That’s not disproving what the article said. Heating can dominate while the impacts of white roofs are still beneficial.

For one, the sun is far more active in summer than winter, especially further up north.

I hate to be this sort of guy. But if you had read the article it mentions a study that found exactly the opposite of what you claim.

Researchers have also found that even in most cold North American climates, the energy savings from cool roofs during warmer months outweigh any added heating costs in the winter.

1984 Here we come. The Thoughtpolice have arrived.

Arctic rivers are sending a warning. Climate change is changing the type of nitrogen they carry. This shift matters because marine life depends on a specific form of nitrogen to survive.

A new study led by Bridger J. Ruyle atNYU Tandon reveals what’s going wrong. His team tracked the six largest Arctic rivers for 20 years. What they found: these rivers now deliver much less of the usable, inorganic nitrogen. Instead, they carry more of the harder-to-use, organic kind.

As corporate interest in ocean carbon removal grows, researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are testing the safety and effectiveness of one such technique in the Gulf of Maine.

bakers, builders, hot tub lobbyists, and chemical companies are trying to save it.

Unlikely coalition indeed!

This is generally a good article, but unfortunately downplays the locals agency and gives a bit of “humanitarian saviour” vibes.

Kua ni vakacalai ena veika lailai ni “loloma”, mai na veimatanitu ka vakavuna na leqa oqo. Vakasalavata kei ira era vakaleqai.

The archive link still hasn’t loaded unfortunately.

Edit; Here’s one that does work https://archive.is/20250809160259/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/08/fiji-climate-change-village-relocation/

Abolish the State

And for the USians joining us, “States” here means “countries”. Not regional governments like “States” in the US sense.

Edit: Are you from the US? Because sometimes in the US they refer to “social liberalism” as liberalism. If so then the arguments you are trying to make make far more sense. Vis à vis social liberalism. From Wikipedia

In Europe and North America, the establishment of social liberalism(often called simply liberalism in the United States)

Previous comment: Oh my god. No it isn’t. Liberalism is a political philsophy based on enlightenment ideals.

Like Locke’s social contract theory, hence the idea (that often fails in practice) of “consent of the governed”.

Liberalism did give us the declaration of human rights. It also gave us capitalism. It’s a complex ideology that has been dominant in the west for the past couple centuries. It is not synonymous with “Human rights”, and it is not the only ideology that claims to promote them.

Plenty of anti-capitalist ideologies arguably promote them more.

And famous liberals throughout history have been slave owners. So please please learn nuance.

Dude when did I ever say I’m anti human rights???

This conversation is so frustrating its like talking to a wall.

GB News has claimed a major milestone for its TV ratings as it beat BBC News Channel and Sky News for average viewership in several key slots in July.

However Press Gazette understands the total weekly reach for the BBC News Channel through July remained more than twice the size of GB News while Sky News was almost double.

This means GB News appears to be engaging fewer people in total each month but the high average viewership means their audience stay watching for longer.

I have a hard time believing your good faith. Are you seriously arguing there’s no pro-human rights ideology except liberalism?

Liberalism ≠ Human Rights

If so please please learn about political philosophy. There’s a lot more than “liberals” and “conservatives”.

Liberalism promotes capitalism. Which isn’t great for human rights.

So no, criticising liberalism as an ideology, built upon capitalist and statist-nationalist ideals does not make me an evil person trying to “catch the smurfs”.

Arguable that things have improved for poor people in the last 50 years. In relative terms they are objectively far worse off. And native Americans were arguably better off in the early colonial days pre-manifest destiny. I know US liberalism loves the myth of linear progress. But I think it isn’t necessarily accurate.

The meat industry may have enlisted environmental groups to persuade people to “feel better” about eating beef, despite the sector’s ballooning emissions of climate-heating pollution, according to a public relations strategy document.

The plan, created in 2021 by MHP Group, a London-based communications agency, was addressed to the the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, an umbrella organization comprised of beef-related companies such as restaurant chain McDonald’s and Brazil-based JBS — the world’s largest meat-packer. Other members include powerful American meat lobbies such as the Meat Institute, and nonprofits the Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund.

The proposal aimed in part at blunting growing public enthusiasm for “opting out of eating beef as alternative options become tastier, cheaper and more accessible,” in favor of seeing “beef [as] a natural and nutritious source of iron and protein” that “is enjoyed by millions.”

MHP Group’s strategy identified policymakers, regulators, investors, and beef industry stakeholders as its primary audiences. Its goals included promoting the Roundtable as “power[ing] progress in sustainable beef” as well as “champion[ing] best practices,” and assuring people that there was “growing momentum in the beef industry to protect and nurture the earth’s natural resources.”

The plan also targeted consumers who “feel ‘guilty’ about eating beef due to environmental and/or health reasons.” Here, the communications goal was “to help them feel better about eating beef (if not every day, then at least occasionally), and to be more aware of the ways in which the industry is protecting the planet and making progress.”

thank fuck. i was getting sick of how uncustomisable adguard is

TOKYO: Seventeen heat records were broken in Japan on Monday (Aug 4), the weather agency said, after the country sweltered through its hottest ever June and July.

Heatwaves are becoming more intense and frequent worldwide because of human-caused climate change, scientists say, and Japan is no exception.

The city of Komatsu, in the central region of Ishikawa, saw a new record of 40.3 degrees Celsius on Monday, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said

I hope they make a deal with the greens and manage to not split lefty votes too much.