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The hottest 14 days ever recorded are the last 2 weeks

BrainWorms @lemm.ee

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Man, I'm so glad this global warming thing is leftist propaganda or I'd really be freaking out right now.
- Luckily, we can choose to reject reality and believe whatever makes us feel better.
  I feel best believing the biosphere is gonna force humanity to “find out” for the last century of fuckin around with a recklessly unplanned terraform.
  
  Love how the collective of humanity needs to find out because the richest few fucked around.
  
  Thanks to denial, I'm immortal!
- My uber driver said that global warming is actually true but have literally nothing about human influence.
  Some years ago these persons were saying that global warming was a hoax, now that only the human influence is a hoax.
  
  I always hated that argument from people.
  Even if they're right — which we all know they are not — it wouldn't matter. Climate change is going to devastate human life if we do nothing. If, somehow, the source of the warming wasn't human-caused, we'd still need to find a way to counteract it. It's not our fault doesn't prevent it from being our problem.
  
  Ahhh, yes. The conservative backpedalling.
  It's not happening. It's happening but it's all cyclical. It's not cyclical this time but it's not our fault. It's our fault but global warming is good ackshually. Global warming is bad but there's nothing we can do about it. We could do something about it but it's too expensive/late. Maybe it's not too expensive but THE CHINESE!
  
  Had a argument with a person on YouTube, he thought that increased CO2 in the atmosphere would be beneficial. It would help plants grow better!
  Also that humans was not behind it.
  
  The sad thing is we're supposed to be in a ice age. The plant is further away from the sun about the same plane since the last ice age.
  
  It's crazy how often I find this fitting: The Four Stage Strategy. At least it gives me a smile now and then.
  
  I've found a clever way to counter those folks is to say, "you might be right, and as the apex species it's our moral obligation to seize control and protect the natural order of things for as long as we are able to slow the coming of hell on earth. Just like our right to shoot guns. Yee haw."
- What I hear some acquaintances say is like "who cares, I'll go to the beach, turn the AC on, what's the big deal" .
  As if the floods we had in Italy this year, or the wild fires, or the storms, or the draughts, or the Alps without snow, the glaciers disappeared, the sea turned green, the invasion of jellyfish weren't connected.
  Some people, most people, are just too fucking stupid.
  
  Don't forget crops. You can't eat heat.
  
  Ask them if they'll be at the beach when it's 55c out and all the crops have died.
  
  To be fair, I think both sides blow it out of proportion and that can stifle discussion. It won't be the "end of the world" where everyone will die, but we will have the "end of the world" as we know it.
  I think one of the main points that need to be stressed to the kind of people in your example would be droughts.
  Droughts will continue to get worse and will affect everyone. With a bad enough drought, we won't be able to feed entire cities. And that's when things really start to fall apart.
  
  Ribbit
- If you don’t choose to believe in it, it can’t hurt you. That’s verified fact
  
  Phew, that's a load off my mind.

I used to be subbed to /r/collapse. I see world news is covering that for me.
- Me too but lately I feel like I don't miss it too much. It's all around us now. You either see it, or you're an asshole.
- Yhe they do think of everything
- Has been in earnest since about 2014 by my watch
- Well, there's !fte@sopuli.xyz
- I think a lot of them also did come over here. No doubt about it, daily records are being broken but sharing without any context feels very on brand for that ole gang.

- How long have they been recording? I assume there's no records from all that long ago. Being as how humans, and measurement especially are a fairly new thing.
  
  Per NASA, accurate global readings go back to 1880 and historical localized temperatures go back to the 1650s
  
  Here is a graphic to help visualize the unprecedented rate of temp change. Data source for temperature is cited and likely errors are explained. https://xkcd.com/1732/

