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the og rhinestone cowboy
Indeed.
Saying we will all die may be a bit much.
But it's definitely not good. The heatwaves and winters without snow have been increasing and every day I see a few trees that are shedding leaves like it's autumn because they are in survival mode.
And yes, it's something we should pay attention at.
We can still change a lot for the better if we start doing things better.
Despairing is not going to make the problem go away. Everyone taking a few small steps will.
After all, it's for the good of all of us.
It simply shows that it happened once before and now it's happening again. The climate is a cyclic sort of thing. It goes and comes, sort of like the seasons, but is never constant. When it becomes constant is when you should start worrying.
and as it "happened once before"
they wrote upside down at the time?
If you search the internet for
xkcd 1732
the first hit should lead you to a graphics showing "A Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature".
Looking at that chart I doubt whether the present state is really cyclic :-(
#33 From Germany of course.
#31 - easily defensible
Seems plausible.
only if they have access to water from the townsite...doesn't look likely to me from the location, a jutting rocky point...
cisterns
Ok I hate to be the person correcting the caption but it's not "parasite" it's "pallasite"...
It's Fukang Pallasite.
Now, now. There's need to curse...
"So I was on this dude's head, right? He got his skull bashed in.
...
Oh! Then I spent several centuries buried in the dirt."
The village sits above a seasonal river valley, which occasionally gets flash floods. Their buildings are made of a type of mud brick, so they build above the floodplain to prevent erosion of the structures.
but, but "Soyjack" is a very convincing german name... I would have never thought...
why is that a convincing german name?
Both "soy" and "jack" are english.
In german it would be more linke "Sojahans"
The tyres need air.....