Global Warming

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, neko said:

It actually got to 95F (35C) in the house yesterday, and woke up at 4:00 this morning and it's still 90F. We had the neighbours over hanging out in the basement.

 

Lost some plants as well. Just couldn't handle the heat.

 

It's going to be 41C today, but it looks like this bubble will burst, and it's supposed to be more civilized on Tuesday onward.

 

We're getting the wood floors refinished today ! Had to basically move everything out (or downstairs) over the weekend. What fun that was. Wife was basically naked, but I kept my dignity.

My mate lives in Vernon and he said it was 41 degrees yesterday and might be as high as 44 by the middle of the week. That's not normal at all 

[Captain Turdseye]

On 27/06/2021 at 12:36, neko said:

It's going to be 40C in Vancouver today.

 

40C.

 

in Vancouver.

Fucking pissing down here. 
 

Global warming my arse. 

[neko]

99F / 37C inside the fucking house !

 

Plants dying all over the place. Thankfully two of our cats are mexican, and are used to the heat. The other had to stay inside all day under duress.

 

I've never been inside a house this hot - even in Mexico. Outside is 41C 

[Moctezuma]

The thing I find interesting with these weather extremes is that we are just in the foothills of this, that footage last year of the siberian permafrost melting really crystallised for me that we are getting into the feedback loops that will significantly accelerate changes to the climate. Witnessing the mass ecosystem collapse in our life times should be fun.

[johnsusername]

52 degrees in Jacobabad, Pakistan. I can't even imagine that heat. 17 degrees here and I was roasting walking to the shop (deffo hotter than 17 when the sun was out - maybe 20 ish).

[dockers_strike]

4 hours ago, johnsusername said:

52 degrees in Jacobabad, Pakistan. I can't even imagine that heat. 17 degrees here and I was roasting walking to the shop (deffo hotter than 17 when the sun was out - maybe 20 ish).

Was reading that! Apparently, the body cannot cool itself at that temperature and humidity so you need artificial means to cool down.

 

Parts of North West Canada scorching too!

[neko]

25 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

Was reading that! Apparently, the body cannot cool itself at that temperature and humidity so you need artificial means to cool down.

 

Parts of North West Canada scorching too!

I can confirm this.

 

It's breaking a bit today, and tomorrow back to 'normal'

[TheHowieLama]

Portland shut down its streetcar and light rail services on Monday due to cables melting from the extreme, record-breaking heat currently scorching the Pacific Northwest.

Portland has reported record high temperatures for the past three days in a row, recording 115 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

[Colonel Bumcunt]

BBC Bitesize on peadophilia:

 

Cons: raping minors

 

Pros: They all think you've got a massive cock 

[Bobby Hundreds]

3 hours ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

That's such a tory outlook, the world is becoming uninhabitable for human beings but imagine the oil we can find. Profit is king until we're all dead.

[Red Phoenix]

10 pages in this thread! The way things seem to be going to shit so quickly it could soon be another one of the main threads in here.

 

 

[Red Phoenix]

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This Atlantic hurricane season is already setting records. Last week, Tropical Storm Elsa, which formed on July 1, became the earliest-forming fifth named storm on record over the Atlantic Ocean. On average, the fifth named storm of the season doesn’t typically form until the end of August. The previous record was set last year when Tropical Storm Edouard formed on July 6, 2020.

The visible imagery above from GOES East shows the storm shortly after it became a  hurricane on July 2, along with lightning detected by the satellite’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM). As Elsa moved through the Caribbean, it became the first Atlantic storm of 2021 to strengthen into a Category-1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Elsa was also the easternmost hurricane recorded in the Main Development Region (MDR). The MDR, which is a region south of 23.5°N, is an important boundary that is used in hurricane development metrics. There hasn’t been a hurricane this early in the calendar year in that area since 1933’s Trinidad hurricane.

Additionally, as Elsa moved forward at a speed of 29 mph, it became the fastest-moving Atlantic tropical cyclone undergoing rapid intensification recorded in the MDR, Caribbean, or Gulf of Mexico as well as the first storm to undergo rapid intensification in that region this early in the calendar year since a previous storm in 1908.

 

 

https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/tropical-storm-elsa-sets-records-2021-atlantic-hurricane-season

[Red Phoenix]

This is fucked : Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

They're (possibly) attributing the floods in Germany and Belgium to climate change, saying that it has it's "fingerprints" on them. 

 

Either way, around 100 odd dead and they looked absolutely terrifying. Rivers of muddy water rushing through village streets. Fuck that! 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Gonna be some mad max kind of future for the poor fuckers being born now. 

