I already knew that we’re fucked. But scientist said more around 2050 or something. The way things are progressing right now the next 10 to 20 years are going to be dicey.
“Things are about to get dicey!”
40C is not 118F
Meanwhile big polluters like Shell and others help pumping emissions and try to keep carbon based economy for short term profit 🙄
While funding messaging like “if you didn’t use your air conditioner when it was 118f it would certainly help”
500 years later, Europe finds out their Industrial Revolution has consequences, for everyone. Yay!
200 years later. 500 years ago Europeans were discovering islands and continents.
“Discovering”… this land is your land, this land is my land 🎵
I honestly get dizzy by just looking at those numbers…😵💫
It’s normal now.
Aircon plus solar panels for the win? Other than the initial manufacturing cost, it’s a fairly good solution.
For those with a limited budget in a dry heat area, a large portable Swamp box and a single panel may be enough. Needs access to water though…
Aircon plus solar panels for the win? Other than the initial manufacturing cost, it’s a fairly good solution.
Can’t tell if you’re thinking this is anything more than an emergency stopgap for people that can’t bear living in their home, but… All A/C does is spend energy to move the heat back outside, and also produce some more heat on the side. So it isn’t a sustainable solution or fix, even if your energy generation is somehow perfect.
And swamp boxes are basically just a fan with extra steps that puts a miniscule amount of heat into the water. They feel a tiny bit better, but they’re not really fixing anything either. That warm water still needs to go somewhere etc.
I disagree on the efficacy of evaporative coolers. When I lived in Bourke, they were excellent. Typically roof mounted models such as these. Very low power usage for whole house cooling, but the massive caveat is they don’t work well in humid places.
A simple portable one like the Convair Classic will only really help whoever’s near it, but at under 80 watts of power it’ll run off even the cheapest inverter and car battery in an emergency.
Solar panels make the cost of using a split system practically nothing during daylight hours, with little net additional heat created in the process.
My point is these are just making you feel better at best. Even a perfectly efficient split system running off a perfectly efficient power source which was manufactured out of thin air without having any effect on climate change is still moving heat around. None of these address the core problem with the climate. Even at perfect efficiency they’re just building you a small bubble to feel better in.
The world, especially US china EU, has such vertically entangled petro consumption, infrastructure, and maybe worst of all as far as making changes go, growth corporations feeding off it/us, well probably have rapid, vs slower and assimilable, collapse.
Hell today’s “homeless problem” will be a trivial joke relative to millions of people fleeing situations literally in-tolerable for countless reasons, probably soon enough – if this took place over 25 years it would be painful enough. If we get rapid migrations it’ll be war.
“… It’s not normal”
It wasn’t normal.
Nowadays it is.
Hurray for new normals!
LeopardsAteMyFace moment for the human race lol
40-45C happens in our summers on a semi regular basis (thank f*** last summer we only had a handful of days like that). Inner Oz can reach close to 50C in some areas…
40-45C happens every summer in Sevilla. When I went to roma over a decade ago there were some 40ºC days.
When I wento to roma over a decade ago there were some 40°C days.
Not 48°C though, which is definitely not normal
Hows the humidity when it gets that hot?
I’ve done low humidity 45° days/38° nights and it was pretty toasty, but 35° with high humidity kicks my arse. The last couple of weeks here in Catalunya we’ve had 30-35° with high humidity and I’m just exhausted.
In Italy too, but 48°C is exceptional
Oh well, summer in the Northern Europe is cold as it has always been. Not denying global warming, just wish for warmer weather.
When talking with a past university professor, he told us a big part of the global warming problem was actually a natural cycle the earth goes through every certain period of time.
There is a natural cycle, yes. But if you look at the graphs, we’ve given that natural cycle a rocket boost to Let’s get fucked town and it’s happening a whole lot quicker than it should.
A rocket boost? C’mon bro. Al Gore said parts of Florida would be underwater yet he and other companies were buying beach real estate in the early 2000s
Honestly I will never forgive people who STILL continue to deny climate change is happening and refuse to legilslate on it.
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