But I do want ice dammit!

Yeah, that was the entire joke in Don't Look Up. The whole premise is meant to be funny, but coming off of the pandemic it hit a little different...

To be fair climate change has killed around 99% of life the planet ever created, so don’t feel too special. All life follows the same pattern of opportunistic consumption until something stops it. We are just a product of all that.

You are looking at it one way, but another way is to see that this is the reaction to all the progress that has been made since the 1950s. History is always two steps forward, one step back. We are in the step back which is priming us for the next two steps forward. I’m actually quite optimistic about the future. Gen z and the following generations will hopefully turn the tide and launch the next two steps forward.

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"Don't Look Up" is one of those movies which is a satire in process of becoming a historical document.

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Writing that it is a satire feels wrong, actually...

95f is actually when you start gaining heat from entering the water, 95 is already fatal over time.

Your body generates heat actively, anything about 95f means the temperature differential is too low and your body can't dump the heat it is generating fast enough.

That dude annoys me so much with his attempts at charm. Even though it might be good data I just can’t watch it.

Huh? Hurricane Season is mid June to mid October

I didn't know senator Inhofe was on reddit

Dammit.. you got me.

thats weather not climate 😅

That’s what is frustrating. The climate is always changing so calling it that is downloading the problem. It should be a climate crisis.

HST was so straight edge you could use him to cut cocaine ^/s

We had almost strait of triple digit weather a little more than 10 years ago. I know because our parking lot asphalt liquified so when you walked on it, it would start to move.

"The record for consecutive days with triple-digit highs dates back to August 2011 when from the first of the month to Aug. 24, the city saw a steady flow of heat for 24 days. "

Yeah as a Texan who has lived in the Houston area my entire life, I have to sadly remind you that its sucked here much longer then just 10 years and 100 degree + days have been common for my entire lifetime thus far

Same. It's warm out

Went to the Outlet Mall & car said 124. Good news was that there was no line to get gas at Sam’s cuz all the sane people stayed home.
Edit: Forgot the obligatory “But it’s a dry heat”

Thought it was a bit cold this morning that it was only 100 by 9am

We've got it here in the North East

South Park also told a generation that voting is stupid

This sounds so much like blaming video games and music for school shootings. South Park is satire. If you’re too stupid to understand that, don’t watch it (the royal you, not you in particular)

It also kind of apologized in the later seasons...

Too bad not every show can’t be all kumbayah. South Park really ought to do a Full House thing and take two minutes every episode to pull back and let someone give a preachy monologue about the true moral gravity of whatever they’re talking about. Why are they allowed to attempt to be funny when the world is burning?

So it was a smart decision not to get married and have kids and live well, but also live like this carnival ride is over?

The widely-recognized lag time in the impact of emissions is what so many young activists don't want to hear. It truly is a downer to learn that previous generations fucked things up beyond repair.

https://earth.org/data_visualization/the-time-lag-of-climate-change/

Unless you’re referring to some new study, there isn’t a single climate model that predicts billions of people will starve to death. Please don’t misrepresent science, it makes people less likely to believe it.

Not to mention the water wars comin up. Global fresh water supply at an all time low

I thought I was in r/collapse for a moment.

And many still argue earth isn't overpopulated and that we can feed 10+ billion easily. It's a complete fantasy and I believe you will be very much correct. But we can't talk about population.

Population is like emissions and climate change 30 years ago. A taboo subject because it challenged all our beliefs about progress and prosperity.

30 years from now it will be a completely mainstream and obvious position that >8B humans was never sustainable and was always a huge part of ecological collapse.

Oh yeah and how will I drive my 5ton 6ft tall double hemi Dodge truck to Whole Foods after dropping off my grandkid Timothayyye at Montessori?!

100% this ^. Even if we fixed it all right now we’re fucked for a few generations and we are in no way fixing anything yet

while climate change will be rough in the coming decades billions starving is not likely

Nah, the most effective and cheapest method of climate regulation is solar, blocking, and people are freaking out essentially because they don’t realize that’s an option yet.

