• SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I see you and I hear you. I get why you would consider this unfortunate. However responsible leaders have to take all considerations into account. We can't just stop climate change without being aware of the consequences. And the truth is that reducing emissions would simply be too expensive.

    We must also consider that the jury is still out on whether climate change is man made, whether the climate really exists or indeed whether material reality itself exists.

    Instead of jumping to rash actions on climate change we should reduce taxes on businesses and job creators, thereby incentivising growth and creating the economic surplus necessary to eventually handle climate change. It could very well be that cooking the planet is the fiscally savvy thing to do.

  • bananon [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    We ran out of reds, so we had to start using black and purple like it’s a wasteland. Now we’ve run out of wasteland and have to jump to the other end of the color spectrum.

    • AlephNull [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Aus had to do that for the UV index a while back

      Edit:

      Sun protection measures are recommended when the UV Index is 3 and above. Remember you can still get burnt on cool or cloudy days – so think UV, not heat.

      http://www.bom.gov.au/uv/index.shtml
      The present index goes to 14+

    • 420sixtynine [any,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      half the state is a desert, it gets pretty hot here. Most people don't know that though bc it's very rural

      • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Shit, East Washington counts as a desert? This place has a rainforest, desert, and an active volcano. Wack

        • 420sixtynine [any,comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          yeah, if it hasn;t been turned into farmland all you see is sand and sagebrush, it's one of the reasons I love this state so much. I love camping/backpacking/outdoors stuff and it's great bc you can literally go anywhere. If I wanted to go summit a mountain, go sailing, go to a rainforest, desert, etc I wouldn't have to leave the state. Here's a map of the whole PNWs level iv ecoregions, there's an insane amount of variety

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      According to the same tweet, it will reach 121 the day after (on Tuesday). :grillman:

      ( https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1407068340661653505/photo/2)

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.

  • 420sixtynine [any,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I don't do well in the heat. I am uncomfortable at around 75 degrees. I have lived in a desert my entire life, I hate it so much. I never just "got used to it". This summer has been especially miserable, I hate it so much

    • cawsby [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Best thing I ever did was leave Phoenix, AZ behind and move to Norcal then Oregon.

      My skin is not made for sun. I'm Irish, Swedish, and Icelandic. If you cut my skin off you could probably see through it.

        • cawsby [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Its Pheonix temps in Oregon rn

          Not if you live in your basement since Jan 2020, like me.

          I have my covid bunker.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      as the whitest person alive, im meant to live in an area that is dark 90% of the time, perhaps a cave, or ireland

      fr the only person whiter than me irl that i met was literally on their deathbed

      whenever i go to the docs office theyre like 'oh my god youre so pale are you sick' and im like 'no im just pale lol'

  • discontinuuity [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    But I live in an air conditioned house that I only leave in my air conditioned car which I drive to my air conditioned office and air conditioned stores and air conditioned restaurants so everything is fine :this-is-fine:

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I recently saw an article about how californians are being driven back to the office to be “freezing again”

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Except this is the PNW where houses aren't air conditioned because that's not sustainable and it never gets up past 100, so these people are all sweating like hominids

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      We're definitely heading that direction. Shit is gonna get real bad over the next 10 years. Crop loss, inhospitable summer heat, potential internal climate refugees.

        • KasDapital [any]
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          3 years ago

          It will still be inhabitable, just not to the current degree. People will have to cut down on water use. That or there's an effort to spread desalination and pump fresh water across the continent.

          The thing is it isn't all doom and gloom. It's just pretty bad.

        • Zodiark
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          4 months ago

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    • KasDapital [any]
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      3 years ago

      Honestly thank fuck this isn't over AZ. We already have a few wildfires threatening communities. If this were here there'd probably be half a dozen more.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      The western half anyway. The Eastern half is going to be like Florida

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      East has remained wet and cool so far this year. It was 55 this morning in Michigan and we've been getting shit loads of rain.

    • Wogre [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Nah. Here in Virginia it's only been in the low 90s the past few days and there's been at least one thunderstorm a week. But it's onkay it won't be that way for long cuz I'm in the will-be-submerged-in-the-future area :agony-deep:

  • Kanna [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    It's okay, my kids and their kids will fix this!

      • AlephNull [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Ehh, 48C is enough to melt the road, shit sucks. Dry is easier to handle than wet, but doing anything except nothing while it's 48 out sucks no matter what

  • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    very strange colors tbh,

    i think i should associate reds and oranges with heat but theyre representing the most reasonable temps on this map

    • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      maybe they had to add new colors since 80-90 is usually the "high". Then it went to 115 and they're like "fuck it purple"