The planet’s average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.
A toast to everyone in this thread that decided to not have kids! 🥂
a toast to everyone in this thread that will be burnt to toast because unchecked greed and capitalism.
Hear hear!
I will never create and subject a human being to the world our negligence has created.
About 15 years ago I was going somewhere with my family. Stepmom and I were talking about Climate Change then, how if things didn’t change that massive starvation was likely, that crazed weather would be irreversible, etc. and she noticed that my 10 year old niece’s eyes were getting huge. She was genuinely disturbed by the conversation and began to say is this really going to happen? Before I could plainly reply my stepmom reassured her that no, things were going to be fine, and we changed the subject.
Niece is in mid twenties now and subject to the reality of the situation as it slowly unfolds, like an asteroid headed toward the earth at 5 mph. The future is dreadful to her.
Yeah, it’s great to know we’ll die off!
I mean, it’s also great that we’re not leaving behind offspring to have progressively poorer lives until it’s just Event Horizon: Earth.
If we all had this point of view, that’d be the end of us.
The consequences of inaction in the late 20th and early 21st centuries will be the end of us. 😀 To hope otherwise or lament over is just wasting time. Enjoy life before it gets worse!
That’s a rather pessimistic view. Yes, it will be hard as fuck. Yes, unfortunately it will be the end of some us. But I think we as a race will prevail and I don’t think simply giving up right now is an option.
I thought that too until I learned about what could happen if ocean acidification gets a lot worse.
I do agree the human race will prevail, but honestly I just wish we didn’t. like wtf just look around us and all the shit we caused.
It will be either way
I’m never having kids. Had things been easier, maybe I would’ve had kids but it’s hard enough to look out for myself as it is and having kids anyway like many people do is the worst move I could possibly make. Not having kids will have consequences against the absolute tyrants in charge of it all some day. Not having kids in protest to the system (or at least until things improve for the common person) is just doing your patriotic duty at this point.
Ditto. Not that I’d have the opportunity, but decided I’d only adopt if I desired to raise a child.
That’s a good call! If I ever get the hankering to have kids I’ll just do that. We do that with dogs (rescue), why not humans?
I want to have kids. But bringing them into a poisoned and dying world where they have to earn the right to exist? That just seems cruel
If we get past the next few decades, I’ll bring them into a world worth living in
that’s one of the biggest reasons for my decision not to
As a side benefit, I also have all the money and free time to spend with furry children instead!
Exponentially increasing heat is when toddlers amirite
(also you should still adopt kids)
This summer is the coolest summer you’ll experience in the rest of your life.
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so basically, the distribution of heat is less even than before
It’s more that climate is the long-term average, while weather is the variation around the average. So while there is an trend in the average temperature, the variation means that there will still be hotter and cooler periods.
Yes. The average temperature of the globe is higher, but global warming is not applied evenly and the chaos caused to global weather currents does actually cause some regions to get colder.
Yeah, I have the windows open right now and yesterday I wore a sweatshirt. Its usually 110+ right now.
On average, it will be.
Just happened in the north of Spain.
Nah, that’ll be 2026-2027 some time. The overall trend takes a decade or so to exceed the smaller scale ~3yr oscillations.
“sooner than expected”, “tipping point”, “nonbinding resolution”, “climate scientists warn”
Everything is fine…
Nothing to see here!
My local oil exec said that it’s fine.
Phew!
How about my dividends, are they safe?
I feel like one sad thing is you could go back ten or twenty years and it was the exact same and it not much has really changed. The same warnings that everybody has seen but nothing has really come of it. The same almost pointless resolutions that almost no country sticks to. We have more wind turbines and a few electric cars, but mostly it’s the same non-action as before.
I remember reading a geography textbook at school twenty years ago and it was warning of climate change but here I am two decades later and everything is basically heading in the same terrifying direction as it was then.
Well, time to capitulate to Big Energy
We’ve tried making the problem worse and now we’re all out of ideas.
Personally I think we should redirect to individual energy.
I’m all for nuclear power and do believe more plants would obviously be better than continuing to use FF.
But I also don’t see why we don’t just use solar panels/turbines etc. On every home. They sustain my home just fine, just some solar panels and a few batteries. Expensive initial investment but people are paying out the ass for electric in my area anyway.
Knowing that if the power grid fails I’ve nothing to worry about feels great.
I just can’t see why our governments don’t band together and mass produce solar panels. Yes, it’s going to be expensive but the way we’ve been obtaining power has been much more costly. The second the tech for solar panels became available the gov should’ve began attempting to mass produce and distribute them. Why they haven’t? My guess is that it’s because big corporations require more power than average people. Also, power itself is a big corporation. None of our power companies wanted to go out of business, they wanted to leech our $ instead even though it was a detriment to our future.
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Which, hey, bonus, amirite? Nothing beats a BLT with fresh, home-grown tomatoes to watch the much-quicker-than-anticipated demise of Earth.
Oh hey, don’t worry, the earth will be fine. We’ll all die, but the earth? It’ll still be here
For real! My porch garden is already a jungle and I need to build some kind of A-frame support.
