Reposted by @happypanda1990.bsky.socialLearn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 18/04/2026There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water. 12183532276
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 24/02/2026And the absolute tantrums thrown during the bear vs man thing really showed how so many men are at best totally unaware how common sexual harassment and worse are. It became tribalist nonsense instead of recognising there's a hugely underreported problem. 0901
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Was it 2023 or was it 2022 when we saw the first major spike that had a lot really hoping it would be an anomaly year. Welcome to the new normal 120
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Wonder how long it'll take Musk to frame this as an attack on freedom, or crazy over regulations of American enterprise. 000
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 10/11/2025And I do wonder how many of them are actually aware of what's coming, and are just ensuring the populace remains distracted and divided til they've earned the maximum amount of unspendable wealth and their luxury bunkers are ready. 030
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 05/11/2025It's only an issue if it affects people's livelihoods it seems. Doesn't matter if we cause more extinctions of the wild animals and planets we share this ancient planet with as long as some people are making money through it. And of course these are not statements I agree with at all. 060
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 17/10/2025The climate change deniers do have a point that the models are wrong. They're wrong because there's so many other complex things like this that can't be easily predicted or evaluated as the earth hurtles towards a far different norm than the one that most complex life now adapted to. 010
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 14/10/2025At worst, it's hard to say, whether it becomes independent of us, or it becomes ever more restricting on the majority of the populace while being mostly controlled by a select few holding the reins that wish to maintain their position at the top regardless of the consequences for everyone else 020
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 14/10/2025At best it's a massive waste of energy with some niche uses, but is being propelled into more and more applications for the large firms behind it to justify the amount they've spent on it, where recognising it is an unnecessary mistake will speed up the collapse of the excitement driven bubble. 140
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 14/10/2025It must be comforting for them to only ever think of their attention seeking self inflicted martyr as if a school teacher throwing an absolutely ridiculous childish tantrum over being asked to refer to someone as "they" is some great casualty of an imagined war on Christianity. 000
Reposted by @happypanda1990.bsky.socialWWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Quote of the day. 0245
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Oh definitely agree, but I was running out of space in my comment so needed to remove the "" around "left". 010
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 01/10/2025And as neoliberal establishment parties of left and right let down their populaces over and over, it's understandable why there's such a growth in populist movements, but seems they're far more comfortable ensuring the populist right takes over than any sort of left to challenge root causes 100
Reposted by @happypanda1990.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/09/2025This is amazing. 7285393664
Reposted by @happypanda1990.bsky.socialLeon Simons @leonsimons.com · 20/09/2025Greta Thunberg and Irish comedian and activist Tadhg Hickey sum it up in 28 seconds 2227102
Reposted by @happypanda1990.bsky.socialThe Lever [Unofficial] @levernews.com.web.brid.gy · 11/09/2025levernews.comWe Must Stop This Civil War Before It’s UnstoppableOnce we accept deadly violence as a normal part of American life, we’re done for. 011
Reposted by @happypanda1990.bsky.socialPaul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Francesca Albanese speaks for us all, when she speaks of “shame” at not being able to do more: ‘Palestinians 🇵🇸 have suffered so much’ ‘Genocide not just in Gaza but also the West Bank🇵🇸’ ‘Israel 🇮🇱 wants to erase Palestinians from the river to the sea’ 29143
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Anyone else wish the UN was as powerful as conspiracy theorists like to think it is? And was proud to be at a big get together here in Ireland yesterday for the Palestinian cause, but definitely feels the ruling class of the powerful countries don't want this to stop at all. 000
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 12/09/2025I'm very leftist here, but i definitely think it's too early to say what his motives are or his political beliefs. All we know so far based on the messages inscribed on bullet casings is that he's antifascist (and I'm well aware that could be false reporting). Both left and right can dislike fascism 000
Reposted by @happypanda1990.bsky.socialDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I see the people who love nothing more than to incite political violence are really upset about political violence again. 316023
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Got to love the double standards at play. It's absolutely fine when there's weekly school shootings or the intentional targeting of democrats (like the Minnesota event) but when it's one of their own (who's career is based on being as divisive and hateful as possible), it's a whole different story 010
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 07/09/2025The term "terrorist" is losing all meaning now and seems to mean "anyone that doesn't like us" now. I do hope journalists start asking folk to define the term when they assert such and such they killed was a terrorist. 011
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 04/09/2025And it's often idiots that convince themselves we were strict carnivores in the past, not recognising for most areas, the gatherer part of hunter-gatherer was much more important and where most of the calorie intake came from. 010
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Damn our tendency as a species to regard what surrounds us in the natural world as mere commodities that are simply there to be utilised, owned and get rich from. Maybe we wouldn't be in such a mess if we could see the real world more clearly, and not simply filtered through the human bubble 010
Reposted by @happypanda1990.bsky.socialKumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant. 782540431
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 12/08/2025It would be absolutely horrendous and so chaotic with a sudden fall in order and breakdown of so many vital services so many depend on, but definitely feels like the longer it continues, the worse things will be for whoever (be them us or the other species we share this ancient planet with) survives 010
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 24/07/2025It's ridiculous that a very wealthy tiny minority of the global population simply take it as a given that they should control society, and if anyone complains they just throw childish tantrums. 010
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Just have to feel bad for the folk that actually work there and do the work who suffer simply because the spoiled rich kid that bought the place is a massive POS. 000
