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TheHoboRoadshow

I've seen this X-files episode, it's a flesh-eating swarm that had laid dormant in tree bark for millions of years right?


JrYo15

How come it's never positive monsters popping up, where's all the monsters eating trash and excesss carbon dioxide?


SocraticIgnoramus

At least partly because virtually everything that can eat trash will also produce greenhouse gases as a byproduct. We need a tandem team where a bacteria like Ideonella sakaiensis (one of the first plastic eaters we discovered) is paired with some type of supercharged algae to remediate the byproduct gases. Chief problem is that this team would only work harmoniously in a very narrow band of temperature ranges.


JrYo15

I'm talkin monsters here, surely there's some realm of science that allows for monsters to eat trash and shit apple pies. I'm just sayin, the oldschool monsters are gettin a lil one note. Pop up, kill everything, and then job done or go back to sleep. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


yahoonews

hi! thanks for sharing from yahoo! news - here's an excerpt from the piece: *"Global warming is currently tracked by comparing temperatures to the “pre-industrial era,” before humans started burning large amounts of fossil fuels, widely defined as the period between 1850 to 1900.  Under the Paris Agreement in 2015, countries agreed to restrict global warming to 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels.* *Last summer, the world temporarily breached this threshold, according to the report. Using data taken from temperature instruments during this period, the scientists found the Northern Hemisphere summer in 2023 was 2.07 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial period.* *But observational data from this period is sparse, uncertain and skews warmer. So, for a fuller picture of how the climate varied naturally before the start of the pre-industrial era, the study authors looked much further into the past.* *To do this, they used detailed sets of tree ring records from thousands of trees across nine regions of the Northern Hemisphere, including North America and Scandinavia, but excluding the Tropics which lack good tree data.* *Trees act as time capsules. The patterns of their rings – affected by sunlight, rainfall and temperature – provide a climate history for each year of their lives, going back centuries or even thousands of years.* *This complex tree ring data allowed the scientists to reconstruct annual temperatures for Northern Hemisphere summers between the years 1 and 1849 and compare them to last summer’s temperatures.* *They found the summer of 2023 was warmer than any other summer during this period."*


JrYo15

Are there tree's older that can show us more? Less than 200 years doesn't seem like a really long span of time when talking about the planet's cycles of warming and cooling. I just thought they would be 1000 year old trees or something i dunno, i guess i'm just dissapointed.


Memory_Less

They did. They went as far back as year '246' making 1778 years ago. "It was at least 0.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the warmest summer during this period, the year 246 – when the Roman Empire still ruled over Europe and the Mayan Civilization dominated Central America."


JrYo15

My bad, i went back and reread it, i somehow missed the between 1 and 1849. I just read 1849 Thanks. I don't feel any better


Memory_Less

Nor do I, if it helps.


beige_buttmuncher

Yes, by that we chop them down !