But I have been recycling like they asked me too. Who's not doing their part? Oh wait ....
- Recycling metals is good, especially aluminum. Recycling glass? Not bad. Recycling plastic? That is literally something the oil industry forced by having their resin codes look almost exactly like the recycling symbol. People understandingly confused the resin codes to mean it was recyclable and flooded recycling centers with plastic. So instead of throwing it in the garbage and telling people plastic is not recyclable, they did what they could to recycle it. Sorting and cleaning was a pain in the ass and made it not worth it...in the US. China was happy to accept it for a couple decades until a few years ago. Now most recycling centers only accept plastic with a reason code of 1 or 2. But people do not really check the number on the symbol. A lot of it is 5 which is not recyclable in the vast majority of places but people still toss that into recycling because they think it has the recycling symbol on it. So recycling centers have to sort that shit out and send it to the landfill. It is a massive waste of resources that the oil companies are fine with since people think they are doing their part.
  Recycling in general though was not supposed to be a fix for climate change. While recycling things like aluminum is significantly more energy efficient than mining, the bigger issue there is the mine itself.
  
  Recycling plastic is more so a lie fed by the plastic manufacturers.
- Recycling does not have any impact on climate change and was never suggested to have any impact on climate change
  
  I think that was the joke....
  
  So why have I been wasting my time?!? Captain planet is an asshole
- I hate it here.
- In general I feel like no one really takes a holistic view of this and everyone just points fingers. If indeed all the models are correct and human-produced CO2 is causing global warming, it's not just "corporations" or "the rich" or just individuals, it's the whole of the machine of humanity hacking away at the tree branch they're sitting on, and we need to radically shift our energy production to eliminate greenhouse gas externalities, and ideally figure out, what's it called, CO2 sequestration or whatever, to bring it back to normal.
  And to the degree we can't shift immediately, we shouldn't just be burning fossil fuels towards ends we don't even need, like dumb luxury goods or just driving in circles. It does come down to all of us as individuals - some of us have more power than others (yeah, more or less proportionally to wealth), but the buck has to stop somewhere.
  
  Of course it is, but consumers generally don't make the decisions about resource procurement and manufacturing. They only drive the demand. However, demand is also heavily shaped by both the cultural zeitgeist as well as marketing, which is in turn funded by corporations.
  So in effect, it all comes down to corporations.
  
  "In general I feel like no one really takes a holistic view of this and everyone just points fingers."
  That's odd. Why do you think you feel that way?
  
  Which should be our government. But we're too busy trying to prevent fascism and climate change denial as a whole to affect how much we're doing about climate change.
  We need bigger changes now. For instance, we need to take aggressive military action against anyone burning bunker fuel on the ocean, and that needs to happen soon.

We are so fucked. And this is only the beginning.

Yeah, sad thing is we are already signed up for the next 20 years, as in even if we stopped emitting everything tomorrow, we would still have +2°C in 20 years...
And how realistic is stopping everything tomorow?
+3°C.. we would need to have a new coronavirus crisis every years, not just a new one, but stack them on top, in terms of emissions. Ofc you can't have more then one global confinement at a time (doesn't make sense to double confine someone) so that wouldn't even work.
We. Are. Fucked.
- We aren't locked in for the next twenty years, only the next ten years.
  We could build a thousand RBMK like nuclear reactors in a decade and then suck out 50 ppm of CO2 out of the atmosphere in another decade.
  Would cost $500B to $1T or so.
  We just don't really think global warming is serious enough to warrant an action plan at the scale of the Manhattan project, Apollo program or Messmer plan.
  
  We're not locked in for the next 20 years. Not for the next 10.
  The carbon in the atmosphere is going to be there for the next millenium and the temperature won't level out till the 2100s if we stopped all carbon emission right this second.
  Furthermore, if we did stop all emissions right now, the planet would get 0.5-1.5 °C hotter within a year or two due to the end of the aerosol pollution cooling effect that's been cutting the effects of carbon induced climate change in half this whole time.
  This year is so hot because they put limitations on sulfur emissions from shipping boats in the Pacific. Those emissions were cooling the atmosphere, but the aerosol emissions (which that sulfur is one of) only last in the atmosphere for about 2 weeks before they're rained out of the air.
  We're fucked.
  
