Just 2 Degrees: So hot in Arizona, Mexico, Philippines; Can seaweed help?

April was the 11th consecutive month of record-breaking temperatures across the planet. Scientists continue research into seaweed, and whether it could help us limit global warming.
Host: Reagan Des Vignes
Guests: Plantlife UK's Ian Dunn; and Marine biologist, Cheryl Lynn Ames
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[@yetao5801]

The new norm is that this year's heatwave would always be milder compared to the worst in the next 5.

[@rdallas81]

Absolutely facts

[@marvinpercival4717]

2025 is the last yesr of confort.after 2025 the global death toll from the effect of the sun is going to be extinction level.the effect will br felt in agriculture fishing droughts wild fires and sickness like heat strokes spantaneous combustion and mental issues.

[@Debbie-henri]

I haven't mowed my lawn for 21 years. The lawn started as 2 acres in size (now with added trees), so not inconsiderable. Now it's full of life, with Nature adding new wild flowers all the time, wild animals happily nosing through it. Mowing is a habit, a bad habit imposed by conventional expectations - and you pay for it too! Give yourself a rest from it, you suddenly find you can enjoy your weekends a lot more.

[@veronicamoradeleon671]

9​ @@Sensath

[@rociomiranda5684]

I live in Costa Rica. When it rains, my backyard becomes a jungle. It's an urban backyard. We only cut down the vines that get in the house or on the roof. Hummingbirds nest there. Bees and other insects feed on the wild flowers. Almost everything disappears during the dry season, except the hardiest plants and the trees. The vine flowers all year long.

[@ramatgan1]

Its 28c every day here in Northern Somalia. No extreme hot or cold, It's very pleasant weather, We are lucky.

[@uelld.8371]

There's a theory on how you can use those concrete ditch by turning them upside down and fully cover/plant over it with grass. Any wind/air pass underneath it are usually colder.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

122 F is 50 Celsius! Wow - literally steam cooking in the Philippines!

[@cycoklr]

A growing problem in the Philippines is the proliferation of mining operations -- legal and illegal. The destruction of rain forests brings about widespread flooding, loss of habitat for wildlife, food insecurity for indigenous people and toxic effects on the environment will last for generations to come.

[@JohnPritzlaff]

Thank you. Here in Phoenix, permaculture food forests and other forms of regenerative agriculture have become really popular the last 10 or 20 years.

[@georgesos]

Grass is a double edge sword. If you leave it uncut in summer with the high temperatures, it becomes fuel for fire. So it depends where you are. There is no silver bullet.

[@mh.a1172]

Summer will start in September in Europe

[@MyLoganTreks]

The Seaweed idea is great! Perhaps Trump should eat some before he goes into court rooms so his emissions are lower.

[@ramatgan1]

Its 28c every day here in Northern Somalia. No extreme hot or cold, It's very pleasant weather, We are lucky.

[@4362mont]

The only grass-cutting done here this year will be to clear a path.

[@Debbie-henri]

I find that treading the same path across a lawn is enough. I mow nothing and I don't wear the pathways to bare soil either. If grass flops onto the paths in wet weather, I get a broom and push it back the other way. It stays there.

[@Jmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjm1]

Can seaweed help? How about we stop with the whole fossil fuel thing?

[@jakefrost8017]

Alternatives are still too expensive 😅 But Solar can at least last almost half a day

[@Jmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjm1]

@@jakefrost8017 we are going to have to find a new way to live one way or the other. We can start soon, or wait until the world is approaching an uninhabitable catastrophe. I don’t think it’s central to our existence that we constantly consume extremely high levels of energy.

[@jakefrost8017]

@@Jmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjm1 Well start then. Who is stopping you? Oh wait- the limitations of the current science, technology, and scaling w/ the economic reality 😆 But keep being positive 👍

[@Jmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjm1]

@@jakefrost8017 I quit driving and eating meat for 7 years. It was pretty difficult since college was an hour and a half bus ride each way, and I was also working full time as well. Ultimately, I just gave up, because no one else really cares. It’s fine. I’ll watch it burn.

[@jakefrost8017]

@@Jmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjm1 You should realize how that doesn't add up to anything even in the scale of tens of millions 🤣 You can just wait 🤭 when it is profitable (and it is fast becoming) and feasible, you won't need to be so silly then. If you wanna help, buy stocks from the renewable manufacturers to help fund R&D.

[@bcase5328]

Would it help schools (and public buildings) to shade their roofs (and streets) with solar panels? (Those panels purchased by the government, and power value on the grid then repaying government climate mitigation/clean energy programs.)

[@ivan55599]

l want to grow lawn, but ticks have spread around.

[@georgesos]

"Environmentalists say let nature take its course" ( about the hippopotamuses ) What about the people in Africa? R we going to do the same? Man,humanity has lost every drop of humanism it had...

