Not great.

Many people don’t even realize it’s possible to run out of water.

Location: Pacific Northwest, USA

Listened to a piece on the radio about how Mount Rainier is losing significant amounts of ice. Many cascading impacts are possible in my opinion. Made a submission for this news here: https://lemmy.ml/post/1227469

Today while out walking, I met a middle aged woman and we struck up a conversation. She expressed frustration with how her environmental efforts frequently meet road blocks especially when those road blocks are capitalistic in nature. I reminded her that we need to appreciate our successes where we can get them, even if they are small. Overall good conversation, even if we both acknowledged the defeats we’ve experienced.

Something that keeps me up at night: climate change means that larges masses are also moving (ice melts and the water travels elsewhere). All this redistribution of mass is known to have an impact on earthquakes and volcanoes. While it appears that recent science has not directly made the correlation of large earthquakes with climate change, we are still only now starting to see the larger results of our actions. More, and larger climate impacts are already baked in, and we continue to add greenhouse gases.

This is all more relevant for those that live in areas with active volcanoes and plate tectonics such as the Pacific Northwest. Home of Mt Rainier and its diminishing ice…

The connection between earthquakes and climate change is slightly less straightforward, and certainly less influential. Most earthquakes occur when tectonic plates within the Earth’s crust change or move. Many things can lead to this, but where climate change comes into play is once again related to water. Earthquakes can be triggered or prevented by variability in stress on a fault between tectonic plates. Stress on these faults is impacted by surface water from rain or snow. When there is heavier rainfall, this precipitation and any subsequent flooding increases stress and decreases seismicity. When the season dries up and there’s less water, the weight on the Earth’s crust decreases and this can lead to microseismicity.

As of now, the majority of the connection between earthquakes and climate change is with microseismicity, or tiny earthquakes, which have magnitudes of less than zero and are so small that humans can’t feel them. While additional connections can be made, such as impacts from pumping groundwater during droughts, connections between larger earthquakes and climate change have largely not been proven, though the rapid movement of glaciers has also been shown to cause glacial earthquakes.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/2022/09/how-climate-change-impacts-each-type-of-natural-disaster/

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2926/can-climate-affect-earthquakes-or-are-the-connections-shaky/

Jellyfin server that streams to my iOS Finamp app.

Music collected using Lidarr from the Servarr automation suite. https://github.com/Servarr/Wiki

Only service I’m comfortable paying for is my VPN, provided by Proton VPN.

Tagpro.gg

Action web game with a simple concept but difficult to master. Good for a study break because you can play a couple matches within 15 minutes.