IPCC-Report: "We're all gonna die!" 🔥 Climate Change burns down 2500 year old legendary Olive tree 🌴 Dune inspired Metal 🐛 Oasis Knebworth 1996
Enjoy a fish with human teeth.
6th IPCC-Report: “Humanity is fucked, you stupid morons.”
Der IPCC hat gestern seinen sechsten Bericht of Doom veröffentlicht, hier ein interaktives Tool zur Erforschung der Daten, auf denen der Bericht basiert, zur besseren Visualisierung des Endes der Welt (wie wir sie kennen).
In a nutshell 1: Der Klimawandel nimmt an Geschwindigkeit zu.
In a nutshell 2: Der Klimawandel hat jetzt bereits für rasante, massive Änderungen des Klimas gesorgt, deren Auswirkungen wir jetzt in zunehmenden Extremwetter-Ereignissen zu spüren bekommen, und diese Klima-Änderungen sind jetzt schon beispiellos.
In anderen Worten: “You ain’t seen nothing yet” (Bachman-Turner Overdrive).
Beim IPCC-Report muss man immer im Auge behalten, dass der Bericht sehr konservativ formuliert wird und in einer Sprache abgefasst wird, auf die sich alle 195 Staaten einigen können, bei dem im Hintergrund also jede Menge Politik und Verhandlungen über jede noch so unwichtig erscheinende Wortwahl im Spiel ist.
Eric Holthaus (Klimareporter und Metereologe beim konservativen Wall Street Journal, jetzt unabhängiger Journo auf Substack) in seinem hervorragenden Phoenix-Newsletter:
Under every future scenario, the world will keep getting warmer until at least 2050, even under rapid emissions reductions. So we have no choice at this point but to prepare for these changes AND try to stop them from getting even worse at the same time.
This finding is due to the fact that we’ve emitted a lot more carbon since the last report came out in 2013, and studies of the distant past climates have also improved — giving us a better baseline for what happens when the planet is put under extreme stress.
There’s a bit of good news here when it comes to the “climate sensitivity” (the amount the world is likely to warm if CO2 doubles. The worst of the worst-case scenarios have become less likely, but the best case scenarios have also gotten worse. In the new report, the "best estimate is 3°C with a likely range of 2.5°C to 4°C (high confidence), compared to 1.5°C to 4.5°C in [the last report]."
And the worst bad news is that we’re emitting CO2 so fast that the planet hasn’t had time to catch up. The report describes these changes as “irreversible” on human timescales.
So yeah, fuck climate change for this one especially: 2,500-Year-Old Ancient Olive Tree Burned Down in Evia Fires in Greece.
A 2,500 year old ancient olive tree on the island of Evia was destroyed today in the ongoing wildfires consuming the region. The ancient tree was located in the olive grove of Rovia, and was such an enduring symbol of the landscape that the ancient geographer and philosopher Strabo featured it in his writings.
The tree was large, with a trunk so wide ten people could fit along its diameter. The tree was fertile with olives all the way until it fell victim to the wildfire.
The tragic loss of the Evian tree was posted to Twitter by Apostolis Panagiotou, and the evocative image quickly gained over a thousand likes, with many Greeks leaving responses mourning the impact of the fires.
Temperature Rise over XKCDs Lifetime. (Also, spot the Exxon-Prediction. These motherfuckers.)
The Spice must shred 🤘
So, given the new IPCC report about how we are so fucked and how the planet is heating up, this is so what the world needs right now: Arrakis Rippers: A Guide to “Dune”-Inspired Metal.
It goes without saying that Scottish progressive post-metal quintet DVNE have been heavily influenced by Frank Herbert’s work. Starting out as an instrumental three piece, the band were trying to figure out what message they wanted to get across through their music, while coming up with their name. “It felt like we were trying to tell a story, and the best kind of story with us would be something out-of-this-world,” explains singer Victor Vicart, recounting the band’s beginnings.
Drawn in by Frank Herert’s mysticism and mythos, the band took the name Dune, before changing it to DVNE to avoid any confusion with the book. Their first EP, Progenitor, fused a classic desert-rock feel with elements of sub-Saharan bands such as Tinariwen. In 2017, the band released Asheran, a record that toyed with themes of ecology and nature, mirroring the cli-fi (climate fiction) principles within Dune, while retaining a unique narrative of their own.