  Removing CO2 from the atmosphere is a speculative technology at the moment.
  Like, yes, we "can" do it, if you ignore all the materials and energy needed to perform that process. And that's just in theory, in practice its bound to be far more difficult.
  No matter how you put it, it's easier to just... Not release the pollution in the first place. If it's too difficult to stop polluting, it will certainly be too difficult to remove that pollution that has been already released. Entropy and all that.
  Removing CO2 from the atmosphere is something we should only really start thinking about when the world already runs nearly entirely cleanly.
- I've started telling people to prepare for the Mad Max times. Yeah it's hyperbole, but it actually makes them pause for half a second.
  What's disturbing is the gleam in some alt-right people's eyes.
- I think that there need to be a specific tipping point/trigger when everyone and their mother direct funding towards fixing the problem.until then the majority of people won't simply care
  
  I'm genuinely curious at this point if that point even exists. Like, I've had legitimate conversations with multiple people and i've asked them "what would need to happen for you to believe in human's causing climate change?" The answer is generally something along the lines of "I'm not sure it's even possible for humans to have that big of an effect on the earth."
  I would imagine there are tons of people out there who think the same, people with VERY deep pockets and in equally powerful positions that would never change course on their money making machines. Literally the only way I see substantial change happening is if it becomes incredibly profitable.
  
  The rich and powerful have to see very direct problems that affect them. Kind of like when social conservative politicians take an anti-LGBT position, then turns out their kid is trans, so then they pivot to being pro-LGBT in rhetoric so they can keep talking to their kid.

Someone at work said “If climate change is real, then why don’t rich people sell their beach properties?”
And before you ask, yes they are a boomer.
- “Sell their houses to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?”
  (reference at 4m21s) (piped.video link)
  Edit: fixed link
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?t=4m21s
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  This guys vid on vaccines blew my mind
  
  The phrasing made me think it was a Some More News reference and I’m pleasantly surprised to have something new to check out - thanks!
- But they actually are... Down in Miami, wealthy people are fleeing the beachfront property and buying up housing where all the poor people live, which also happens to be further from the beach. There have been a number of documentaries and news segments on this trend which you can easily find on YouTube.
  
  Eh, reality has a liberal bias.
  
  Oh it doesn't matter. They're just repeating the same old tired debunked points from other bigots that also think climate change is a scam. Nothing will ever convince these types of people.

Jokes aside, this is very concerning. And sad. Humanity will never be able to pull on one string.
- Nice one

Considering here in Winnipeg, Canada, where it reaches -35C or even colder, it was pretty wild having weeks on end of +30C to even +39C temperatures, and so soon into our summer.
I never want to complain about the heat when we have snow for 7 months, but that was ridiculous.
- Here in Montreal we have the hottest muggiest summers and the brutalest freezing cold winters. It makes me want to move to the maritimes.
  
  I'd have to research if your weather is more extreme than ours or not.
  I've yet to visit the Maritimes. It's on my wishlist.
- The upper Midwest really has some of the worst weather in North America. Get schlonged by freezing temps and snow for 6 months followed by heat for another 6 months.
- Hi Winnipeg. Come join us in !winnipeg@lemmy.ca -- it's in need of an infusion of complaints about the weather ;)
  
  I think the link to communities needs to be !c/winnipeg@lemmy.ca
  The way yours is written makes causes my app to search for a user instead of a community.
  Edit: Nevermind, that format also didnt work, sorry :(
  
  I already subscribed there. Thanks!
- I genuinely don't understand, no disrespect intended but why do you remain there? Could you not just move south to a warmer climate? -39c just sounds uninhabitable.
  
  Moving south to a warmer climate usually means either significantly warmer summers or a significantly higher cost of living. Or both.
  Yeah it sucks dealing with extreme cold occasionally and long winters, but it’s a lot better than living in the south where it’s unbearably hot and humid for 8 months of the year. And any place with a temperate climate such as the Pacific coast is prohibitively expensive.
  
  It's not that bad. You just put on more clothes
  
  I will gladly, cheerfully, trade any 39c day for a -39c day. Cold is easily manageable with more / better clothes. Even when dressed for the heat, it still saps your energy like crazy and makes you feel like shit in the process.
- We had one snow storm in Connecticut last year and could skate on the ponds for only a couple of days. I'm surprised that our tick season wasn't as bad as it was.
- You must have a crazy assortment of clothing fit for both of those two extremities :D

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are!
Carlin
- Pack your shit, folks. We're going away!
  
