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Nearly 200M in U.S. under heat advisories, warnings as two heat domes form
- xwdv 5y agoBecoming a common thing now, maybe people will finally believe something must be done, but it’s likely already too late.
- kzrdude 5y agoIt's probably impossible to teach the broader public about the time scales involved in this. What we do now affects the world in decades to come (and more). And what we did for decades affects us now.
- alexose 5y agoIt's not too late. There have been recent (huge!) advances in renewable energy, chemistry, and climate modeling that open the door to solving this problem. The path I see in front of us involves temporarily geoengineering our way to a +1C ceiling while massively scaling up carbon capture operations. At the same time, we transition as much industry to renewable energy as possible. This can be done. It's entirely within our grasp.
- rootusrootus 5y ago> geoengineering And therein lies the rub. A big chunk of the population thinks climate change is a lie, or there isn't anything reasonable we can do about it, or it's too expensive to try and do something about it. And the opposing side will only accept massive reductions in quality-of-life to fix climate change and absolutely won't support geoengineering. Maybe the pragmatic middle is bigger than I think, and has the power to push the various wingnuts out into irrelevancy so we can get on with trying to innovate our way out of this mess like we always do.
- ant6n 5y agoThere's those who don't want to change their way of life and deny the problem, and those who don't want to change their way of life and claim some magical but impossible techno fix will solve the problem. Then there's those who realize that we won't solve the problem without some adjustment to the way we live.
- rootusrootus 5y agoAnd the first two groups outnumber the last by 100 to 1.
- LatteLazy 5y agoIts not too late for geo engineering, or for local action like aircon, flood defences etc. That's the way forward now. For prevention the time is up.
- rybosworld 5y agoThe next decade we are going to see a lot more heat related deaths. And unfortunately, it will disproportionally affect the poorest/most vulnerable people.
- x14km2d 5y agoshould we even make it to the next decade. So far, this seems to look rather complicated.
- FFRefresh 5y agoYour comment sounds like you are predicting a mass human extinction, or close to it? I personally think that's incredibly far off base, but if you are confident in your prediction for mass doom, I recommend throwing some money into prediction markets around it. It could be a great way to calibrate your model of reality (and potentially make money if you are right!).
- vkou 5y agoIf you're betting on collapse, and you are right, you aren't going to be around to collect. If you're betting against collapse, and you are wrong, you aren't going to be around to pay up.
- FFRefresh 5y agoA few variations in line with that: If you're betting on near-total collapse, and you are right (and you survive from living in the developed world), you will be around to collect If you're betting on collapse, and you are wrong, you will be around to pay up If you bet against collapse, and you are right, you will be around to collect It should also be said that with prediction markets, you don't have to wait until the event happens before selling your position.
- yissp 5y agoLike Pascal's wager
- shock-value 5y agoNote, this article is from two days ago and references predictions made then for yesterday.
- dotcommand 5y agoWhy is a weather article from august 11 being brigaded to the frontpage now. A 2 day old article about the weather?
- k33n 5y agoDidn't you hear? The sea level will rise to an untenable level by 1975! We must shut down our society completely!
- NationalPark 5y agoWhy is it that one conspiracy breeds another with you guys? I just skimmed your history and not only are you a climate science denier, you are also a covid denier, and you believe that the "mainstream media" is conspiring to depress GameStop's stock price! Surely you at least recognize how unlikely it is that all of these are true and you just happen to be one of the special few who figured it out? Cmon...
- k33n 5y agoI deny most of the lies mainstream media pushes. I'm sorry that having your spoonfed worldview challenged is so hard for you. Wish you all the best! Hundreds of millions if not billions share my views. Not too special. Hurry up and get off the computer! You're missing Anderson Cooper 360!
- Terretta 5y agoFrom below: > ”if not billions” Narrator: “It’s not billions.” On the other hand, that post provoked a thought: Society has lost valuable herd immunity to bad thinking. Used to be kooks had to try hard to spread nonsense. Redefine kook as edgy, influencer, or in-the-know contrarian, and the nonsense practically spreads itself. And your remark raised a point too: it’s indeed about feeling special. Now that everything is noisy, that takes a special kind of noise.
- s5300 5y agoMain character syndrome appears to be fairly rampant amongst conspiracy theorists.
