taken today
https://mobile.twitter.com/CherisseDuPreez/status/1409270228207370241
phytoplankton bloom is turning the waters into Bahama-Blue
Ooh, is that what makes the tropics look so tropical? I just thought it worked like Minecraft biomes
lol the second twitter comment is just "woah beautiful!" Like, naw it's pretty, but holy fuck the future is slipping away so quickly.
Every single news story about some apocalyptic change brought about by global warming will always have some conservative going "Fucking sick, dude 😎" in the comments
I sweat more than most people, so I'll probably live just a bit longer than most. Evolution.
Evolution favoring the most sweaty men is definitely something of a screwball.
highest temp I've seen yet today is 118 in OR, but that's at a remote exposed site and probably the exception for inhabited areas. still, not good folx!
It hit 114 at Portland International Airport earlier. Obviously highest on record since they started keeping track in the 50s.
They can't vote if the ballot paper combusts the second it is exposed to atmosphere >:-)
Hope everyone in the PNW is staying alive ok, looks like north of 110 in Portland rn
edit: temps of around 114 throughout northern CA and OR, plz don't die folks
I'll be real with you I have no idea how anyone here is alive right now. I thought this would be a good place to live because it's usually moderately cool with plentiful water and rain and that global warming wouldn't really make much of a dent in habitability but no, we're about 5 degrees from reaching 95F wetbulb temperature and we've barely started the 2020s. Got to start figuring out where north to move now. Maybe Whitehorse would be nice
the new american normal: living in a vehicle and moving with the seasons
the fact that amazon already has a whole mobile peasant program for their warehouses suggests they concur
edit: i am jumping the shark by building out an RV to be my first "owned" home. I am nearly forty. Sorry ya'll, buckle down for misery.
I didn’t quite realize Nomadland was actually a grim prophecy of the future.
hell, the majority of the people in that movie were actual nomads whose retirement couldn't sustain living in a fixed location - it's not a prophecy of the future it's already here
The theoretical limit to human survival for more than a few hours in the shade, even with unlimited water, is 35 °C (95 °F) – theoretically equivalent to a heat index of 70 °C (160 °F), though the heat index does not go that high.
What the fuck
complex systems work, until they don't. and when they break, they tend to break spectacularly
In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable.
the hardest part about my job is pretending there is actually a future and that my work will incrementally improve material conditions
that reminds me i need to put another bottle in bag for work tomorrow
Vancouver Islander here. It was hot AF all day and the hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada hit in the Interior at 46.6*C.
Tomorrow is set to be even hotter.
Almost nobody owns air conditioning here so it's a real shit load of fuck ass. Thank fuck I bought a small AC unit a few years back. It's only 350 BTU trying to cool a 750 square foot apartment lol but holy fuck it's a life saver right now.
You folks from Arizona/California might scoff at 40*+ considered hot, but keep in mind we are also dealing with 46% humidity :this-is-fine:
My wife just moved here from Arizona, and we JUST got out of the mandatory 2 week Rona quarantine. We can finally leave our apartment and then this shit happens lol. She claims this heat is worse than what she is used to back in AZ.
You folks from Arizona/California might scoff at 40*+ considered hot, but keep in mind we are also dealing with 46% humidity
Laughs in Houstonian
Still absolutely crazy that you're getting Louisiana swamp weather in Vancouver. Almost as crazy as 10-below-freezing in Houston from February.
