This year may be biblical

[fohat.digs]

should we subscribe to Soylent Green or Soylent Red?

In the original book, the world population had ballooned to 7 billion and the US had 344 million.

[tp4tissue]

Even Cactus-Br0s are dying... Saguaros.. largest cactus species in america.

This is the end !

Humans can not survive this....

[Leslieann]

It's not just the heat causing this, they could handle that.

The problem was the wet winter caused everything to grow and sprout in expectation of a wet monsoon season* to support it, that monsoon season hasn't arrived. It's not just the cactus, other wildlife also spiked, the Saguaros are just the most visible example and unlike the rest it will take decades for them to recover.

Plants and animals are usually pretty good at predicting and planning for the upcoming season but the weather has been so crazy they can't and this is what you get.


*Arizona gets wicked storms during monsoon season and sometimes mid-winter, usually a dust storm (haboob) then tons of rain, lightning, hail, 90+mph winds, etc.. It's every bit the crazy tropical storm you would expect to find on an island out in the ocean.

[tp4tissue]

California Nevada Border going up in major blaze, spawning Fire Whirls,  a vortex of Fire and Smoke when intense heat and turbulent wind combine creating a Spinning column of FIRE.

Sizes are highly variable, a few feet to hundreds of feet tall. Power lvl can reach that of an EF3 tornado.

Basically Sharknado but with Fire.

[tp4tissue]

Stanford AI predicts 1 in 2 chance Earth breaches 2 degrees Celsius by middle of this century, more than 4 in 5 chance by 2060.

We're sooooooooo screwwwwed.. Guaranteed that's still an underestimate because our assumption for CAUSES of climate change is thoroughly unaddressed,   ANIMAL AGRICULTURE

[fohat.digs]

To me, leprosy was always something from the Old Times that modern science had long since made obsolete.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/8/22-0367_article
 

[tp4tissue]

"A high percentage of unrelated leprosy cases in the southern United States were found to carry the same unique strain of M. leprae as nine-banded armadillos in the region, suggesting a strong likelihood of zoonotic transmission (4). A recent systematic review analyzing studies conducted during 1945–2019 supports an increasing role of anthroponotic and zoonotic transmission of leprosy"

YET AGAIN, zoonotic transfer, Stop messing with Animals.

[chyros]

To me, leprosy was always something from the Old Times that modern science had long since made obsolete.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/8/22-0367_article

....WAT

[tp4tissue]

According to sources,  Canada fire is ongoing at EX+ pace with no end in sight.  Incineration of 34 Million Acres so far.  The size of Arkansas, imagine all of that, FIRE, gone in less than 3 months.

Climate change is FAKE NEWS!

[fohat.digs]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/30/world/antarctic-sea-ice-winter-record-low-climate-intl/index.html

TL;DR "scientists said West Antarctica’s vast Thwaites Glacier – also known as the “Doomsday Glacier” – was “hanging on by its fingernails” as the planet warms."
 

[tp4tissue]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/30/world/antarctic-sea-ice-winter-record-low-climate-intl/index.html

TL;DR "scientists said West Antarctica’s vast Thwaites Glacier – also known as the “Doomsday Glacier” – was “hanging on by its fingernails” as the planet warms."
 

We're almost certainly going to blow through that. The world is NOT ready.

[fohat.digs]

The world is NOT ready.

I lived through a simple easy flood when I lived in Florida in the late-1970s (in a rented house).

Ever since then I have always lived on a hill.

[tp4tissue]

South America (Chile/ Argentina) just experianced a heatwave of 100F degrees in their Winter month.  Their august is equivalent of our february.  Completely unprecedented.

Non stop fake news. These countries are deep state liberal extremist liars/5g/magnet/laptops.

[fohat.digs]

The really important question for the US is whether there was gay porn on Hunter Biden's laptop. Global warming can wait.

[fohat.digs]

"Glacial Outburst" is a new term that I didn't even know ....

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/07/us/alaska-flooding-mendenhall-river-glacier/index.html

[tp4tissue]

Maui, Hawaii residents jumping into the ocean to escape wildfire. This progression is deeply upsetting.