- kaminar 5y agoOh no oh no oh no...everybody run for the hills! Nothing like this has ever happened before, what'll we do?! Smh...lemme know when winter comes and they predict we're headed for an ice age...again.
- throaway46546 5y agoIt's a been pretty weird experience sitting comfortably here in the Mojave desert while my family in the PNW is suffering in the heat.
- edgefield 5y agoIf we don’t respond to climate change now and aggressively, like we are fighting a war, humanity is toast. Climate change will quickly wipe out most life on earth. The IPCC “code red” report doesn’t even take into account several enormous feedback effects such as methane off gassing from rock formations.
- albertgoeswoof 5y agoClimate change will probably help increase life on earth, given it will likely remove the most invasive and bio-suppressant species on earth today, humans
- edgefield 5y agoTrue. Just give the planet 1M years to recover.
- MichaelZuo 5y agoCertain species reproduce very fast and will definitely take advantage of the higher temperatures relatively quickly, within a century.
- rootusrootus 5y agoThe odds of humans actually going extinct due to climate change seem pretty long. A massive reduction, sure, but all of them?
- albertgoeswoof 5y agoWe don’t have to kill all the humans to prevent the extinction of life on the planet
- akomtu 5y agoI wonder if the reason the US elites are moving to NZ is these heat waves: perhaps modeling revealed that most of the US will become uncomfortably hot and humid in the next decade or so, while NZ will stay cool.
- scrollaway 5y agoAir conditioning is a lot easier than moving to New Zealand. The whole NZ citizenship for the rich is a mix of preppers nonsense and elite club FOMO. If it gets bad enough that NZ is the easiest answer, then NZ won’t be the answer. Remember these are the same people doing young blood transfusions to stave off death. Hey, maybe history will prove me wrong, but it’s not impossible they’re flawed humans with fears and insecurities like everyone else.
- decebalus1 5y agoMy hypothesis about why rich people moving to NZ is that it's a mix of hype, NZ climate and the relative isolation. The latter is one of the most important. It's pretty hard to get to NZ. The distance itself will basically guarantee you won't get overrun by climate change refugees. Unlike the mainland US or Europe.
- scrollaway 5y agoRight but the distance has far more disadvantages in a crisis, especially for such a small country.
- rootusrootus 5y agoIs NZ capable of self-sufficiency, though? The same distance that makes it hard to be overrun with refugees also makes it difficult to resupply.
- akomtu 5y agoThe rich are very mobile: they can hop on a jet in their garage and be anywhere the same day. They aren't bound to their houses, like middle class.
- irrational 5y agoI’m in Oregon. After that lingering week of 110+ temperatures in June the temperature gauge at my house said it got to 119 one afternoon), these three days of about 100 degree temperatures seems downright cool in comparison.
- LatteLazy 5y ago(for anyone else wondering 110F is 43C)
- manyxcxi 5y agoAlso in Oregon (Portland area) and though it doesn’t feel darn near as hot the addition of mediocre air quality from the forest fires and higher than normal humidity make it suck something fierce. 72+ degrees and 80% humidity the past two mornings at 5am when I started the dog jog and it was not fun. 95 degrees last night at 9pm. For those unfamiliar we usually have very low humidity and cool off a lot at night. It could easily be 85+ degrees during the day and we will normally be in the 50s overnight, with the temperature starting to drop a lot by 8 or 9pm.
- josh_today 5y agoFrom the US, had anyone ever heard of heat domes during summer heat waves before
- mikeg8 5y agoNorthern CA resident, this year is the first for me.
- rootusrootus 5y agoSeems to be a term that has existed in meteorological circles for a while, but for some reason hit the mainstream media this year. This is the first year I'd heard it.
- FartyMcFarter 5y ago> High temperatures in Portland, Ore., are forecast to reach 98°F Wednesday, and 100°F on Thursday and Friday before cooling down for the weekend. The typical high temperature in Portland at this time of year is 83°F. What does "typical high" mean? Wikipedia says that the average high for August is 82°F, but the mean maximum is 97°F.
- aprdm 5y agoIt's crazy how hot Vancouver has been this summer. That and the smoke from wildfires. If this is a constant for every year I will seriously consider moving :/
- belval 5y agoNo kidding, I am downtown and you can't even see North Vanc right now.