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[–] [email protected] 217 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The hottest 21 days so far!

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Seriously! I give it pretty good odds this runs for a full month, then we'll probably get some relief with days that are only near record-breaking 🥵

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

And then the inevitable day or week or so where it's unseasonably cold before we barrel into another couple months of record breaking heat. But during those weeks I will be told innumerable times "so much for global warming! This idiots don't know anything!"

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Not true. Fake news. Everyone knows that for the first few hundred million years after Earth first formed the average surface temperature was 80C (176F).

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"ever recorded" - there was nobody around to record the formation of the earth.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Um in case you've been under a rock George Santos obviously kept perfect records for the last 4.5 billion years.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (34 children)

Yes, the planet was destroyed in the name of insatiable capitalist greed.

But for one shining moment in time, we created a lot of value for shareholders!

(and just to be crystal clear, not you)

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Moving past tipping points. With permafrost melting, sea ice melting and not reforming, and fires in the boreal forest, the feedback loop is developing. We are going to blow past 2 degrees C way faster than anyone predicted.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (40 children)

Honestly, anyone paying attention saw this coming since 2010.

We had twenty years to avoid this: by massively switching to nuclear power in the 90s and 00s.

We missed that exit ramp. By 2010 it was clear that 2 degrees was unavoidable.

The choice now is, do we limit it to 2-3 degrees warming, or do we go straight to 4-5 degrees?

It will take at least two decades to transform our industrial world economy.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

4-5 degrees? You are optimistic. I bet I get to see 3 degrees in my lifetime as we will blast by each and every exit ramps. Not only that we'll also be drifting on the highway, because it looks cool.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (16 children)

In torn between following my dreams and dedicating my life to attempting to help the climate crisis by going to school and inventing some tech to help

and giving up entirely, coasting through life with my stable government job, and drinking to forget until the day I hang myself...

This world is fucked, should I even try? Or should I just hope in reincarnation?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Well if no one does anything it won't be better should reincarnation come around.

I think Dr. Seuss has some pertinent wisdom here.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better. It's not.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Its not really a matter of if I care. I cannot sway billionaires, the ones who put us into this situation. I cannot make them stop destroying the planet. They do not care what I think, and they are solely motivated by profits. Nothing else. They have no morality, no sensibilities, no sympathy, and they have absolutely no desire to do literally anything about the unfolding climate crisis. They don't care. They'd double emissions in a heartbeat if they'd make a few cents off of it. God knows they've done it before, and they've done much worse for much less money.

Until the money billionaires have stolen from us is rightfully given back to us, we have no means of intervening directly ourselves. The only other option is insurrectionary revolution. Those in the ruling class have shown us consistently over the last 150 years that they have callous disregard for the environment and for the future of humanity. They have shown time and again they will ignore all warnings, they will dismiss all concerns, they are apathetic to human life, and are solely focused on the accumulation of stolen wealth. There's no middle ground here. If we want to do something meaningful to mitigate this crisis, the billionaires and the ruling class have to go.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The problem isn't tech to help the environment, as far as I can tell. It's more getting the people in charge to actually do something about it.

I think the French once invented a device for that, I forget what it was called.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seeing how we’ve known about it for decades and this is the amount of progress we’ve made towards slowing/fixing it… idk maybe I’m just being cynical, then again Covid really showed us just how much the general public doesn’t care about their well-being and other’s wellbeing

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

I had a slight glimmer of hope at the start of covid-19, when people were dazed and confused and isolating and waiting for a vaccine. At the very start, I actually thought humanity is proving we're not that bad.

The rest is history now.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IMO, it's always better to try. Worst case scenario is that nothing changes, so no worse than if you didn't. The only sane choice in that kind of situation is to pick the one with a chance for improvement.

In my experience, giving a shit about what you're doing has a bunch of positing knock-on affects as well. You just end up feeling better about yourself. In your specific scenario it sounds like trying would also afford you the opportunity to live a happier life, and that's worth chasing. The world is fucked, but scientists keep saying they if we act soon it's not so fucked they we're past the inflection point to un-fuck it.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Welcome to the British Petroleum summer heat wave. Next up is the Exxon Mobile Hurricane season.

Fun fact about the Exxon Mobile Hurricane Season, oil and gas platforms can get insurance against a storm in the Exxon Mobile Hurricane Season, but homeowners in Louisiana can't get any homeowners insurance due to the expected severity of the named storms in the Exxon Mobile Hurricane Season.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Where I'm from, we were massively talking about it in the 80s when I was a kid. It promply stopped by the end of the 90s. Then all of sudden, we don't hear much about it.

It's so fucked up to be told all your life that your are insane to believe in climate change, and then about 40 years later, most people talk about it as if it was a given.

We should not be anxious about climate change, we should be furious.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

It was being talked about in newspapers a century ago. The fossil fuels companies have known for a very long time, and have been suppressing it for a very long time, hiring many of the same people involved in suppressing evidence that tobacco causes cancer. We should be torches and pitchforks in the street livid.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I remember the topic from school in the 90s, where it said "if we don't start to do anything about it soon, it will have serious catastrophic consequences in about 30 years". And now here we are.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't worry guys, I'm sure this is just natural weather fluctuation and has nothing to do with us messing with the climate for the past however many decades. We couldn't possibly be suffering the consequences of our own actions (or at least the actions of a few with too much power). /s

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Nah don't worry bro. I separated my plastics from my trash so it's fine now obviously.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Time to get out the guillotines. Socialism or extinction.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (11 children)

In Germany it’s colder and wetter than usual while in southern Europe they’re boiling. Crazy weather.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Yeah well this is frightening. In 25-30 years I will retire and now I need to raise the chances that I will live in a home with air conditioning in a country that -- currently -- hardly has buildings with air conditioning because it was not a necessity up until now. This will be an uphill battle. I don't want to die prematurely in a summer heat wave..

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just waiting for that sea level rise to kick in. There's plenty of anchorages that are still too shallow for my boat.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm glad I'm old enough that I remember much more seasonally appropriate weather, if nothing else. It was really snowy in December when I was a kid in the 1980s and I think I only saw one green Christmas that whole time, while green Christmas is just normal now. We also didn't have air conditioning until I was in my teens, because Canada had cooler summers, and for the odd hot night you'd just sleep in the basement. Eventually we moved to a house that had central air, but I don't remember needing it the way we have the last 20 years.

I don't have air conditioning now, but it hasn't been a bad summer in Ontario so far heat wise, somehow we're missing the big heat waves everyone else is getting. I'm lucky I get a lot of tree shade.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I expect it to be worse next year, and even worse the year after that.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But this snow in my hand not melting is proof it's all a hoax . /s

Dreading what's to come.here in France. We've got rain and 25 c ATM while rome and Spain are burning up. Sure it's going to come our way shortly.

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