Stefano Di Battista, an Antarctic climatologist, tweeted that such record-shattering heat near the South Pole was "unthinkable" and "impossible."
"Antarctic climatology has been rewritten," di Battista wrote.
The joint French-Italian Concordia research station in eastern Antarctica recorded an all-time high of 10°F on Friday. In contrast, high temperatures at the station this time in March average below -50°F.
I can't read these things. It kills me. It just fucking kills me to know it's all going so bad just because gotta have some treats for the west
News like this makes it genuinely hard to function. Wish I could deflect with humor or something but it's honestly just paralyzing and I don't know how to cope except by retreating into a thin veil of denial.
Edit: not like literal climate change denialism but just forcing myself to psychologically kick the can down the road and make myself not viscerally feel the stakes
I just drink and smoke a whole lot of weed. Try to have fun with what I got and help others out where I can. Whats the point of trying to buy a house or anything when shits gonna collapse before I or most of us reach retirement age?
I do like me a drink but as I get older my hang overs are more and more :agony-deep: and even moderate amounts fuck with my sleep. Helping others is dope though and I should find a more focused way to do it.
Well, you get to actively suffer from the direct consequences of of being a dick.
This shit is accelerating so damn fast. People are thinking that the consequences of destroying the environment won't catch up to us until they are long dead, but I think even the global north will be seeing climate catastrophe within 20 years.
At least we'll get the satisfaction of saying "I told you so" as the category 7 hurricanes pluck our houses off the ground like someone blowing away an anthill with an air compressor.
but I think even the global north will be seeing climate catastrophe within 20 years
We've been seeing climate catastrophe for the past two decades, and it gets markedly worse every year. No one is going to be able to escape this except maybe the ultrawealthy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_costliest_Atlantic_hurricanes
There are a lot of caveats to this list, namely that the costs are not adjusted for inflation, so it's difficult to directly compare the effects of storms from different years, but the trends are clear. Of the top 20 costliest Atlantic hurricanes, eight occurred in the past decade. Of the top 10, four occurred in the last five years.
Of the 19 Category 5 hurricanes on this list, 63% of them occurred in the last two decades. 27% of all storms on this list occurred in the last five years.
You can do the same with basically every biggest natural disaster list except volcanic eruptions and possibly earthquakes.
Hurricanes are only part of it too. That Derecho that hit Iowa in 2020 has been mostly forgotten, but it was extremely devastating. It spawned 140 mph winds which would've made it a Category 4 hurricane and did ~$11B in damages which puts it in the top 20 hurricanes. It also basically halved the corn and soybean output of the area and was compounded by a major drought in the area as well. Being inland isn't going to be safer.
I don't know if you listen to The Adventure Zone, but we are headed towards that scenario where the surface world is just an endless raging storm and humans have to live in bubble structures deep in the toxic ocean.
Wet bulb will kill far more people in the short-to-medium term, especially because it turns out we start dangerously overheating at dramatically lower temperatures than we previously thought--31°C wet-bulb or 87°F at 100% humidity. Sea level rise will do more damage to infrastructure (and may end up being more deadly in the very long term, especially once you factor in all the knock-on effects associated with a refugee crisis), but heat waves are going to be catastrophically deadly in the coming decades.
That's Florida in July. It is only habitable because of air conditioning
If I remember right then Bangladesh will get hit by a double whammy of flooding and wet bulb temps. Climate change in South/Southeast Asia could potentially cause the largest migrations in human history.
as a westerner, i don't think i can fully comprehend just how many people there are in south/southeast asia. our big ass continent barely has half a billion people; the continent of asia has nine times that
It depends on where you are, the global south and southern US will probably see dangerous heatwaves making large areas uninhabitable in the summer, if you're coastal or on any low lying islands then sea level rise and worsening tropical storms are certainly a threat. Crop failures and wildfires on the west coast. Major power disruptions as hydro power from places like Lake Meade begin to fail. These things will probably result in the collapse of the legitimacy of state governments and by domino effect federal. I think California will balkanize and Texas will secede, not sure which first but it will happen almost simultaneously with one triggering the other. Either way there will be a whole lot of violence involved.
The biggest question then is in the midst of the breakup of the US will the nukes stay in their silos.
and Cuba will annex what's left of Florida and Puerto Rico, let's spin the lathe
Russia opens up huge new arable lands and the ensuing rush to develop it to meet the global food crisis gives way to a new workers and farmers party revolution. Together with unshackled Cuba and China, the newly reborn Soviet Union rapidly aids international revolutionary movements.
Shit still gets bad and of course the collapse of the US will result in lots of internal suffering but instead of fascists taking over the desperate treat starved masses welcome their communist saviors.
There are still pockets of fascist resistance but they prove ineffectual and end up suffering mass casualties via suicide drones programmed by an army of furries that used to work IT jobs.
Pliocene climate 2.0 here we come folks! Gonna find me a Terror Bird to ride around the deserts that used to feed the world.
One of the most grim parts of this slow motion climate disaster has actually been the Ukraine conflict. Europe (and to a lesser extent, the US) has set hard timelines on making massive changes to their power infrastructure and sourcing as a result of Russia invading Ukraine, but when it comes to climate change, it's always half-measures at best.
They even have the perfect excuse right now, which is fossil fuel dependency on their supposed adversary.
It's sort of baffling to me that people who are fully aware of this stuff are still having children.
shit like this makes me glad to be a junkie :-) ill proqbbly kill myself inadvertently before i ever really see much of the horrors of the climate catastrophe