[Gnasher]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/greta-thunberg-eu-climate-a4378361.html

[Bobby Hundreds]

Watching these floods is insane. Whether you believe in man made climate change or not its pretty much irrelevant, this planet is all we have, it's our home its essentially our creator one basic credence of humanity should be to treat our planet with absolute respect. Pandering to greed is going to wipe us out.

[dandyman]

As long as we let vanity pervade and we have people who won’t put solar panels on the roof of their house, because they “don’t like the look of them” we’re really struggling to stop shit like this happening 

 

People need to realise that we have to make big changes now, not in 2030 and definitely not in 2050,  

[Karl_b]

I genuinely think we're fucked. Without a huge technical breakthrough there isn't enough desire, at any level, to make us a zero carbon economy. Personal sacrifice and behaviour change will only go so far, 40% of the UK's carbon emissions are directly from the construction and operation of buildings, 25% are from vehicles. Without significant government intervention, taxation and legislation these industries won't change quick enough so I think we're hoping on carbon capture and renewable energy technology to save the day.

[SasaS]

Electricity generation should be decarbonized first and this is a pipe dream without nuclear technology.

[Red Phoenix]

6 hours ago, Karl_b said:

Without significant government intervention, taxation and legislation these industries won't change quick enough so I think we're hoping on carbon capture and renewable energy technology to save the day.

 

Central bank loon Carney was saying the same here, even if he does still think fossil fuels have a future :

 

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“We need clear, credible and predictable regulation from government,” he said. “Air quality rules, building codes, that type of strong regulation is needed. You can have strong regulation for the future, then the financial market will start investing today, for that future. Because that’s what markets do, they always look forward.”

Without such robust intervention from governments, markets would fail to address the crisis. “It wouldn’t happen spontaneously by the financial sector,” he said. “But we can’t get there without the financial sector.”

People must also press political leaders to act, Carney said. “When people have made it clear they have that objective [of tackling the climate crisis], and if there is public policy that translates those wishes into real action, a price on carbon, regulation of internal combustion engines for example, then financial markets – capitalism – will come up with the solutions to give people what they want.”

He pointed to Johnson’s promise to ban sales of new diesel- and petrol-driven cars from 2030. Car companies are responding: Nissan has announced a £1bn electric car hub in Sunderland, while Vauxhall’s owner, Stellantis, is making a £100m investment in Ellesmere Port. “We’ve seen the automotive industry saying, wait a minute, we have to make big investments in order to supply people with cars in the future,” Carney said.

However, Carney still sees a future for fossil fuels. In May, the International Energy Agency said if the world was to stay within 1.5C of global heating, there could be no more exploration or development of fossil fuel resources.

Carney argues that countries and companies could still carry on exploiting fossil fuels, despite this advice, if they use technology such as carbon capture and storage, or other ways of reducing emissions. “You have to take it on the specific projects. If [fossil fuel] producers are able, through considerable investment in carbon capture and storage, to get to net zero then that creates some room in the carbon budget.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/17/regulate-business-to-tackle-climate-crisis-urges-mark-carney

 

[Red Phoenix]

Uncle Joe isn't doing too well on some of this so far either, to put it mildly :

 

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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Approvals for companies to drill for oil and gas on U.S. public lands are on pace this year to reach their highest level since George W. Bush was president, underscoring President Joe Biden’s reluctance to more forcefully curb petroleum production in the face of industry and Republican resistance.

The Interior Department approved about 2,500 permits to drill on public and tribal lands in the first six months of the year, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data. That includes more than 2,100 drilling approvals since Biden took office January 20.

New Mexico and Wyoming had the largest number of approvals. Montana, Colorado and Utah had hundreds each.

Biden campaigned last year on pledges to end new drilling on federal lands to rein in climate-changing emissions. His pick to oversee those lands, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, adamantly opposed drilling on federal lands while in Congress and co-sponsored the liberal Green New Deal.

But the steps taken by the administration to date on fossil fuels are more modest, including a temporary suspension on new oil and gas leases on federal lands that a judge blocked last month, blocked petroleum sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and cancellation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

Because vast fossil fuel reserves already are under lease, those actions did nothing to slow drilling on public lands and waters that account for about a quarter of U.S. oil production.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-science-environment-and-nature-6ac8ff49970e4b052489678b40e3ba82

 

I thought there was a chance he'd do well when he cancelled Keystone too. The UN climate change conference in November should be interesting because from what we've seen they can't carry on fucking around by the looks of it.

[Red Phoenix]

 

[Lee909]

Good for City name changes 

 

Glasgow on sea

Atlantis formerly known as The Netherlands. 

 

Come visit the great underwater city of New Orleans.