Oddbean new post about login | logout Becoming convinced that fiat architecture is the biggest driver of "global warming". If you build large phallic glass structures and black tarmacs in the major metropolitan areas where the temperature measurements are taking place, it's likely going to lead to more heat.
This is truly an 80 IQ critique of climate issues
Reminds me of this book about centralized power and the impact one man had on New York: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Broker-Robert-Moses-Fall/dp/0394720245/ref=asc_df_0394720245?nodl=1&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312176338241&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10279030281217121055&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031226&hvtargid=pla-433447559669&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=60258870897&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312176338241&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10279030281217121055&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031226&hvtargid=pla-433447559669&dplnkId=da0a8453-1896-413d-87fb-540d2d8c52b4
yes and no. Temperature increase in urban areas are well documented and well understood, so those increases mostly accounted and discounted properly. But yes to gigantic glass phalluses not being the most efficient thing. 🤣 The impact if fiat on architecture runs deeper than that and it involves how these projects are financed and how they are assessed, and just the sheer volume of spaces being built (oversupply) from all the subsidies and monetization of real estate.
Steel man the argument and interview one of the many bitcoiners on the other side of the climate debate. Perhaps @jyn_urso or @thetrocro.
This is the exact answer. The thermometers aren't measuring the world. They're measuring a tiny piece nearest to civil development, and that civil development is able to shift the local temperature. Ever notice inner city areas are hotter than even a little outside of city limits? So do the weather stations.
Yes, also natural urbanization over time. A measuring station that used to be on the outskirts after decades of growth is well within the concrete/asphalt "heat island".
Precisely. Those measuring stations are usually not too inconveniently far from urban areas, airports being a logical place, which are not only not immune to development but actually invite it.
For sure. In addition, there is 59 billion square miles of farmland and much that land is farmed by farmers dependent on subsidies from their governments to abide by their farming practices (tilling and chemicals). You’ll hear say, “get your soil bubbling.” Like boiling water. All because they are being squeezed by the fiat monster.
Hear, hear!!
Our home is heated with passive solar using glass, concrete and adobe. In the Winter it gets to -15F outside. We have no supplemental heat sources other than a kiva fireplace which we almost never use. So yeah, it's not any kind of stretch to scale that up and recognize the heat island effect of cities. Passive solar gain is powerful, and low tech. Earthships aren't exactly fiat architecture, but the ideas still apply. PV! Oustide https://m.primal.net/HKpf.png Inside https://m.primal.net/HKph.png
