Deep_Black_Conscious
Superstar
Earth is going to look like Mars by the time humans are done with it.
Heat wave in Spain and Portugal has killed over 1000 people temperature's reaching over 117 degrees
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Sri Lanka's economy collapsed cause the right-wing hack that runs the country is a terrible manager who made horrible policy decisions, and those decisions happened to coincide with terrorism and Covid bodying their tourist industry. He pushed through massive tax cuts that killed government revenue, made numerous terrible internal financial decisions, and tried to randomly ban pesticides and fertilizer in one fell swoop to promote organic farming without giving farmers time to adjust at all, killing their ag industry. All at the same time their tourist industry died due to Covid and inflation, energy prices, and supply chain issues hit them just like everywhere else.
But NONE of that has anything to do with climate change. How you gonna claim their economy collapsed cause they responded to climate change? Where the fukk did you get that nonsense? Climate change response doesn't have jack shyt to do with it, did you make that one up yourself or is it something some Tucker Carlson-type said online?
Be scientifically illiterate brehs. Al Gore is pop-level climate enthusiast - he has literally zero influence on scientific analysis of climate change. You can read actual research on how much the climate has already changed, how far shyt is already collapsing, and how much further it will go without having to worry about Al Gore at all.
(Also not sure where you got the claim that he became rich off climate change. He's rich cause he came from a well-off family, served on the board of Apple and had a ton of Apple stock that he eventually made something like $75 million on, helped found Al Jazeera Satellite Network and sold off a huge stake in that company that ended up being worth another $70 million, held a bunch of eBay stock from early that is now worth millions, and then made a venture investment in VideoSurf that was then bought by Microsoft for $100 million. Where did you get the claim he got rich from climate change, the Daily Wire or some shyt?)
Due to ecosystem collapses and massive migrant problems, climate change will almost certainly make life worse everywhere. But it is true that it will be worse in some places more than others.
Least affected: Canada, Russia, northern Europe
Most affected: Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America
So the poorest parts of the world are fukked the most and the richest parts are fukked the least. You think that's nothing to worry about? You don't think warming will cause huge crop failures in places like Africa and India where crops are already on the margins of heat and drought? You don't think it will cause massive famines and displace tens of millions of people from the places least equipped to handle it? You don't think the huge migrations into USA and Europe are only a small taste of what's coming?
A "war" more or less over access to clean drinking water.
The West Coast is constantly having droughts, which have started to make their way to the Midwest.
Imagine turning on your tap and getting nothing. You get an alert on your phone that the city is rationing water.
Supermarket is out of bottled water OR the price is insane.
People with money buying up land with access to water tables, who then sell it back to the closest towns for money.
This is just in the US, some whole COUNTRIES will lose access to clean water. Something that the human body needs to survive.
Desalting ocean water is a very expensive and pain in the ass process, On top of the ocean water being dirty from contaminants and new bacteria that will grow because it's heating up.
The Observer
All Star
That’s because you got the windows open…..the hot air from outside is coming in.I’ve got all the windows open, all the blinds closed and all the lights switched off and it’s still 39 degrees inside my fukking house
Keep the windows closed during the day and open them at night when its cooler
All for the name of $$$ and instant gratification like a crackhead.
EA
A Pound & A Prayer
I tried this, this morning and it did feel like it made a difference but the air is so stuffy. Days like this really drives home how terrible the air quality is in London.
Sleepy Floyd
Superstar
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Global warming is a myth made up by cacs. Classic fearmongering tactic. The average temperatures of the world constantly fluctuate over thousands and millions of years. Nothing humans are doing can actually change it. This planet has entitled whole Ice Ages and then gotten hot enough to thaw out of it several times over
EA
A Pound & A Prayer
I was meant to fly to Orlando to visit family this week but stayed because of work. I’m regretting it every second I’m here
Countries going into actual armed conflict over access to water resources because climate change and drought are turning water access into an existential crisis. I'm not convinced it's going to be a major thing because most conflicts of that type are driven by wealth rather than necessities (nations struggling with necessities are often reluctant to commit the resources to enter full-scale conflict). But there are certainly some persuasive arguments that it will be possible.
The most likely regions for conflict are along the major multinational rivers in needy areas - the Nile, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Indus, and the Mekong. One nation wants to dam the river to preserve water for themselves, the other wants to let it flow to reach their people.
How water shortages are brewing wars
Unprecedented levels of dam building and water extraction by nations on great rivers are leaving countries further downstream increasingly thirsty, increasing the risk of conflicts.
www.bbc.com
Short video on water shortages:
Global warming is a myth made up by cacs. Classic fearmongering tactic. The average temperatures of the world constantly fluctuate over thousands and millions of years. Nothing humans are doing can actually change it. This planet has entitled whole Ice Ages and then gotten hot enough to thaw out of it several times over
That graph isn't showing what you want it to show. Do you see the "2016" written there? It's so far above the trend line you'd pretty much have to draw a line straight up to reach it. The previous graph was similar - it was showing fluctuations over such long time periods that the current rise doesn't even fit, it looks completely obscene.
Climate has always changed gradually, over thousands of years. Right now we're accelerating that process into decades rather than millennia, and neither humans nor nature can adapt. You're showing fluctuations over the last few thousand years without acknowledging that we've created the highest carbon dioxide levels in at least four MILLION years, which are driving the acceleration of global warming to levels unprecedented in known geological history. There's a massive difference between the long-term gradual shift in climate and sudden abrupt changes. This is an extinction-potential event for numerous ecosystems and populated regions.
Next you're going to post a graph of extinction-level asteroids hitting the Earth every 50 million years as your argument for why asteroid impacts are just normal and natural and we should ignore them.
Sleepy Floyd
Superstar
You ignored the other graph
Asteroid impacts are natural and unavoidable. Humans will be extinct before the next one hits anyway.
Our most likely extinction event is a nuclear world war
You ignored the other graph
No I didn't. I said that your previous graph was on such a ridiculous time scale that civilization-level changes aren't even visible. We're talking about the climate changing on the span of decades and then you post a graph showing climate changes on the scale of hundreds of thousands of years. You don't realize how completely irrelevant that is.
Ah, look, now you understand the difference between civilization-level timescales and geologic-level timescales. So why not apply that to your interpretation of your previous graphs?
It's ridiculous to show the climate changing over hundreds of thousands of years as your excuse for a sudden and unprecedented surge within just a few dozen years.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
I'm in the midwest, and this summer been hot as hell. thank god I'm not in the south where it's 105+ every day. we getting high 80's to 90's on the regular tho 