Bei Waldbränden sollten wir endlich mal zwischen Ursache und Auslöser unterscheiden.
Ursache: Klimawandel, Dürre, Hitze
Auslöser: Blitze, Brandstiftung (viel seltener als man denkt), Funkenflug durch Überlandleitungen, Autos, Zigaretten, Grillen, ...
“Arsonists start the fires!”
Yeah, okay. And a spark plug starts a car. But the car isn’t going anywhere without fuel in the tank. Same with a wildfire. Someone can strike a match, but they can’t turn a healthy, hydrated forest into an inferno.
Climate change creates the conditions and the fuel. The arsonist just provides the spark.
Stop being so intentionally dense.
It’s always odd to me when I get asked if I am wearing a mask because I am sick. In my experience, these days most people wearing a mask are doing so to prevent themselves getting sick, and most people who are sick don’t wear a mask at all.
@DocGlitz Nudel-Tomatensalat: viele frische Tomaten, Pasta nach Geschmack, getrocknete Tomaten inkl. Öl, viel Basilikum zusammen mit Parmesan im Mixer schreddern. Mit Pfeffer und Salz abschmecken, optional geröstete Pinienkerne dazu.
“Climate change is considered the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” – TRUMP
“The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions.” – TRUMP
“If you don't get away from the green energy scam your country is going to fail.” – TRUMP
AU ab Tag 1. Ist Ablenkungsmanöver, damit sich auch schön alle auf das konzentrieren, aber Renteneintrittsalter erhöhen, höhere Befristung bei Zeitverträgen zulassen, das sind die Themen, wogegen wir uns auflehnen sollten.
#MerzKannEsNicht#SpahnRücktritt
i'm obsessed with what's happening in AI reforestation right now
this Franco-Brazilian startup called MORFO took a patch of land in Brazil that was rock-hard and compacted from years of cattle farming. they replanted it using a single drone. months later the ground was covered in grass, bushes, and small trees. the land came back to life.
here's how the whole thing works.
1. drones scan the terrain with high-resolution cameras and sensors
2. AI analyzes the imagery alongside soil samples, moisture levels, slope, and surrounding vegetation
3. the system picks from a catalog of 300+ native species, deciding exactly which plants will thrive in which specific spot
4. the drone fires biodegradable seed pods packed with seeds, nutrients, and moisture at 180 capsules per minute
5. satellite and drone imagery monitors regrowth over time, with AI tracking vegetation cover and biodiversity
6. two people and one drone cover 50 hectares a day. a person planting by hand manages about one hectare.
and MORFO isn't alone. AirSeed in Australia drops 250,000 seed pods per day into bushfire-scarred koala habitat, replanting swamp mahogany that koalas depend on to survive. Flash Forest in Canada fires 50,000 pods daily into wildfire-destroyed boreal forest, planning the replanting alongside Cree Indigenous communities. re-green won Prince William's Earthshot Prize after planting 6 million seedlings across 30,000 hectares of Amazon and Atlantic Forest.
five companies across four continents built this same approach independently. nobody coordinated. the physics of the problem demanded it.
knowing which seeds belong in which soil used to require years of ecological fieldwork, manual planting crews, and budgets that made large-scale restoration nearly impossible. now two people with a drone and an AI model trained on local soil data can replant 50 hectares before lunch.
this is the AI work that'll still matter in 50 years.
„Warum verbringt eine Salatgurke im Supermarkt Tage wie die letzten bestens klimatisiert? Herzpatienten oder Demenzkranke aber müssen in der Geriatrie auf kalte Waschlappen setzen? Warum sitzen Schülerinnen und Schüler im Keller ihrer nicht klimatisierten Schule?“
#Klimaanpassung
@Lars_Kruse_1973 Weil es einem alle am Bau Beteiligten ausreden wollen? Erlebe ich zumindest gerade so. "Wegen den paar Tagen", "total selten benötigt"...
THIS is what climate change looks like.
Short violent storms dumping huge amounts of water in minutes are exactly what a warming atmosphere is expected to produce and it does not take long for places that have never flooded before to be overwhelmed.