1y ago

We just survived the hottest 36 days ever recorded

Source toot: https://mas.to/@advisorybriefs/110872259818869083

Data source: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/

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Hottest 36 days ever recorded...so far.
- 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!
  
  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
  
  New Zealand won't be exempt from climate change and they have to come out of their bunkers at some point. I always ask myself what good their money will be when global trade collapses. How long until their security guards realize that they hold the real power?
  
  The more you attempt to shift to revolution, the more you counteract real meaningful change. There are market solutions to this problem and it's called government regulation.
  https://i.pinimg.com/474x/40/bf/b6/40bfb6a76627032773450ddee967be36.jpg
  Successful revolution and war will not help global warming. Failure will result in a massive social shift against these ends.
- The hottest 36 days on record. Also the coolest summer we can expect to see for the rest of our lives.
  
  People generally don't realize this, but it'll become apparent soon enough!
- Laughs and sobs simultaneously
  
  Oh, if I were an alien looking down at us little billions of ants destroying their own habitat to construct tributes to a few thousand fat ants, to the point all the ants were about to die off, I'd be tilting my head and laughing my alien ass off.
- Funny you say that...

This graph is the most damning. We’ve made zero progress according to the only metric that matters.
- Why does the graph begin at 1959?
  
  When should it begin?
  
  I believe that’s the NOAA data source and they started measuring this in the late 50’s. The direct measurement data doesn’t go further back because the technology to measure and or concern wasn’t there.
  That said, people have been able to extrapolate past carbon ppm through means other than direct measurement.
  https://theconversation.com/scientists-understood-physics-of-climate-change-in-the-1800s-thanks-to-a-woman-named-eunice-foote-164687#:~:text=Humans%20were%20already%20increasing%20carbon,carbon%20dioxide%20into%20the%20air.

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.
- Owning the libs will become the most common cause of death of conservatives.
  
  "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.
  
  Also of everyone else.
- 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.
  
  They'll never say that in good faith because it's the rich that have the biggest carbon footprints.
- Killing everyone will kill more liberals than conservatives, so it's a net positive for them!

See you next summer.
This will be the coolest summer you ever experience.
- Nah, that will be 2027. After the current El Nino oscillation but before the 50 degree summers start.

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.
- 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.
  
  You have your causality running backwards… this was already here, and the sulfur was masking it.
  Which is what I said?
- Tldw: Hank Green video.
  
  Thanks for this info. Really enjoyed learning something hopeful

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.
- The world average temperature is up. Locally this puts more energy in weather
  Taller storms, bigger hail, more cyclones/typhoons/hurricanes earlier and later in the season
- Apparently the average is up in Germany, you just haven’t had any extremes this year.
  https://twitter.com/rarohde/status/1688486834890854401?s=46&t=041FqqqpppFjW7CoNV9wDw
- I saw hail in fucking July in the Netherlands...
  Also lots of rain of course.
  Shit's getting crazier and crazier.
- Yeah July was basically November
- Jup, my "Summer Vacation" is now over. Very pissed off about the weather
- Yeah where I'm at in southwest Ohio in the US it has been one of the coolest, wettest summers also. So in order for the average to be the highest ever, other places had to be extra, extra hot.

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

Some didn't survive & that's a problem.
- lol git gud
- Every day people dei, but hey, more were born so.... That is how life works
  
  Not a helpful sentiment

Phoenix just broke its record for consecutive days over 110° at 31, previous record was half that...
- Cincinnati only had two days over 90 total all summer so far. I think we may get another day this week. Phoenix is getting all of our heat.

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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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- Drug dealers are arguably pretty evil...but there is undeniably huge demand for the products. And getting rid of a dealer won't solve addiction itself.

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

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

What do we win? I hope someone makes a movie about us.
- the movie 2012 comes to mind for whatever reason lol
  
  '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.
- Next species would make plushies after us, like we did with dinosaurs. Cute little featherless bipeds. 2990-3000s would also see a cartoon where humans would sing about friendship, turning some kids into human-geeks.

Meanwhile in germany: 13°C and endless rain.
- Extremes getting more extreme.

Actually, some of us didnt
- Yeap, every day people die
  
  Again, you're not being very helpful. Take your weird existential nihilism somewhere else, please

Relevant vlogbrothers video about why this particular summer is hotter.
https://youtu.be/dk8pwE3IByg
- Now that we have an idea of how much ocean cloud cover can produce a certain amount of global cooling we can find other, better ways of doing it in a controlled manner.
  
