Living through a heat dome was terrifying… seeing birds pant and plants die a couple days after the extreme heat.
I hope this spurs everyone to take climate change more seriously but I won’t hold my breath.
I hope this spurs everyone to take climate change more seriously but I won’t hold my breath.
The mealy mouth bullshit we do now, where every individual is accountable, but the corporations behind most of the emissions and waste are not, is absurd. We'll never have resealable, recycleable plastic chip bags, for example, because that would cost someone money....
We're basically cornering humanity into some kind of horrible hellscape future where we're all going to be killing each other for electricity or waffles or god knows what...
My faith in humanity is so low at this point that I expect the solution could just as easily end up being global conflict that significantly decreases the population, rather than actually fixing anything. Poor countries will suffer terribly long before rich countries give a flying fart about it.
Kinda sorta. If things become so chaotic that they have to flee to those bunkers, there's a decent chance the political situation afterwards won't allow them to return to their previous positions.
So, unless their bunker has enough weapons for a small army and they have the skills and mentality to become a petty warlord in rural post-apocalyptic New Zealand, all they can really count on getting from it is a somewhat higher chance to survive.
What path do you think it will be taken seriously even after the heat waves, freezes, wildfires, storms we've already been having?
Once icecaps melts and sea levels rise there's no known turning back. CO2 can't and won't drop significantly in our lifetime without unconvential means.
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/gl_gr.html
Would like nothing better than to be proven wrong.
What we're talking about is one biome being changed out for another if this becomes regular. Allegedly this heat wave is 1 in 1000 years but who knows what is normal now.
it wad made 150 times more likely due to cc so far, hence the 1/1000. so we can expect those odds to get more likely - even if we stopped emitting today, those odds look bad.
"There are two possible sources of this extreme jump in peak temperatures. The first is that this is a very low probability event[...] The second option is that nonlinear interactions in the climate have substantially increased the probability of such extreme heat, much beyond the gradual increase in heat extremes that has been observed up to now"
So something could have changed in the dynamics for the region which greatly increased the chances of this occurrence. Really hope that isn't the case here...
Exactly. I'm already seeing deciduous trees dropping leaves here in Western Oregon a good 3 months early due to that heatwave. A lot of conifers not looking great either. Those temps put tremendous stress on our ecosystem. They don't have large amounts of fuel in the form of trees in places like TX, if a large portion of our trees start dying it's going to make fire season even more horrific than it has been in recent years.