New record set for world's hottest day - as scientist warns milestone is a 'death sentence'

I used to think the more apparent and devastating outcomes of climate change were bound to hit long after I passed away, but now I'm not so sure. Local storms are becoming more and more serious with every passing year, each summer is less bearable than the last and the nearby forests are burning down for the 2nd summer in a row. We are definitely speedrunning this shit.

Most of the climate change predictions I've heard in my lifetime have talked about stuff that would happen by 2050 or 2100. It's always been bullshit, just a way of pushing out the consequences beyond a timeframe we can actually conceive of effectively. In reality this shit is already hitting us and accelerating hard.
- 2050 isn't really that far away. if you remember the year 2000, that's about how long.
- I’ve always thought those predictions were listed as “conservative” so the average is a lot closer but main media outlets pick the fastest out point in the bell curve so it’s not so doomed.
- 2050 is less than 3 decades away. I am sure I will be dead by then, but someone born this millennium should absolutely be alive still. What is infuriating is how little importance many younger people put on this issue.
It's amazing how the human race realize the shit it put itself in only when it is a fraction of a second from hitting the wall at high speed. It's like that every single time.
- Except the impact of climate change isn’t at all like a car crash. In a car crash everything stays fine until it suddenly goes to shit. Which I think is one of the issues why people have such a hard time dealing with it.
  
  Maybe we should think about it more like a sinking ship. We already got wet feet, which isn’t great but only the start and we really need to start shutting some bulk heads to keep the water from pouring in. And get some Wellies to deal with the water already in. But those won’t help if it keeps on rising.
I used to think the more apparent and devastating outcomes of climate change were bound to hit long after I passed away, but now I'm not so sure.

Too many people thinking like that is exactly why we are where we are today. And why it will continue to get worse.

Those of us who actually care about the world our children and grandchildren will have to live in have been trying to get some large scale action for decades, and we're tired of beating our heads against a brick wall.
If it doesn't hit in my lifetime it will be soon after, which is one the reasons I choose to not have kids.
- It's hitting now.
You constantly hear people say "oh, well we are in a warming cycle, so yeah, of course the Earth is going to get warmer".
These are people on the Right who have moved past the point of denying the problem of Climate Change and shifted their argument to admitting it is happening, but not admitting that it is man-made.
In some ways, they are right - the Earth's climate IS indeed shifting away from an Ice Age and moving toward a warming period, but what we humans have done is essentially thrown gasoline onto the already burning fire. We are accelerating the problem.
- And it's that acceleration that's the real problem. If this sort of warming happened over twenty or thirty thousand years, the ecosystem would have a chance to adapt and maybe humanity along with it. A couple hundred years? Nah mate, ecological collapse is going to happen and it'll probably take us with it.
- Yah and we were actually headed to a 100,000 year cooling cycle. So even their supposed science is wrong lol.
It's the way we tend to think of things as black and white. Someone decided to set some disaster increase threshold for the climate crisis events and called it a day. When it has always been about an increase in frequency and intensity of natural disasters and more, both of which we are already seeing.
We were warned. We were told it was a tipping point situation and things would seem ok until they aren't.

At least companies created incredible profits for a small number of shareholders for a short period of time. Totally worth it

That's a pretty weak take. Do you know how profitable it is to hire a short-gain CEO, pump his stock, sell before the inevitable crash and follow him to his next venture? Immensely so.

Think how great the world would be if everyone did that, jumping from sunken venture to sunken venture, burning through any and all good will, until the only thing that still has worth is the planet you're on, but even that is nothing because Mars is the next frontier you can sink our money into.

Think before you speak so poorly of those better than yourself
- It's a joke from a viral editorial cartoon. Don't be such an antagonistic jerk.
  
  edit: If you were attempting satire then I've fallen victim to Poe's law because there are lots of people who sincerely believe exactly what you wrote. Hopefully that isn't the case here, and if so I retract the jerk comment. If you do believe what you wrote, my comment stands.

Don't worry, I'm sure if we all keep doing the same thing this will sort itself out.

How about we go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.
- Sorry, the Winchester had to close due to Covid and anyway, we have a water shortage so no beer.
Just add a little nuclear winter and we're good. So there might be a little radioactive fallout, that's just a problem for the poors to deal with. Billionaires will be okay in their acre sized underground bunker clubs and that's what's important.
- "Global Warming did happen. But thankfully nuclear winter canceled it out."
  
  —Leela
- I know it's a joke but I actually looked into it and it turns out that nuclear winter only reduces temperature in the short term - the effects wear off and you'd just get hit with global warming abruptly when it wears off. I guess it could potentially buy some time to implement carbon capture or something.
Just bury our heads in the sand, then our torsos, then while you are at it, might as well just start living underground.
If by sort itself out you mean the planet wiping us out in a few generations, yeah
- Seriously the green rhetoric needs to change. The planet is going to be fine. Humans aren't.

Every person living in a democracy can make a difference with their VOTE. Only vote for people who have plans and intentions of bringing change. Vote at all levels, and vote whenever you get an opportunity. Ask what candidates in municipal elections think about the climate emergency. Organize. Talk to doubters. We can do this.

If voting worked, we would have solved this issue decades ago. You can vote for whomever you want, but at the end, no matter what they promise, they always end up doing nothing at all, because they are elected by using big oil donations.

Only a self-organized revolution can stop this madness, people in some nations are already blocking oil tankers and oil rigs. We can't win by only voting, you can vote for a day every few years, but we need to fight this everyday. Take turns blocking streets so no oil driven trucks and cars pass, only this will make an effect.
- The idea that nonviolent protest works has been the most harmful idea in history
- Both. We need both. Voting matters. Grassroots organization matters. Now is absolutely not the time to give up on democracy. It is also absolutely not the time to give up on mass organizing at the grassroots. Both, we need both.
- How the heck do you organize that as quickly and at as large of a scale as is needed for it to have a good chance of working out? ~Strawberry
Honestly voting now is to little too late. The Overton window isn't anywhere near the point of allowing actually meaningful change and the 4-5 year cycle of voting is too slow. If we really want to solve anything, the change should be systemic. Still, voting is important.
- Of course voting alone won't do it. We need a lot more. Holding billionaires to account will go a long way as well.
I think its a statistical loss if we rely on denocracy. The stupid far outnumber the rational.
- And the greedy outnumber us both. As long as these companies are lining politicians pockets, they will only act like they're trying.
- Relying on democracy without participating in democracy is the only way to fail democracy.
Sadly no, show me a political party that the us, china or India could realistically vote for that would substantially reduce emissions in the next 10 years
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/22/fact-sheet-president-biden-sets-2030-greenhouse-gas-pollution-reduction-target-aimed-at-creating-good-paying-union-jobs-and-securing-u-s-leadership-on-clean-energy-technologies/
Individual action also works. Its pretty easy to get information about what you can do and show those less inclined that it's not hell to live on the other side. The IPCC has that part as well if anyone is looking for the impact their changes can have: https://news.sky.com/story/climate-change-what-does-the-ipcc-mean-by-choice-architecture-and-can-it-change-our-behaviour-12582739
- Great link. Thank you!
Absolute rubbish. People believing that their vote will bring change ensures climate disaster. The system is rigged and if you agree to participate in the system you are part of the problem. Thinking voting can have any meaningful impact highlights that you are unaware of how serious the situation is.
- Just want to join your downvotes by backing you up and saying you are right. Belief in the system and that voting is the answer is downright absurd at this point.
Unfortunately, voting doesn't help. Besides there being basically no parties with any real strong climate policies, when you vote a decent sounding one in, they just go back on their promises anyway.

And even IF we vote in a party that truly brings about radical and positive climate change policies, that's just our one country, a drop in the ocean. The rest of the planet would still drag us down with them, even in that wildly positive scenario.

I don't mean to be a doomsayer, I just don't see a way out, I wish I did. Voting certainly doesn't solve our problems, climate change or otherwise. The rich ruling class will do whatever they want, regardless.
- You're incorrect. Giving up isn't an option.

in other news my ultra conservative parents installed solar panels on their house, and for over a month now, they've been generating more electricity than they can use, feeding back into the system their surplus. when real world results are such, we can start using these incidents as examples of why it's not only the morally correct thing to do (combat climate change and save our species), but also the economically savvy thing to do.

who knows what will be the final straw that breaks their stubbornness.

Shit my ultra conservative parents literally left Arizona because it just kept getting hotter every season. Yet they continue to deny climate change is manmade and a real threat to the global ecology.

Gotta love the pentecostals "it's all just the end times!" Oh yeah, like it was when Paul wrote his letters, and like it was in the 1840's when the millerites did their "math," and like in the other dozen predictions since then that have all not come to pass.

