There's an outdated statement: 50% of the fossil fuel civilization has burned, we burned after 1992. Outdated, so that percentage is probably a lot higher now.
Climate change affects geographies unequally. Seems like Europe and the tropics have been the first to suffer, year after year, and with the UK losing that warm current in ~47 years, can't help but wonder what is on European minds.
The main thing I have in mind is that human civilization is completely fucked. What is needed to ensure things aren’t too horrible in the next century is so drastic and requires such a global coordinated effort that will never happen. There is no technology or super authority that will magically save us from a climate catastrophe this century.
Given the vast majority of the world population still see vegetarianism as a joke and not a necessity, and developed countries are ready to sacrifice pretty much everything to the AI compute gods we are truly fucked
Yeah, conflict is guaranteed. China will probably invade Russia and secure Lake Baikal and vast areas of Siberia. Europe might start shooting at "smugglers" earnestly (sorry to the "collateral damage").
I guess Eric or Barron will follow Project 2025 Edition 10's guideline and invade Greenland to secure their water for USA. And Canada's favorable climate?
Well in my mind is no one else cares and the EU is holier than pope. We are destroying our economy for promile of world polution and are even shamed for using AC.
Precise temperature measurements have existed for maybe a hundred years. It's hard to tell whether such an anomaly is really rare but I'm sure the european politicians will use that as an excuse for raising taxes and letting in more "refugees" as if that would help slow down the climate change in any way.
The headline is a bit sensationalist. Scorched means burned not just dry, later it mentions that some of the images are scorched from wildfires, but that doesn't seem to correlate to the one shown under the headline.
I consider myself corrected, I didn't know scorched had two meanings and only one is to destroy by fire. It's interesting that the article uses both meanings of scorch
> But climate change, mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels, has been raising average temperatures for decades and making hot spells much more likely and intense.
Global fire emissions are on a downward trend, with the first half of this year at a record low in this century.
I remember in 2010, corporate propagandists were telling us that the effects of climate change won't be felt for a 100 years.
https://xkcd.com/2889/
There's an outdated statement: 50% of the fossil fuel civilization has burned, we burned after 1992. Outdated, so that percentage is probably a lot higher now.
Climate change affects geographies unequally. Seems like Europe and the tropics have been the first to suffer, year after year, and with the UK losing that warm current in ~47 years, can't help but wonder what is on European minds.
> can't help but wonder what is on European minds
The main thing I have in mind is that human civilization is completely fucked. What is needed to ensure things aren’t too horrible in the next century is so drastic and requires such a global coordinated effort that will never happen. There is no technology or super authority that will magically save us from a climate catastrophe this century.
Given the vast majority of the world population still see vegetarianism as a joke and not a necessity, and developed countries are ready to sacrifice pretty much everything to the AI compute gods we are truly fucked
Yeah, conflict is guaranteed. China will probably invade Russia and secure Lake Baikal and vast areas of Siberia. Europe might start shooting at "smugglers" earnestly (sorry to the "collateral damage").
I guess Eric or Barron will follow Project 2025 Edition 10's guideline and invade Greenland to secure their water for USA. And Canada's favorable climate?
> with the UK losing that warm current in ~47 years
Guess it will cancel out the increased temperature?
The AMOC delivers warm air year round, it cools the UK from the hotter southern air during the summer.
>with the UK losing that warm current in ~47 years
What's that going to look like?
People might be ice skating on the Thames again.
Very hot in summer, very cold in winter.
Well in my mind is no one else cares and the EU is holier than pope. We are destroying our economy for promile of world polution and are even shamed for using AC.
Precise temperature measurements have existed for maybe a hundred years. It's hard to tell whether such an anomaly is really rare but I'm sure the european politicians will use that as an excuse for raising taxes and letting in more "refugees" as if that would help slow down the climate change in any way.
The headline is a bit sensationalist. Scorched means burned not just dry, later it mentions that some of the images are scorched from wildfires, but that doesn't seem to correlate to the one shown under the headline.
According to the Cambridge dictionary it's a perfectly normal usage of the word, in fact it's pretty much the example for it...
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scorched
I consider myself corrected, I didn't know scorched had two meanings and only one is to destroy by fire. It's interesting that the article uses both meanings of scorch
Scorched is being used correctly. Fire does not have to be involved, heat does.
> But climate change, mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels, has been raising average temperatures for decades and making hot spells much more likely and intense.
Global fire emissions are on a downward trend, with the first half of this year at a record low in this century.
https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/lowest-global-biomass-burni...