World records hottest day for third time in a week
World records hottest day for third time in a week
One group of scientists reported a third global high calculated with satellites and computer models.
we are frogs collectively boiling ourselves and aware of it but too corrupted to stop.
The rich frogs keep pulling us back down into the pot and sitting on us
Hottest day this year so far*
Still got more summer to go
Coolest summer of the rest of your life! 🌞
The El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO as it is also called, is the most powerful fluctuation in the climate system anywhere on Earth. It happens every three to seven years, and in the warming phase, warmer waters come to the surface of the tropical Pacific and push heat into the atmosphere.
"Climate scientists aren't surprised about the global daily temperature record being broken, but we are very concerned," Friederike Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London, said.
It "should be a wake-up call for anyone who thinks the world needs more oil and gas," she added.
Hopefully this makes more people take climate change seriously.
Good joke lol
Not until someone can make it profitable.
It’s not about the amount of people taking it seriously. And people in general are pretty worried anyway.
Only a handful of people need to take it seriously to actually alleviate it, those who control or regulate most of the emissions. Your or my opinions mean shit.
Nothing short of revolution will make a difference, and the coddled slob of the western world won't lift a finger in self defence until he's physically dying.
Many people are taking it seriously. But people like you and me can't really do much if big companies (and/or governments) continue what they're doing.
Sure you are aware of this but for other folks, the economy is built around oil at every level. Plastics is an entire industry which just exists to supplement the leftovers of oil capitalism. Our leaders know this, so instead of starting at the lowest level, they seek increasingly impractical solutions. I.E Geoengineering.
Except the problem is that now that we’re really feeling the effects, it’s too late to do anything ‘easy’ to stop it from getting much, much worse.
I am sure China will stop burning coal right away.
Oh look. I am in danger.
Same energy as the almost yearly "once in a century flood/storm/wildfire".
But remember, it's not your fault! So you don't have to do anything about it. In fact, nothing you could do would matter anyway!
Just keep consuming, citizen.
It was always a lie by the capitalists to pawn off accountability for their insatiable greed driven decision to continue to terraform our only planet to be hostile towards human life for short term profit.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220504-why-the-wrong-people-are-blamed-for-climate-change
No amount of peasants separating cans and bottles or using cloth diapers would have changed the temperature of today, that was just a way to shift blame from the perpetrator with the bully pulpit to powerless individuals like us.
Should we recycle and consume a lot less? Of course, but never forget, that empty, purpose sapping, depression/anxiety causing consumer lifestyle isn't simply a choice we get to make, it is pushed on us all day every day at every level both through culture and through mass media the oligarchs fully own and through scholastic indoctrination through policy manipulation as the oligarchs own our politicians. We are raised from the cradle to conflate consumption with meaning. We are taught as children that a thriving consumer economy helps everyone when it really only helps a tiny sliver of the population at everyone else's expense.
The capitalists, not the self-hating peasant capitalism sycophants, the people that hold significant capital, will continue to blame their victims, even when they have to retreat to the luxury bunker compounds they've been building in places like new Zealand to protect themselves exclusively from the damage they've knowingly inflicted on the human race.
And watch, their descendants will emerge a generation or 2 later, fully believing they were the ones who were wronged, expecting to lead the remnants of humanity once again. We'll be dumb enough to let the sociopath's progeny do it, too. I've yet to see my species collectively declare that enough's fucking enough when the capital hoarders fuck us all over.
No amount of peasants separating cans and bottles or using cloth diapers would have changed the temperature of today, that was just a way to shift blame from the perpetrator with the bully pulpit to powerless individuals like us.
The idea of the powerless consumer is a lie the consumer class tells itself to feel better about its impending, largely self-inflicted, doom. Individually, consumers are certainly less to blame for climate change than billionaires, but they are neither powerless nor blameless.
Individual action is every bit as meaningless as voting in elections, or participating in any other large scale social movement. By repeating to ourselves the comforting lie that my own contribution to the problem is both negligible and inevitable, we play right into the hands of the billionaires.
Responsibility for the climate disaster does not divide cleanly into perpetrators and victims. Many, many people fall into both groups, or will eventually. The climate disaster has already claimed many victims, but the global consumer class is not among them, yet. But their time will come.