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Conspiratiorist posted:My friend, summer being hotter than usual has been going on all over the world for the past 6 years straight. Except the Sonoran Desert and adjacent highlands, where our summers have been colder, and our winters, especially in the mountain highlands, have been warmer. Of course this fucks up snowpack and is tanking the Agua Fria, New River, Salt River and Gila River watersheds, and by extension the Lower Colorado River. Winter rains have also been flat sad, short and intense with low rainfall so the aquifers are sinking deeper and deeper. But hey, Boomers have their loving golf courses and Saudis have their fuckinf beef.
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Rainbow Chip Quake posted:My fiancee and I somehow ended up getting into Masterchef Australia and this past season they had an episode that featured some of the drought relief for farmers. They were trucking in endless bales of hay and feed for the livestock in the region. I couldn't help but wonder how many years in a row people will be willing to do something like that before accepting the new reality. we will do this as long as reactionaries mythologizing an imagined old-west frontier past continue to provide a deathgrip on rural electorates for the LNP (forever (we're doomed))
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Aug 13, 2019 03:26
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just move all the salmon to Australia and all the kangaroos to Alaska, problem solved
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Conspiratiorist posted:My friend, summer being hotter than usual has been going on all over the world for the past 6 years straight. Yeah just feels like this year has been a big step up
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Aug 13, 2019 03:53
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hatty posted:just move all the salmon to Australia and all the kangaroos to Alaska, problem solved Nah, we've got our own fish apocalypse going on. Google up Mendindee fish kill. On the plus side, kangaroos are really really really un-endangered, presumably because cats can't kill them.
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Aug 13, 2019 03:55
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Wasn't that viral video of the river full of dead fish and the people vomiting in aussie?
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Aug 13, 2019 03:57
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weve also decided that now in tyool 2019 its a great time to authorise a brand new gigantic coal mine and the tepidly ambiguous pushback from labor went out the window with their election loss so its full steam dig it up and burn it down baby
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Ayn Randi posted:weve also decided that now in tyool 2019 its a great time to authorise a brand new gigantic coal mine and the tepidly ambiguous pushback from labor went out the window with their election loss so its full steam dig it up and burn it down baby Like literally four days ago the EPA removed protections for salmon so they could mine and pollute the rivers even more lmao
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Aug 13, 2019 04:05
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lmfao at the salmon dying off iT's oNlY a FeW dEgReEs billions of years of life carefully hypertuned to survive on these exact precise conditions well, guess we'll die
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ya'll it's going to be unseasonably cool for the next several days here in northern wisconsin, like, high-is-70-degrees cool for middle of august is this just a weather fluctuation or is this the latest polar vortex swirling down here for "natural" air conditioning that's actually the aftermath of the death of 800 glaciers
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what’s been going on in Sub-Saharan Africa, anyway?
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SKULL.GIF posted:ya'll it's going to be unseasonably cool for the next several days here in northern wisconsin, like, high-is-70-degrees cool for middle of august When it's unseasonably cool one place it's unseasonably warm somewhere else...
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dream9!bed!! posted:When it's unseasonably cool one place it's unseasonably warm somewhere else... its been an insanely mild summer here in california which often has 105f summers in most places. been like, 60-80, a few days higher but about 15-20f cooler it owns, i like this weather
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Aug 13, 2019 04:52
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Xaris posted:it owns, i like this weather
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SKULL.GIF posted:ya'll it's going to be unseasonably cool for the next several days here in northern wisconsin, like, high-is-70-degrees cool for middle of august you may be unsurprised to learn that the Arctic remains real loving broken right now.
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Well let's take a look at the jet stream, 250 hPa. It's fine I'm sure it's totally normal for it to just go straight over the arctic and also to be in like 2000 different pieces some of which just swirl the opposite direction of usual. Shima Honnou has issued a correction as of 05:44 on Aug 13, 2019 |
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Aug 13, 2019 05:38
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Shima Honnou posted:Well let's take a look at the jet stream, 250 hPa. The face of the wind calls to me
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Looking at climate related graphs and data is never a good thing
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Phoneposting so can't link properly but here's a good one from a few days ago - its a coal mine(s): https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-08/water-train-saves-mine-and-jobs-in-lithgow/11392468?pfmredir=sm Highlights: Trains carrying 725,000 litres of water a day are the latest weapon to keep a drought-affected mine in inland New South Wales in production and keep jobs secure. Key points: Southern Shorthaul Railroad carts 725,000 litres of water from Charbon Mine to Airlie Mine each day on a 40km route Water trucks can carry an estimated 16,000 litres each load by road A senior NSW Government official says carting water by rail to parched towns is being planned
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Ayn Randi posted:you might think a country like australia is unprepared for severe winters with snow becoming commonplace, but what's even better is we're stupidly unprepared for severe summers also!
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Here's some cool news on the gulf stream https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article233546512.html quote:If you slow down the sinking of water in the North Atlantic, that means you have a pileup of waters along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States and the Gulf of Mexico,” said Brenda Ekwurzel, director of climate science for the Union of Concerned Scientists, an environmental group. “That means that you have increased regional sea level rise just from that ocean circulation change. So that’s not good for New York City, Norfolk or along Florida.
