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28 Dec 22 - 06:52 AM (#4160480) Subject: BS: Good news re: extinctions & enviornment From: Donuel Wow, the good news is remarkable. |
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28 Dec 22 - 09:51 AM (#4160490) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & enviornment From: Stilly River Sage Context. Links. |
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28 Dec 22 - 10:02 AM (#4160491) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & enviornment From: Donuel Tortoise celebrates 190th birthday. 3D printer makes body parts of real human tissue. Pig hearts work for man. Alabama dog shelter saves 5K dogs per year. Pig corneas work for people, Doctors prescribe visits to National Parks, Pig penises are an epic transplant fail. Patagonia founder gives all profits to climate change. 60 year old in lockdown gets a #1 hit song. New tests detect 50 kinds of incurable cancer. Indonesian fishermen paid to collect plastic. In the UK Osprey chicks hatch in the wild for the first time in 200 years. Dodo DNA recovered. N.C. foundation rewards good deeds with bitcoin. Black napped pheasant in New Guinea found after 159 years. New treatment cures rectal cancer 100% of the time. Grey wolves, grey seals Eurasian beaver populations are rebounding.Mark Cuban opens on line cut-rate pharmacy. Two Lyme disease vaccines go into trial. Global solar energy tops one terabyte. Enough for tea in Europe.UN adopts a resolution to limit plastic pollution. Global deforestation drops by 6.2 percent, Unsung science podcast wins a trophy. Norway has largest floating wind farm. Llama recipe gets 3 stars. Achievable new years resolutions like eating pasta everyday are kept. Iceland to end whale hunting in 2024. Loss of Mangrove forests slows. Canada and Denmark end their endless war over Han Island. Handyman finds millions of dollars worth of paintings in dumpster. Sumatran rhino gives birth after 8 miscarriages. You ate less palm oil this week. Mental health pros can divert 71% of police arrests. Finn whales return to Antarctica. New HIV vaccine is97% effective in their ads. ASPCA saves 200,000 dogs/ Study finds dog meat nutritional. Volunteers rid rats on atoll. Dolly Parton to donate kid books. 100,000 pounds of plastic removed from ocean. Colorado state fish returns. Heinze introduces recyclable bottle. Tiger population up 190% in Nepal. Lab grown blood is now transfusable. SIDS now has a biomarker. Child poverty numbers decrease.Indian cheetahs returned to wild. Headphones can detect ear infections. Drugs slows Alzheimers by 27%. Ukrainian girls reunited with cat. Hawaii shuts down their only coal plant. Coors eliminates their plastic ring holders. Half the people on Earth have heard of climate change. Well at least it is a start after decades of global warning of global warming and exploitation of animals. PS Beware of cryptocurrencies run by 15 year olds in their basement. |
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28 Dec 22 - 10:17 AM (#4160492) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & enviornment From: Manitas_at_home So no more whisky for the Danes? |
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28 Dec 22 - 10:32 AM (#4160493) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & enviornment From: Donuel Links: from what comes to mind and cynical comments. Perhaps if people look for real progress it will be found. Stilly sounds as environmentally friendly as possible. I am reminded of self reliant pioneers or native Americans. I suppose if we do our part by going beyond using reusable grocery bags, a resplendent Earth still has a shot. |
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28 Dec 22 - 01:06 PM (#4160517) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & enviornment From: Steve Shaw The UK has just had its hottest year on record. The Met Office uses 1884 as its starting point, but another measure, a bit harder to be exact about but which is still regarded with confidence, goes back to 1659, the Central England Temperature series. The CET for 2022 is the warmest in that 364-year series. On July 19 over 40 weather stations beat the previous highest ever recorded temperature, the hottest (Coningsby) by 1.6°C. On July 18, my town Bude beat its previous temperature record by 3.7°C, reaching 36.0°C. The ten warmest years in the UK record have all occurred since 2003. |
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28 Dec 22 - 11:48 PM (#4160582) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & enviornment From: Ebbie Donuel, you are probably aware that when just ONE bit of information is found to be faulty it makes the whole list vulnerable? An example: Dolly Parton has been donating books to children for 20 years or so. |
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29 Dec 22 - 08:54 AM (#4160603) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & enviornment From: Donuel Bad example Ebbie. Google it for yourself. Then google tongue in cheek. There have been threads that included good news amidst catastrophic climate change but this thread title invites good news if people wish to look for it. |
