Ben Matthews

It’s about future oil and gas expansion (FOGE), what matters to the atmosphere is the total - identifying potential threat. Effectively multiplying FOGE by area (as shown) doesn’t make sense, but neither does FOGE per capita (as most is exported, not consumed locally). I’d suggest just a sized blob for each country - then can show some other dimension with the color.

Depends whose lifetime. Mine, maybe not, but for my children - yes. Also depends what indicator - global CO2 emissions maybe falling this year, but temperature will lag decades, sea-level even more (btw I do model these scenarios, so know well how they diverge ).

Nice graphic. Although probably you’d see more info with just a lineplot, separating north / south + land /ocean. What strikes me is how regular the gap is over the last year, and how it bulges most in July-December, which suggests the ocean (larger and less variable) dominates the numbers, with El Niño overlaid on steady warming trend. To get it back down quickly, we need more effort on short lived gases - mainly methane (tackling aviation-indeed cirrus might also help compensate for reduced ship-sulphate cooling ) .

There is no climate panacea, only baskets of solutions. Bamboo has remarkable properties from an engineering pov - strong light hollow tubes, and so could be used more to substitute for plastics and metals, in relatively short-lived products (which most are). You are right that it’s not so durable as wood from trees, and it’s more suited to wet climates. I have several kinds in my garden, green in winter, grape vines dangle along it in summer, a shallow root barrier (old tiles) contain it.

One reason people stick on Lemmy and other fediverse communities, is the choice of quality over quantity (in this case - wrt comments). So quality over quantity could also apply to platforms like Codeberg. Github has so many abandoned student projects or forks going nowhere - maybe making the effort to look beyond the obvious is an indicator of serious (new) projects and contributors ?

Pretty images from far away (for most of us) … but don’t forget Laki volcano on Iceland led to two years without a summer harvest, and hence to the french revolution - these eruptions can have a big influence on history (future)…

Seems you have a few extra lines compared to openrailwaymap, are those all operational?
Pity so few cross-border connections, maybe we need an interactive map of the future network.

It’s only 5th December, seems unusually early for -58º. From Wikipedia - Yakutsk, maybe daily min should be about -37º now. I recall crossing Siberia by train in early December, rain in west, fresh snow in east, lakes still water, yet coming back in April you could still walk on Baikal. Seems odd, but they get extra problem of fires in winter, as fire hoses freeze, can’t extinguish them. Anyway polar vortex went wobbly recently, so we get alternating cold and warm waves - always look for both sides of regional anomalies.

They’ll probably develop resistance and rebound after a few years. What really matters there long-term is the food supply - how the ice melt affects phytoplankton affects krill affects fish etc.
Here by river Meuse usually many migrating geese, but fewer this year - I suspect same reason.

To separate the effect of demographic differences from the expenditure, might help to divide by an age-weighted population, rather than simply per capita. Also, is this expenditure converted to US$ in MER or PPP (for services the latter makes more sense)?

Nice map of fascinating region, especially by showing population density so we are not over-weighting mountains and steppe. However, I could imagine that most people and families in that region are multi-lingual and of mixed ethnicity, so mono-colours may be misleading and accentuate divisions. Cities are often different from villages around. Modern group identities may relate more to preferences for a type of governance, than to old ethnic history. Times change. How would this map look like now, and for example, in 1800?

Ah, that time of year again, seems a pity to waste them, but very hard and sour, and I’m told we shouldn’t eat any pips. Polish friends slice them thin, put in a pan alternating with layers of sugar, leave some days to suck out the juice (osmosis), drain and mix with vodka for a tasty aperitif, thick and cloudy due to the pectin (?). I’ve not heard of fermenting them directly, but would be glad to know if anybody has a good method.

Any map like this greatly overemphasises high latitude countries with a large surface area. For example, the population of Russia is now less than that of Bangladesh, which is hardly visible. It would be better to either show a distorted map with area proportional to population, or use population density for the colourscale, or use spots (to show where people really live, not in deserts or tundra). At minimum, choose an equal area-projection.

Esperanto’s nice but a century old and reflects some biases of that time. If advocating auxlangs, I’d prefer one that aims for a more global balance of vocabulary sources, for example Lidepla, Globasa…

I explain to people here that - in modern terms - it’s mixture of french, dutch, and welsh - you forgot the celtic /gaelic root (whatever you want to call it).

Highly recommend to watch this - very well made, also as a personal drama, how dreams are made and broken.

#1 would bias towards bigger countries. Migration flows are often shown as a circle plot - but not so easy to read as a map, and lose spatial relations.

Following from that - suppose we had that to/from flow data, how could we plot it in an elegant way ? And could imagine more dimensions - for example relative weight of factors influencing choice of where to study?

Some people hardly ever used big-tech social media (preferred web1.0, making own sites), now start in the fediverse as it gains critical mass. A few specific transition issues: Appreciated complex boolean search in tweetdeck (abandoned since payable), look forward to similar functionality in Mastodon 4.2beta. Dropped FB after CA-brexit scandal, but now live in francophone community where FB still dominates interactions. Our schools mandate kids to use google’s networks. Kids seeking better options for music videos.
Wider question - most people on fediverse in europe or north america - how do we reach rest of the world ?

Could you show a map of changes over time ?