WTF Climate Change News

[Essence Lumin]

And while you're at it, buy a lot of wheat too. Prices will skyrocket soon again. Next round of inflation, here we come.

Wheat would take too much storage space in the basement. Woody Allen has a word on this.

 

[Beebo Brink]

While I take global warming seriously, I feel mostly safe in Minneapolis. No serious flooding, forests are well managed and not out of control, no risk of mud slides, and we'll develop a climate mostly like Omaha. Not my idea, but it's survivable.

Mrs. Beebo and I reside in a predominantly red state, and we're not crazy about living here, but one of reasons we've decided not to move, now that I'm retired, is that it's relatively stable in terms of climate. We're at a higher elevation than nearby Metro D.C., so no risk of coastal flooding; not overly prone to drought; and the mountains behind us seem to move the worst storms away from our town. We're way farther south than you, but the high elevation helps mitigate the worst of the heat (so far).

 

[WolfEyes]

The Coastal Range can be as much as 20F cooler than the valley where I live. Thankfully the range is just a few miles from home.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I'm not happy where we live as far as the growing heat, but its still cooler than Atlanta in general, except in the winter.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

We're finally getting down to 100-102 for our highs, at least for the time being. I guess that's a plus.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

The scary big Yellow-white thing in the sky that is the enemy of my RL brunette Anglo-Celtic paleness is making things HOT. Make it stop!
Admittedly it is only 88 but it's going to be 94 tomorrow and 98 on Friday.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

I'm in Kansas. "We're not as bad as Texas".

 

[WolfEyes]

So far Oregon summer hasn't been nearly as hot as Lousyana summer. I'm so glad I got out when I did. Our highs are in the low 80s now vs high 90s breaking triples.

There's no way I could ever move back now.

 

[WolfEyes]

Unsanitary and deadly: The Great Stink of 1858 may foreshadow our future climate breakdown (msn.com)

 

[Essence Lumin]

Mrs. Beebo and I reside in a predominantly red state, and we're not crazy about living here, but one of reasons we've decided not to move, now that I'm retired, is that it's relatively stable in terms of climate. We're at a higher elevation than nearby Metro D.C., so no risk of coastal flooding; not overly prone to drought; and the mountains behind us seem to move the worst storms away from our town. We're way farther south than you, but the high elevation helps mitigate the worst of the heat (so far).

Sounds like Virginia?

I feel like I'm in one of the safest places in the US climate wise, south NJ. We haven't gotten any temperatures higher than around 92 this year. The highest temperature (I think) was 107 in the 1930's. Nothing ever happens here. Hurricanes sometimes batter the coast but they don't come 50 miles inland here. The winters used to get quite cold but not any more.

Also politically, we have nutcases just like anywhere but there are considerably less of them than in many other parts of the country.

 

[WolfEyes]

Most of our nutcases want to join with the Idaho nutcases.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Saguaro cacti collapsing in Arizona extreme heat, scientist says (yahoo.com)

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

So far Oregon summer hasn't been nearly as hot as Lousyana summer. I'm so glad I got out when I did. Our highs are in the low 80s now vs high 90s breaking triples.

 

[WolfEyes]

If, unlike my family, you ever want an out, you'll know someone here.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Swimming if Florida's oceans like Swimming in a hot tub:

https://apnews.com/article/record-hot-water-florida-coral-climate-change-6414d44c6f120507d3ee37c059fb75cd

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Khamon]

I feel like I'm in one of the safest places in the US climate wise, south NJ. We haven't gotten any temperatures higher than around 92 this year. The highest temperature (I think) was 107 in the 1930's. Nothing ever happens here. Hurricanes sometimes batter the coast but they don't come 50 miles inland here. The winters used to get quite cold but not any more.

Interestingly, central Alabama has only endured high 90s most of the summer months during the past few years. We used to have triple digits, for weeks at a time, but have not lately. We instead see more overcast skies with more rain and much more wind than was normal ten and twenty years ago.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Beebo Brink]

Removing carbon from Earth's atmosphere may not 'fix' climate change | Space

Kim, however, cautions that the modeling results show that, while carbon removal might reduce temperatures, environmental changes caused by the warming may continue to affect millions of people in vulnerable regions even centuries later.

"I think that the main message of our study is that we should reduce carbon dioxide emissions now, because afterwards it gets really difficult," she said. "We cannot control nature, we cannot reverse the consequences that easily; we cannot fix nature."

 

[WolfEyes]

We have to allow nature to fix itself. Yet humans refuse to change.