Since last July, Earth’s average temperature has been at least 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels.
As global temperatures spiked to their highest levels in recorded history on Monday, ambulances were screaming through the streets of Tokyo, carrying scores of people who had collapsed amid an unrelenting heat wave. A monster typhoonwas emerging from the scorching waters of the Pacific Ocean, which were several degrees warmer than normal. Thousands of vacationers fled the idyllic mountain town of Jasper, Canada ahead of a fast-moving wall of wildfire flames.
By the end of the week — which saw the four hottest days ever observed by scientists — dozens had been killed in the raging floodwaters and massive mudslides triggered by Typhoon Gaemi. Half of Jasper was reduced to ash. And about 3.6 billion people around the planet had endured temperatures that would have been exceedingly rare in a world without burning fossil fuels and other human activities, according to an analysis by scientists at the group Climate Central.
These extraordinary global temperatures marked the culmination of an unprecedented global hot streak that has stunned even researchers who spent their whole careers studying climate change.
We may not have reached a tipping point scientifically, but sociologically we’re long past it. No one seems to be concerned. I see all my friends still pumping out kids and I’m like “you’ll be lucky if this child makes it to adulthood”. The climate in the last 5 years is just changing at an unbelievable pace. Large portions of the world will be completely uninhabitable in like 10-20 years. Resources will be scarce. Mad Max is coming.
People simply can’t/won’t hear it. Society is clinging to any doubt or contrary viewpoint (and oil companies and their paid shills provide plenty) because it is difficult to envision the delicate and finite nature of our situation. Triggered methane releases are currently ratcheting up the warming, you can’t refreeze the permafrost, it rapidly cooks the planet.
No one wants to believe it, but this is the end unless dramatic changes are made. Having children, at this juncture, with what we know, is profoundly selfish. And folks cannot accept this, let alone, the changes that must be made, systemically, for society to survive.
Not just having children, but raising them to continue the same “driving huge SUV everywhere” costco lifestyle that got us into this mess
This is all a red herring. Our SUV’s, stupid as they may be, are statistically barely relevant compared to effects of corporate greed and pollution on the rest of us. Point the blame where it belongs: at the ruling class for having the knowledge and means to have avoided all of this, but chose not to.
Danish right-wingers calls childless people “unpatriotic” because we will not have anyone to take care of us when we’re old. Hahaha, I’ll have the last laugh when people realise the world has gone to shit.
Hey! Do you have any data on which areas might become uninhabitable in which scenarios and timeframes?
In the US, heat waves and hurricanes are hitting the south worse every year. The west is on fire and out of water. New York City is flooding more every year.
Move to Minnesota.
I don’t. But look at all the people dying from heatstroke and the like at alarming rates all over the world. Look at historic high and low temperatures in the last few years. You just won’t be able to go outside for more than a few minutes. Certainly won’t be able to exercise outdoors.
I’m trying to move somewhere colder. Colorado maybe.
No because they are fear mongering
Pacific Northwest Babeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Heat waves, heat bubbles, wildfires, shifting seasons …
Don’t forget the fault lines
And the volcano!
No no no no no…… it’s terrible here. No one wants to live in the PNW. Rains ALL the time. Especially in the summer. And it’s COLD!
Oh shit! I mean yeah! It’s awful! Don’t move here.
There ya go.
Not for long