  It's unlikely I will need shit where I'm going

Hottest 14 days ever recorded so far…
- Like many people, I too came here to say this!

Global warming having a giant effect now.
- My father in law is in complete denial. According to him they moved all the measurement equipment so that it favours "the Agenda" and gives wrong readings. He also claimes CO2 isnt a greenhouse gas. Sigh...
  
  What makes people become that dumb?
  
  What like they moved the sensors closer to the sun?

the a.c. broke in my apartment wish me luck guys
- You can put damp towels in the freezer and wear them around your neck. My AC broke in August once and I lived on the third floor.
  
  THANK YOU!! that's such a good idea
- f
- As European where AC are not common: Close all windows and window shutters during the day. And don't use the oven.
  
  It's wise to have a small toaster oven if you absolutely need to cook something. They preheat fast and obviously put off less heat than a full oven. I don't really bother with the oven much these days as it's getting over 110 here at the moment. Also cook after the sun sets
- Thank fuck for that. Now if we can only turn off all the other a.c. as well, we'd have made a start!
  Edit: this was a joke, but wow, you Americans are really defensive about your AC. I live in the UK and the rare times it gets very hot we are miserable because our building almost never have AC, and are built to retain heat. So I do see how much more comfortable it makes you.
  Someone, who was trying to argue in favour of AC, said it uses 10% of all electricity globally. Thats insane! I guess we actually do need to turn it all off.
  
  Well, you can't so celebrating one poor guy's AC going out in a heatwave is kind of a dick move, besides, it's not AC in it of itself that is causing global warming, i'd bet that if we ran all AC on solar we'd still be fucked.
  Also it's businesses cooling (empty) offices that are the bulk of the % of AC watt hours used.
  
  AC uses about 10% of all electricity globally. However, that's electricity, not energy. If you include fossil fuels burned in engines in the energy equation, it drops to closer to 1.5%. There are bigger fish to fry.
  Numbers: global energy production (all sources): ~650 EJ (exajoules). Total electricity consumption is ~23000 TWh -- about 85 EJ.
  
  Do you know how many people literally die every summer because they don't have AC (let alone simply suffer)? AC is becoming a growing necessity.
  Besides, AC is pretty small game compared to the big polluters.
  
  Do you live outside? Under a liquid cooled tree? In a temperate zone? Never used electricity in your life?

Pair this with the Atlantic Ocean temperatures this year and you can anticipate an enormous, global shortage of food.
How does a city if 1 Million, or more, feed itself when all surrounding regions can’t grow food?
We’re fucked, so fucked.
- We have the technology for indoor skyscraper style farming.
  
  Do you have any sources? I doubt we would see similar economies of scale compared to current farming.

This absolutely terrifies me, especially since so many people deny climate change. What is it going to be like in 5-10 years?
- In the next 5-10 years, we may see mass migrations begin as a few locations become too hot to bear, and corrupt religious authorities seeking power will pin the more hostile climate on recent social changes rather than the actual immorality of corporate greed. This sets the stage for tensions over land and resources to escalate into wars and civil violence in later years.
  There is no better time for action than now! Climate Changemakers is a low-commitment way to get involved, if you're in America.

Next year is going to be worse. And the year after that even more so. And it will continue like that for decades, probably centuries.
Even if I could tolerate dumbasses who don't think CO2 emissions (and destruction of multiple natural CO2 sinks) are the driver of all this, it's still infuriating that they don't seem even concerned that the world is getting hotter and more deadly and are focused on some nonsense topics that no one in their right mind would give that much of a shit about.
- It's not just CO2, though. For example, SF6 is regulated under the Kyoto agreement and a much more potent greenhouse gas. SF6 is used extensively in high voltage electrical switchgear, simply to keep the size down by having busbars closer together. There's so much of it out there that the small fraction that leaks is very significant. SF6 takes ~20 years to get from the ground and up into the upper atmosphere. Its use has been and continues to grow exponentially across the globe.
  
  Very interesting! Also methane, of course. Should have shorthanded to GHG.

I recall that 5-6 years ago, temperatures around 30 Celsius were outrageous, unprecedented and unbearable here in Central Europe. Now, we're seeing stuff like 40 degrees and we don't even whine about it anymore.
- 40 was stupidly high and rare and now it's still stupidly high but less rare and people very much still complain about it, 30 wasn't super rare my entire life and i still complain about anything over 25 lol.
  Local weather doesn't mean much anyway, hottest 2 weeks on earth and where I live has been mostly pretty chill with 2 days that were actually hot (and those still only went to like 31). Pretty much the way i remember summer commonly being a while ago.
  And just to be clear i am in no way trying to pretend climate change isn't real, it's real and we're all royally fucked, but 30° really isn't anything new and also saying "it was 40 degrees for a week" on its own doesn't really say more than "global warming can't be real it was -10 last week".
  
  I agree with you in spirit, but that last sentence is pushing it.
  I get the whole weather vs climate thing, but this heat is going past that. It's pretty difficult to not attribute this historically unprecedented heat wave directly to climate change.
  
  Yes we have to look at accumulated data, not any particular data point or weather event. And so there will always be visceral rejections based on anecdotal experience which just feels more relevant than the actually-relevant data.
- What? We had way more than one 30°C day per Year in Germany, in the 90s. I remember these days quite fondly, because we've had a really great swimming bath.
- What are you talking about?! In Poland it was quite usuall to get >30 deg for few weeks during summer. Actually last few years are colder than they were around 2010-2015 at least where I live. Climate is changing, that's it. Calling it global warming is stupid.
  
  Calling it global warming isn't stupid, the globe is warming. It doesn't mean "everywhere is warming" but "the global average is warming".

I feel like we’re watching zombies slowly lurching towards us, but there’s people pretending it’s totally normal and nothing to worry about.
- And meanwhile a sizeable portion of the people is yelling that the zombie apocalypse is actually a good thing.
- we’re watching zombies slowly lurching towards us, but there’s people pretending it’s totally normal and nothing to worry about.
  If 2020 Gave Us Zombies Instead Of A Pandemic. It was pretty depressing in realizing how easy we could solve crises, but we can't, since some politicians prefer talking points, and too many sheep happily follow. And measures against the pandemic were just a temporary inconvenience, while the climate crisis seems to be here to stay, growing stronger every day.
  
  Sad but true. Politicians in general appear to be a spineless lot, appealing only to their corporate donors.

Wonder how much the Republican candidates will spend talking about catastrophic climate change? 😅
- Just about as much time as the Democrat candidate spends actually doing anything about it.
  US politicians will probably mandate that people can’t set their AC below 80 degrees before they dare stop subsidizing the oil industry.

- The most relevant part of the boiling frog experiment is the only frogs that stayed in the pot are the ones that had their brain removed prior to the experiment. This explains why climate denialists are all conservatives.

Ocean surface temps are super high too.

Oops. Posted wrong pic at first.
- This is super scary, more than the atmosphere. We know this was happening but this fast means accelerated extinctions and faster disruption of the world ecosystem.
  It would've been so easy to fix it if we didn't live in a profit driven society.
  
  Fuck capitalism..
  
  It is. The oceans are the the Earth's heat sink. They can absorb a tremendous amount of heat without changing temperature much. They have soaked up much of the heat captured by greenhouse gasses over the decades and these temperatures may suggest that they cannot absorb much more.
- We're having such a great time..... 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠

Yeah, but have you seen the profits?
- This beautiful little comic has never stopped being relevant since the very day it was made. Ever more destructive pushes for profit, all for that beautiful shareholder value.

Its ok guys, come winter no one will be worrying about it again.
- Once we see no snowfall where it should be, arctics not freezing as they usually do, we know we fucked up. Wait...we've been seeing these patterns last year didn't we?
  
  Winter's been weird in Michigan the last few years. Really really bad snow, then all gone in two days. No snow piles in the parking lots that last all winter.

Source toot: https://mas.to/@advisorybriefs/110735907070699446
Data source: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/
- Thank you!

Cool. Great, even. Man, we're fucked.

