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[–] Reverendender 17 points 8 months ago (4 children)

So, umm...what y'all got planned?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Violence. I hate it, but that's the plan. Fight to survive by any means necessary. Things are going to get real scarce.

Community is definitely the winning ticket though. Get neighbors you trust.

[–] Reverendender 2 points 8 months ago

I'm still working on buying a house. Thinking northern Maine at this point

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Plans? That’s the scandal. By wiping out the stability of the climate, these oil fuckers have nullified ALL of our plans. Effectively they have ruined everyone’s ability to plan for ANYTHING going forward. It’s a crime against time and it’s inhabitants. The scale of the violation is incomprehensible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Build community. Foster social trust. Work to end fossil fuels. Move if you must

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You can run but you can’t hide.

[–] RIPandTERROR 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ahaha we're so fucked. The sea temperature is not just higher, it was rising the whole previois year and it's flatter than in the past. Say goodbye to seasons, we're heading into the "flood season and heatwave season" territory. Last year I heard top scientists saying "it's bad and anomalous but not exponential", this looks... increasingly exponential.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hank Green made a video blaming this on changing regulations on shipping fuel. We were essentially geohacking by sending clouds of particulates into the air when burning the fuel, they blocked the sun temporarily but made global warming worse in the long term.

So by changing fuel standards, we basically pulled forward some warming to minimize the total amount of warming. Which is good that we are reducing the total warming, but obviously jarring in the short term.

If that is an accurate read, it isn't going to go back down. Hopefully it spurs us into action so it doesn't get much worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I've been interested in seeing those cargo ship sized sails they've rigged up for cutting down on fuel use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The exceptional warmth that first enveloped the planet last summer is continuing strong into 2024: Last month clocked in as the hottest January ever measured, the European Union climate monitor announced on Thursday.

The oceans absorb the great majority of the extra heat that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere trap near Earth’s surface, making them a reliable gauge of how much and how quickly we are warming the planet.

The principal driver of all this warmth is no mystery to scientists: The burning of fossil fuels, deforestation and other human activities have driven the mercury steadily upward for more than a century.

Yet precisely why Earth has been this hot, for this long, in recent months remains a matter of some debate among researchers, who are waiting for more data to come in to see whether other, less predictable and perhaps less understood factors might also be at work around the margins.

“Rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are the only way to stop global temperatures increasing,” Samantha Burgess, Copernicus’s deputy director, said in a statement.

According to Copernicus’s data, temperatures in January were well above average in eastern Canada, northwestern Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, though much of the inland United States was colder than usual.


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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Is the boiling frog apalogue true? Stay tuned and find out.

if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just a heads-up that the original experiment was done with a frog that had its brain removed. Also, a frog put into boiling water will also not jump out since it will be dead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah I know this is fake but the funny part is humans are slowly burning themselves to death and half of them don't realize it.