You guys are all scrambling around to try to pull the insulation layer off, which as you say, takes decades to have any impact and most people either don’t know that or will allow their brain to process it.

So while it’s great you’re attacking the core problem the physics of the situation more or less means that’s the slowest of all the mitigation strategies.

The sun is the only thing heating the planet, and the gases are just helping try the heat from the sun so when the planet shows signs of getting too hot, your most powerful solution is to block a percentage of the sunlight, since that is the only real source of heat.

Humanity just has to get desperate enough to add more than just emissions reductions to the equation.

Many of you are still stuck in the past where if we double down on emissions reductions, we can still meet our goals, but realistically, we are well past that point.

Even some of the Climate reports are also saying you have to add CO2 removal from the atmosphere, but it nobody has really figured out a way to make that work while solar blocking is fairly well proven by volcanos.

Big IF.

but we won’t and it will take 40 years to take effect on a system of 40 years ago.

even if you’d go carbon neutral today, it won’t matter, the system is too out of balance.

What about the rest of the world, who also contributes to emissions? Not disagreeing with you, but this is a global problem unfortunately.

Totally. Most of that party has become people suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorders or other mental issues. It sucks that those issues make people seek power, lie, corrupt others and manipulate. That's why they are going after education, they need ignorant and undereducated people for their followers.

> The problem is the GOP

The problem is who funds the GOP

The problem human greed. How it expresses itself is dynamic but most of our problems come from some members of humanity caring more about getting theirs right now than anything else.

Pair that with ignorance (another restore some portion of the humanity will have more than the average at any given time ) and you’ve got the fuel and the catalyst.

In other countries we’re seeing stricter laws for climate change protests which compared to damage done by extreme weather on stuff like crops. Is a very mild protests

Don't worry the planet is going to get it done for us.

>It’s not that simple.

Nothing is simple, particularly fighting climate change. Nonetheless, most world leaders pay lip service.

https://energycentral.com/c/ec/false-hope-countries%E2%80%99-net-zero-pledges-pay-%E2%80%98lip-service-climate-action%E2%80%99-analysts

> The US is hiring almost 90,000 staff specifically to address climate change issues over the next few years.

That's a great distraction, do people actually fall for this? If governments would be really worried as you state, they'd do something reasonable about it like limiting how much emissions one company can create in a set timespan, but this will never happen because politicians love money too much.

If you're looking for a solution, your government won't give you an answer that doesn't involve big profits for them like creating deals with renewable energy companies so they can sell and build a lot of renewable energy producers even tho it won't have or only has a negligible positive effect on the environment, or at least not in the amount it's required.

>Used to love him (and actively supported him) but no more.

Still, I think he would have made a great president. Instead, we got Bush Jr.

> Oh my god, imagine immigrating to fucking Toronto to escape the heat but then getting to enjoy heat with relentless humidity.

Phoenix has a *low* of 34 degrees tonight, the hottest "feels like" in Toronto for the next 7 days is 32.

The Dutch government just collapsed because they couldn't agree on how few refugees to let in. The next election is going to lead to an even more right-wing government.

My point is that there will be a lot of *attempted* refugees. Most countries will want no part of them, and will take increasingly fascist measures to ensure that.

Let's trouble shoot it! Did you try to turn it on after is was off for an hour? Sometimes a line freezes and has to thaw. Did you confirm the breaker(s) is on? Did you look at the condenser unit for any obvious damage, mainly to the lines going in/out of it? Can you see a drainage pipe, typically a pvc pipe coming out of the wall, typically near the condenser unit - does it look clear? Does the fan blow, and the air is just hot? Does it seem slightly cool, or not cool at all?

You’re probably right

Instead of American Exceptionalism, we bring you Human Exceptionalism, the newest flavor of hopium.

I’m so fucking upset we need hope in the first place. We are currently feeling the effects of what happened about 20 years ago. There’s a 20 year lag, and we are in the good ole days right now. Enjoy guys.