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Deadly Forecast: How Climate Change Could Claim 30 Million Lives by 2100
Ok. some data. CO2 levels have risen by about 60 ppm in the last 25 years, or about 17%. At the current rate, that means 600 ppm by 2100 and 1000 ppm ppm before 2200. At 1,000 ppm breathing starts getting difficult and strenuous activity becomes difficult. Methane (CH4) - the second greatest cause of warming - this tends to increase somewhat erratically - average of about 10 ppb per year, but sometimes goes down, or up by as much as 20 ppb. At the beginning of this millennium , it hardly changed over 5 years but then shot up again. 40% of methane comes from natural sources (typically wetlands) and 60% is caused by man. Agriculture is responsible for 50% of man made methane, but in reality reducing such emissions is problematic - lower productivity and if land is returned to nature it would still emit some methane, The main non-agricultural source is fossil fuel extraction - and fracking is a big source. The Obama administration made cutting methane releases a legal requirement, but the fossil fuel industry in USA objected - and legal requirements were reduced or scrapped under Trump. Fracking and lack of methane emission controls may be behind the current surge. Finally, the genie in the bottle - methane release from frozen Tundra and methane clathrate could rise rapidly as the arctic warms up. If all the methane was released, we would see temperatures rocket to levels which would cause a global extinction event (think Permian extinction). Climate change (i.e. weather). The world is already experiencing more extreme weather events - category 5 Hurricanes, more intense rainfall (Spain recently experienced this, over 200 people dead and massive damage to infrastructure), droughts and heatwaves. This will damage agriculture, infrastructure and cost lives. These events are already causing billions of dollars in losses every year, maybe one trillion will be peanuts in the future. So no complacency please. Sea level rise - ok, only about 3 mm a year - doesn't sound like much. As water warms it expands, and of course ice sheets and glaciers melt faster. But slowly it increases rates of coastal erosion - we need more coast defences, or managed retreat - both cost money. These are just direct effects. The synergy between the different elements may cause unexpected, or shall we say undesired outcomes - mass migration, war, new or growing disease outbreaks. -
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Cocoa powder (for drinking)
Here Dutch processed cocoa is always chosen because of its cheap price. It ends up in sweet cocoa or some kind of DIY chocolate sweet. Our members, as evidenced from similar threads in the past, think of chocolate as a candy for their sweet tooth. But “Dutched” Cocoa. Alkali-processed cocoa, commonly known as dutched cocoa, is not as healthy as regular cocoa powder. Dutched cocoa can have as little as half the phytonutrients of regular cocoa, but that just means you have to use twice as much to get a rich, chocolatey flavor. --https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/cocoa/ Difficult to find natural cocoa in Thailand. Herhey's Natural is about it, and you get what you pay for. You can find it at Foodland or on Lazada. I buy it from Lazada because some vendors are a bit cheaper than Foodland. -
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Trump Praises Agreement with Mexico’s New President to Curb Migration
Why not just add the X links so we can all read it ourselves, rather than someone elses version -
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Swedish Tourist Robbed of Over 40,000 Baht After Heavy Drinking in Pattaya
Man, people who like to drink on holiday mostly do so at various bars, pubs etc. Especially if one flies half way round the world, what is the point of only drinking at your hotel? People should use common sense and leave their expensive jewelry in their home countries (or inside the hotel safe, at least when going out drinking). And, of course, it is best not to have a lot of cash when on a boozy night out. In this case, the guy apparently actually didn't have a lot of cash with him. The not-so-cheap ring's gone though. -
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Cocoa powder (for drinking)
Site maintenance came in before I could edit. The Lazada example is 400g so not a bad price. Get free delivery and it's actually a pretty good price. 400g is a lot. You don't need much depending on use of course. Hot chocolate not much. Brownies you need to use more obviously. I quite like just mixing a spoon full or two with a bit of condensed milk out of the can to make a very tasty chocolaty treat. -
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Well that was Easy. Close the Border
Presidente migrante Biden was doing all he could. Every sincere effort possible was made. If we could have just passed that bill those folks would already be in the USA and there would be no problem. Not kidding folks. -
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