the flooding in china seems to have claimed a few thousand lives as a massive 6-lane, 2+ mi long tunnel was rapidly flooded when there was a huge traffic jam with people trying to get out just basic stuff of nightmare things
The amount of Greenland ice that melted on Tuesday could cover Florida in 2 inches of water cnn.com/2021/0...
https://www.severe-weather.eu/europ...Pc1GKTBZvvCRmQyvXBj3WwO0OlSel9jtRhhu887HaVSUQ Highest Temperature Ever Measured in Europe Expected to be Broken Tomorrow as Apocalyptic 47°C (116.6°F) are Forecast for Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Turkey
I’m no rocket surgeon but it seems super hard to “adapt” to some of these things. Should we no longer use tunnels? What about coexisting with Smokey air that will give us all lung cancer? Maybe he was suggesting that we all wear masks.
This has always bothered and never thought it got enough attention Gulf Stream Changes Happening Now Could Be Devastating For Mankind By Jason Hall August 6, 2021 Photo: Getty Images Climate scientists are concerned after observing warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, which is among Earth's main potential tipping points. Spoiler The Guardian reports the study of currents known by researchers as the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) found "an almost complete loss of stability over the last century." The report comes after currents have already dropped to their slowest point in at least 1,600 years and could be nearing a shutdown, which would lead to catastrophic global consequences. That may include disrupting patterns in rain-dependent areas such as India, South America and West Africa; increasing storms and dropping temperatures in Europe; rising sea level off eastern North America and causing more damage to the Amazon rainforest and Antarctic ice sheets, which are already threatened, the research determined. Scientists noted that the AMOC system's complexity and uncertainty over how global warming will take shape moving forward make it impossible to accurately forecast when a potential collapse could take place. However, it is estimated to be possible within a decade at the earliest, or several centuries from now. Scientists reiterated that the colossal impact means it must be taken seriously and be stopped long before it ever happens. “The signs of destabilisation being visible already is something that I wouldn’t have expected and that I find scary,” said Niklas Boers, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, who conducted the research via the Guardian. “It’s something you just can’t [allow to] happen.”
‘hahah, look Europe is cooler, global warming debunked again!’ - screams Ted in Nebraska as his corn crop is destroyed for the 2nd time in 6 years by massive flooding.
Well, you see the issue is that addressing these issues comes at a tremendous financial cost and we don’t know where the money will come from to address these issues. As for the financial, emotional and human costs of doing nothing well:
Wasn’t Chatch from Seattle? Because it’s fucking hot as fuck, again, in the PNW and maybe he will die of heat stroke along with the 40+ people that died last time in the metro. If one of these other 2 days goes above 107 that would be the 5th time (3x already) this year the high all-time record for Portland would have been broken.
while true you are not surrounded by 200 foot trees that will burn a state the size of Delaware to the ground when it gets hot. Those temps here (with the lack of humidity) is so bad out here. Not that I’m telling you that you don’t know that, it’s just ... I’m sick of seeing towns be burnt to the ground out here :(
Republican climate science denier Doug LaMalfa cries crocodile tears over Dixie Fire GOP Rep. Doug LaMalfa, who represents California's 1st Congressional District, at a 2017 town hall meeting, where he said, "I don't buy the idea that manmade activity is responsible." Doug LaMalfa, a Donald Trump puppet, represents California’s 1st District, where the raging Dixie Fire has already burned 679 square miles in Plumas County, destroying the town of Greenville, eight of whose residents are counted as missing. He also represents Paradise, Magalia, and Concow, towns wiped out three years ago by the Camp Fire, which killed 86 people. Two of my very good friends managed to escape Paradise by the skin of their teeth with their driving skills. Their new home is still in LaMalfa’s district. In a video posted on Facebook Wednesday, La Malfa said, "We lost Greenville tonight. And there's just not words for how us in government haven't been able to get the job done. We will take up the fight even harder. And more so, we got to win this; we got to stop this. We got to get D.C. to pay attention, we got to get Sacramento to pay attention. Forget the politics, forget the nonsense. We have to stop making this happen by inattention to what is obvious … we gotta do better,” LaMalfa said, noting to those affected that “our hearts are with you.” The man’s crocodile tears are as useless to his constituents’ well-being as they are at quenching the flames of that still-burning fire. Spoiler “There’s just not words.” On the contrary, LaMalfa has said plenty. In 2018, he ridiculed people who said climate change was a key factor in the Camp Fire. And back then, just as now, he blames lack of ”proper” forest management for what happened. “Blaming climate change for the fires in the North State is wrong and an insult,” he said. Here’s one of the supposedly guilty insulters, a climate scientist: No words? Here’s LaMalfa in 2012: "I think there's a lot of bad science behind what people are calling global warming." And in 2014 during a forum after a candidate debate: "The climate of the globe has been fluctuating since God created it." Come 2017, he said, "I don't buy the idea that manmade activity is responsible." In 2018, while the Camp Fire was burning people to death, LaMalfa sneered, "I'm not going to quibble here today about whether it's man, or sunspot activity, or magma causing ice shelves to melt.” Instead, he blames environmentalists. Thanks to the disinformation schemes of the Koch Brothers, Exxon, the Heritage Foundation, the Heartland Institute, The Wall Street Journal editorial pages, hundreds of right-wing talk-show hosts, and megatons of dark money, LaMalfa is one of the 139 Republicans STILL in Congress who reject what increasingly worried climate scientists say. We have 1000s of Republicans in various levels of state governments who do the same. And—although I get slammed every time I say this—there is a small number of elected Democrats, who, though they say they accept climate science, sure don’t act like it with their don’t-go-too-fast-or-act too-aggressively approach. Realism requires that we adopt moderate policy, they assert. Nonsense. It’s too late to be “moderate” when it comes to dealing with the climate crisis. Realism is acknowledging that we are in no less of a crisis than if we were in the crosshairs of a 50-mile-in-diameter asteroid. Taking action now is no guarantee we’ll be able to dodge the worst climate impacts. Failing to take action now guarantees we won’t. The vast majority of Democrats realize that, but the small group of them that doesn’t is capable of blocking or weakening essential climate policy. The Doug LaMalfas are impervious to reason, but we need to press these recalcitrant Democrats to stop dragging their feet. If they truly accept that scientists are right, they should prove it.
For the first time in recorded history, smoke from wildfires reaches the North Pole npr.org/2021/0...
Bloody hell, China is doing a thing. This thing sounds incredible. Can not wait to see pictures of it. A wind turbine large enough to power 20k homes, I mean, I can’t even… https://newatlas.com/energy/worlds-biggest-wind-turbine-mingyang/
Offshore wind just going to keep getting bigger and bigger. No constraints out in the ocean, and more efficient. That one turbine produces about the amount of power that 6 of the ones you see driving through the states.
I've never seen rain like this. I had to move my old lady's Cherokee to a hill because it was only a matter of time before it reached the doors.