Recent comments in /f/science

Ehgadsman t1_ja234pr wrote

Reply to Rock climbing affects cliff-plant communities by reducing species diversity and altering species coexistence patterns by nnomadic

this is possibly some really bad science. rock climbers specificly look for areas of a rock face without loose material and without vegetation, areas were plants can live are dangerous to climb. so any areas climbers have been using are areas they found to be devoid of things like moss and lichen and cliffside foliage. of course there are exceptions but they are rare.

as well, the amount of climber accessed rock versus untouched rock is tiny, probably .001% or less. It takes special conditions to make a route up a rock face attractive to climbers.

this reminds me of helping with a government survey of mollusks on a commercial dive boat where they looked at sandy areas the rock dwelling mollusks could not survive and counted those areas in the survey as habitable zones, thus coming up with a very inaccurate count of the species numbers per square meter or 'reef'.

28

Infinite-Review-9987 t1_ja20ynt wrote

Reply to comment by Twisted_Cabbage in Public opinion on climate change in China from two national surveys: findings suggest that Chinese people have a fairly high awareness of the existence and anthropogenic causes of climate change by Biosphere_Collapse

No, what is needed is eliminating the profit motive. Degrowth is just another individual responsibility myth sold to you by corporations. Like recycling.

13

theprozacfairy t1_ja20qlv wrote

Reply to comment by bisforbenis in Unpredictable childhood environments linked to food addiction in adulthood by chrisdh79

ACE really only paints a small picture of actual childhood trauma. I had a sibling who had severe medical problems, frequent hospitalizations, and died when I was a teenager, which is not registered at all on the test. I have a friend who was repeatedly molested by a sibling two years older than her - also zero points. Another friend nearly died of cancer as a kid, but that's not on there, either. IDK why they made it so narrow. I mean, I know they can't put every trauma on there. But it feels like a lot is left off.

13

HelpOtherPeople t1_ja1xmj3 wrote

Reply to Researchers believe rising sea temperatures are to blame for the plummeting number of invertebrates such as molluscs and sea urchins at Rottnest Island off Western Australia, with some species having declined by up to 90 per cent between 2007 and 2021. by Wagamaga

In California, we need the urchins to die off, they’re eating the kelp. :( The starfish were keeping them in check but there was a wasting disease that decimated their populations and now the urchins are taking over.

1