Ben Matthews

  • New here on lemmy, will add more info later …
  • Also on mdon: @benjhm@scicomm.xyz
  • Try my interactive climate / futures model: SWIM
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Cake day: September 15th, 2023

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  • Nice article, many examples. Except that it’s not just mountain communities that depend on glaciers - those are a key source of water for the main rivers during the dry season, especially at the western (Indus) end of the Himalayas.
    Of course India could be better prepared, but the government needs to show this is a priority, rather than temples and Hindutva.
    Maybe regional state governments could do better ?
    The article is right to say that 1.5C is only a political goal not deduction from physical-science, a target which the Indian government did not, afaik, explicitly support, despite pressure from all the smaller neighbouring countries which clearly did. India always emphasised equity in the climate negotiations, but too much from a point of view of equitable access to global atmospheric space (i.e. right to burn coal too, proportional to population). So they got lumped together with China which has hugely higher emissions (also higher per-capita than europe), rather than with the most vulnerable countries (especially in Africa) which will receive most of the adaptation funding.








  • I saw somewhere a neat idea to align the panels vertically along N-S axis, two sided facing both E and W to catch morning and evening sun at low angles. This helps to top up the grid at periods of higher demand and lower supply, while leaving a wide open strip in the middle for growing normal crops, benefiting from the midday sun (a time when we already have plenty of electricity).



  • Two thoughts:

    • I’m subscribed to 160 communities, most very small, but see interesting stuff due to the Scaled option - also deliberately avoid the big news communities. Evidently, it takes time to join 160 small cs, so to get started it could be handy to have an all/local except list, and remove the biggest news /memes unless people tick a box saying they like such. Or make an algorithm that prioritises stuff related to what I upvote (which is how other social sites seem to get people started - e.g. i just tried rednote and it quickly learned i like mountains and trains) - but i guess that’s hard to implement as each instance would need to work out ‘related to’.
    • 2nd point - there are other user-interfaces - I’m using Alexandrite which has a better layout than lemmy default, but how to make this easier (instructions suggest docker, how many casual users will do that …)?