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[Climate Change] Do Look Up
Karoz
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That_Guy wrote:In keeping with the movie themed thread titles, the climate change thread is back. In the last thread I think we were able to establish a few points where we all agree. Climate change is bad. It's being caused by humans. Currently humans are doing little to abate the anthropocene extinction event currently going on. There is some small hope. New renewable energy generation has become cheaper to build than new fossil fuel generation in some industrializing economies like India and China. Electric vehicles are set to vastly displace internal combustion engine vehicles while enjoying the benefits of cheap clean renewable energy. Humans were once standing at a knife's edge. Now we've tipped over and are carrining downhill into extinction. It's up to the new generation to see just how bad it's going to be and just how much we can negate the effects.
UN Climate Change Report 2021
Can be a bit glib about all of this, but if anyone has useful mental health resource links to add to the OP I'll gladly include them. Will admit not feeling too great after some of stuff that gets posted here.
Also taking recommendations for thread title.
Previous thread: Climate change where every storm is perfect
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Apparently French reactors are shut down because the river water they use for cooling reactors is either too low (drought) or too warm (hotter summers)
And so they have to import dirtier energy from Germany
……mother fuck
Gotta love fucking up the environment so bad our non-fossil-fuel power generation doesn’t work
They don't require farm or industry levels of water but it's still way more than the average person.
It's criminally cheap, honestly. $500 to throw 75,000 gallons away on ???
There is not a human consumption water problem. It's entirely industrial and agricultural, and theyre getting subsidized.
See if you can spot domestic use (It's actually rolled up in public supply with business use, sort of uhhelpful it isnt broken out but the charts good enough)
source: 2015 USGS numbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Fear
We all should spit on Michael Crichtons' grave.
Sorry. I don't see that in the ukraine thread, would you mind copying the link?
Yep, just read about a plot to create a tsunami to convince everyone of the dangers of Global Warming. Now my ears are bleeding.
What a hack.
Crichton would probably be calling himself a rational skeptic and wanting to see better science as Hy-Brasil sinks under him.
Now I See were Tom Clancy, who wasn't a doctor but a Real Estate agent turned author, got his stich from.
Also that "State of Fear" sounds Clancy as fuck for a title too.
https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2022/07/study-shows-economic-impacts-greenhouse-gas-emissions
(the mock report)
Not the only time this mock prediction was done either, the Met Office did it for the UK a few years ago too.
Met Office now stressing that we could see some new records set this coming week in the UK.
Nevermind that the recordsetting temperature in that heatwave was a mere 36c. The average temperature in the coming heatwave is going to be around 37c.
Before I'd assume, given Cambridgeshire is expecting to hit 40.
I remember, some years ago, during yet another heatwave that we broke the record for Hottest Day On Record for our country. It was a record that had stood for about 80 years.
This brand new record was broken the very next day.
I think that's when I mentally switched from 'climate change is going to happen' to 'climate change is happening'.
IIRC you have to be over 100 years old to know a time without climate change. The effects have just been subtle enough we generally could ignore it till now.
Yep, just one of those things - that's why the UK has next to no preparation/infrastructure for it and next to no UK residents have air conditioning, because it just happens so often.
The US is hot, air con is everywhere. UK is cold, we have central heating but not air con. Australia is hot, so definitely air con, probably not central heating even if you live in Melbourne which gets colder than the UK does.
America is crazy because you get very similar styles of house no matter which state you are in- there is no building for the environment when you can just AC the environment away. Where are the Qanats and wind catchers and awnings over windows and exterior shutters, and central courtyards.
There's also issues where home builders skimp on insulation and windows in the warm parts of the country because insulation just keeps heat in which is... not how insulation works.
It's apparently getting better but the number of homes in the southeast/south/southwest that were built with little to no insulation is kind of mind boggling.
Someone please tell me this is all nonsense and there's some data that shows this to not be the case and this is just a bullshit sensationalist popsci news article looking for clicks.
The article here links to:
https://www.goesfoundation.com/
which says that, which I think is in this report?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3860950
Which doesn't seem to be published anywhere by my most cursory look. So the article seems to be wrong, and based on some research which I dunno I'm not a marine biologist.
I mean everything's going to shit but as far as thing specific thing at least the headline seems wrong?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/w16y2b/the_uk_is_about_to_see_the_highest_ever_recorded/
It's an embedded video, so I can't link it directly but what a show. 'Stop being such a downer, hot weather is great!'
"I don't know whether something's happened to meteorologists to make you all a little bit fatalistic, harbingers of doom"
uhhhhh
they can see the evidence, they know what's happening, and they know what's likely to happen in the immediate future and over the rest of their lifetimes...
Having to take chances and make sacrifices is more terrifying to them than their kids having to do so.
I think that behaviour people display e.g. with regard to getting rid of student loans also factors in.
"My life was hard, now you're asking me to bear another indignity, this isn't fair!"
Some people just aren't species oriented. If it isn't going to make their lives better then mehm not interested.
Oh, this one’s fairly easy:
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They’re paid to be that way, and think their wealth is going to buoy them through the hell and provide enough insulation that it’s just the rabble who’ll suffer, not them. What’s a few shells cracked and tossed in the bin if it means at the end you get all of these luxurious soufflés?
Choose Your Own Chat 1 Choose Your Own Chat 2 Choose Your Own Chat 3
For whatever reason reddit actually let me keep reading that sub without using the app and man is it depressing in a depressing way.
Old Reddit redirect. Old.reddit.com is much better.
It's 28c in my house with the windows and blackout blinds closed, feels like an oven outside. Surprising tolerable.