Diving into ocean from Maui's dry land intimates the idea that Earth is the sinking ship or a burning building from which Man would dangerously leap.

Tp4 is very upset by this sorrowful similitude.


But hey, eat meat, deforest 43% of earth's dry land to grow that meat (IPCC) The fossil fuel Republicans deny climate change outright, the Democrats only deny it through their actions to preserve the capitalist status quo, approve drilling contracts, and obstruct the IPCC from recommending people eat a plant based diet. This is the nature of our economics and its political implication.

[Leslieann]

But hey, eat meat, deforest 43% of earth's dry land to grow that meat (IPCC) The fossil fuel Republicans deny climate change outright, the Democrats only deny it through their actions to preserve the capitalist status quo, approve drilling contracts, and obstruct the IPCC from recommending people eat a plant based diet. This is the nature of our economics and its political implication.

But if we don't eat them what will we do with all those cows?

More importantly,
If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?

[tp4tissue]

But if we don't eat them what will we do with all those cows?

More importantly,
If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?

If that's what it takes, Tp4 hereby relinquishes all his pudding privileges so LLann can now haz pudding before or after any meal.

The Cow in the room is ruining everything, and we put them there. sigh....

[tp4tissue]

The Maui twitter videos are heart breaking, bodies on the streets, those who escaped fire but not its smoke. sigh.......

[tp4tissue]

This is pretty absurd.

[noisyturtle]

Problem is, when it gets around high 80s or more my brain jelly stops working properly and I kinda short circuit. The heat literally makes me dumber and slower.

[tp4tissue]

Let's goh....!!

[Findecanor]

Here in Northern Europe, we've also had an unusual amount of rain in the past few weeks, causing flooding, rock/mudslides, collapsed bridges, collapsed or flooded roads, a derailed passenger train, ...

We're sooooooooo screwwwwed.. Guaranteed that's still an underestimate because our assumption for CAUSES of climate change is thoroughly unaddressed,   ANIMAL AGRICULTURE

• Land management, including plowing.
• Cement production.
• "Superpolluters" — Oil wells that just emit ridiculous amounts of natural gas instead of collecting it.

Animal agriculture is well known. But we'd need to put the arguing about going vegetarian vs. eating meat to the side for a minute, and start looking at what farmers should be doing to lower emissions from ruminants and animal dung.
If all animal farms took proper care of the dung they produced, that would go a long way.

[tp4tissue]

Most scary graph, updates, synopsis; so record much high..

[Rhienfo]

Most scary graph, updates, synopsis; so record much high..

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 At this point every graph about climate change is scary...

[tp4tissue]

Most scary graph, updates, synopsis; so record much high..

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 At this point every graph about climate change is scary...

[fohat.digs]

At this point

No greater blunder ever made than when, in 2000, the US Supreme Court made the oil man president in preference to the environmentalist.

[Findecanor]

No greater blunder ever made than when, in 2000, the US Supreme Court made the oil man president in preference to the environmentalist.

In 1992, his father was about to go to Rio and sign the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which in its form called for signatories binding agreements for actual reductions in CO₂ emissions.
Then he got a call from an old buddie in the oil industry ...

This led to the US demanding that any actual commitments be removed from the treaty.
And so they were.

[tp4tissue]

No greater blunder ever made than when, in 2000, the US Supreme Court made the oil man president in preference to the environmentalist.

In 1992, his father was about to go to Rio and sign the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which in its form called for signatories binding agreements for actual reductions in CO₂ emissions.
Then he got a call from an old buddie in the oil industry ...

This led to the US demanding that any actual commitments be removed from the treaty.
And so they were.

I'm glad you guys are on the right side of the fence,  but keep in mind, OIL is a important but a SMALL fraction of what contributes to climate change.

Animal agriculture uses 43% of the earth surface to produce only 12% of the food we eat.

Fishing destroys 2.4 BILLION acres of underwater habitat through bottom trawling with 90 mile long nets, EVERY YEAR.  This is 1.25x the size of Australia, or the size of the Entire United states + Alaska.   THIS in turn only produces 3% of the food we eat.

