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[–] 164 points 3 years ago (37 children)

Hottest 36 days ever recorded...so far.

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  • [–] 83 points 3 years ago* (30 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    In 1988 my uncle was working as a chemist for the oil industry in Oman. When he was home he'd tell us about global warming from carbon dioxide from burning oil

    In the industry they knew. In politics they knew. But it made a lot of money and they'd be dead before New York would be flooded

    I wish aging had been solved back then, so those people would know they'd live to see the impending disaster

    RIP Great Barrier Reef this coming southern summer

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    [–] 81 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    This graph is the most damning. We’ve made zero progress according to the only metric that matters.

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    [–] 65 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    "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.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Part of the problem with being socially minded is that your representatives tend to be less inclined to abuse their power to disingenuously manipulate useful idiots. We'd rather educate them than manipulate them, but they're too stupid to know the difference.

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    [–] 42 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    See you next summer.

    This will be the coolest summer you ever experience.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    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

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    [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    ... also the coolest 36 days of summer of the rest of our life

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  • [+] 20 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Some didn't survive & that's a problem.

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    [–] 15 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You To Know | Al Gore | TED https://www.youtube.com/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.

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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago

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

    This is hell.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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    [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    What do we win? I hope someone makes a movie about us.

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    [–] 8 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Actually, some of us didnt

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    [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Couldn't the massive fires (energy and compounds generated) exacerbate these values?

    Don't make me say what I didn't say.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No actually fires have an overall negative (lowering) effect on temperatures, because the smoke reduces the sun energy from reaching land over large areas, it’s been well established that areas affected by smoke will have lower peak temps than they otherwise would have. Except it can cause temps to stay higher overnight by preventing the heat from escaping into atmosphere.

    But in terms of highest temps ever recorded.. it doesn’t seem fires would contribute to that at all, more just a consequence of the high temps (drying effect).

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    What's this "we survived?" dies

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Meanwhile in germany: 13°C and endless rain.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Relevant vlogbrothers video about why this particular summer is hotter.

    https://youtu.be/dk8pwE3IByg

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