climate change

The Earth is getting greener. Hurray? Humans are literally changing the color of the planet. Scientists are worried. By Benji Jones@BenjiSJones Feb 7, 2024, 6:00am EST Maybe you’ve heard: Earth, our planet, is not doing great. Tropical forests are getting cut down. Parking lots are...

Part 1 [/h3] Governor Knows Best 1 Fridays For Future FEBRUARY February 22, 2019 CNN: Trump agrees to keep about 400 US troops in Syria, official says Washington Post: Historic heat wave turns Western U.S. into 'furnace': 'This is not normal' Pacific Northwest sees 'hottest ever'...

Introduction: The Future is Now In the 20th century, the peoples of Earth developed the means of self-destruction. Their invention seemed to harbor the certain end of the human species. As it turned out, however, the mass death of the 21st century would have a more complex and incidental cause...

Alt titles left on the cutting room floor: Yes, SV, The Future is Bright Move Fast, Green Things 2000 You're eight years old, and you're stuck. You, your brother, and your grampa are out fishing again. "Family tradition", your grampa says. Behind you, the green goes for literally hours...

https://www.agroberichtenbuitenland.nl/actueel/nieuws/2022/07/29/hungary-drought-damages https://english.news.cn/20220727/a97eb4503e0c4a90b7aa64e68517f133/c.html While crop yields were not good, apparently starvation is not a threat... at least not this year...

"'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." — "Ozymandias", Percy Bysshe Shelley CNN.com front page...

A/N: So in order to bring attention for my in-progress novel, the first draft of which you can read chapters from here, I am posting the world-building notes I have drawn up for the revised setting, which basically amounts to a brief timeline of the world up until roughly 2082. I won't pretend...

Rise and Rise Again 2 a post-apocalyptic nation game by @etranger01 Introduction The year is 2202. One hundred years ago, the Second Great Flood washed over the planet, swallowing up low-lying and coastal areas. With temperatures at record-shattering highs, the ecosystem changed forever...

In America and Australia politicians repeatedly refuse to take action stating it will take away jobs, not relazing that jobs would also be taken away by the effects of climate change far worse then if we get rid of coal miners

August 26th, 2026 cannot be forgotten from the psyche of the human race. From psychological to chemical, the traces of World War Three will be imparted on the face of the Earth a million years on. Another 8 years of global war, uprising, and environmental calamity transformed human society into...

Fate of the World: A Climate Change Agency Quest The river was aflame, red fire licking at what was once called water. Fire roared up like the wrath of a nature left scorned and soiled, the tiniest seed of the great upheaval to come from the toll that humanity has extracted from mother Earth...

Note: While I am continuing to post the occasional teaser on this thread, I am now writing Lest the World Perish in public, and have done significant changes to the narrative compared to the material posted here.

So I'm working on an ongoing crossover series, and one of the universes involved is the Battlefield 2142 setting. Of course, that setting is pretty sparse on actual details, so I had these ideas for what the world looks like. Comments and other ideas appreciated. European Union: Due to the ice...

Let this Begin to Make things Right(a Socialist ISOT) Summary: A left leaning woman in the 2070s gets the chance to relive her life thanks to a cosmic entity. What would she do with this new opportunity is anyone's guess, but she is sure as hell going to make sure the suffering she has...

In the Ruins of Their Cities Anett Mandel Published by the Haartz-Wolfram Authors Collective Ikaluktutiak Co-operative, 31 Washington Street, Naujaat, Nunavut NU X0C 0H0, A.F. First printing: 2284. This book is printed on algae paper using biodegradable inks and will be recycled in...

A new CO2 capture process from MIT uses compounds that bind and release CO2 based on electrical potential, without needing to change heat or pressure. Benchtop tests only so far. http://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-engineers-develop-new-way-remove-carbon-dioxide-air-1025

I have been discussing this with a friend and decided to open up the discussion a bit more to see if anybody has any ideas of this. Cargo vessels are the life blood of the modern world. My understanding is that they are a significant fact in green house gas well well. Looks like it si about...

I’ve been told on several forums that I should have my scientist in my Star Wars fan fic to be researching climate change and global warming reversal since it’s a hot topic on Earth. (No pun intended) Their are several proposed methods to do this on Earth and they range from shooting...

The device is a large as a microwave wave. It consists of a screen that displays the global temp modifier and has a single large anolog nob that has a sensitivity of 1 kelvin for every 90 degrees of rotation. The modifier can be positive or negative. What do you set it to?

Kazakastan is inbetween Russia Mongolia, China and some other nations but what if it was replaced by a fresh water ocean? How would that change the region and world history? Lets say this happened during the bronze age collapse if that helps

I looked straight ahead, because the sterile hospital wall and corporate approved painting of flowers was less obnoxious than turning to the left and looking out through the floor to ceiling window to the outside world. I had a good room - benefit of being a "hero" - but not good enough to be...

Basically, the title. Any knowledgeable members here mind sharing?

I couldn't find a thread specifically about geoengineering and I figured we should have one. Climate Engineering For those who don't know geoengineering is , according to Wikipedia, "the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climate system, usually with the aim of mitigating...

So, CO2 levels today are at about half that the Dinosaurs experienced. Even with the massive demand to switch to renewable resources and energy, this is almost certain to stay in the atmosphere for the foreseeable future. Thus, the planet is almost certainly going to heat up and sea levels are...

This idea came to me through a social media discussion. I was trying to think of a future world where there are biological enhancements instead of cyber enhancements, due to advances in genetics. Certain core ideas 1) Climate Change has led to a severe population decline- mostly on the...