chose to stay behind. That’ll be quite the look.

A surprise, to be sure. But a welcome one.