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 23/07/2025At this point, you got to kind of laugh at the utter madness of it all, and wonder to yourself if this tragic situation has happened time and time again throughout the universe every time "intelligent" life has arisen. hopefully it's not totally a short term self destructive phenomena 000
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Damn right, and probably coddled from birth so they actually do believe it or that they're special and have worked so damn hard for the extraordinary wealth they simply inherited. If only our species hadn't tied in so much power to a mere concept to simplify trade which we've lost total control of 010
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 10/07/2025And as things get worse in these deplorable places, I fear many people are going to complain more about the major loss in investment or food shortages over trapping and raising living beings in these things as we humans cause more and more damage to the planet we share with them. 030
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 09/07/2025oh no, that would be bad for business. Why can't normal people understand that the whole focus of global economics and modern society should be for the further enrichment of a small minority of the global populace? They're selfish and misguided if they disagree. 000
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 07/07/2025I definitely enjoy that blue sky seems to have a more rational user base than the other place where it's easier to keep up with science news on various topics (especially climate and ecology) but does anyone else miss dealing with the idiotic trolls and misinformation shills sometimes? 000
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 05/07/2025"The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless." -Alan Moore I do feel it sums up quite a lot of how folk can think these things. It's nice to know someone has a plan, even if it's a hostile plan. We like patterns and James Bond villainesque plots of good Vs bad 010
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 05/07/2025"The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory." 100
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Also it's somewhat comforting being able to attribute all these things to some nefarious *them* who have a mastermind agenda against you and your ingroup. It's far harder to accept that the world doesn't revolve around humans and our actions are causing things to become much more inhospitable for us 120
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Humans are too insignificant to cause things to change too much, unless the evil globalist Dems are shooting space lasers or paying off millions of people to keep chemtrails going. /S 000
Reposted by @happypanda1990.bsky.socialAll Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 01/07/2025From Plass's article "We shall be able to test the CO2 theory against other theories conclusively during the next half-century.... "if carbon dioxide is the most important factor, long-term temperature records will rise continuously as long as man consumes the earth’s reserves of fossil fuels." 23611
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Exactly. Many folk think of 1-2°C as something minor because it seems to not be too bad, not understanding that it's better to think of that in terms of a massive amount of extra heat energy in the earth system which may cause instability and changing norms at an accelerating rate. 010
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I feel so bad for being someone with a deep interest in science but had no idea this was happening. Absolutely stunning work and just goes to show what we can do when we work together and prioritise what's important. Fingers crossed all goes well with this amazing thingamabob flying around us. 000
Reposted by @happypanda1990.bsky.socialSimon Clark @simonoxfphys.com · 20/06/2025So @esa.int invited to watch their new Biomass satellite launch, and it's one of the most amazing pieces of science I've seen youtu.be/YfqvsVgtThQyoutu.beWe don't know what's happening with forestsYouTube video by Simon Clark 2409
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Not saying it's going to be nice or not utter chaos as it happens, but the sooner mankind loses it's strange hold on the planet, the better. How much of our current issues are due to the conceited belief that we are "masters" of nature instead of recognising we are part of it. It's naive arrogance 000
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 10/06/2025And just fits the clichéd saying of "they want you fighting your culture wars so you don't unite and fight a class war instead". I generally am suspicious of mastermind agendas or well organised plots, but definitely seems believable that having the populace distracted and divided is useful 040
Reposted by @happypanda1990.bsky.socialJessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 03/06/2025When you realize the current administration secretly believes in all the climate science, and then you see them gutting research on chronic and terminal diseases, and you finally put two and two together, it’s dark stuff. They really don’t think we’re going to be around much longer. 2019641
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Oh how amazing it would be if they were right and it was all nothing but a ploy by corrupt elites to cause fear and take more control over our societies I seriously wish they were correct. 010
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 27/05/2025So much for the party of free speech. 010
Reposted by @happypanda1990.bsky.socialScott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Checking on the neighbor’s place while they’re away and met up with this Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina) 🐢 3323
happypanda1990.bsky.social @happypanda1990.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Now mainly focused on small nature friendly things I can do, but definitely not perfect. Can't blame ourselves at all for being imperfect beings. 020
![Sixty six years ago, on this day, July 1st, 1959, Canadian physicist Gilbert Plass has an article in Scientific American about … carbon dioxide build-up.
During the past century a new geological force has begun to exert its effect upon the carbon dioxide equilibrium of the earth]. By burning fossil fuels man dumps approximately six billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year [as of 2025 it’s about 40 billion tons]. His agricultural activities release two billion tons more. Grain fields and pastures store much smaller quantities of carbon dioxide than the forests they replace, and the cultivation of the soil permits the vast quantities of carbon dioxide produced by bacteria to escape into the air.
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We shall be able to test the carbon dioxide theory against other theories of climatic change quite conclusively during the next half-century. Since we now can measure the sun’s energy output independent of the distorting influence of the atmosphere, we shall see whether the earth’s temperature trend correlates with measured fluctuations in solar radiation. If volcanic dust is the more important factor, then we may observe the earth’s temperature following fluctuations in the number of large volcanic eruptions. But if carbon dioxide is the most important factor, long-term temperature records will rise continuously as long as man consumes the earth’s reserves of fossil fuels.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4sjlde4fw4624jwbyzd4s75g/bafkreigmteedsnoyje43sbjsrhhvh62zfxhm3zixg3qwwamig3a3hxniq4)