I don't know how many thousands of years can be the "last days" but something tells me it's just whenever an individual who believes in it is currently living.
You mean they had a financial incentive to partake?

Your example just shows how economics incentives are designed to work, but that money does come from somewhere.

I'd love to get solar but it's not economically viable to encur 20k expenses that will need over twenty years to pay off when that money can be used elsewhere

If someone gave me a Tesla I'd love it but I really don't have the cash to get a car right now and even if I did the price of teslas and most electrics are so high it's just not an option.

People think he solution here is to remove cheaper options but that won't work it will just keep people holding on to beaters far longer.

If the economics make sense to change people will change but trying to shake people or force people to make economically disadvantage choices will never work long term

My wife got a used Prius for 13K or 17k a couple years ago, it'll be more expensive now I believe, but the thing is most people don't have 13k or 17k to spend on a car. If people can't scrape together 500 dollars from their savings in an emergency, they aren't going to be able to get a hybrid or electric car for a very long time, and all legislation that tries to push people in that direction benefits the rich, and penalizes the poor when they remove options the poor can afford.
- Just a heads up, most home solar installations are designed to pay for themselves in 7 to 9 years. But it does depend on net metering in your area, and whether you install a battery pack.
If they live in the Midwest you could even point to the drop in solar production from the smoke as an immediate negative economic effect
For me it was a 20 year ROI and I would have had to ask my neighbors to take trees down. I don't think I'll be here for that long. And when the average joe is getting poorer and poorer it's harder to afford. This is the problem.
- Definitely dont chop down the trees. Also I heard there's payment plans for solar panels
- Hey don’t worry though, that average joe’s poorness has nothing to do with all the money printed in the last few years.
You don't have to argue with your parents. It seems like the advancement of technology is naturally taking care of the issue.
- Words of wisdom. The most efficient solution will speak for itself. People don't like wasting time, effort, or money.
Liberals talk shit while “ultra conservatives” quietly solve the problem using their own resources? What world is this?
- Being wealthy enough to invest in a long-term savings is the only real factor in this decision lol

Im just glad it's shaping up to be so apocalyptic that there'll be no safe haven for the owner class that caused it. Let them burn with the peasants they decimated for profit.

And that's why the billionaires are investing in spaceships... Seriously though, they are really buying "doomsday" properties to ride it out.
- It seems pathetic to me that people are so obsessed with self-centered “survival” at any cost. I don’t want to live in a bunker or a ruined world, and I couldn’t possibly care less about “my lineage” or genetic material or whatever.
- Love that they are spending billions on bunkers to "ride it out", when the moment they need to use the bunker, there is nothing to ride out, we are not coming back to the surface in the next few lifetimes if ever.
- That explains a lot with billionaire space race.
The COVID pandemic makes me their plan is to turn New Zealand into a bunker nation and leave us all to die.
- Like, just the billionaires on an island? Who will do all the labor required to maintain their lifestyle? Because they sure as he'll aren't. To paraphrase Pratchett, it takes a hundred people standing in the mud to keep one person with their head in the clouds.
- I think that if they manage to fuck over the whole world, there is no amount of money and bunkers that can save them from the angry mob
- Eh, ring of fire will get them
- Too bad the security they will hire to keep their bunkers safe will quickly figure out that the money they are being paid isn't worth anything any more... they will probably point us over to the air vents when we show up with the cement trucks.
The ones responsible will be gone by the time the worst effects will be felt. Sins of the father?
- Not the descendants that accepted and kept their family's blood money without a second thought. The moment you, as an autonomous adult, choose to accept the power and wealth reaped through human misery, you accept the legacy of blood that came with it.
  
  Anyone can walk away from blood money, or use ALL that blood money solely to provide restitution to the populations exploitated to obtain it. It doesn't happen though, because human beings as a rule are the fucking worst. Most people, the fuckees, fantasize about becoming the oligarch fuckers, instead of dreaming of ending their oppression and restructuring society to prohibit amoral levels of wealth/power accumulation. Most humans, given power/wealth, would use their own suffering as an excuse to propagate more suffering.
- And this is true
- Honestly one of the reasons that longevity treatments could actually turn out to be a good thing.
  
  All of a sudden a bunch of rich fucks who were sooo sure that climate change wouldn't effect them but rather their great great grandkids have a good reason to pour a lot of money into the problem so they don't die of heat or starvation at the young age of 150 when they could have lived 200? 300? Who knows, at a certain point you get a longevity tech run away effect.

What the heck? I thought this was supposed to be fixed by all of us using paper straws and driving hybrids?

Well in reality there isn't much we can do as normal folk to reverse or slow down the impending doom of global warming.

It's all in the hands of the big corporations that we all know are the biggest contributors, to the whole debacle. They are not going to change a damn thing because is all about the extreme profiteering.
- Yes and no, I think. Obviously one single person can't make a tangible difference all by themselves, but to stop the thought process there does a massive disservice to the importance of collective action. It doesn't take all that many people to affect change, both politically and culturally. Join CCL (US focus here), vote and advocate for carbon fee and dividend and other beneficial policies, buy less shit you don't need, ride a bike if you can, and if you have the means electrify your home/vehicle and support more ethical companies. Basically, don't blame BP if you're putting 20 gallons of their shit in your 4runner every week so you can commute to an office job with a permanent rooftop tent and a "save our winters" sticker on the back (yes I live in the front range). You're not responsible for all of humanity, but you are responsible for your own actions when you have the means to choose a less carbon intensive option.
- This
- If their consumers aren’t setting a good example then why should they? They don’t care as long as we don’t.
I think the straw thing is much more about trash than it is about combating climate change. Plastic getting into the eco system and building up in landfills is a big problem too, but it's a different and also important problem.
I will never understand how anyone bought into the paper straw bullshit keeping plastic out of the ocean. It's just so fucking ludicrous. Sure, plastic straws sit in our land fills for 500 years, but they have leach fields and containment ponds and multiple layers of contamination control.

Meanwhile there are entire fleets of fishing vessels, streaming thousands of miles of plastic fishing net through the ocean, every single day.

But yeah, it's the fucking McDonalds drinking straws that are the problem...
- Action should be taken on all fronts, and I would argue that big companies should be made to take action before squeezing households into it. The opposite is happening unfortunately. I feel guilt every time I do the dishes, while the clothing industry is overusing and polluting everyone's water. That won't stop me from making the effort, but we need to burn down some parliaments if we are ever to see big corps react.
- I see it as a first and necessary step. Remember the CFCs in deodorants and the effect of banning them?
- Been looking for this big picture... has anyone seen it?
- Oh it’s easy. They bought into it because straws are used in public so a paper straw becomes an opportunity to virtue signal.
Paper straws? lol Recycling Aluminum? whoa babyyyyy
No that just helps us from setting even more new records 40 years from now.
No no no, you don’t understand. Now you have to stop eating meat and they need your permission to block out the sun

See below for proof
- Unironically, yes we really should eat much less meat and use more renewables sources of energy (like blocking out the sun with solar panels)
- I wanted them to start that project a decade ago... It's going to be over the pole to mimic the ice cap effect.

Lets build a giant air conditioner to keep the global warming out

Or, this will sound crazy but hear me out, we put a giant ice cube in the ocean.
- Oh, like the one Daddy puts in his drink when he gets home from work!
  
  ... and then he gets mad.
- That's a great idea. We could get them from a local comet, I'm sure it would never run out.
- Relevant Futurama what if: https://what-if.xkcd.com/162/
Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors

Nah I think it is fine haha it is just summer really hot out don't worry about it /s

Whenever someone mentions the future a few decades from now as a time frame for doing things I usually just say ‘well in 2050 we’ll be killing each other for water and air conditioning so I don’t think it’s ( whatever they’re talking about ) going to matter so much’.

and I'm just here trying to level up my fishing, ffs
- In grinding gardening.
Would you like to bet some money on this prediction?
- Nah but I’ll bet you a few litres of drinking water payable in 2050.

Shit's depressing.

Yeah, I feel you. Usually I play the misanthrope card to mask my feelings. But it's not working anymore. I can't even joke about this shit.

I just try to enjoy each year as the coldest year I'll get for the rest of my life.

Heat index of 112F where I am at. FML.

At 5am it was already 70F. I live in Pennsylvania. That shit is wild.
It was 90 in my house when I went to bed last night at 11pm (no AC)

We're gonna blow right past it.

Billions will die.

It's not even all about the climate though; it is human greed and cruelty that will kill the most: the haves butchering and purging the have-nots.

You are not a "have".

For all intents and purposes, NONE of us who would actually be here, on Lemmy, in this comment thread, able to be reading this, are a "have".