Wtg! What’s the next record to crush?
Man am I glad I decided not to have kids.
I don’t know why but this summer humidity levels goes down a bit.
I’ve left windows open all year and no humidity issues. I almost always have them during the Spring and Summer other years. I’ll take it, I hate humidity.
If the temperature this summer has been warmer than normal for you, then the lower humidity could be caused by the additional heat.
Warm air will process more moisture than cooler air.
How is this average calculated? Such numbers cannot be taken serious.
according to data from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, a tool that uses satellite data and computer simulations to measure the world’s condition.
You can read up on that study and on the climate reanalyzer.
People who don’t even click on the article or do any research before dismissing something cannot be taken seriously.
Just reading such a headline and about some calculated average global temperature record is enough for me to categorize it as fearmongering. Same as with covid infection statistics in the last three years. Now with climate. Screw that. On this issue I am perfectly happy with my heuristics.
Just reading such a headline and about some calculated average global temperature record is enough for me to categorize it as fearmongering.
Fearmongering what? Are you still denying the CO2 in the air is affecting climate? I think there are some flat earth subs on here, you’ll feel right at home there.
Don’t forget to use the block feature everybody!
What do you mean by block feature? What do you want to block?
At this rate there will only be one place to escape to that hasn’t been corrupted by capitalism - SPACE.
Beginning of the end? Although, I hope not, but it feels like one…
Graphic of ice cover for the Antarctic is truly terrifying
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Source please! It’s super pixilated.
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Fucking hell
Source of source: https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/#/extent
Cool. Nothing to see here. Totally fine. It’s not like western Washington is needing AC in the summer every year now for the first time in literally ever.
Should we take a moment to recognise that battling climate change with air conditioning is not a long-term winning strategy??
My electricity bill went up 50% due to the AC alone. It’s getting THAT bad
Hey, at least you’re wealthy enough to pay it!
Imagine all the subsistence farmers in africa, lol.
Glad you’re staying cool 🥶
So just broil to death in the name of ‘climate religion’?
Oh no… people in the PNW might not have great weather all the time anymore.
Oh no…
All the time lol? I guess if you like 9 months of grey full sky’s then sure.
Did you want to see the sun? If I can see the sun, its bad weather IMO.
What can we do as the little individual people that we are?
Going vegan would help for sure. Less animal products consumed means less animal products produced means waay less pollution.
A lot of change needs to happen on a government-level too, of course, but that is a very tangible, easy-to-achieve goal everyone can do.
We can all do our part. That doesn’t mean the problems will be solved, but we can all do our part to implement the solution.
Discussion is important. Conservation is important. The biggest issue here isn’t really the individual; it’s society. Change can’t happen in a vacuum. The only way society will change is if, you know, it changes. i.e. people need to be willing to sacrifice short term gains for long term benefit.
If it was sexy to do less, these problems would be solved overnight.
Realistically, as an individual? Nothing. I hate doom posting but i genuinely don’t think there is a single tangible change any one regular person could make.
The best you can realistically do is vote for people who care about solving the problem, and against people who ignore the problem.
And if the only ones who don’t accept
bribeslobbying from oil, gas, and coal companies are independents and third parties who have no chance of winning anything because your country’s voting system is first past the post? Then what? ~Strawberry¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think it’s important to note that this also coincides with the start of what’s predicted to be a super El Nino (we’ve had a couple of those already). If the model holds true then 2024 will be even hotter than this year, and (again, if the model predictions are right) will shatter all previous records. Then come 2025 or 2026 average temperatures will settle down a bit.
The issue isn’t the seasonal or even the yearly hottest temps. It’s the overall trend that’s a concern (which is what the article is talking about), which are trending up.
Not sure if any of that made sense.
right so considering we’ve been seeing alarming loss of ice mass over the last couple of years and we know that has an exponential effect on climate change. We already hit the tipping point just most people didn’t realize it.
Ya probably. I’m still hoping that there’s some global mechanism that we don’t understand yet that will limit or reign in the effects. But that’s just wishful thinking.
Of course there is a limit. The question is how high it is. For instance, at high enough CO2 concentrations, the greenhouse effect doesn’t get much stronger anymore. Also, the more CO2, the faster it dissapears by eroding rocks. That happens on a geological timescale, though.
If we did something to lower temperature, I’d be very worried about the CO2 concentration’s other effect: feeling like suffocating all the time.
The problem is when the temps come back down, climate deniers will go “WhAt HaPpEnEd?”.
Makes sense, but the idea of a “super” El Nino is a symptom of the same problem. Super implies unusual or abnormal, and it’s only getting worse.
Well yes, the super El Nino’s are part of climate change. They are getting worse each time. All I was saying is that it’s not a straight year over year increase. It comes in waves or heaves in a periodic manner.
I thought the impact of climate change on El Nino was not really settled (notably due to the erratic nature of the ENSO), do you happen to have a source on that?
I don’t know, honestly. But these videos have some good info.
Thanks, I’ll have a look!
