In which German churches invite a prayer for one of the last glaciers in Germany
. There was an eulogy/"funeral" of sorts for a Swiss glacier a couple of years ago, too.
Formerly Hail Muffins (He/Him)
‘Era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN chief as July set to be hottest month on record
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I wonder how long it will take until that record is broken yet again.
3 months maybe?
El sexo es temporal. LA PENITENCIA ES ETERNA!I believe it was said elsewhere on these forums that 'politics are immune to facts until they manifest directly'. So governments continue to do fuck-all about climate change because it's all just hypotheticals to them.
At what point do we think it would stop being a hypothetical? Melting of the ice caps? Refugee crises? The current wildfire epidemic hasn't done the job but probably because they're easy to dismiss as anomalies. For now, at least.
Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!
Formerly Hail Muffins (He/Him)
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August, because the worst of the Summer for the Northern Hemisphere is still going to be happening alongside a very strong El Nino.
If you're afraid now, just wait until we start breaking records with a neutral ENSO.
Edited by tclittle on Jul 27th 2023 at 5:11:44 AM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Formerly Hail Muffins (He/Him)
Fortunately our governments are on the case. Expect them to organise another climate summit near some luxury resort where everyone arrives via private jet and conclude that wagging fingers at people who use plastic bags will fix everything.
A list of each nation's solutions to the crisis:
The Australian government will build more coal mines
The US government will sell sell more firearms
The UK government will stalk more women
The governments of Japan and Norway will kill more whales
The Chinese, Russian and Israeli governments will arrest more of their neighbours
The Brazilian government will destroy more rainforest
The UAE will suppress more women
Everywhere else aside from Europe will persecute more homosexuals
I thought I already posted this, but:
I actually don't believe it's as crazy as it sounds that we'll solve global warming. We have solved the ozone layer and acid rain, so it's really not impossible.
Leviticus 19:34Well…it’s not possible to solve it to the same level as those. With those, the natural systems involved started balancing themselves when the problem went away. With global warming, we’re too far along to really fix things, we’re currently in the “make it as less bad as possible” stage.
It’s also a lot harder to fix it, unfortunately.
Lockdown 2.0, for heat reasons: Iran’s surprise ‘unprecedented heat’ shutdown raises questions - Government offices, banks, capital markets and private businesses will remain shut until Saturday.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service confirms this past July was the hottest on record.
- Average temperature for the month was 16.95⁰C (62.51⁰F), surpassing the previous record of 16.63⁰C (61.93⁰F) set back in July 2019.
- Four days early in the month, the 3rd through the 6th, each set world record for daily maximum air temperature and every day afterwards surpassed the previous world record set back in August 2016.
- The current world record daily maximum air temperature is 17.08⁰C (62.74⁰F) set on July 6th.
- During the first and third weeks of the month, temperatures exceeded the 1.5⁰C abover pre-industrial limits set by the Paris Accords, with the average being just a hundredth (0.01) of a degree of Celsius away from the 1.5⁰C above estimated pre-industrial average temperatures.
Wow, yeah, it sounds like it was pretty bad globally.
Not that people in the Netherlands could tell. Last month (and this month so far) has been very rainy, and temperatures were pretty much average, staying in the low 20s. It did feel warmer sometimes, though, due to high moisture levels, which seems to be on the rise as well with warmer oceans.
Edited by Redmess on Aug 8th 2023 at 5:13:38 PM
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesIt seems Hunga Tonga has affected the climate in an unexpected way
: due to all the water vapour in the upper atmosphere, the eruption has caused global temperatures to rise by 0,1 degree for this and the coming years.

Revisiting Western United States Hydroclimate During the Last Deglaciation
- the shutdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation is still cardinal but contrary to what thought before, the "pluvial" period there at the end of the last ice age was not aided by leftover ice sheets, but rather by orbital changes ... and greenhouse gas increases.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman