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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

How about we go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.

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.

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

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.

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.

I think its a statistical loss if we rely on denocracy. The stupid far outnumber the rational.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

You don't have to argue with your parents. It seems like the advancement of technology is naturally taking care of the issue.

Liberals talk shit while “ultra conservatives” quietly solve the problem using their own resources? What world is this?

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

The future could be a Mad Max-esque hellscape so while the people of the future may not look back on us fondly, they will look back on us enviously.

And that's why the billionaires are investing in spaceships... Seriously though, they are really buying "doomsday" properties to ride it out.

The COVID pandemic makes me their plan is to turn New Zealand into a bunker nation and leave us all to die.

The ones responsible will be gone by the time the worst effects will be felt. Sins of the father?

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.

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...

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

Or, this will sound crazy but hear me out, we put a giant ice cube in the ocean.

Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors

and I'm just here trying to level up my fishing, ffs

Would you like to bet some money on this prediction?

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.

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)

This is a bit unhinged but it is really quite correct.

Unfortunately climate change makes things more turbulent and extreme on both ends of the spectrum.

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

You haven't?

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.

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!

I googled him and his headshot is perfect.

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

isn't that just the most recent el nino year?

Same, that was a slight glimmer of hope in the pile of shit

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.