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Millions of acres of national forest are targeted for logging under an emergency order from the Trump administration (mander.xyz)

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[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

On the other hand. This has been said for decades.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Not even, there was a discovery channel documentary a number of years ago and it's been constant hype and bullshit about a made-up crisis ever since. If you're still taking TLC and discovery channel programming as science at this point, you're unsavable.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

Hey! I learned a lot about Mermaids from those documentaries. You cant find that kind of fact-based research in the Mainstream Media. Liberals hate Mermaids, and they aren't real big on Unicorns, either.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

If you're still taking TLC and discovery channel programming as science at this point, you're unsavable.

Supervolcano was co-produced by the BBC

The reason for the interest was

The upward movement of the Yellowstone caldera floor between 2004 and 2008—almost 75 millimetres (3.0 in) each year—was more than three times greater than ever observed since such measurements began in 1923

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

That's still 2005, not "decades" ago, and it's still a hype piece that's been capitalized on by every other network because fear sells, excitement sells, disaster movies sell.

No serious geologist believes that there's going to be a Yellowstone supervolcano, maybe ever because shit don't necessarily work that way. The magma chamber is almost 80% solidified, and we're talking 10,000 kilometers of rock. The worst case, we will see pressure vents forming and spewing ash, but likely not even THAT in our lifetime.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

2005, not "decades" ago

I hate to break it to you, but 2005 is decades ago. Two to be precise.

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