Hopefully this can accelerate some good anti-heat paint and solar shade projects.
- Personally I just want more trees and for big mega parking lots to be ripped out
  
  Yes plz. We need more carbon sinks. Less trees means less oxygen, which means more co2 and more of these crazy weather patterns. There are cooperations that only see profit and sadly a lot see it only in the short term. Were is my green city where the walls have vegetation on them. Eco friendly and probably insulates pretty well.
- Just in time but not cheap because... Money!

I'm ready for companies to do their ad campaigns about how they are saving the earth with their new policies and products.
Fuck it, please just profit from saving the earth. I dont care if its just doing what we've been asking them to do for the past 30yrs.
- Oh, they'll do the ad campaigns and raise the prices in the name of green-ness.
  Don't expect them to actually contribute in any meaningful way though.
  They know the game over screen is coming as much as we do, they're just going for the high score first.
  
  Oh, they’ll do the ad campaigns and raise the prices in the name of green-ness.
  A classic example of this is electric utilities charging more and saying "all our electricity comes from renewable sources!" while ignoring the fact that renewable energy is typically cheaper for them to buy on the market.

We're fucked.

The nice thing is that this is going to become a more or less yearly thing. Wee.
- More or even more.
  
  I suppose on a global scale, probably. I live in Sweden, so way up north, climate has been royally fucked here for a while, mostly in the sense that it's just been wrong. Short cold winters. Spread out cold snaps. Weird heatwaves. Not 50C like some places, but back in 2018 I think we were pushing 40, which is just unheard of.
  Thankfully we've not had something since but it's just a matter of time.

Why are these Temperatures only since 1979?
- To make it easier to see the graph. I hope you're not implying anything else.
  
  They obviously don't want us to know what really happened in '78!! The truth cannot be hidden any longer, open your eyes people! The cries of the carrots! The cries of the carrots!
  
  I dont know, I remember my dad saying "what a scorcher" in 1978 (or so he told me later when I was both alive and could understand spoken language) so you never know, you never never know
  the fact that the only places in the world that have people who even want to continue to live in denial are the US, UK and Australia cough Murdoch's* cough makes me want to go outside and lie in a pile of wet leaves
  I'm aware you didnt ask, but I heard an interview with some asshole from Florida yesterday and he said "I'm against this whole globalist shit!" and I thought for a moment what an alien or even say god would make of someone saying "one species? humanity? NO- this one group here, this is us and they are them".. and it just became so clear to me, once again, that people who can't move beyond the idea of tribes are just simply less evolved than other people, and as little as natural evolution is still functioning, I'm hoping against hope that it still works a little, and the more intellectually developed will leave the less developed behind.
  while I'm dreaming, I'd also like an infinite bank account thank you

to be fair records only go back like 200 years tho but it is still telling about the direction
- TBF you can also pretty know the temperature from thousands of years ago somehow accurately by analysing ice from the polar caps
  
  Yeah but the original toot is only taking about measured temps, not proxy temps.
  
  they have daily readings from cores?
- Geology disagrees
- sadreality
  to be fair records only go back like 200 years tho but it is still telling about the direction
  Yes... that is how records work lol...
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globaltemperaturerecord

I've essentially given up that our planet, or the human race is gonna survive another few generations. It literally all feels so empty and I have no desire to have kids who will ultimately have to live through the boiling temperatures. Either population collapse, or the planet dying off will result in society falling apart.

The last generation will be here soon

If this was 20 years ago, I’d have zero kids.
- I can’t in good conscience bring a child into this world
- I'd have no kids now- also 20 years ago- but still.

Looks like we've entered a completely new regime now.

Meanwhile, in England, it’s been 18-20 degrees for the entirety of July so far
- It’s been fantastic. Last year’s heat was so draining.
- Mate, do you understand what a global average is?
  Imagine if someone said, the average age of people on Lemmy is 22 and you were like huh I'm 12. Yeah, it's an average, it has a range
  
  I’m failing to see your point in reference to what I originally commented. last year to the day it was a new record of 40.3°, today it was 19° I was pointing out the stark difference in comparison to what Europe is currently experiencing and to what we experienced last year.
- I know, it's fucking lovely.
- News on the TV all about this European heatwave, yet it was raining here a few hours ago.
  