  Nukes could help
- Hunga Tunga Hunga Haapii didn't help either. Instead of just the usual global cooling sulfur dioxide, this particular volcano was under water enough that it launched massive amounts of water vapor into the atmosphere, which has greenhouse effects. Add that all together on top of the chronic climate change and you get this summer.
  https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/2022-tonga-volcano-may-have-caused-temporary-global-warming?amp

What's this "we survived?" dies

Couldn't the massive fires (energy and compounds generated) exacerbate these values?
Don't make me say what I didn't say.
- No actually fires have an overall negative (lowering) effect on temperatures, because the smoke reduces the sun energy from reaching land over large areas, it’s been well established that areas affected by smoke will have lower peak temps than they otherwise would have. Except it can cause temps to stay higher overnight by preventing the heat from escaping into atmosphere.
  But in terms of highest temps ever recorded.. it doesn’t seem fires would contribute to that at all, more just a consequence of the high temps (drying effect).
  
  Thank you, but I was talking about heat generated by the fires and compound build-up (eg: co2), while the last one might bring its effects later.
  Just to be sure, I talk about these figures, not the global climate deregulation.

Hottest so far.

Tomorrow is going to be 37
- That was just to August 6th. The last 4 days were also the hottest, so 40 days now. Assuming today is also the hottest August 11, tomorrow will be actually be 41. :)

Isolated islands catching on fire because it's so goddamn hot doesn't feel like surviving.
- That's not true
  Continents are also on fire

666 upvotes lol. It's hot as hell

"Survived"
Jesus Christ

…since 1979
Edit: not saying there’s not a climate change disaster happening, but some of these analyses are a little misleading.
- not saying there’s not a climate change disaster happening, but some of these analyses are a little misleading.
  Except that to only say "...since 1979" is to comment in either ignorance or bad faith (your pick). We maintained record breaking temps ALL above the prior record for 36 is the damn point, and to miss that is to miss the entire thing.
  There have been 44 years since 1979. Lets say the probability of getting 1 day above the 1979 record in a given year is 1/44 (uniform). The probability of even getting a week of the hottest days in one year would be (1/44)^7, would be a one in 300 billion chance. There are some issues and some assumptions I'm making for convenience, but its not ok to make idle comments with no comprehension of the scale of extremity this event represents.
  As in, do you have any fucking idea how unlikely that is? This isn't an 'oopsie poopsie' funny record event.
  
  Not to be too pedantic but your back of the envelope probabilities are based on inaccurate assumptions and probably several orders of magnitude off. Specifically, your not just assuming uniform but also independent from one day to the next. A more accurate treatment would be to assume conditional dependence from one day to the next (the Markov property). Once you have a record hot day, you are significantly more likely to have another record hot day following it.
  That said, it’s still low probability, just not as low as what you’re saying.
- While the data presented here only goes back to 1979, I seem to recall that some scientists worked out global average temperatures based on coral reef core samples and ice core samples. I think there were some other samples too but I can't remember what they were. So they are the hottest ever
  
  I mean if they wanna be really pedantic, the hottest days were before the atmosphere even formed.
- I can't find any indication that 1979 had a 36-day heatwave with anything approaching the temperatures we're seeing.
  
  I think the significance of 1979 is that's when we started keeping track of an overall global temperature day by day...
- For the hell of it, I checked the list of hottest temperatures recorded and the top for the US was in 1913, Sweeden 1933, Russia 2010, and Germany/France 2019 (for just a small selection of countries). Very few were from this year and many weren't even in the last half century.
  https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/List_of_weather_records#Highest_temperatures_ever_recorded
  
  You're downvoted because you're comparing one day record temp to a full month of record highs.

well there was where earth was young

This explains why our electronic devices are hot to the point they cannot charge.

Lets go for more!!! (China says)

36 days... July 3rd to August 6... is 34 35 days.
I find it very hard to believe anything that makes such a simple mistake doesn't have other mistakes.
- Hm, I'm counting 35 days
  
  You're correct, still not 36 though.
- It would actually be 35 days, since it is inclusive of July 3rd. Maybe simple mistakes are equally simple to overlook, sometimes. :P

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