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[–] 222 points 3 years ago (20 children)

The hottest 21 days so far!

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  • [–] [S] 78 points 3 years 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 🥵

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years 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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  • [–] 50 points 3 years ago (9 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).

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  • [–] [S] 34 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 118 points 3 years 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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    [–] 82 points 3 years ago (44 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.

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  • [–] 54 points 3 years ago (42 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.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years 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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    [–] 80 points 3 years ago (29 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?

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  • [–] 57 points 3 years ago (8 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.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years 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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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years 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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    [–] 76 points 3 years 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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    [–] 67 points 3 years ago (7 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.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years 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.

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

    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

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  • [–] 44 points 3 years ago (29 children)

    Time to get out the guillotines. Socialism or extinction.

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    [–] 32 points 3 years 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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    [–] 24 points 3 years 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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    [–] 23 points 3 years 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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    [–] 19 points 3 years 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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    [–] 18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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

    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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