Climate change (because it's still political for some reason)

[wonko the sane?]

Semi related... I'm currently under a tornado watch.

Quebec DOES get tornadoes, but there's never been one this close to the river before, that I know of.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I feel it. I'm cooking down here. My AC is working at full power but it is only physically capable of lowering the temperature by so many degrees. This heat is beyond mitigation.

 

[Rhinox]

At what point do the deniers realize that they've been lied to and that we're in serious trouble? How many summers of this is it going to take?

 

[Pale Rider]

But it'll snow somewhere when winter gets here.

sO MuCh fOr gLoBaL WaRmInG!!1!

 

[Stepwise]

At what point do the deniers realize that they've been lied to and that we're in serious trouble? How many summers of this is it going to take?

Have you watched "Don't Look Up?" It's kinda like the end of that movie.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

At what point do the deniers realize that they've been lied to and that we're in serious trouble? How many summers of this is it going to take?

When they literally boil alive in the street and not a moment sooner.

 

[KidTDragon]

And even then, some of them will be gurgling "Liberal hoax!".

 

[Anonymous X]

UK weather: England experiences hottest day of 2024 hitting 34.8C

Temperatures reached 34.8C (95F) in Cambridge, with 32C hit in many areas of central and southern England.

www.bbc.co.uk

Almost 35C in parts of Britain today. Hate to sound like an English version of Kup, but I remember when temperatures of 17.5C were considered a warm summer day…

 

[Dekafox]

Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?

Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures

www.theguardian.com

Google and MS have already said their emissions are booming because of the AI-caused datacenter growth, but the analysis here suggests that it's actually over 600% higher than what the companies are reporting

 

[Dekafox]

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/23/california-attorney-general-sues-exxon-recycling-00180465

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

How was Asheville North Carolina swamped by a hurricane despite being hundreds of kilometres from the sea? Simple: that water was not sea water. It was rain.

The storm was carrying such a vast amount of moisture when it came barreling inland that it dumped entire lakes worth of rain when it collided with the Appalachian mountains.

Why is this being blamed on global warming, you ask? Again, simple: warm ocean waters give both energy and moisture to tropical storms, and the air itself is also unseasonably warm, which means it can hold more moisture than normal. The amount of moisture that the air can hold is directly correlated to its temperature, and hurricanes are directly linked to warmth: that's why there is no winter hurricane season.

 

[Anonymous X]

Our (allegedly) Labour prime minister wrote an op-ed for a right-wing tabloid the other day basically leaning into climate change denial and framing decarbonisation of the economy as a form of anti-jobs Ludditism.

Great future we have here.

(Yes, the ‘Labour’ government we have now is actually more right-wing than the Tory government that got booted out of office back in July.)