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Total blackout of the whole peninsula. Airports, railways affected, some services on emergency power available but for now two and a half ours of no electricity for two whole countries and no end in sight.


Sorry, how would get 10% tax in These countries?

Cyprus has 35% incomtax over 60k €, poland 32%, estonia 20% flat...


Europe is quite diverse.

In germany it would be IT, law, medicine, accounting, engineering and management of all sorts as the most obvious.


How much of that reduction is because we outsourced our production to different places on earth?


I guess at some point we will start geoengineering which will either work or kill a lot of people.


We already do massive geoengineering. That's what all that CO2 is doing! We're just doing it incompetently.


For reference: all that CO2 is equal to about 0.04% of human atmosphere. Of which 3% is from human activity.

So 0.0012% of CO2 in atmosphere caused by humans. Nature is responsible for the remaining 0.0388% in atmosphere.


>So 0.0012% of CO2 in atmosphere caused by humans. Nature is responsible for the remaining 0.0388% in atmosphere.

Unless you're discussing literal "human expelled co2", as in "the measure of peoples exhalations during breathing", then you're out by several orders of magnitude. The pre-industrial co2 concentration in the atmosphere trends between 180ppm - 300ppm. In the last hundred years, the concentration has increased to 420ppm.

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/

For reference, each 1ppm in the atmosphere is around 7.8 gigatonnes of CO2. Humans currently create around 40gigatonnes of CO2 per year, roughly equating to 5ppm added per year. We add equivalent to 0.8% of the atmospheric CO2 per year.


Kind of silly to compare the amount that actually insulates and traps heat to nitrogen and oxygen that don't.

It's a 50% increase in insulating gases due to human activity that's the problem here .. not the thermally inert gases.


"I don't know what you're complaining about, I only increased the amount of cyanide in your body by 0.002% of your body weight."


That's a bit dishonest as the CO2 level has risen by almost 50% from pre industrial times so you would need a very narrow definition of human activity.


It's been much lower and higher in the past. In reality, CO2 has little, if any, effect on climate change.

Much more impactful are the sun and clouds.


It doesn't matter if the sun and the clouds have more effect. It only matters that one variable is changing, slowly but surely pushing the equilibrium.


Sure, all the climate scientist are wrong and some random guy in the internet knows more.


Actually there are various climate and other scientists who have this position. These scientists usually don't depend on grants and such for research.

The thing is, whomever I will link, you will have some accusation that the scientist’s opinion cannot be trusted for whatever reason. So discussion regarding this issue is kinda pointless anyway.

Time will proof these scientists opposing the human induced climate change narrative to be correct however.

- https://twitter.com/CO2Coalition/status/1755024453174542740

- https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1753863552790618203

- https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1753863954638459008

- https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1753861517043208485

- https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1752397688526569944

- https://twitter.com/Denachtzuster1/status/174509982623087414...

- https://twitter.com/WimKoning/status/1747299988231577860


Is there a point to starting geoengineering after the situation is already disastrous? Because that's the only case I see it happening.

The big advantage is that it could be done unilaterally.


I think it being done unilateral is an even bigger risk.

If China thinks x hast the best outcome for them but it is a desaster for Chile?

Tough luck for them.


Yes it's risky but I feel it might work better with the world of states we have today.


Why wouldn’t there be a point?


Maybe it would take too long for it to be worth starting when the situation is already very bad, but at least wikipedia implies the most well know aerosol injection is fast. I'm no climate scientist.


Looks like this is already documented: Termination Shock, by Neal Stephenson.



In Germany you share the Autobahn with trucks going 90km/h and some cars going 200 km/h.


Germany is much more disciplined than the US about being in the right lane and only overtaking on the left. Most of the US has the same rules in theory, but people following the rules less strictly combined with the low speed limits means they don't get the clearly separated speeds for each lane you get on a German Autobahn.


... and I hate it, it's so much stress (unless you're constantly on the right lane and driving 90km/h).

When you cross from the Autobahn to Denmark, where there's a speed limit of at most 130km/h, traffic immediately becomes less stressful.


Sounds like you’re the problem.


I can understand where you're coming from but driving on a road where everyone has the same speed on average is less stressful than driving on a road with large differences in speed.

The latter requires a good evaluation of the speed of the vehicles behind / in your mirror rather than just checking for whether a vehicle is there. On the former, you can simply match speed with the person in front and you're good to go.

Due to this, ADAS is also broken on roads with high speed differences. It won't alert you of a vehicle is coming 100+ kmh than you in your blind spot.


"Did anyone try to restore the backup recently?"

"..."


Sure we have, melphalan is being used to treat multiple myeloma for decades now.

Kill all the cancer in your bone marrow and transplant new stem cells to regrow it.


Have you ever been to one of these cities?


I have been to all of these cities. Each one feels unsafe at night, with the exception, sometimes, of the rich areas.


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