The title of the article on the BBC page currently reads:
Streeting backs under-16s social media ban as government consultation concludes
And a quote from the article:
There is no consensus among the wider scientific community that screen time overall is harmful to children.
Sea level at geological time scale is wild. Hundreds of metres.
I find it fascinating since we live during such a short period on the geological time scale.
Driven mostly by glaciation effects, but thermal expansion of sea water is also significant. These effects can be partially offset in places by isostatic rebound (plates are floating, so reducing ice mass on continents allows them to rebound or rise, lowering apparent sea level, relative to the land).
There’s a lot less ice left, since the sea level has already risen >110m since the last glacial maximum (~20000 years ago), and has been quite stable for the past ~6500 years. This stability has been influential in the placement of human settlements along coastlines and river deltas.
Its fun that ice shelf melt doesn’t change sea level, the same way the melting ice cube in a glass of water doesn’t, but ice on land does. This is why the focus is generally on Antarctic and Greenland.
Together, the Antarctic & Greenland ice sheet could cause almost 68m of sea level rise, converting this unsinkable aircraft carrier to more of a stationary submarine?
This is indeed a good speech. I often see of critique from both sides of our political discourse about some of his actions (security, climate change, neoliberalism, etc.), but I’m proud to have a smart, thoughtful, and well respected leader representing our country on the world stage. This is a tricky needle to thread, but hopefully one that can lead to continued peace & restored prosperity for all of us.
We didn’t ask for this, but we need to make the best of the current situation.
And to be clear, as a Canadian, I still view our southern neighbours as friends (excluding a few notable individuals), who are going through a difficult time. One that many of us saw coming from 1.609km away, but sometimes you can’t tell a friend their love interest is a psychopathic narsicist, because they’re too infatuated to listen or see it. They have to learn for themselves…
Unfortunately, in this case, we’re all being dragged along for the ride.
It’s ironic that the 13th amendment to the US Constitution still allows forced labour for those convicted of crimes:
But let’s call it what it is: Trump and his administration want to impose tariffs, and he is using whatever pathway available to him to impose them, even if hypocritical, morally discredible, or of question legality…