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at the rate we're going “I think it’s very likely that it won’t happen in the next few decades" means it will definitely happen next summer, right
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I'm so glad to be a part of the death crew.
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the bitcoin of weed posted:at the rate we're going “I think it’s very likely that it won’t happen in the next few decades" means it will definitely happen next summer, right at the latest lmao
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Xaris posted:it owns, i like this weather Again last night I had that strange dream where everything was exactly how it seemed concerns about the world getting warmer people thought that they were just being rewarded for treating others as they'd like to be treated for obeying stop signs and curing diseases for mailing letters with the address of the sender Now we can swim any day in November
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the bitcoin of weed posted:at the rate we're going “I think it’s very likely that it won’t happen in the next few decades" means it will definitely happen next summer, right At this point isn't 'Worst Case: 30 years' basically working out to 3-5 years lmao. RIP us.
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Shima Honnou posted:Well let's take a look at the jet stream, 250 hPa. Out of curiosity - does anyone have a version of this if we lived in a non-climate destroyed world? For comparison sake.
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hey remember that country we loving demolished in 2003? how’s that going you ask? A United Nations report released last month warned that the world is heading for a “climate apartheid” scenario, “where the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger and conflict while the rest of the world is left to suffer”. In Baghdad, that is already a reality. On 48C days, which are now coming earlier in the year, air conditioners are the most effective way of staying cool. But an electricity crisis in the country is putting even that essential tool out of reach to low-income families. The crisis – caused by a combination of corruption, mismanagement and a creaking national grid  – has exacerbated the country’s energy divide. The result is a huge gap between electricity supply and demand, especially in the summer. Nearly 2.8 billion people live in countries where the average daily temperature is greater than 25C, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), and less than 10 per cent of them own an air conditioner. The agency estimates that by 2050, 1.9 billion people living in hot countries will be without access to an air conditioner. the best-case scenario predictions for the level of warming would result in a 2.2 per cent reduction of global working hours due to heat stress by 2030, the equivalent of 80 million full-time jobs. “The ideal solution is to make more vegetation, which can lower temperatures. And we need to remove all the factories and old technology,” he says. But despite Iraq’s massive oil wealth, corruption is hampering reform and Iraqis are furious. Last summer, deadly protests erupted in the southern city of Basra over the government’s inability to provide reliable electricity and water. The government has promised to invest billions in improving the national grid, but few have noticed the difference so far. Protesters have been back on the streets this year in anticipation of another sweltering summer. “We expect the future climate of Iraq to be very dangerous,” Hamed, says. “I expect that if the issue isn’t fixed, it will bring down the government.” we are so hosed lmao
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Maybe we'll see this make a dent in beef sales? https://www.outsideonline.com/2399736/impossible-foods-beyond-meat-alt-meat e: quote:This time, when I asked the company to send me a burger, a five-pound block of meat—clearly what it normally ships to food-service companies—arrived on my doorstep. aphid_licker has issued a correction as of 16:25 on Aug 13, 2019 |
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tiberion02 posted:Out of curiosity - does anyone have a version of this if we lived in a non-climate destroyed world? For comparison sake. Well for the past while that the jet stream's been hosed in the northern hemisphere you could just flip the map and look at Antarctica so let's do that real quick and see how it's doing there.  A little better but also beginning to break apart lmao
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net work error posted:Here's some cool news on the gulf stream Thanks - yet another thing I get to send to my mother to convince her to sell their soon-to-be-worthless house in Virginia Beach that she delusionally thinks will be her "great gift" to me.
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Lol 4 different tropical mosquito species are invading LA at the same time, this owns
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here's one from 2016 love the article title: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/no-the-earths-jet-streams-are-not-spinning-out-of-control/
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Mayor Dave posted:Lol 4 different tropical mosquito species are invading LA at the same time, this owns Enjoy your West Nile Malaryellow Fever
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Mad Wack posted:here's one from 2016 rip chill af beckwith videos on youtube where he feeds his cats
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One of the sisters of one of my friends moved to Qatar today for a teaching gig, so between that and having heard last month firsthand from another friend that the water in the Gulf was too hot for swimming, I looked at ocean temps. Today the water in Qatar was 33C / 91F as a low and 34C / 93F as high (according to buoys; NOAA satellite readings suggest it's 89.8F currently at like 3am local time). Decided to look into that and apparently ocean surface temperature isn't supposed to be able to exceed 31C / 88F naturally, that's the upper end according to some .edu places. It's some physics thing, I'm not entirely sure why but that's apparently just how it's supposed to be, probably something to do with evaporation or currents. So I looked at some temperature records that go back a few years and that checks out, a max of 88F for Qatar's surface temperature for 2014 right up until 2018 and 2019 when it started registering into the 90s during summer. Seems fine.
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so arctic extent is right about 5,000,000 km^2 now for the major measurements it'll probably be below that for everything in the next day or two also there's potentially a month left to melt and it's already near 2012 levels lol
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http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/ Highlights 2012 by default. Other noteworthy years are 2007 and 2016.
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