{"id":61092,"date":"2021-12-24T07:39:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T12:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61092"},"modified":"2021-12-24T07:39:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T12:39:49","slug":"tim-merges-the-worst-climate-news-in-history-with-epic-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61092","title":{"rendered":"Tim Merges the Worst Climate News in History with Epic\u00a0Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinhester.live\/2021\/12\/14\/tim-merges-the-worst-climate-news-in-history-with-epic-images\/\">Tim Merges the Worst Climate News in History with Epic\u00a0Images<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-entry\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-imeA7tBRUY?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-ratio=\"0.5636363636363636\" data-width=\"605\" data-height=\"341\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>\u201cClimate change is one of a host of environmental ills for which technological solutions are being proposed. In fact, most of the proposed solutions exacerbate environmental ills in other dimensions such as species loss and mass extinction. This tendency of technological reasoning to \u2018bleed\u2019 from one dimension or axis to another\u2014 to cause unintended consequences, is a function of the structure of this type of reasoning.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cParadoxically, calls for analytical rigor tend to narrow the realm of scientific concern, thereby raising the range of unintended consequences. This paradox is internal to the structure of technological reasoning. In practical terms, the 2018\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/sr15\/\">IPCC Report<\/a>\u00a0on climate change relies on dubious technology to produce \u2018negative carbon emissions.\u2019 This both distracts attention away from more plausible methods and it could wildly exacerbate mass extinction.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/09\/27\/climate-change-and-technology\/\">Climate Change and Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark Brimblecombe\u2019s piece de resistance on the mitigation myth is a must read;<br \/>\n\u201cIt is not nice to be told that you have been diagnosed with a terminal condition. It is even worse to be given false hope that if you did this or that you could mitigate the problem or turn it around when it cannot. If a medical practitioner does this, they lose their job. But climate scientists do this frequently, and probably to keep their job. It is virtue-signalling to agree with national and international climate agreements which propose that we can fix this by reducing (mitigating) our carbon footprint and carbon emissions\u2026 and so continue \u2018business as usual\u2019 and live happily ever after.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/markbrimblecombeblog.wordpress.com\/2021\/01\/18\/climate-change-and-the-mitigation-myth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Climate Change and the Mitigation Myth<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qufaP8HMEtU?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-ratio=\"0.5636363636363636\" data-width=\"605\" data-height=\"341\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>In the above video I mentioned the paper by Professor Corey Bradshaw suggesting that even Tardigrades are in danger. Our interview with Professor Bradshaw and links to the paper we discussed are embedded following;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kevinhester.live\/2020\/06\/04\/professor-corey-bradshaw-explains-the-unfolding-extinction-cascades-on-nature-bats-last\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Professor Corey Bradshaw explains the unfolding \u201cExtinction Cascades\u201d on Nature Bats\u00a0Last.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Merges the Worst Climate News in History with Epic\u00a0Images \u201cClimate change is one of a host of environmental ills for which technological solutions are being proposed. In fact, most of the proposed solutions exacerbate environmental ills in other dimensions such as species loss and mass extinction. This tendency of technological reasoning to \u2018bleed\u2019 from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[141,32339,287,19308,4766,20365],"class_list":["post-61092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-news","tag-extinction","tag-kevin-hester","tag-mitigation","tag-virtue-signalling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61093,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61092\/revisions\/61093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}