Animal agriculture is responsible for at least 83% of the green house gasses, when land use, nitrogen, methane and the deficit of trees is taken into account.


Plant Food is grown on 12% of the earths surface, 6% is animal feed, 3% is biofuel,  3% is PLANT FOODS that we actually eat

This 3% accounts for 85% of all the food humans eat.

By choosing to eat meat, we are actively making the choice to destroy the planet. 

IPCC

[tp4tissue]

What happens when you have to evacuate 20,000 people from yellowknife, and extend disruption for a few months.

Even if we conservatively say, every person uses up $2000 worth of supplies, $5000 worth of productivity loss. That's $140 Million dollars.

Then factor in the un-utilized equipment / capital on the ground,   the damage is well into the $Billions even if no one died,  if they die, that's conservatively $250,000 to 1 million per person.

If the fire takes out the city, oh boy, 100s of $billions


Ontop of the 20k being evacuated, an additional 35k are on evacuation (alert).


This is why insurance companies are pulling out, the damages will be impossible to cover.

[fohat.digs]

This is why insurance companies are pulling out, the damages will be impossible to cover.

I foresee an epic restructuring (re-conceptualizing?) of the insurance industry in coming years. My greatest fear is that my side ("the Left") will allow itself to get sucked into an ever-increasing death spiral of providing "re-insurance" as actual insurance companies bail out of climate-sensitive areas in droves.

Pulling people out of the water is a reasonable expectation for a governmental agency, but paying to rebuild their houses is absolutely not a viable governmental function, in my opinion.

[tp4tissue]

When they say 800 people missing in maui fai, do they mean they all burned to death, or are they just displaced and are on the other islands?

[tp4tissue]

No New Normal ?

[tp4tissue]

Swear to god, accuweather is just making these numbers up now. wth ??

[Findecanor]

In my neighbourhood in Sweden, flowers are in bloom ... as if it was May again. Weird.

[tp4tissue]

Between 7000-10,000 Emperor-penguin chicks have perished due to record low sea-ice during a critical period when they have not shed their floofy feathers and could not properly swim. Scientists posit in all likelihood they drowned due to the waterlogged outer coat. Satellite image confirms 2 large colonies were no longer present, all water.

[tp4tissue]

Climate change isn't real. /Florida

[fohat.digs]

Florida

I recommend that people who are wanting to see Florida do it sooner rather than later.

[tp4tissue]

Florida

I recommend that people who are wanting to see Florida do it sooner rather than later.

You're a liar,  that water is supposed to be over the river. God says use boats instead of cars.

Learn to swim you damn socialist.

[Rhienfo]

I recommend that people who are wanting to see Florida do it sooner rather than later.

And Venice and all the low lying areas as well.

You're a liar,  that water is supposed to be over the river. God says use boats instead of cars.

Learn to swim you damn socialist.

I mean God didn't ask noah to make a car, so he always was saying that I guess...

[tp4tissue]

And Venice and all the low lying areas as well.

Venice had this moldy smell.

[Findecanor]

I made sure to visit Venice while it was possible. There, I learned that Venice got flooded regularly, and they had hourly flooding forecasts. I planned my day to visit St Marcus square in the morning, while workers were deploying raised walkways in preparation for when the place was going to be flooded in the afternoon.
At least Venice is low and flat, being flooded gently by the sea broken by large sand banks a distance away, not subject to roaring rivers breaking its boundaries and sweeping houses with it.

[Rhienfo]

I made sure to visit Venice while it was possible. There, I learned that Venice got flooded regularly, and they had hourly flooding forecasts. I planned my day to visit St Marcus square in the morning, while workers were deploying raised walkways in preparation for when the place was going to be flooded in the afternoon.
At least Venice is low and flat, being flooded gently by the sea broken by large sand banks a distance away, not subject to roaring rivers breaking its boundaries and sweeping houses with it.

The thing is with venice is that when I would want to visit it might just be flooded so most likely I will never visit venice, plus not enough money to go everywhere so have to pick and choose.

