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That’s like all I did today, haha.
Anyway.
Informative, but depressing.
I can see people being critical of the lack of numbers/values/scale, but like they say in the video, they’re trying to make it something that anyone can understand from a purely visual standpoint. It’s something to get a conversation started, and even if that starting point is, “well, how legitimate is this? There isn’t even a scale or any indication of how different the light red is from the darker red,” then that’s still getting people talking. “Sparking conversation” as they say in the vid.
(Also, they do offer a scaled version of each display; click the “bars with scale” display option for a given location).
Here’s Calgary:
This is actually one of the least extreme ones. Look at Tucson:
Yikes.
Can we all just agree that the end is nigh?
I am slowly losing my ability to comprehend how so many people can be in denial that the climate is changing. Not even just being in denial that there’s a human-caused component to it – just the fact that the climate is changing.
Why are people so quick to shun this idea? Why are people so quick to criticize it? Why are people so…in denial about this?
Can’t they see?
Can’t they feel?
Can’t they remember that things were not this dramatic climate- and weather-wise even just like 10 years ago?
Every time someone posts something about the extreme wet bulb temps in Dubai or the unprecedented cold in Texas or the heat dome that brutalized the Pacific Northwest in 2021 or the forest fire rampage in BC and Alberta or the fact that Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on the planet, you get idiots going “duhhhh summer is always hot” or “wildfires have always happened” or “Dubai is in the desert” or “if Texas is so cold, that means that there’s no global WARMING, right?”
Just…
WHY
IS
EVERYONE
SO
FREAKING
DELUSIONAL
It’s like we’re the frogs sitting in the pan of room temperature water where that water is slowly being brought to a boil. THE WATER IS BOILING, FROG PEOPLE, IT’S TIME TO PAY ATTENTION.
And all those people who are like “heehee I have air conditioning, I’ll be fine” or “heehee I’ll just move to a better place” or “heehee I don’t live where the problems are so I don’t care,” guess what: your money can let you live in a bubble of comfort, but only for so long.
Don’t get used to it.
IT’S SUMMER, SUMMER, SUMMER!!!!!
(Well, not technically, but you know what I mean)
Time for another “how am I supposed to care about my present or future when the world is on fire and our generation probably won’t make it to retirement on a survivable planet?”
What’s it going to be this summer, eh?
Ridiculous wildfires?
Crop-destroying, river-draining droughts?
Crippling, month-long heatwaves?
ALL OF THE ABOVE????? ?? ???
???
Edit: Jesus Christ, Phoenix.
Are You Angry? I’m Angry.
I’m angry about climate change.
I’m angry about the fact that our futures are probably going to be mired in at least some degree of misery (if not destroyed entirely) due to intense heat/intense weather/water shortages/food shortages/any other number of issues brought on by climate change.
I’m angry over how many people don’t think that humans have contributed at least a little bit to the current climate trends. That is so infuriating.
I’m angry over how many people are just gleefully pooping out kids without realizing that the future they’re leaving these kids to deal with will not be a fun one. I’m looking at you, fellow Millennials. I thought we were smarter than that.
I’m angry that summers have lost their magic and are now just three-/four-months stretches of record-breaking temperatures and drought.
I’m just angry.
Are you?
Remember last year?
This time last year we were in the throes of that horrible heat dome. Remember that? Remember how freaking terrible that was? Thankfully this summer (at least so far) has been much, much milder and way rainier. Hopefully that will help with the fire season later on in July and August. Hopefully BC won’t be one big blaze. Hopefully things will be relatively cool even in the later months of the season.
But I’m sure summers like last year will become more and more common…and that’s terrifying.
(Fear of a) HEAT WAAAAAAAAVE
So is anyone else, like, terrified of summers now?
Summer is typically my favorite time of year – long hours of daylight, good running weather, nice and warm, etc. But after last year’s heat dome and how absolutely horrible that week or so was, there have been a few moments where I’ve been in almost a legit panic about summer happening again.
I think part of it is just a general fear of the future and the thought that this will probably be the norm sooner rather than later. Like…will last year be one of the cooler summers in the next twenty years?
That’s horrifying.
Not to mention all the stuff with the water shortages in the southwest. That’s also extremely worrying.
I hate everything. I hate that our future will just be getting worse and worse and at this point there’s probably nothing we can do about it.
CC
Remember that bomb blast simulation I mentioned a few days ago? They have an interactive “how will climate change affect you?” map as well.
Scary stuff.
Hypocrites
I was watching the CTV news while I was running on the treadmill this afternoon. They had some “scientist” from Trump’s team talking about the great myth that is climate change. And he was contradicting the hell out of himself. For example:
“Climate change is a myth that has been blown way out of proportion by the liberals. Climate change isn’t happening.”
Then, in the next sentence, “It’s important that the US not limit its coal and oil production, as the extra monetary protection will be beneficial once the climate changes.”
Like, seriously. That’s almost word-for-word.
We’re screwed.
Gwobba wubba?
I’m pretty sure we’ve screwed up the planet past the point of being able to fix it.
I mean, I’ve thought that for a while now, but the way the weather’s been acting this year (not just in Calgary but everywhere) and for the past, say, five years as well really suggests to me that we’ve gone past the tipping point.
Which is quite scary.
I didn’t think the major consequences of our destroying the planet were going to hit us in our lifetimes (the lifetimes of our children, yes, but not ours), but given what’s been going on, I’m going to say that they’ll be happening within the next 15 years or so, max.
Yup. Scary.
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