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29 Dec 22 - 01:03 PM (#4160623) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & environment From: Bill D "...good news if people wish to look for it." "For one swallow does not make a spring, nor does one day; nor, similarly, does one day or a short time make us blessed and happy." |
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29 Dec 22 - 01:29 PM (#4160626) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & environment From: MaJoC the Filk Joy is where you find it. I often used to quietly rejoice whenever I saw a young couple walking hand-in-hand down the street: If they have children, thinks I, they'll *fight* to make their children's world worth growing up in. Now said children are Greta Thunberg's age, and they're fighting. We may yet beat Bruce Schneier's pessimistic solution to Fermi's paradox. |
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29 Dec 22 - 01:47 PM (#4160628) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & environment From: Donuel I like the way your mind works. |
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29 Dec 22 - 01:59 PM (#4160630) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & environment From: MaJoC the Filk > I like the way your mind works. You can't have it. I ain't finished usin' it yet. |
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31 Dec 22 - 11:36 AM (#4160836) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & environment From: Mr Red It has been raining most of the day, so that will wash out more of PM2.5s. Curate's egg - methinks. |
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31 Dec 22 - 09:14 PM (#4160893) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & environment From: Steve Shaw Well as you mentioned climate change in the t(read title, how about Greta's amazing response to the detestable Andrew Tate. From the Guardian: Andrew Tate, 36, sent a boastfully hostile tweet to climate activist Greta Thunberg, 19, about his sports car collection. “Please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions,” he wrote. He was probably hoping to enhance his status by mocking her climate commitment. Instead, she burned the macho guy to a crisp in nine words. He went looking for attention; he got it. Cars are routinely tokens of virility and status for men, and the image accompanying his tweet of him pumping gas into one of his vehicles, coupled with his claims about their “enormous emissions”, had unsolicited dick pic energy. Thunberg seemed aware of that when she replied: "yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com.” Heroic! |
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01 Jan 23 - 07:51 AM (#4160916) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & environment From: MaJoC the Filk Re Greta's Putdown: I remember the worries in the Untied Kingdom, and the moral panic in the redtop papers, over the 1980s fashion in certain quarters for massive and nasty dogs. Rather than annoy the I thought at the time that it would have been much cheaper to bribe some comedian to describe the offending dogs as "carnivorous penis extensions" on prime-time TV. Public ridicule would have done the rest. |
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01 Jan 23 - 05:05 PM (#4160952) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & environment From: Ebbie "Bad example Ebbie. Google it for yourself. Then google tongue in cheek." Ah, Donuel. You've done it again. You imply that your statement about Parton "going to donate books to children" is correct and that my rejoinder was wrong. For your information, she/the foundation she created, has just donated the 100 millionth (One Hundred Millionth) book to children aged from birth to five years old. I'd say her plan is about to succeed. As for 'tongue in cheek', I suspect you don't know what it means. |
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05 Jan 23 - 06:56 AM (#4161372) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & environment From: Donuel I have seen Ocelots get a great deal of attention lately, They are very affectionate wild cats. |
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07 Jan 23 - 10:28 AM (#4161612) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & environment From: Rapparee I assume you keep a breeding pair at home? At least one pair? |
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10 Jan 23 - 03:36 PM (#4161983) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & environment From: Donuel They are cute and affectionate in a toothy and clawing kind of way. I keep googling for any good news about extinctions and this is as positive as it gets... The picture gets even grimmer when all mammals currently endangered or threatened are added to the count. If those all disappear within a century, then by 334 years from now, 75% of all mammal species will be gone, says Barnosky. "Look outside of your window. Imagine taking away three-quarters of the living things you see and ask yourself if you want to live in that world." |
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16 Jan 23 - 09:54 PM (#4162706) Subject: RE: BS: Good news re: extinctions & environment From: Ebbie Most likely I won't be here 334 years from now. Unless I perhaps am back for the 4th time? Stay tuned. |