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A heat wave that has stifled the southern tier of the U.S. for weeks has expanded into the Plains, Midwest and now the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Thursday, triggering heat alerts for over 227 million people, according to the National Weather Service.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (5 children)

"It's 1°C. That's not a lot."

It's 1°C on average. That means every molecule of air has AT LEAST 1°C extra thermal energy. And I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, there's a lot of air molecules. So while taking one cubic centimeter of air and increasing it by 1°C isn't a ton of energy. Do that for roughly all 109 tredecitillion molecules and you get about 2.2 zettajoules of energy. Annual US energy consumption is just 0.094 zettajoules. So one degree increase is equal to more energy than the US uses in 23½ years. The biggest nuclear bomb humans ever made, that pulls in at about 0.00021 zettajoules. So one degree is roughly 10,500 Tasr Bombas going off and then the resulting heat just never leaving.

All of that energy. It has to go somewhere. Sometimes it makes ice turn to water, sometimes it increases the speed at which some wind is moving, sometimes it increases the surface temperature of land, sometimes it evaporates water leaving an area very dry. But it has to go somewhere. And it cannot just radiate back out into space, it hits a CO₂ molecule, bounces off of it, and flies right back down to Earth. And the more CO₂ molecules we put out there, the more often that happens.

[–] FlickOfTheBean 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh this is the first thing I've read that puts it into a sort of understandable perspective (eternally recovering from my conservative raised childhood, maybe sane people explain it better in general)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you want a feeling for how your local temperatures will change you can extrapolate the peaks linearly. So if we look at London Uk as an Example https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0394/production/_125961900_optimised-max_temp_uk-nc-002.png.webp

With a global mean temperature increase of 1 C since 1970 there was an increase in peak temperatures (avg) of about 2 C. So till 2050 it will be somewhere around 3 C for the average peak in summer. If we look at the ramp up since 2008 we can expect more like 5-6 C higher temperature records than today. So in the 2050s there will be some summers with 45 C records and the average hottest day every year around 35-37 C

Edit: and not to forget that this is only talking about how high the peaks every year are. The length of heatwaves will also increase by a few days. So where it was maybe 32 for three days and then 35 for one day, followed by a cooling thunderstorm it will be more like five days of 35 followed by a day of 37 and then a much more intense thunderstorm than what we know today.

[–] Lakija 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who! This is the first time someone explain this shit to me! 🤯 Like actually explained it so it makes sense.

Thank you!

[–] cyberpunk007 3 points 1 year ago

Whoa. I've never had this explained so clearly. Thanks. Also yikes.

[–] AlecSadler 3 points 1 year ago

Love this explanation. Thanks much. Sharing...

[–] NegativeCool 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is an amazing explanation.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It should not be this hot at 10:30 at night.

[–] Fredselfish 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree and yet half of America wants to pretend man made climate change is fact and we are having no effect on the earth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you blame them? It's such an uncomfortable truth!

(Of course pretending it doesn't exist isn't going to do a damn thing.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Hell yes I can blame them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It’s such an uncomfortable truth!

Some might even call it an Inconvenient Truth!

[–] Pohl 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

We’ve been so fortunate up here in the Great Lakes. Only one day above 90 in the 10 day forecast here and it’s still gonna dip below 70 every night.

Heat dome won’t step to 5k cubic miles of cold water.

Be safe out there!

[–] cedarmesa 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] MostlyBirds 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, it will. The reason we haven't been affected is simply because this isn't where this heat dome is. We can and will get them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Just wait till the migrations start. Places like that are going to become very crowded in the coming years.

[–] SheeEttin 3 points 1 year ago
[–] onionbaggage 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I heard you got 5 cubic miles of cold water... Sure would be a shame if that became 5 cubic miles of hot water.

[–] Pohl 1 points 1 year ago

The lakes hold 5500 cubic miles of water, not 5. But yes, the lakes have been warming, surface temps on Superior are 2.5C hotter than they were 50 yrs ago. Which is alarming no doubt. The deep temps in Superior remain a constant 4C all year round and that temp seems to be pretty stable.

We got lucky with the lake winds this week. That’s all.

People who think climate change is going to spare this region are overstating the case by a lot. That said, I guess being on defense in the water wars will be better than being on offense… maybe?

[–] shadowSprite 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been sad because I know I'll never be able to retire, no matter how hard I work, but now I'm realizing I can stop being sad about that because there will be no world or civilization around by the time I'm old enough to retire. The earth and humanity will still exist but I highly doubt things will still resemble what they do today. One way or another, it seems like things are going to drastically change. We can't sustain this for another 40 years

[–] cyberpunk007 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Time to metro 2033 it. Underground shelter time 😂

...

😭

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I recommend you to read Metro 2035 if you haven't yet. It really expands on the "shelter" aspect in a most devious way. No wonder the author isn't likes by the russian authorities.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

B..bu.bbut FOX news told me climate change was just a myth to make me gay and drive electric.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I've been having to start taking showers in the morning because I wake up sweating, and I've only been going outside when I absolutely have to. These triple digits are suffocating me. Like I know I should expect it due to the area I live in, but jesus christ, I can't wait until September.
I had someone earlier today tell me, "Don't worry! We'll be in the low 90s by the end of August!" I don't think that's any better T-T

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

🔥🔥🔥 🐶 🔥 🔥🔥

This is fine

[–] cyberpunk007 5 points 1 year ago

This. Earth is on fiiireeeee

[–] LexiconDexicon 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to weather.gov the record here was 102 in 1911...

[–] leinheart 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's certainly information...?

[–] LexiconDexicon 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is indeed

according to weather.gov it was 46 F on 7/28 here in 1946...that's the record low; 102 F was the record high on 7/28 in 1911

[–] RagingRobot 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love the weather here usually

[–] LexiconDexicon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not bad this year, more rain then we know what to do with. Been great for my garden

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

Care to send some my way? I've never seen the creeks and streams near my house this low before

[–] LexiconDexicon 2 points 1 year ago

Of course, I believe in sharing the wealth

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's been stifling in my area, too. 80F+ even late at night.
It's not supposed to cool down until this weekend, at best. It's scary to think this may be our new "state of affairs".

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