A small-scale study with a big media title: Urban gardening mitigates climate change | EurekAlert! Only mentioned because the journal Miscellanea Geographica is one we might never not otherwise think about. Anyway, I don't.
Supposing that none of us here have brains to match Vaclav Smil, we might attend to: https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2025/07/05/an_interview_with_vaclav_smil_on_small_nuclear_reactors_a_fertility_crisis_and_more_1120332.html
I had hopes we'd see product, not just promise: Could Floating Nuclear Power Plants Unlock Indonesia’s Energy Future? — Nuclear Business Platform Floating Nuclear Power Plants (FNPPs) Considering Russia already made (and abandoned): The Dangerous Legacy of the Soviet Union’s Use of Nuclear Technology | Argon Electronics Bob Wilson
screw worm solution:secretary-rollins-announces-bold-plan-combat-new-world-screwworms-northward-spread
Thanks! I've know our food abundance has been a long term, government goal. Now we get to see if tax cuts out weigh food security. Bob Wilson
I read an even stranger article about that yesterday. The one I read made this effort look like some kind of new idea, with no mention of the sustained fifty-plus-year program that's to thank for our not having screwworms all the time. Which I first heard about only five years ago, from this article: The 'Wall' That Keeps Flesh-Eating Worms Out of America - The Atlantic The object of the program is to have no screwworms north of the Colombia-Panama border, so their presence in Mexico seems to suggest that something lately hasn't gone right, but I don't think I got much help from the article toward understanding what.
I thought they were just reinstating funds DOGE cut from the program on first seeing these headlines. From the little I've seen addressing that is simply they don't know. the assumption is some infected cattle slipped through quarantine, or were smuggled. Other animals and people could also carrier them in. A some infected dogs from the Carribean have ended up in the US in past. Don't think you can rule out some fertile flies getting carried over in a storm though.
Just now I looked at windy.com to see global rainfall patterns, there drawn from several models. Now highest is about 8 cm per hr. Quite gentle, but not my point to discuss. It isn't raining just now on most earthly places. Other times it does exceed 25 cm per hr somewhere, but even then, no rain elsewhere mostly. Variability comes from tightly constrained wet spots, owing to troposphere being so twirly. This spatio-temporal variability is a thing we might think about. It appears to be increasing from climate change, and big brains are working out how to describe that for technical publications. And how to describe that to normal people
Let us not distract, @bisco Impedance matching between eggheads and regular heads is a persistent problem. Just now PNAS speaks to it: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2400932122 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2400928121 == I do it 'my way'; unlikely to change. Important matter is not me, but how to help folks expand their understandings to extent they will accept.
Floods with tragic results are now in the news. Texas/Kerr was small and fast. Europe 2021 was big and slower, but somehow still managed to kill about 200. Floods have be 'since forever' and merit anticipation and response, to the extent that civilizations choose to allocate resources. Floods are probably increased by climate change. Any opposed to such resource allocation can rail against climate change. With less effect, they can rail against reporters.
Reactance, like that from capacitance, is an imaginary component of impedance, but in this thread there's also a real part.