Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

Mexico City running out of water.

https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-city-teeters-unprecedented-water-000337079.html

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 1 February 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Last year it was Montevideo. All of these flashing points..

https://i.imgur.com/UXcvJqj.png

the solid black line is global surface ocean temperatures for 2024, so far
the gold line is 2023

the three dotted black lines represent the mean temps from 1981-2011, and then 2 standard deviations above and below that mean.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/skyrocketing-ocean-temperatures-have-scientists-scratching-their-heads/

Thanks, z. That article is a fabulous example of good science writing that doesn't dumb down its subject. And considering it describes a phenomenon I shall only experience in its third or or fourth order effects, it is still miserably stomach-churning.

https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_2150,w_3822,x_0,y_0/dpr_1.5/c_limit,w_608/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1710158341/Screenshot_2024-03-11_at_11.46.32_vwhvnz

In a drastic attempt to protect their beachfront homes, residents in Salisbury, Massachusetts, invested $500,000 in a sand dune to defend against encroaching tides. After being completed last week, the barrier made from 14,000 tons of sand lasted just 72 hours before it was completely washed away, according to WCVB.

someone tell ben shapiro about this real estate opportunity

“Nobody really anticipated that the Earth would speed up to the point where we might have to remove a leap second,” Agnew said.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/climate/timekeeping-polar-ice-melt-earth-rotation

*nerd in the back*

"....um i did, neeeheeeheee!"

Solastalgia (/ˌsɒləˈstældʒə/) is a neologism, formed by the combination of the Latin words sōlācium (comfort) and the Greek root -algia (pain, suffering, grief), that describes a form of emotional or existential distress caused by environmental change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solastalgia

i think that's a new one for me? i can dig it. as a word.

you guys might not believe this, but 2024 is on track to be the warmest year in recorded history.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/07/climate/record-hot-april/index.html

Global warming personal relations and anecdotes 20-year update request:

Does anyone know someone who was a climate change denier (like, a loud angry one) in the early 2000s (or before, or after) and realized they were completely wrong? Did they say anything about it later or admit that they were wrong? Or did they just carry on and pretend like it never happened? Or, are they still denying it, I guess.

My dad is the only person I really have opportunity to talk about these kinds of things and he makes me instantly blow my top. I've talked about getting an EV which he's against because he's all of a sudden concerned about the environmental cost of mining rare earth materials, which I guess is progress, but he's probably echoing petro/car-maker talking points.

i will opt for a hybrid as long as i live, if/when the shit hits the fan, electric vehicles are going to me rendered useless pretty quickly— just ask the rich folks who horde diesel powered vehicles and own bunkers.

going to be*

Venezuela Becomes First Modern Country to Lose All Its Glaciers
https://explorersweb.com/venezuela-loses-last-glacier/

Just v sad, reading that

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/opinion/heat-technology-climate.html

can't help but feel that no power is the end of everything. fires, exploding transformers and power stations. lines down. if enough of it happens at once when its really hot...

like my favorite bad apocalypse show Revolution only way hotter outside.

Yeah

More than 250 deaths due to heatwave in UP, Bihar and Orissa, it includes 25 polling officials ; 22 killed as bus falls in a gorge in Jammu ; eight newborn babies killed in a fire breakout in Delhi. The lives of ordinary people that have no meaning

— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) June 1, 2024

strange way phrase it. maybe their lives are dismissed and devalued in a political context, but those lives had a social context where they held plenty of meaning.

I was going to excuse the odd phrasing until I saw that she's a writer for the Washington Post and New Yorker.

a good example of a writer reaching for an 'effect' that sounded good in the moment they wrote it, but they should have considered it a little longer before committing to it

I don't understand what a bus crash has to do with global warming?

what was your point in posting this here other than to get aimless to respond on the merits of the prose (in which case congrats?)

which 'you' are you talking to?

there was more in that tweet than the bus thing, you know

Not sure what's going on in the comments.

I don't understand what a bus crash has to do with global warming?

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 bookmarkflaglink

What don't you understand about "250 killed during heatwave" across three Indian states.

Aimless gonna be Aimless, not my problem

so the relevance of the tweet to this thread was just the bit before the first semi-colon? the other stuff is unrelated but you communicate via links to tweets? or am I missing something?

It seems you've read the prose of Ed Zitron and its broken you today? Maybe lie down for a bit?

I didn’t read the zitron piece. Gave up on him years ago.

The fire was caused by a welding accident and the bus crash was caused by a bus crash. Those deaths were unrelated to climate change. If her point in relating them is that live if not valued then sure. If it’s that climate change is killing a lot of people then not sure how the other stuff is relevant. Don’t care really. Wonder what your point is though. Tend to assume it’s to get aimless to respond most of the time.

Lol how did I know Aimless was gonna respond to that tweet?

He is not the onky person who throws tantrums over tweets. You just did that.

Still got no idea what your point is.

"Wonder what your point is though."

To save you any more pain: Scott just posted a link last night looking at how heatwaves could potentially kill people where electricity (and aircon capacity) could go off. In the piece it mentions many people go without this anyway, and I saw the tweet from India that talked about heatwaves killing people just now, and yes the other incidents linked into the conclusion of how little ordinary people matter. Aimless and you both tried to rationalise the somewhat emotional conclusion xp

eh I think you’ve misunderstood me but at least I know what your point is now.

I've understood you enough please don't try and say more. Thanks.

hard to follow people who don’t also communicate solely in tweet embeds I’m sure

You struggle reading a blog.

what can I say, I think you post bad links. afaict that’s all you do here. I’ll mute you want and i wish you all the best in your goals (content aggregation?)

You struggled to make a simple link, from what was posted yesterday, and had a tantrum about another poster's reaction. I don't give a shit what you do or think about what I do on here.

But yes I wish you all the best (with your reading comprehension?)

you don't give a shit what anyone does or thinks about what you do on here.

Speaking of posters who throw tantrums..

I've understood you enough please don't try and say more. Thanks.

lol at you not with you

JD going off the deep end here

like, you've always been a dick but lately u seem completely disconnected from any sort of consensus reallity

sorry "JD" = xyzzzzzzzzzzzzz