  Yeah and this time last year it was a furnace. I honestly feel sorry for mainland europe inhabitants, I was dreading this summer, my pets nearly died last year.
- I keep seeing people say UK is going to get an August heatwave lasting long into September, if the planets going to lose the ability to host life due to our own greed and opulence we might as well enjoy the fleeting trip through the window of enjoyable weather...
  
  As long as I don’t melt and it’s stays below 30

fuck this, honestly

Worse part will be Christmas diner
Well okay, maybe that's not as bad as complete collapse and mass deaths and migrants drowning in the Mediterranean and malaria
But still, Christmas dinner is gonna suck more and more
- A couple of years back we had a day in December (I think it was the week before Christmas) in which it was so hot that people were sitting in T-Shirts in the "Beer Garden" (German thing for an open-air Pub). I think it was like 23°C, in December...

You hear that Venus? We're coming for you!

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-six-times-more-new-coal-plants-than-other-countries-report-fin
- Instead of agreeing to nebulous things like “limit to 2 degrees”. International politics should have focused on specifics like “hey, at least don’t make any new coal plants”.
- Whataboutism, the west contributes significantly more per capita than China. Yes they should be doing more but it's better focused elsewhere
  
  How is this whataboutism? Who said anything about the West or East vs West?
  If anything this comment is about how China continues to increase their carbon emissions per capita year over year while the west is doing the opposite.
  Edit: In fact the EU produces less then China per capita...
  
  I didn't get the sense that they're saying China's the sole reason for pollution - we all understand that it's an issue globally - that article is just showing an example of how, instead of fixing the problem, the powerhouse countries of the world are doubling down on pollution.
  
  It's better to focus everywhere. Not gonna solve this by shifting blame. That goes for EU/US shifting blame to China as well.

Why does this follow north hemisphere's seasons?
- ~~As I understand it it also coincides with the distance to the sun and~~ the fact that the southern hemisphere is mostly water keeps temperatures there more steady.
  I was wrong on the first part, in fact the sun is closer un the southern hemisphere's summer than in the northern, but the difference in distance is minuscule. So the only reason is the water distribution.
  
  In the northern summer earth is further away from the sun, so this neglegible effect is not the reason, but rather is getting overpowered by the effect of water keeping the temperatures more steady over the year than land
  
  And cause 87% of the planets population resides above the equator.
- The correct answer is neither the distance to the sun nor the distribution of the populagion, though the latter is related to the answer. It is because more land is on the northern hemisphere than on the southern hemisphere. This also holds when weigthed with the suns angle of incidence across the seasons.
  Land changes temperature more quickly, so the oscillation over the year from it is larger than from water, dominating it here.
  
  Cool, thanks!
- The answer is quite simple
  
  No. This is a global average, not one weighted by population. (Edit for spelling)

usualmente i sort comments by top, but for this one im sorting by hot
- sorts by caliente
- Entonces it also makes it top.
  
  lol, i didn't notice the spanglish, i was typing in spanish just before that commnet, and this most often happens to me right after switching languages

I wonder how bad things will get before people will rise up.
- N+1
- Rise up to do what? Burn more shit? :D

Why don't you have children ?! We want grandchildren!
Here is why, also I will never own a home, so fuck that.

The dead walk. Zombies have arrived. They are us.

Nice

Nothing to see here. Move along and keep burning fossil fuels.

Weird. Where I live it's cold as hell.
Edit: The last 2 weeks, I see. Yeah that makes sense
- So imagine how freaking hot it is in many, many other places for the global mean temperature to be at a record high.
  
  Also it says last 2 weeks, and where I live those days were warmer than usual
- checks username
  Where you live being the Antarctic Peninsula? 🤔

Rest

Stupid thing is that it's locally so cold that I had to turn the heat back on last week after having it off for two months. Just a few weeks back I had to bring the fans down from the attic to stay cool. Shit is just weird. This summer is going to be fucked. There's also not the usual pollen or insects.
Anyway, if you're interested in visiting Denmark as a tourist, I can currently only recommend mid May or early September. The remaining 47 weeks of the year are "normal" 10°c and windy rain regardless of seasons.

Deep thinking is the only kind that matters

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