Climate change global warming natural disaster freak weather etc. (2 Viewers)

[flashback]

it's like covid but slower and bigger.

Global Surface Temperature | NASA Global Climate Change

Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA.

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pretty much. You can look at the data and see that more often than not this year's heat index is higher than the previous year, and the temp anomaly is higher than the previous year. Each year it gets a little bit worse, each year it's ignored, each year the billionaires buy more bits of Patagonia / New Zealand and so on.

At a certain point the wheels fall off, and the billionaires have to skedaddle.

 

[pete]

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The trees in the distance…

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Climate change is good actually

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[flashback]

Canada's about to go on fire.

 

[pete]

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[ann post]

Canada's about to go on fire.

Did a few hours reading on that yesterday. That villiage that got 90% destroyed is 300km difference latitude to Galway. The geography is playing a part in that the valleys were dry to start with, and the heat is just condensing in the bottoms of them, so the same effect would be less likely to happen in Ireland, however - 100% increase in deaths.

 

[flashback]

Did a few hours reading on that yesterday. That villiage that got 90% destroyed is 300km difference latitude to Galway. The geography is playing a part in that the valleys were dry to start with, and the heat is just condensing in the bottoms of them, so the same effect would be less likely to happen in Ireland, however - 100% increase in deaths.

oh fuck, places are going on fire?

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/0702/1232700-canda-weather-heatwave-fires/

fuck sake. Yeah.

This shit happens like clockwork in California. I'm on skype calls with people talking about ash falling on things, or crazy coloured sunsets and so on. Upsetting. Canada was always going to end up there.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Lytton · Thompson-Nicola I, BC, Canada

Thompson-Nicola I, BC, Canada

www.google.ie

absolutely awful, but this town looks like it was made of matchsticks

 

[magicbastarder]

i drove around there years back. it's in the rain shadow of the pacific mountains, it's really parched landscape.

 

[ann post]

Lytton · Thompson-Nicola I, BC, Canada

Thompson-Nicola I, BC, Canada

www.google.ie

absolutely awful, but this town looks like it was made of matchsticks

Yeah

was doing some maps diving on it and possible two museums were taken out, one local / industrial history and the other that told the story of the chinese people who settled there. I think because i presume canada is basically the same as ireland because of latitude, language and begrudgery towards brits and americans it resonates more. Oh and the speak a bit of Irish

 

[magicbastarder]

i presume canada is basically the same as ireland because of latitude, language and begrudgery towards brits

tell that to my friend shane who became a canuck and had to swear an oath of allgiance to the queen.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

That’s a yikes from me

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[magicbastarder]

that was a bit curious. if the pipeline is leaking, surely it's better to fix the pipeline and let the gas burn? better to burn it than to let the methane escape unhindered?

 

[ann post]

Just so I've written it somewhere


update on previous

The canadian wildfires and the unprecedented german floods both happen within 150km north or south latitude from Galway. I am aware of the searing heat out side but also, unlikely extreme weather event likelyhood increasing post.

 

[Space]

May as well combine the heat thread with this one.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I've pretty much given up hope.

Real action will finally be taken in a few years I'm sure, maybe a decade, depending on shifting demographics but it'll be too late. It seems to be entirely down to age demographics in a way that's completely without precedent.

 

[magicbastarder]

my manager was telling me all his neighbours (in germany) have bought A/C units. so the worse the climate gets, the more we'll need to generate electricity to cool peoples houses.

 

[therealjohnny]

I bought a fan. Indefensible, but the planet is fucked either way.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Completely defensible, you need to stay cool.

Data is like gold but data centres present dilemma, Varadkar says

Tánaiste says up to a third of all electricity produced may go to powering data centres

www.irishtimes.com

completely indefensible but the FFG voting share won't bottom out for a while.

 

[magicbastarder]

we have a floor standing fan, but it only pulls 40W.