Oasis Knebworth 1996
They made a doc about the biggest concert in the UK from the biggest band of the 90s. To understand songs like “Live forever” you need to understand that moment in time, that feeling of “the end of history” that also gave us the Fukuyama-book of the same title and the Love Parades of this world. Communism was over and lost, progressive values winning everywhere, young people partying their minds out, hedonism at every corner and global warming was something you might have heard of, when you were really into science, but it was something ages away.
Only in such a climate could a band like Oasis become the biggest act in the world with nonsensicale lyrics bordering on the absurd and Rock-tunes that were 30 years old in spirit. I loved Oasis to death back then and I still dig them now, but boy, the decadence of these years were legion and it’s just good that we woke up to reality in the past 10 years.
In that sense, this is a doc not about a concert, but about a dream, minutes before the sleeping humanity woke up to the fucked up state of the world:
Don't miss your chance to experience this iconic cultural moment on the big screen. Directed by Jake Scott from extensive and exclusive never-before seen footage, 'Oasis Knebworth 1996' is a joyful and at times poignant cinematic celebration of one of the most important concert events of the last 25 years. Get your Ticket now: https://www.oasisknebworth1996.com
A special live album and DVD/Blu-ray, also titled ‘Oasis Knebworth 1996’ will be released on November 19th. The live album formats include 2CD, and triple LP on heavyweight vinyl with the digital version of the album featuring HD audio. The DVD will be released as a triple disc set including the ‘Oasis Knebworth 1996’ cinematic documentary plus both nights of the live concert in full, with the Blu-ray in single disc format.
Neanderthal-Cavepaintings 20k years older than human cavepaintings
Nicht ganz so cool wie Neanderthal-Kunst in einer Einhorn-Höhle, aber fast: Study confirms ancient Spanish cave art was made by Neanderthals. Die Malereien an Stalagmiten in den Höhlen von Maltravieso sind knapp 65.000 Jahre alt, was sie rund 20.000 Jahre macht als die ältesten bislang gefundenen Höhlenmalereien des Menschen.
Man ging bislang davon aus, dass Kunst (und damit abstraktes Denken) eine Errungenschaft des Homo Sapiens gewesen sei, wahrscheinlich aber hat sich die Menschheit die Höhlenmalerei nur bei ihrem angeblich so dumpfen Neanderthal-Nachbarn abgekupfert.
Neanderthals, long perceived to have been unsophisticated and brutish, really did paint stalagmites in a Spanish cave more than 60,000 years ago, according to a study published on Monday.
The issue had roiled the paleoarchaeology community ever since the publication of a 2018 paper attributing red ocher pigment found on the stalagmitic dome of Cueva de Ardales to our extinct "cousin" species.
The dating suggested the art was at least 64,800 years old, made at a time when modern humans did not inhabit the continent.
Substack, bislang eher Zuhause für Indie-Journos wie Glenn Greenwald oder Matt Taibi und für angepisste Ex-Blogger wie mich, hat eine ganze Reihe von Comic-Autoren auf die Plattform geholt, unter anderem Scott Snyder, der seit über zehn Jahren einen Exklusiv-Vertrag mit DC Comics hatte und dort Superman, Batman und viele weitere Serien schrieb. Und der Indie-Webcomic-Verlag The Nib so: “Wha…?”
Ein Hot Dog-Produzent hat eine Packung Hot Doge Wieners mit 10000 Doge-Coins (derzeit rund 2500 Dollar) auf Ebay verkauft. Kann man machen. Wäre ich Hotdog-Verkäufer, ich hätte 10 Packungen mit 100k Dogecoins gemacht und unter die normalen Würstchen gemischt, so dass in den USA eine Social-Media-Schnitzeljagd auf Würstchen mit Doge-Memes ausgebrochen wäre. Aber ja gut, Ebay, pff.
Idiots prove to be idiots: “Confused anti-vaccine protesters stormed what they thought was a major BBC building on Monday, apparently unaware the corporation largely moved out almost a decade ago. (…) ‘Not sure what protesters were hoping to achieve, but all they would’ve found was me, Jane, Nadia and Penny on Loose Women talking about the menopause,’ [The Loose Women co-host Charlene White] said.”
Fuck unique branding and shit, a KFC in spain pretends to be IKEA to lure in customers.
Fish with 'human' teeth caught in North Carolina.