• flipht@kbin.social
      41·
      1 年前

      The hottest 36 days on record. Also the coolest summer we can expect to see for the rest of our lives.

      • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 年前

        Oh, if I were an alien looking down at us little billions of ants destroying their own habitat to construct tributes to a few thousand fat ants, to the point all the ants were about to die off, I’d be tilting my head and laughing my alien ass off.

        • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 年前

          I’d be really sad, because I have empathy. Of course, maybe you’d be a psychopathic alien who laughs at injustice and pain.

    • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 年前

      Nobody panic!

      The only people that matter, who also happen to be the ones that caused and continue to exacerbate the climate apocalypse knowingly for private profit, have built luxury bunker complexes in temperate places like New Zealand to shield themselves from the consequences of their own actions.

      No one important is in danger, just us billions of disposable capital batteries, no biggie.

      Now get back to work! The owners/Pharoahs/oligarchs/beloved job creators have quarterly ego score expectations to exploit out of you before you die of heat stroke as a result of your bad decisions, like being poor!

        • queermunist@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          1 年前

          This is literally idealism.

          You have an idea about a market solution to the problem, and then act like you’ve solved the problem.

          The problem isn’t a lack of ideas! The problem is a lack of implementation! You have to get these ideas into the real world somehow, and revolution is the only way you can do that. There are billionaires aligned against implementing these ideas. You have to stop them.

          • galloog1@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            1 年前

            It’s not idealism. If you have a better solution that is not radical by design, go ahead. I was literally not specific intentionally. Go ahead, what instrument within the current system would work that are not regulations?

            • queermunist@lemmy.worldEnglish
              01·
              1 年前

              Regulations don’t work when they don’t get implemented, which means your ideas are purely ideas and not materialistic solutions. There aren’t going to be any regulations, don’t you get it? That ship has so obviously sailed.

              There isn’t a better solution that’s not radical and that’s why radical solutions all that’s left!

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    1 年前

    So that’s why all the conservatives are laughing and cheering. I was wondering why they were celebrating. They are accomplishing their mission of killing us all.

    • Cabrio@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      1 年前

      Owning the libs will become the most common cause of death of conservatives.

      • K3zi4@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 年前

        “Them libs want to protest the climate issue? Well fuck em, let’s burn more oil and make more profit for those companies! That’ll show them snowflake protestors!”

        This is literally the mindset we’re up against. They’ve been brainwashed so hard into “owning libs”, and have their tongues so far up billionaire’s arseholes, they have lost any sense of empathy, sympathy, and basic intelligence. We’re all fucked.

  • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    1 年前

    Fun fact: All this probably happened because we stopped to geoengineer by outlawing ships blowing sulphur into the air which created additional cloud cover. That is, this year isn’t really exceptional climate-change wise, it’s just that we could witness, by fortuitous natural experiment, how much worse it actually already is… as well as that we can limit the impact by geoengineering. It works, and without wrecking havoc on the overall system.

    And the good news is that we don’t need to blow sulphur into the air to generate clouds, the same effect can be had by blowing salt water into the air, just strap a couple of water cannons to every cargo ship. No I’m dead serious.

    • doomer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 年前

      All this probably happened because we stopped to geoengineer by outlawing ships blowing sulphur into the air which created additional cloud cover.

      You have your causality running backwards… this was already here, and the sulfur was masking it. This happened because we put so many GHG in the air.

      It works, and without wrecking havoc on the overall system.

      Europe is the one that initiated the sulfur reductions. With the additional dimming data now available, they reviewed it to determine how much damage had been caused. The conclusion? The benefits of reducing sulfur actually outweigh the damage of unmasked warming. The plan for further reductions was upheld.

      If we mask radiative forcing, we don’t want to be doing it with sulfur. That leads to acid rain, ocean acidification, and asthma and other diseases. CaCO3 is a candidate. The long-term consequences of any candidate is unknown. Except that we know that the less sulfur raining down on us and the fish in general, the better.

  • bentropy@feddit.deEnglish
    101·
    1 年前

    It is totally terrifying but also very strange to read about the record heat everywhere while we here in Germany had probably the coldest July in a decade. We had 16C where we should have had 30C. And we had rain, a lot of rain.

    Still, I’m terrified.

    • psud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 年前

      The world average temperature is up. Locally this puts more energy in weather

      Taller storms, bigger hail, more cyclones/typhoons/hurricanes earlier and later in the season

  • potopato@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    1 年前

    43 ºC in my town today. Now we are at 32 ºC and is 23:00.

    This is hell.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
      2·
      1 年前

      Now that we have an idea of how much ocean cloud cover can produce a certain amount of global cooling we can find other, better ways of doing it in a controlled manner.

  • Malfeasant@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    1 年前

    Phoenix just broke its record for consecutive days over 110° at 31, previous record was half that…

  • Alex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 年前

    What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know | Al Gore | TED https://piped.video/watch?v=xgZC6da4mco

    Oil barrons merely see global warming as yet another catastrophe to take advantage of for power and profit, they will have their companies pump oil til there’s not a single drop left to pump anywhere, using every excuse they can find to keep pumping and polluting while evading taxes and regulation as much as possible. They are evil scum and belong in jail for their lies and behavior.

    • Rediphile@lemmy.caEnglish
      01·
      1 年前

      Drug dealers are arguably pretty evil…but there is undeniably huge demand for the products. And getting rid of a dealer won’t solve addiction itself.

  • Kinglink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 年前

    36 days… July 3rd to August 6… is 34 35 days.

    I find it very hard to believe anything that makes such a simple mistake doesn’t have other mistakes.

    • Crozekiel@kbin.social
      22·
      1 年前

      It would actually be 35 days, since it is inclusive of July 3rd. Maybe simple mistakes are equally simple to overlook, sometimes. :P