What I’m insinuating here is that there is a weird bias/over regulations in labeling vegan products, that is not applied to other products.

Eg - why do businesses get to sell “crab meat” which is not crab but other fishes, and this is not considered misleading? Or “fruit snacks” in the US that are candy and contain no fruit.

But ag wants to control terms like “milk” and not allow things like “oat milk” to be called oat milk. There’s been pushes to not allow presenting beef alternatives as beef alternatives.

I’ve seen it argued that “fake meat” is inherently misleading, while if I buy “grapefruit juice” at the store it is likely to be more apple or pear, and there is not really a push to regulate there.

Odd that language around surimi/imitation crab meat tends to be completely unregulated and misleading.

Almost like this is less about informing the costumer, and more about something else…

That place is worse than the one I went to as a kid, but I still feel so sick reading it. I have flashbacks to being told I would have to change.

I don’t understand why these places are allowed to exist.

Same with house centipedes. They are friends, even if they look like something out of a sci fi movie.

Phytoplankton are the biggest producers of oxygen on the planet. Not trees. Mass die outs of phytoplankton is an end game scenario.

The other effect is that most gas’s solubility in liquid decreases with temperature. If you leave your can of soda out on a hot day, you can see this in action.

Our ocean is the our biggest “carbon sink.” As it heats, it can hold less, shifting the chemical equilibrium to release more CO2 in the atmosphere.

I’m wondering if that could counter the ocean acidification effect over a long time - if we could get a negative feedback loop that would counteract the effects of increasing pH.

We are already having issues with commercial mussel production - the ocean needs to be a basic environment for oysters and mollusks and other creatures to build their shells. In a 7.8-8.1 environment, we are going to have serious problems with those species.

Another concerning thing is the ice-albedo positive feedback loop. Sea ice is more reflective than dark ocean water. Dark ocean water warms, melts the sea ice, and then exposes even more dark ocean water to heat.