Floods, Fires, and Heat Domes (the climate change thread)

If trump decides to debate with the Dem candidate, which I doubt, having a climate debate then, with him, would clearly show that he intends to destroy the planet for profit.

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And Kamala Harris went way out of her way not to say anything substantial about climate. She did use her climate question to give a distracting impassioned speech about other important issues though.

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first record-break was 44.2 °C around marseille, breaking the old record from 2003 by 0.1 °C (44.1)

then, roughly 2 hours later and a few kilometers away, it hit 45.1

finaly, it hit the alltime high, just 0.1 less than a staggering 46 °C! 45.9 °C thats 1.8 °C higher than the previous record from 2003. this really scares the shit outta me!

http://www.meteofrance.fr/actualites/73726667-record-absolu-de-chaleur-battu-45-9-c-dans-le-gard-du-jamais-vu-en-france

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What is even more scary is Europe has about a month of seasonal lag. We could have hotter temperatures in July.

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It’s here too. What I am not sure folks appreciate is how close we are coming to the “humans cannot live here” heat levels. Add in the humidity common to most of these places and we just cannot shed body heat anymore.

ETA: 35C, wet bulb temp seems to e the threshold.

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That’s the level I always use the Princess peach special power up from level 1. I hate that sun…

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We’ve been mid 90s all week. We don’t start getting hot until August. Records falling everywhere, but hey, sometimes it snows in winter, so obviously, no prob, right?

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This is normal right?

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Yep, Minneapolis was not fun to be outside this weekend. All I can say is that the climate deniers are gonna just keep calling it fake news until their own children die of heat stroke or floods. Even then I think they’ll just deny it to spite those they hate. I think Umberto Eco called fascism in this respect a death cult IIRC.

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“In Florida, “recent catastrophe activity has resulted in reinsurers changing their hurricane models and view of risk,” Willis Re said in its review of the July 1 and June 1 renewal season.”

Right you are, Ken. It’s #11

  1. In such a perspective everybody is educated to become a hero. In every mythology the hero is an exceptional being, but in Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death. It is not by chance that a motto of the Falangists was Viva la Muerte (in English it should be translated as “Long Live Death!”).

https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf

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“Record and near-record heat swept the Last Frontier over the weekend, with stations across the state’s interior recording daily highs of close to 90 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday. On Sunday, temperatures rose to 92 degrees in Northway near the state’s Yukon border, smashing the all-time heat record set in 1942. Temperatures in Anchorage peaked at a comparably balmy 82, which still marked the capital city’s hottest day in three years.”

“The heat helped wildfires explode over the weekend, and their smoke is spreading far and wide. Saturday saw Anchorage’s first-ever dense smoke advisory as the Swan Lake Fire ballooned in size on the Kenai peninsula to the south.”

Crazy, just crazy.

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http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/usda-buries-studies-that-show-damages-from-climate-change/

If we stop scientists from studying it, then it isn’t real, right?

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https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/01/precipitous-fall-in-antarctic-sea-ice-revealed?__twitter_impression=true

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