4 hottest days ever observed raise fears of a planet nearing ‘tipping points’
4 hottest days ever observed raise fears of a planet nearing ‘tipping points’
This week marked the apex of an unprecedented hot streak that toppled records and left communities and ecosystems reeling.
Since last July, Earth’s average temperature has been at least 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels.
As global temperatures spiked to their highest levels in recorded history on Monday, ambulances were screaming through the streets of Tokyo, carrying scores of people who had collapsed amid an unrelenting heat wave. A monster typhoonwas emerging from the scorching waters of the Pacific Ocean, which were several degrees warmer than normal. Thousands of vacationers fled the idyllic mountain town of Jasper, Canada ahead of a fast-moving wall of wildfire flames.
By the end of the week — which saw the four hottest days ever observed by scientists — dozens had been killed in the raging floodwaters and massive mudslides triggered by Typhoon Gaemi. Half of Jasper was reduced to ash. And about 3.6 billion people around the planet had endured temperatures that would have been exceedingly rare in a world without burning fossil fuels and other human activities, according to an analysis by scientists at the group Climate Central.
These extraordinary global temperatures marked the culmination of an unprecedented global hot streak that has stunned even researchers who spent their whole careers studying climate change.
Nearing?
It amazes me how long the messaging is muted. Permafrost started releasing methane in the twenty teens and folks still seem to think we will keep it below 1.5 or even 2 if we stop emitting.
Climate scientists straight up said they don't want to talk about the higher temperature cases because they think people will just zone out.
In other words the bulk of us are not expected to survive that scenario.
So in true human fashion we're going to work like we're limiting it at 2 degrees "because it has to stop there."
Maybe from the other side?
That would imply things getting better
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SP500 at all time high
SPF500 too.
Just wait until the lava people surface and invade
But have you considered corporation's rights to use the equivalent of a small country of electricity on the latest money making boondoggle?
Do you know just how much cheaper you can make things for in a third world factory that doesn't have to obey our stringent environmental regulations, and then shipped halfway across the world on a big dirty old boat? Those are important savings that we could be passing onto our most valued customers - the shareholders!
Who could have guessed??? Anyway it's important to think about the economy now, but only short term of course! /s
Will somebody think about the shareholders!!
Obligatory reminder that mother nature has killed civilization before and can do it again whenever she wants.
I hate that I'm part of the problem. I'm a human, and humans are parasites. We burn through the resources and destroy the things we have. I cannot go somewhere else and be a "good" human because we're all on the same destructive bus.
We don't even have the power to stop it. If we elected a radical green government in any one free democracy today, it wouldn't slow down any other country or foreign corporation. For example we're not stopping things like burning the Amazon without military intervention at this point and that would likely cost just as much climate damage as burning the Amazon.
At this point I've unbuckled my seat belt and I'm hanging half way out of the car so I can at least have some fun when we go over the cliff.
We can't see or judge the tipping point anymore because we already passed it.
It's like looking for that highway road sign without realizing you drove past it half an hour ago.
Deniers will never see it and climate scientists will never admit it because people will just zone out.
Four hottest days observed so far.
This year alone.
I love how my boomer father complained for 15 minutes about how fucking hot it's been of late, to then just add "... And for sure THEY will say this is all climate change" and then explained how golf courses were better for the environment than forests because they have more green surface per unit of land.
I usually rebuke, this time I'll let old age do it's thing
Somebody was trying to tell me how golf courses manage water better than nature. They absolutely could not understand that a golf course in the middle of the desert has obliterated nature and is diverting water from the larger ecosystem.
Yeah, we get it. Everything is fucked.
I'm commuting by bike, consuming less, composting everything, recycling,and doing all sorts of other shit, but these rich assholes gotta make a huge profit so here we are. It's infuriating and depressing but what can I do? Just fucking die from heat stroke I guess.
Those rich people have names and addresses. And they can be made examples of.
We literally need to start composting the richest arseholes.
Wow, what planet is that?
Baby, you ain’t seen nothing yet!
And lots of fauna and flora of actual value will be lost, but neither humans nor their beloved piles of metal and plastic shite will be counted among them.
Those are rookie numbers... /s