[@uelld.8371]

They keep forgetting to put mankind survivability in that equation.

[@emmahardesty4330]

No one action can solve this, but permaculture offers the right direction. Doesn't cost anything: just fill of logic for all areas of existence. Yes, really.

[@volkerengels5298]

"Kill Your Lawn"

[@georgesos]

Seaweed, I use it for my plants, and it is great . It gets tangled on my propeller and it is horrible.

[@martiansoon9092]

Seaweed has been dying near Ibearian coastlines and elsewhere due to extreme surface warmth... When seaweed dies, there is no further carbon sink. And most likely at shallow waters the degrading dead seaweed just bubbles its carbon out as methane making huge emissions... Situation is dire. We could add some seaweed farms in the middle of the ocean where sinking biomass has no room to leak to the air. If biomass degrades deep enough its methane will be eaten before it surfaces.

[@siyannilam6568]

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[@km08]

What concious lifestyle changes can I do to help mitigate my impact on climate change?

[@xdtrobowen3881]

bad news for the lawnmower makers..

[@Debbie-henri]

Yes, but as a lot of this stuff is made in China for peanuts anyway, not much of a loss.

[@mariahewitt9787]

Bad news Jim the mower man. 🎉

[@mariahewitt9787]

Looks like we'll have to go back to living in Cave's?

[@cursocuritiba]

Poor birds. Poor cat...

[@pascalbercker7487]

Why are those cats left to suffer in those cages?

[@rdallas81]

Lololol. Next year will be hotter

[@notrueflagshere198]

I think it is illegal to not mow the lawn where I live.

[@martiansoon9092]

Letting plants grow in your yard is just one step. To understand the overall problem you should just look around you. EVERYTHING near you is DEAD. Our houses - dead, cities - dead, streets - dead, even our lawns and farming lands are often used as a single specie death zones. We LOVE OUR DEAD ENVIRONMENT. That is the problem we are causing. And we worsen the situation further with our poisons like greenhouse gases, e-pills (sewage goes to rivers and makes havoc), microplastics, well over 300k different chemical components that has random effects, ...

[@martiansoon9092]

Even seeing these talks been taken in TOTALLY DEAD environments makes me sad. We talk about death of the nature and how to make more of it, while we don't have even a single living thing in the room where we make these discussions? SAD.

[@Wherewaseye321]

Your in a desert what do you expect snow ?

[@1erinjames]

If the severe heat is fulfilment of prophecy, shouldn't the cause and effect of those prophecies be considered?!!

[@rdallas81]

Absolutely. Yes. We are literally watching the bible. We are at the end of it. Wars, and rumors of wars. Nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and plagues pestilences and famine and earthquakes in diverse places. Will lead to civil war. We will see a progressive breakdown of all things and it will happen before 2068..... Israel exists as prophesied, and these "events" in Ukraine and Middle east all have 1 thing in common- the USA. Who is mystery Babylon? We are. When a nation promotes wickedness and perversions to children in schools- its demise will be like those 2 biblical cities God rained fire upon

[@Masked151]

1st

[@Thingsyourollup]

Those popups are annoying and distracting. If you have something to say, just say it.

[@stefaniabrazzi1358]

April was the coldest ever.

[@georgesos]

Where? In europe it was the warmest of record.

[@stefaniabrazzi1358]

@@georgesos in Palermo Sicily Italy. Never had a colder April like 2024

[@andyking6051]

In the UK ​@@georgesos

[@scottwood5515]

@@stefaniabrazzi1358 I only had to go back 1 year to find a cooler April in Palermo Italy. 2024 compared to 2023 is calculated below. 10.2666 low average for April/24 in Palermo Italy. 22.6666 high average for April/24 in Palermo Italy. 10.3666 low average for April/23 in Palermo Italy. 20.3000 high average for April/23 in Palermo Italy.

[@stefaniabrazzi1358]

@@scottwood5515 sorry mate i live in Palermo and last year wasn't cold, infact my little tomatoes plants got scorched by mid April. 😕

[@larkatmic]

Honestly. Please stop. What happened to, You do you, and I’ll do me.

[@larkatmic]

@@jcldctt No duh

[@Baba-fy1jc]

The Human has a Big Problem with a Mass Psychosis and that makes very Quickly a Link to worse work with the Logic or with the Criteria Visible. The People belive it that his own Person no Problem Visible makes and that is the error. The Human Likes the I have my Patsy Show and that makes the People, day for day, as Fact Visible.

[@huluqi3972]

You are kinda right, no one is actually stopping you doing what you do, and no one should stop them doing what they do, till someone(else) gets hurt As long as the actions do not affect others in destructive ways, or it will be stopped in ways not necessarily carried out by other ppl, nature has its ways Find the root of the action is essential for understanding in better ways, like why, when, how, what now

[@nowhere474]

I LIVE IN THE MOJAVE DESERT 🏜️ without air conditioning it can be done