Unless your personal assistant's butler's niece's boyfriend is sharing this with you, you're probably just as fucked as he, she, and they are.

This is a bit unhinged but it is really quite correct.
- It's unhinged to be concerned about what's going to happen when civil society breaks down due to climate change. It will happen eventually, we just don't really know when.

Unironically me this morning: "HOLY BLEEP IM ABOUT TO FREEZE TO DEATH HERE!"

Lemmy: "hi today is the hottest day on earth lmao"

Me: "what"

Unfortunately climate change makes things more turbulent and extreme on both ends of the spectrum.
- That's one thing that always pisses me off "Haha, no climate change, see snowball".
  
  The only reason Chicagoians have heard the term "Polar vortex" is because the instability is driving arctic air down our way.
  
  Add to that what I swear looks like a hurricane trying to form over Lake Michigan ever couple months, and I'm starting to think the midwest isn't the stable haven I had hoped it would be.

It's hard to be optimistic, or at least determined, about the future when the prospect is bleak. Climate change is getting worse and here we are just pretending it is business as always.

Love that 2 days later the headline is still true 😂, but also it’s sad

Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, warned more records could be broken this year, due to an increase in emissions and El Nino.

Okay, I know this isn't the point of the article, but this guy's name is cool as hell and would fit perfectly as the leader of a band of survivors once the climate change apocalypse actually hits.

Now, that said, I would prefer that it didn't. Every other form of existential dread I can rationalize away, but this feels inexorable.

I googled him and his headshot is perfect.

I'd 100% follow Zeke Hausdather in an apocalypse.

Honestly I am a little thankful to hear that the previous record was set in 2016 and not 2022.

isn't that just the most recent el nino year?
Same, that was a slight glimmer of hope in the pile of shit

There's a new record for coldest or hottest day like every year, damn.

Where I live, if you factor in windchill and humidex, we have an ~80°C swing in tenperature. Its crazy.

Not only do I live where the air hurts my face, but now I got to deal with being constantly sweaty for ~3 months of the year.
- You know, I'd never thought of it that way, but same. I had to buy an AC for the first time a couple years ago.
  
  What gets me is that like, where I live, we used to wonder if we'd be seeing a white Halloween. Now we're lucky for a white Christmas.
- Shiet, i'm sorry for that. Even I, that lives in a pretty mild place (normal summer not above 35c and normal winter not below like 10c), had summer in april nd that shit went up to 38c this year. The changes are definetely being felt lol.
- Chicago?

So if this milestone is a death sentence, does that mean it’s time to give up?

These temperatures will kill people. They will cause crop failures. The death, hunger, and hardship will cause people to leave their homes to come to more habitable regions.

But there will still be habitable regions for generations still to come. A lot has been lost, and more will be before we fix what we broke, but plenty can still be saved as long as we don't just give up
- So would you say morale is a really important factor in our global warming response?
  
  Maybe these scientists should stop talking about hopelessness and death sentences and start talking about challenges and hardship.
- So it’s inaccurate to say that it’s a death sentence?
  
  I wonder if there’s any loss of trust that results from saying false things?
You haven't?
- As long as I know how to love I know I’ll stay alive.
  
  Hell no I haven’t lost hope. But I’ve heard from climate scientists on this who assure me that this isn’t a civilization killer.
  
  Nuclear war could be, as could AI. But global warming isn’t a matter of the survival of the civilization. It’s a matter of completely survivable hardship.
We should give up hope that things are going to be fine and it's all going to work out paintlessly.

That isn't necessarily the same as giving up hope that we'll survive and adapt.
- How do we do that? How do we prevent further damage to the environment by fossil fuel companies and such? It doesn't feel like that's feasible... ~Strawberry
- I mean, the term “death sentence” does imply a lack of survival.
You'll start to get a taste of how hell really is.
if you haven't, yet, please share your thoughts--we could use your optimism!
- If you want some optimism, read How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place by Bjorn Lomburg.

was fucking hot in western WA yesterday, my first year gardening and have had some plants bolt :(

edit: I shouldn't have used the term bolt cause even I didn't know what that meant before this season, it just means that a lot of my plants flowered due to stress from the heat, which often makes things like kale bitter, or spinach tough. In my case it was bok choy, and just now cilantro, but that was probably more from me planting late.

Just curious, by 'bolt', did you mean the slang to run away quickly, or does that have a different meaning in planting and vegetation?

