From:
https://twitter.com/dr_xeo/status/1558789225327345664
When climate science deniers do their "How you gunna pay for it?!" routine to discredit any attempts at building a sustainable economy they never ever tell how they plan to pay for stuff like this happening all the time.
If the response to COVID has proven anything, it's that capitalism is more than capable of conditioning the populace to tolerate sustained mass death so long as the cause of that mass death is portrayed as inherent to the world we live in, and therefore unavoidable.
The theory is simply that The Market Will Solve It.
You're going to buy your grain from the Inuits and you're going to sell your house to Aquaman, and if you don't come out ahead then that's just because you weren't as smart as the guys who got $10T bailouts.
The replies are great
This is stupid, is altas the same amount of Walter on Earth.
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Does this mean there was a similar or worse drought 500 years ago ?.. if so was that caused by fossil fuel use by humans ?
:kubrick-stare:
The Sáhara was tropical sabana after 6000 years ago, why are they make very scandalous by normal changes
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Actually, Western Europe being as dry as the Sahara is normal and good.
If I was some hypothetical dude living in the tropical savannahs of Sahara 6000 years ago, happening to be alive when it started to transition into a desert in earnest would've probably made me slightly bummed out, maybe even distressed
Also the deep blue in the Scandinavian north and Iceland are actually the fjords and glaciers melting right? :doomer:
The parts of Sweden that isn't mostly forest plantations has drought though.
Almost all the agricultural lands in Europe seem to be having a drought. Great combo.
I live near the equator, gots to flee to the hills before it becomes unlivable :this-is-fine:
The equator has many saving graces built in
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rain falls on the equator, and all the worst droughts are projected to be in the Mediterranean/Mideast/American West/Australia. Equatorial lands are projected to stay steady or get more rain.
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most equatorial land is high elevation, while most European land is very low. This means there is a hard-ceiling for temperature (look up the record highs in London vs. Bangalore)
2a) it also means built-in sea level protection
- the general climate stability means humans have to do less to cope. Even if some parts of Canada will get better, there's no telling which parts and exactly when, and how much better--meanwhile a place like Kenya is basically just going to have a mild decline or even a mild benefit from increase in rainfall
Sea level equatorial land like Gujarat, Bengal,
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I mean showing if there are any rivers that aren’t getting X-treme in Europe.
The American west coast is absolutely fucked, and I am slightly glad CA had housing issues as maybe people should be moving away as it can’t sustain the population.
Big brained CA maintaining a homeless population for the sake of national water management
the "normal" it's comparing against is 1981-2020 averages, probably at monthly resolution. i think the process of logging monthly climate "normals" started in the 1950-ish and are based on 30 year averages that jump forward every 10 years. i should know all this in much better detail because i've given presentations and put together articles about it, but i'm running late for a meeting and my brain is farting.
they do this to show how long range forecasting compares to these "recent" normals. so when you see like all red maps of temperature, it's saying "yeah, it's gotten hotter around here for a while, but it's getting even hotter than that, baby!"
Legends tell of the summer of '22 when Putler showed up on the border of Europe with a giant straw...
when you realize that the higher-than-average water levels in the north are caused by glacier runoff :thinking-about-it:
Does the "500 years" refer to the weather conditions that caused the Thirty Year's War and the Time of Troubles?
