Ralph Dressler

Master in Engineering and Business - Lived, studied and/or worked in Germany, USA, Spain, Mexico and China- Creator driven by Logic and Intuition

[Ralph Dressler @Ralph_Dressler]

To summarize the journey through history back to the last ice age, the following can be said:
The primary factors for climate development on Earth: Eccentricity (Orbit shape) Obliquity (Tilt) Axial precession (Wobble) are basically positive for the development of flora and fauna. If these should change for the worse, fundamental changes are inevitable. The only question is when the next ice age will come, not whether it will come.
A warmer and therefore wetter climate means better living conditions for everyone, while a colder and therefore drier climate leads to adaptation constraints that could hardly be overcome without major losses. #educateGrok

[Ralph Dressler @Ralph_Dressler]

@FreddyLA7 If you are going for poor food you gotta try Krystal‘s.

[Ralph Dressler @Ralph_Dressler]

@drmarkhyman It used to be true that a cold would take 7 days to cure and if you took some medicine a week. But now it seems with proper nutrition you can cut it to 1-2 days or avoid it altogether.

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@PeterDClack The goal has been stated throughout this experiment from the beginning: NetZero=Zero human activity =Extinction.
Good progress has been made on all levels of life. People are still voting for this in most countries in their majority.

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@KrahMax Sie kann doch nichts dafür, dass sie schielt!

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@KrahMax Das ist die einzige Chance bei den aktuellen Rahmenbedingungen für die Wirtschaft noch Wachstum beim BIP zu generieren.

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@MonikaGruber24 Das sind in Deuschland mehr als ⅔, wie man in jedem Deuschland Trend wieder sehen kann. Da tut sich nichts, egal wie absurd die Situation ist.

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@ainyrockstar Es fing schon direkt nach der Wahl 2005 an.

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2 of my favorite people in their field

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I joined @JoelSalatin this past weekend in Virginia at his beautiful @Polyface_Farms. We discussed the current challenges American farmers are facing and some practical solutions.

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@snicklink Das ist eh klar, mich interessiert aber besonders, was die drei Frauen über ihre Sucht zu berichten haben.
1) Was für eine Sucht?
2) Seit wann identifizieren sie sich als Frau?
3) Wer ist Schuld daran?
Fragen über Fragen …

[Ralph Dressler @Ralph_Dressler]

Good illustration.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Consider the physics of planetary scale: Carbon dioxide makes up just 0.042% of our atmosphere—roughly 426 parts per million.

Visually, that equates to just 4 molecules out of every 10,000, or a single molecule in a crowd of 2,500. Even with historical shifts, it remains a minuscule trace element.

Like water vapor, CO₂ warms the atmosphere by absorbing specific narrow bands of outbound infrared radiation. But scale matters. Water vapor can make up to 4% of the atmosphere in humid tropical regions, averaging 1% to 2% globally, with clouds covering roughly 69% of the planet at any given time. Concentrations of water vapor are routinely a hundred times higher than CO₂.

Consequently, water vapor is by far the planet's dominant greenhouse gas, driving anywhere from 50% to 70% of the natural greenhouse effect.

Yet, despite its tiny atmospheric footprint, CO₂ is the indispensable foundation for biological life. Through photosynthesis, terrestrial plants convert sunlight, water, and CO₂ into glucose energy and oxygen, forming the backbone of every land-based food chain.

It's not just the trees. In the seas, microscopic phytoplankton drive between 50% and 85% of the world's photosynthesis and oxygen production. Furthermore, dissolved carbon is a fundamental building block for marine life, utilised by corals, shellfish, and pteropods to construct their shells.

But the physical engine of global climate isn't a trace gas at all, nor is it the thin atmospheric envelope above us. It has always been the oceans.

Covering 71% of Earth's surface to an average depth of 2.3 miles, the oceans are the world's true thermal heartbeat. Water is roughly 800 times denser than air, and the top 2.5 metres of ocean store as much heat energy as the entire atmosphere.

The oceanic world holds over 80% of Earth's mobile carbon reservoir and stores more than 93% of the climate system's retained heat energy. Oceanic currents are the planet's true air conditioning unit, endlessly transporting immense stores of tropical heat toward the poles—a global conveyor belt that takes a thousand years to complete a single circuit.

Earth is a dynamic, interactive system driven by the fundamental laws of physics and thermodynamics—not oversimplified computer models or economic spreadsheets.

The idea of a single trace gas controlling the entire biosphere unravels under the sheer weight of planetary reality.

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@Filippobiondi_1 This is easy enough to verify. I would come and help digging for free.

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So sieht NetZero aus.

[爪卂ㄒ丂ㄩ卄丨爪乇 Herbstprinzessin @Shinsho_ni]

Das nächste Highlight wartet schon… in 49 Tagen… die totale Gasfinsternis in Deutschland.
Heute haben wir alle andächtig in den Himmel gestarrt und die Sonnenfinsternis gefeiert – „Wow, die Natur!“ In 49 Tagen schauen wir dann auf den eigenen Herd und feiern die politisch gewollte Version davon.

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Moon moving out into the sunset over León 🇪🇸

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Out of Totality in León 🇪🇸

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Into Totality in León Spain 🇪🇸

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Moon moving in at León 🇪🇸

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@NASA I can confirm León was the perfect spot

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@FreddyLA7 Perfect spot was Leon 🇪🇸

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@TDrygala Einfach erklären, dass kein Papier da ist. Wegen Hitze, Ukraine oder so. Dann können alle, die im Ausland leben und nicht täglich der Öffi Propaganda ausgesetzt sind nicht wählen, wie bei der letzten Bundestagswahl.

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Ich bin für Dirty Harry

[Julian Reichelt @jreichelt]

Kein Mensch in Deutschland versteht noch, warum unter 80 Millionen Deutschen ausgerechnet ein Politiker Bundespräsident werden soll. Es gibt so viele herausragende Persönlichkeiten, die Deutschland repräsentieren könnten. Warum dann irgendein Apparatschik, den kein Mensch kennt, der/die sich in irgendeiner Partei hochgedient hat, die wiederum in den letzten zehn Jahren das Land brutal abgewirtschaftet hat? Nach Frank-Walter dem Spalter braucht es einen Neuanfang. Oder man schafft das Amt gleich ganz ab. Ich persönlich bin für Harald Schmidt. Klug, nie peinlich, überparteilich, brillanter Redner, unbelastet durch die Pandemie, überragendes Gespür für Geist und Ungeist der Zeit, spürbar anti-autoritär, verspeist intellektuell jede Ilse und jeden Boris zum Frühstück, staatstragendes Silberhaar, sieht in jedem Outfit würdevoll aus und nicht wie ein abgehalfterter Bonzen-Alki. Und heißt auch noch wie die meisten Deutschen und ein herausragender Bundeskanzler. Harald Schmidt for President!