Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nykR3t3aKA8

The lake near me is lower than usual this year, apparently. I don't know, when I drive past it looks plenty fuckin' deep. Maybe some of the rich fucks around here shouldn't try to float superyachts behind their goddamn multi-million-dollar houses.

Global warming's terrifying effects on rich boat owners?

are we going to do anything to mark the warmest days on earth in 125,000 years? feel like i should bake a cake. ON THE SIDEWALK.

With ice growth remaining slow, the record #Antarctic sea ice anomaly (negative departure from average) continues to somehow get larger in size...

Seasonal cycle graphs at https://t.co/V0Lt0w20IQ. More info at https://t.co/QXRkBvOtPG. pic.twitter.com/MiVukwJoCn

— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) July 6, 2023

hell, i thought i was scared of everything already but now i'm scared of something else!

"This phenomenon, which creates air circulation in a clockwise direction, prevents the formation of clouds and, Dr. Domínguez Sarmiento added, “allows radiation to hit directly, as the sky is completely clear and thus temperatures on the surface rise.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/world/americas/hermosillo-mexico-heat.html

it was nice of you guys not to worry me about anticyclones though. i was blissfully unaware of the phenomenon until now.

the future is the present's past already. people still dealing with the effects and trauma of recent events. years to recover and rebuild. what if next summer is hotter? nobody is ready for that. biden thinks he's low on relief money now? lemme telly buddy, this planet is gonna be a pricy place to live.

“Miscarriages have been increasing because of the intense heat,” said Zainab Hingoro, a local health-care worker. When she once would have 3 out of 10 pregnant patients miscarry, she now has 5 to 6 out of 10."

“It was like thousands of snakes sighing all at once,” he recalled."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/pakistan-extreme-heat-health-impacts-death/

We went to a UW-Madison football game on Saturday, and they had the local weatherman on hand to announce that it was officially the hottest temperature the team had ever played in there. And everyone cheered.

sounds about right.

They'll stop cheering when all the corn, wheat and soy fields shrivel up and burn to a crisp.

They'd think that that was owning the libs, seeing as they prefer to eat meat.

I think they were mostly just happy to have broken a record, any record. I mean, it *was* a sporting event ...

the two on the right are august and july of this year

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

A lot of nasty 'positive' feedback loops have already been triggered. They'll be self-reinforcing for the foreseeable future no matter what steps we take to limit our emissions. Doesn't mean we shouldn't stop digging the hole we're in even deeper.

I don’t think this has been shared here yet https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/life-and-death-in-americas-hottest-city?fbclid=IwAR3a3I5AWGbIcTM1Z__d8ahnBj_t4L-3YFYwrbq-gDoxuRKANXcZ2Goeyi4#

By the end of 2007 more than 3 million copies of the DVD set for the BBC series Planet Earth had sold. At an average weight of .25 pounds that is more than 750,000 pounds or over 375 tons of mostly unbiodegradable waste filled with toxic chemicals and metals.

i see so many copies of this in my line of work so i crunched some numbers.

Man-made global warming aside, new study projects mammals could face extinction in 250M years, more or less the amount of time since they first appeared
The immediate good news is that can all claim to be the peak of evolution

source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01259-3

Alfred Wegener playing the ultimate long game in exacting revenge upon his foes.

Step aside climate change and Red Giant Sun, I’m burning the Earth first. The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision is the end of show fireworks. Angry neutron stars yelling that you don’t have to go home to resist entropy but you can’t do it there.

JFC: https://kotaku.com/shell-big-oil-roadtrips-fortnite-map-collab-tiktok-ign-1850907435

lol kids are absolutely not gonna fall for that shit. they're just throwing money into a hole. good thing they have so much of it!

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/search-10-billion-missing-snow-crabs-scientists-eye-marine-heat-waves-rcna121449

When insurance giant AIG rattled the industry last year with an audacious plan to stop writing policies for some of the most heavily polluting fossil fuel projects, environmentalists and lawmakers showered the company with plaudits.

Like so many other large companies pledging to help the world avert climate catastrophe, AIG is finding that making such vows is easier than making good on them. The company is now a target of a Senate investigation into the insurance industry, led by lawmakers who warn that AIG and other companies continue to play a pivotal role in underwriting some of the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel projects in the world — despite lofty climate promises.

...AIG, which declined to comment or share its response to questions about its climate pledge from the committee, is hardly unusual. Over the last year, Amazon retreated from an effort to zero out the emissions of half its shipments by 2030. Shell Oil dropped an ambitious initiative to build a pipeline of carbon credits through investment in forest preservation and other carbon-absorbing projects worldwide. And BP significantly scaled back its plan to reduce emissions by as much as 35 percent by the end of the decade.

As the planet heats up at an alarming pace, these turnabouts expose the shortcomings of leaving it up to voluntary corporate action to solve an existential crisis, said John Lang, the project lead at Net Zero Tracker, a group that monitors progress on corporate and government climate pledges.

“There is a massive credibility gap with these corporate targets,” he said. “We need more regulation. Otherwise, the dial just will not turn.”

...Lang’s group examined more than 1,000 companies that have pledges to zero out their emissions by 2050. It found that 38 of them — less than 4 percent — are doing the bare minimum required under the Paris agreement’s goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The rest are not meeting the “starting line criteria” laid out by the United Nations, which calls on companies to track their carbon footprint across supply chains, immediately cut emissions, create a scientifically credible plan for using carbon offsets and report annual progress on meeting climate targets.

gift link: https://wapo.st/48470m1

nice to see some reporting on the failed commitments, rather than just the front-end coverage of corporate PR bullshit promises that have no enforcement mechanism.

Alaska's snow crab season canceled for second year in a row
https://www.yahoo.com/news/alaskas-snow-crab-season-canceled-002948381.html

“People are like, ‘Yeah, yeah, the world is going to end. But I’m still going to vacation on the Greek islands or the Bahamas.’”

Everyone at Davos should have been Mr. Choppy'ed years ago.

will bono be spared

no

the only thing pro bono will be mr choppy's defense lawyer

Mexico City running out of water.

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/09/atlantic-ocean-amoc-climate-change/

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.