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Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by Someone » Thu, May 21, 2020, 8:28 PM UTC

acslater00 wrote: post #46

It's amazing and wonderful how much environmental damage seems to be recovering. Air pollution is down, carbon emissions are down as much as 17%, fish and sharks are repopulating shorelines and beaches - and to think, all it took was the most severe public health crisis in 100 years, a catastrophic global recession, and an overpowering wave of human misery and death

And the bad news is that, to reach our climate goals, we need to do much more. https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/30797/...: “the required cuts in emissions are now 2.7 per cent per year from 2020 to year- 2030 for the 2°C goal and 7.6 per cent per year on average for the 1.5°C goal.”

With the help of this year’s crisis, that 2°C goal seems in sight, but 1.027¹⁰ is about 1.3, so even if that “as much as” is globally, we would need about 10% more, so we still would have to find new ways to decrease emissions. I don’t even see us keep our current gains.

That 1.5°C goal certainly is way out of sight, IMO.

Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by jsjohnst » Thu, May 21, 2020, 8:35 PM UTC

rndgermandude wrote: post #253

jsjohnst wrote: post #210

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As someone who is severely Vitamin D deficient (I take 50,000IU a week via prescription and still have very low blood test results), both my GI doctor and PCP have indicated it as a risk factor if I was to get infected.

That seems very right. It doesn't matter if covid-19 causes/worsens deficiency or deficiency causes severe covid-19, or both. If you're already deficient the outcome will be that it gets even worse for a deficient person. I was more making my initial comment thinking in the opposite direction: that people who are not deficient shouldn't feel overly secure (and take more risks) just because there is a correlation - wi…

> If you're already deficient the outcome will be that it gets even worse for a deficient person.

Exactly! I definitely agree with all points you made in this follow up.

Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by barkingcat » Thu, May 21, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

nodesocket wrote: post #3

Perhaps I am being very skeptical, but I am failing to understand how three months of lockdown all the sudden eliminates decades of pollution. Something does not add uphere.

A better way to approach it is:

Imagine in your home city overcast clouds, dark skies. All of a sudden there's a downpour of a rainstorm. After a whole night of raining, the next morning, why does the sky appear blue and clear?

Is it that all of the clouds were destroyed and that they will never reappear again? No - it's because the clouds were carrying the mist and the water vapour, which "precipitated" out of the sky as liquid since the water droplets are heavier than air.

After it rains, the clouds disappear. The clouds didn't go away into nowhere. You can be skeptical about whether I'm writing about a magical statement, but you can observe yourself that after a period of intense rain -> the clouds go away and you can see the blue sky and clear across the city all of a sudden.

Will you be skeptical about this scenario as I described it?

Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by alehander42 » Thu, May 21, 2020, 10:01 PM UTC

aSplash0fDerp wrote: post #250

alehander42 wrote: post #208

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isn't this is a very simplistic view on having children? There are much more obvious reasons to have some. also, .. most of use have enough mouths to tell them what they wanna hear, including you and me and our supposed echo chambers all over the internet (yes, having children is egoistical and naive! you're right aSplash0fDerp man! .. yes, we will overcome those problems, children are our duty, you're right alehande…

Why some people want a trophy for ejaculating in a vagina, I will never know. With the popularity of brainwashing and groupthink, talking out of someone elses butt should be considered an evolution of ventriloquism. Its a neat trick if you don`t get out much.

having a child might be more meaningful than the whole world, I love you, mate!

Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by perl4ever » Thu, May 21, 2020, 10:23 PM UTC

busymom0 wrote: post #165

Fairly certain the "visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory" is false. Nagarkot village has been a well known tourist attraction for viewing the Everest clearly forever. > It is known for a sunrise view of the Himalayas including Mount Everest as well as other peaks of the Himalayan range of eastern Nepal. Nagarkot also offers a panoramic view of the Kathmandu Valley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga…

Or perhaps the definition of Kathmandu being used was the one where it is 32 km west of Nagarkot?

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Post by wahern » Thu, May 21, 2020, 10:29 PM UTC

idiocratic wrote: post #240

executive wrote: post #225

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Also: burning trash every night

Very true, it's incredible the amount of burning that goes on in front of most houses at sunset. But I guess our cities in Europe were similar in the past, especially in the countryside.

In rural areas of the U.S. some people still burn their trash.

As a kid who watched a lot of 20/20 and 60 Minutes, I was always afraid of the smoke because people would often toss batteries, PVC pipe, etc, in their trash pit. But it was normal behavior, so when visiting someone's house I just tried to stay upwind of the cancer cloud.

Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by perl4ever » Thu, May 21, 2020, 10:32 PM UTC

ohyeshedid wrote: post #154

trhway wrote: post #144

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>Every time I see discussions like this I never see thoughts on what to do with all those animals. [until the aliens bring tomorrow the mass production lines of cheap lab meat] Because of naturally gradual process of lab meat quality increase and price decrease there will be no point in time when suddenly "we have 70B animals we're no longer consuming "

>Once we finally have artificial meat and thus stop killing sentient beings... But that's literally in your scenario. If you don't have an answer, that's fine, because all of this is idealism. I just never see any conversation pertaining to what we do with all the animals. It seems like it comes down to a substantial culling, as letting them loose would be disastrous for a few obvious reasons.

The question doesn't make any sense, because it presupposes that everybody changes behavior in a timeframe that is very short compared to the typical lifespan of the animals. But I don't think that's conceivable. The total number of chickens in the world may be tens of billions but is a fraction of the number consumed in a year, I believe. Feel free to correct me if you have some knowledge about farming.

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Post by selimthegrim » Thu, May 21, 2020, 10:35 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #217

duncanawoods wrote: post #160

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Huh, weird. I would have assumed deficiency would be inversely proportional to amount of sunshine. Do people in northern europe really experience so much more “sun on skin” time or is it wholly diet driven?

From that link: > The generally adequate vitamin D status in the Nordic countries is due to the use of cod liver oil and supplements (46) and vitamin D fortification, leading to a great improvement in Finland during the last decade (47). Doesn't surprise me; here in the South we don't get deficient enough to cause obvious issues, so we don't pay attention to it.

Are you African-American? (Assuming you mean Southern US)

Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by aSplash0fDerp » Thu, May 21, 2020, 10:42 PM UTC

alehander42 wrote: post #264

aSplash0fDerp wrote: post #250

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Why some people want a trophy for ejaculating in a vagina, I will never know. With the popularity of brainwashing and groupthink, talking out of someone elses butt should be considered an evolution of ventriloquism. Its a neat trick if you don`t get out much.

having a child might be more meaningful than the whole world, I love you, mate!

I'm in the states, but using your "mate" reference as a cue... I'm currently looking at Austrailia to settle down and raise a family.

I think the opportunity to find a young lady with natural resilience is much higher in AU. Using Mick Jagger as an example, we can populate the planet well into our 70's, so unless you age like a fried turd, there is no hurry.

Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by icebraining » Thu, May 21, 2020, 10:59 PM UTC

selimthegrim wrote: post #268

icebraining wrote: post #217

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From that link: > The generally adequate vitamin D status in the Nordic countries is due to the use of cod liver oil and supplements (46) and vitamin D fortification, leading to a great improvement in Finland during the last decade (47). Doesn't surprise me; here in the South we don't get deficient enough to cause obvious issues, so we don't pay attention to it.

Are you African-American? (Assuming you mean Southern US)

Southern Europe :)