Leaving aside the whole "climate change is making the Arctic more accessible and strategically important" vs. "let's stop researching the climate change warming the Arctic" cognitive dissonance

Specifically: what services will you be able to sell to a human populace that has no economic role and, thus, no financial resources to purchase them? If corporations can't answer that question it seems strange to get excited (except in the short term) about this vision of the future. (🧵 2/2)

American citizens just need to be careful that it doesn't become the *USA* brand more widely. At the moment, despite the protests at ground level, the headlines are being dominated by belligerent / idiotic actions.

More selfishly, these are also feeding local idiocy, unfortunately.

Actually, he already had a go at the turn of the year, but not so much about projecting from the terribleness of 1900-1926 ...
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This feels like a job for @paulisci.bsky.social ...

I find it fascinating that eukaryotic metazoans still expect the conflicting demands of their genome for exponential cell growth followed by stasis when they reach adult size to be easy to resolve in mere decades after more than 600 million years of clearly not solving them.

I expect they just want your social media handles so they can send an AI to do the work of reading these and answering the question "dislikes #OrangeTyrant?".

👍 To be honest, I haven't read any papers about this. I just know from a general immersion in science (I'm a marine biogeochemist; so I guess I do read unrelated papers) that this headline can't meaningfully be true. There'd have been so much more ahead of such a breakthrough.

I'd not noticed what that looked like before! 🧟 It comes to something when we can't tell whether someone is trolling or sucking up to the #OrangeTyrant.

Of course, UK governments don't have to succumb to this pressure, but ...

Quite. I'm afraid I was being a bit sarcastic, however. #BigOil isn't trying to make a sensible point about CO2 - it's merely another of their many sciencey-sounding misdirections to sow false doubt about climate science and keep the money pouring in. Standard denialist horseshit.

Counterpoint: Perhaps the vastly more numerous humans, whose numbers / spread around the world are responsible for the unfortunate occurrence of domestic cats (and wildlife loss more widely), could perhaps be kept inside the house? Cats are the proximate cause - the ultimate cause is closer to home.

But, but ... isn't CO2 plant food like the denialists at #BigOil periodically remind us?!?