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[–] [email protected] 190 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hottest 36 days ever recorded...so far.

[–] AllonzeeLV 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (44 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!

[–] psud 20 points 1 year ago (3 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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Laughs and sobs simultaneously

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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 87 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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[–] Burn_The_Right 74 points 1 year ago (4 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.

[–] Cabrio 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] K3zi4 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] Cabrio 9 points 1 year 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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[–] schroedingershat 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't worry, they're gearing up for the "Climate change is real, but we just need to genocide more of the people with a <100kg/yr carbon footprint to fix it" chapter of dogshit rhetoric soon.

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[–] Arsenal4ever 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See you next summer.

This will be the coolest summer you ever experience.

[–] schroedingershat 20 points 1 year ago

Nah, that will be 2027. After the current El Nino oscillation but before the 50 degree summers start.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (4 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.

[–] doomer 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] schroedingershat 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Except that wasn't the only effect driving even the short term warming spike, masking the problem isn't fixing it, and the global north has an absolutely stellar track record of not giving a single fuck about the negative consequences of large scale engineering projects on the global south.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71jlEyIc1Pk for some commentary with nuance.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (8 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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (25 children)

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

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[–] Odd_so_Star_so_Odd 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] gornar 15 points 1 year ago

In Maui, some of us didn't survive :(

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

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

This is hell.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the movie 2012 comes to mind for whatever reason lol

[–] Cabrio 12 points 1 year ago

'Don' t look up' it's a depressing documentary dressed up as a dark comedy focusing on the incapacity of competence to sway the tide of general ignorance.

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[–] cazsiel 9 points 1 year ago

What's this "we survived?" dies

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meanwhile in germany: 13°C and endless rain.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Extremes getting more extreme.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Actually, some of us didnt

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