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Hope humans get good at terraforming or building tunnels, real fast.

…at this point it’s looking like the best case scenario is for humans to hurry up and go extinct so the damage can stop and minimize the number of other species we drag down with us.

Or we build our house like hobbit or teletubies.

From 2016 to 2022, 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions were produced by just 57 companies.

smithsonianmag.com/…/since-2016-80-percent-of-glo…

Emitted 3.2% of total greenhouse gas emissions when refrigerants are included.

ourworldindata.org/air-conditioning-causes-around…

A/C is a negligible amount of the problem and in these type of weather is a necessity, lest vulnerable people like seniors die from heat stroke. You could 10x AC usage and it still wouldn’t even match what corpos emit. We have way bigger issues than more AC use.

I have endured a Phoenix, Arizona heat at just under 120° F and opening my motel door was like opening an oven to check on something you’re baking. Our rental car had to have the AC on for about 3 minutes before sitting in the seats wasn’t searingly painful. It took about 5 minute for the steering wheel to be comfortable enough to grip for more than a few seconds.

Same, I went for a walk just to feel it. It was for about 5 minutes, I was fine, but it was definitely something that could kill you if you were in it for too long.

Meh, that’s pretty fucked if it’s humid. I’d do 50C in Death Valley before 40C in Florida.

Think the hottest I remember is 48C in Oklahoma. LOL, I was mowing lawns for a living and mom was calling to scream I should come home. At the time, I was young and used to it.

Speaking of humid. Put in a little 14’ above-ground pool. Jumped in the other day to cool off while working in the yard. For the first time I emotionally understood wet bulb temps. Soaking wet did nothing. Was fucking around at camp today, shirt instantly soaked, no wind, and no amount of water was cooling me. Scary stuff.

record breaking temps in Florida too though recently, just FYI.

Can’t wait for Florida to lead the way in fashion soon while they continue to vote anti-science and climate change denial

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We are on the trajectory that has been foreseen by climate scientists quite well. The problem is that a rise in average temperature does not just mean where it used to be 35°C max. it will be 36.5°C max. but rather the extremes will increase much stronger, so you get 40°C or more even though the average only increased by 1.5°C

As for methane leaks, we can detect them quite well nowadays using satellite imaging. You are correct, that the US, Russia and China show substantial leaks, India, Iran and a bunch of others are also in the mix.

esa.int/…/Trio_of_Sentinel_satellites_map_methane…

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Also from all the methane that animals release too

I suspect you’re correct purely because Trump stopped methane monitoring.

It still won’t improve then, though it may get less bad, less quickly. Our climate change crisis is effectively permanent and cumulative.

Edit: with a roughly 20 year delay between emissions and warming. (Before tipping points)

I usually downvote the repetitive slogans around here, but this one certainly bears repeating. One little CEO gets shot, everyone loses their MINDS!

When they say “This is a PEN!” the plosive sounds they use are so aggressive that it heats up the air around them. Honorable nippongo doesn’t contain such violent sounds, so clearly this heat is due to the gaiks.