[Findecanor]

The thing is with venice is that when I would want to visit it might just be flooded so most likely I will never visit venice, plus not enough money to go everywhere so have to pick and choose.

I visited it only briefly during a two-week trip on a European rail pass.Travelling that way made it relatively affordable per city, and the rail pass itself does not require a fixed itinerary (but hotels and seat reservations often need to be booked in advance, which I did, for comfort).
But of course it also helped that I had started in Europe in the first place.

[tp4tissue]

I made sure to visit Venice while it was possible. There, I learned that Venice got flooded regularly, and they had hourly flooding forecasts. I planned my day to visit St Marcus square in the morning, while workers were deploying raised walkways in preparation for when the place was going to be flooded in the afternoon.
At least Venice is low and flat, being flooded gently by the sea broken by large sand banks a distance away, not subject to roaring rivers breaking its boundaries and sweeping houses with it.

With Climate Change they've had the opposite problem lately, too little water. The river bed started to smell like rotting sewage ontop of the regular moldiness.

[tp4tissue]

MIT Press:

The ocean is changing colors, the rate meets and exceeds models which predict anthropogenic impact on ocean coloration which is a reflection (refraction) of its internal biome.

That is to say, we're mucking it up.

When a human holds his breath, he turn blue.

The ocean, this body of water is the blood of the earth, it's not there by accident, it is the working fluid, which all LIFE on the planet depends on to carry out essential processes. This liquid is maintained and ONLY EXISTS because of a biometric balance/ contract between ALL living organisms on this planet, from bacteria to trees to whale.

Humanity has significantly distorted, overstepped our ecological role.

[Findecanor]

Many people are unaware that it is algae in the ocean that does most of the photosynthesis of carbon dioxide to oxygen.
Not that plants on land aren't important.

But both forests and oceans have operational limits both in carbon dioxide level and temperatur, at which their ability to process carbon dioxide will be severely diminished.

[tp4tissue]

Many people are unaware that it is algae in the ocean that does most of the photosynthesis of carbon dioxide to oxygen.
Not that plants on land aren't important.

But both forests and oceans have operational limits both in carbon dioxide level and temperatur, at which their ability to process carbon dioxide will be severely diminished.

Yup,  we're destroying the entire ocean on a scale far greater than even our wanton rain-forest burning to raise cattle.

85% of the food we eat comes from PLANTS, it is grown on 6% of the dry surface of the earth.

12% is beef pork chicken, cattles,  using 43% of the dry earth surface.

3% is fish, bottom trawling using 90 mile long drag nets, destroying 4 Billion acres underwater. Out of sight, out of mind.

The vast majority of the fish caught are Bycatch, including dolphin, whale, non-target fish, these are thrown overboard, DEAD.

80-99% of all sharks have been killed as the result of bycatch.

90 mile long drag nets, the area larger than the continental US every year.

Commercial fishing kills 2.7 TRILLION fish every year.

[Rhienfo]

Watched a video about cultural burning, something used by the indigenous population of Australia.

It's where you burn certain parts of the environment at certain times. Similar to backburning but with more of an understanding of the land and when we should do it. It helps reduce forest fires while minimising damage and allowing the flora of Australia should grow more. The way they do it is quite interesting, the elders in the video have such a comprehensive understanding of the environment and where to burn. Think more countries (including Australia) should learn about the environment and to properly backburn to prevent the massively insane fires that do so much damage to the natural fauna and flora.   

[tp4tissue]

Watched a video about cultural burning, something used by the indigenous population of Australia.

It's where you burn certain parts of the environment at certain times. Similar to backburning but with more of an understanding of the land and when we should do it. It helps reduce forest fires while minimising damage and allowing the flora of Australia should grow more. The way they do it is quite interesting, the elders in the video have such a comprehensive understanding of the environment and where to burn. Think more countries (including Australia) should learn about the environment and to properly backburn to prevent the massively insane fires that do so much damage to the natural fauna and flora.   

The Indigenous Indians of America which we genocided to become the United States also have Brush burns.  They understood it with more mysticism, but the effect is the same as this Australian Cultural Burn.