Edit: thank you all for the replies.
- It’s where something intended to grow slow and low as a leafy vegetable such as lettuce or cilantro stops growing leaves and sends up a tall central stalk for flowers and seeds. It kinda ruins the intended growth effect if it happens too early.
- I believe it means when a plant suddenly flowers. Flowering changes the flavor and texture of many herbs and greens, such as chard or basil.
- It means they go to flower/seed really fast
- In addition to what the other said, the leaves also get tough and bitter. Our first crop of lettuce went this way, now I'm doing a batch indoors since it's still too hot.
The smoke from 4th of July fireworks and from the usual summer wildfires has not been helping whatsoever over in WA
- ya no kidding, I like to think I'm generally pretty tolerant of the fireworks, but I just moved and the neighborhoods around me apparently really felt the need to "protest" the firework ban. At least three fires reported, awesome protest!

New record so far. Damn, it’s just going to get worse isn’t it.

The 4th of July is so hot right now.

World record lets goooo!

This is fine dumpster

That's 2 degrees warmer than the "International Standard Atmosphere," which is used in the aerospace industry.

Anyone have any idea how long before we actually all burn up?

can't wait

Something we do around here is just keep the bad news light.

Any significant good news? I feel like that would be more helpful. ~Strawberry

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKK..

It's been downright cold in Denver. We've had rain almost every day for the past few weeks and total rainfall has exceeded that of Seattle this year. Our heater has been coming on and we've barely had to use AC. Today it's overcast and about 70 again.

AC was running nonstop

funny how 50 years ago everyone was worried we were plunging back into an ice age...

Those concerns were based on bad science promoted by the media. There was no scientific consensus of risk of ice age.

https://journals.ametsoc.org/configurable/content/journals$002fbams$002f89$002f9$002f2008bams2370_1.xml?t:ac=journals%24002fbams%24002f89%24002f9%24002f2008bams2370_1.xml
Nuclear winter probably shouldn't be funny, but it does cancel out global warming according to Futurama.
- We should start harvesting ice from Halley's comet, it's the best source of ice without bugs in it.
This is a phony bullshit talking point. The possibility of a cooling climate was briefly raised and entertained in mainstream media for about a year in the 1970s. It was never even remotely a scientific consensus view. Contrast that with human caused warming which has been settled science for decades. There is no comparison. As I said, it's a bullshit talking point.

Honestly, I'm not sure if I'd want to bring a child into this kind of future. I'm not even sure how long I'll last in this future.

You know how they talk about the Fermi Paradox, and the Great Filter? This might be it. We made it past nukes (for now), we may or may not make it past misaligned AI... but I'm not sure we can survive this.

It makes it difficult to get in the mindset of planning for one's financial future. Retirement savings? Will I even live long enough to see those?

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions

If you ever drove a car, or used electricity, you did this.

The article doesn't make it clear since when average global temperature was being captured and calculated. If that statistic has been calculated for decades, and more data points are added especially closer to the equator how is the average affected over time?

If it was hotter in the Roman period than it is now, how did those people cope with the crazy temps?

The same way as we do, who could cover managed and who was forced on the streets died.

I'm sure this catastrophizing is the best way to get society to act. It reads almost like there is no hope. If there is no hope, why bother.

That's well and all, except, it is catastrophic.
If we don't make changes, it is catastrophic.

Saying the ship you're on is taking in water and likely going to sink, is still a very important piece of information to communicate, even if nobody has a bilge pump on hand.

Some people are ignoring the evidence of water pouring into the holds of our ship and screaming that we're not sinking, and that's causing a lot of confusion. Confusion that's keeping us from coordinating properly on how best to keep the ship afloat.

Even if we don't manage to save the ship, keeping it floating as long as possible gives us more opportunities to be rescued.

meanwhile in North Wales (UK) it was a piss poor 16° all day!

i'm so glad that it's not my responsibility to fix this mess.

How the heck is it the hottest day if its nice out today

It's global average temps, not every area will be as hot as it's ever been recently.
Yeah I know, my ice cubes are barely melting
- Where do you live so I can live there and not be dying

Stop consuming animals!!! If you are consuming animals, YOU FUCKING DID THIS. I know, it's not enough that animals experience suffering just like you do, but it's in your own fucking self interests. It not only kills other people, it's killing you even faster.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions I mean, if you've driven a car, or used a fridge, you did this. We're all playing our part.
- i guess the takeaway here is that we all suck
How do you manage to be wrong, even when you’re right?