Since last July, Earth’s average temperature has been at least 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels.
As global temperatures spiked to their highest levels in recorded history on Monday, ambulances were screaming through the streets of Tokyo, carrying scores of people who had collapsed amid an unrelenting heat wave. A monster typhoonwas emerging from the scorching waters of the Pacific Ocean, which were several degrees warmer than normal. Thousands of vacationers fled the idyllic mountain town of Jasper, Canada ahead of a fast-moving wall of wildfire flames.
By the end of the week — which saw the four hottest days ever observed by scientists — dozens had been killed in the raging floodwaters and massive mudslides triggered by Typhoon Gaemi. Half of Jasper was reduced to ash. And about 3.6 billion people around the planet had endured temperatures that would have been exceedingly rare in a world without burning fossil fuels and other human activities, according to an analysis by scientists at the group Climate Central.
These extraordinary global temperatures marked the culmination of an unprecedented global hot streak that has stunned even researchers who spent their whole careers studying climate change.
Nearing?
People simply can’t/won’t hear it. Society is clinging to any doubt or contrary viewpoint (and oil companies and their paid shills provide plenty) because it is difficult to envision the delicate and finite nature of our situation. Triggered methane releases are currently ratcheting up the warming, you can’t refreeze the permafrost, it rapidly cooks the planet.
No one wants to believe it, but this is the end unless dramatic changes are made. Having children, at this juncture, with what we know, is profoundly selfish. And folks cannot accept this, let alone, the changes that must be made, systemically, for society to survive.
Having children, at this juncture, with what we know, is profoundly selfish
Not just having children, but raising them to continue the same “driving huge SUV everywhere” costco lifestyle that got us into this mess
Hey! Do you have any data on which areas might become uninhabitable in which scenarios and timeframes?
In the US, heat waves and hurricanes are hitting the south worse every year. The west is on fire and out of water. New York City is flooding more every year.
Move to Minnesota.
The low areas around the equator are experiencing more days every year with periods of temperature above human survivability. This means temperatures are too high for our natural evaporative cooling to work. Countries in the area do have some work arounds which is why we haven’t seen large scale deaths from these heat waves yet. Also AFAIK, these temperatures have only lasted a few hours at a time so far and over heating takes time.
As we go on like this though these periods will happen more often and last for longer, likely overwhelming the ability to compensate. It will also spread outside regions with such cooling infrastructure if we keep pushing it.
This is where we’re expecting at least a billion people to pick up and move, and we’re not entirely sure when that would happen. It depends on where the breakpoint is in the climate, and how tolerant the locals are of heat wave deaths.
No no no no no…… it’s terrible here. No one wants to live in the PNW. Rains ALL the time. Especially in the summer. And it’s COLD!
It amazes me how long the messaging is muted. Permafrost started releasing methane in the twenty teens and folks still seem to think we will keep it below 1.5 or even 2 if we stop emitting.
Climate scientists straight up said they don’t want to talk about the higher temperature cases because they think people will just zone out.
In other words the bulk of us are not expected to survive that scenario.
So in true human fashion we’re going to work like we’re limiting it at 2 degrees “because it has to stop there.”
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Who could have guessed??? Anyway it’s important to think about the economy now, but only short term of course! /s
Yeah, we get it. Everything is fucked.
“nearing”
Yeah.
It’s cool bruh, we can just reverse it if things start getting uncomfortably warm.
