WTF Climate Change News

[Soen Eber]

25c = 75f
5c = 9f
Easy Math, especially if you cheat and just call it 10f

 

[Isabeau]

We’ve just had a couple of days of hot and humid, feels like 35c, and I’m beat. I was only doing light physical work, often going up and down stairs, and had to change out of my soaking clothes a few times. At one point, it looked like I had peed myself lol

I’m just not built for this type of weather. I can’t imagine having to work in 49c temp

 

[Isabeau]

(When I want to covert quickly, I just multiply my Celsius by two, then add 32. It’s not precise, but it gives me an idea when folks speak in Fahrenheit)

 

[Myradyl Muse]

(When I want to covert quickly, I just multiply my Celsius by two, then add 32. It’s not precise, but it gives me an idea when folks speak in Fahrenheit)

Totally Canadian, nothing to see here . I do the same all the time, easier than all the fractions and decimals, bleh.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

lol, what an obit headline:

Lee Raymond, 311 ppm - 421 ppm - Heatmap News

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

We’ve just had a couple of days of hot and humid, feels like 35c, and I’m beat. I was only doing light physical work, often going up and down stairs, and had to change out of my soaking clothes a few times. At one point, it looked like I had peed myself lol

I’m just not built for this type of weather. I can’t imagine having to work in 49c temp

49°c would be insane. It was 40°c here yesterday, and I had to be out and about in a car with an air conditioner in dire need of servicing, and I realized that I wasn't ready for this shit yet.

 

[Free]

More icebergs are changing life in the Arctic

The number of icebergs in the Arctic has increased significantly since the early 2000s. A new study, carried out by, among others, researchers from DTU Space, documents how the melting of large glaciers in Northeast Greenland and the Russian part of the Arctic is sending ever more icebergs into the ocean.

The icebergs transport surprisingly large amounts of rock and sediment from land and transport them several hundred kilometers into the sea. The stones sink to the bottom and change life on the seabed nearly 2,500 meters below the ocean surface. The hard surfaces on an otherwise soft seabed allow sponges, sea anemones, and other organisms to establish themselves.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Europe battles record-breaking heat: is this the new normal? - The Latest

Passengers warned against non-essential rail travel on Wednesday - live updates

A rare red warning for extreme heat comes into force in parts of England and Wales from 09:00 BST tomorrow until 21:00 on Thursday.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Govi]

Europe battles record-breaking heat: is this the new normal? - The Latest

Passengers warned against non-essential rail travel on Wednesday - live updates

A rare red warning for extreme heat comes into force in parts of England and Wales from 09:00 BST tomorrow until 21:00 on Thursday.

www.bbc.co.uk

If the Gulf Stream begins to fail to make its contribution to the temperateness of Europe, will Europe get colder, I wonder. The world wide set of major ocean currents are all threatened by global warming and I remember that the Gulf Stream and its benefits to Europe were always part of that potential-catastrophe discussion.

 

[Free]

 

[Beebo Brink]

When the Heat Steals Your Smile
tl:dr - excess dehydration leads to acidic mouth conditions that literally dissolve teeth.

Saliva is not just moisture. It’s a physiological fortress, a sophisticated system that most people take entirely for granted until it fails them. For anyone, but especially for people doing physically demanding work in extreme conditions, saliva performs three critical functions that are absolutely essential to tooth survival: It buffers acids from food and stomach reflux that would otherwise erode enamel; it holds calcium and phosphate minerals, which actively remineralize tooth enamel when microscopic damage occurs; and it contains enzymes and antibodies that fight bacteria, helping prevent infection and decay.

Without adequate saliva flow — and I mean genuinely adequate, not just the minimal amount needed to swallow — teeth begin to demineralize within weeks, a process that becomes increasingly difficult to reverse.

Heat stress triggers a biological cascade that is as predictable as it is brutal. When outdoor workers experience prolonged exposure to temperatures above 40°C day after day, their bodies are forced to prioritize cooling through perspiration over virtually every other function. This leads to fluid being diverted away from salivary glands and toward sweat production because the body’s survival calculus, the result of millions of years of evolutionary programming, is simple: prevent immediate heatstroke, worry about other problems later.

 

[Beebo Brink]

And meanwhile in the UK...

 

[Free]

Former NOAA Employees Revive Climate Site Shut by Trump Administration

A small group of former government workers has recreated a valuable climate-science website that had been shuttered last year under the Trump administration.

The new site, climate.us, is an effort by former staff members at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to present climate science previously housed at climate.gov, including data, reports, articles, and congressionally mandated national climate assessments.

The new site is effectively the “first full clone” of climate.gov, said Rebecca Lindsey, managing director of climate.us. It became fully active on Tuesday morning.

 

[Free]

London heat adaptation event cancelled as heatwave grips

A meeting to explore how cities globally can adapt to rising temperatures was cancelled amid a red heat warning.

www.bbc.com

Canceling an event due to the very thing they wanted to discuss there counts as a sign of the times.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Canceling an event due to the very thing they wanted to discuss there counts as a sign of the times.

The irony is real. And it's also a warning of another way society is going to unravel. It's not just the direct effects of climate -- such as extreme heat, cold, floods, drought -- it's also the way in which those events will disrupt efforts to develop resilience.

We aren't moving fast enough to prepare for the impacts of climate change, and our ability to prepare is going to degrade with every day we delay. And that "we" is me, personally, as well as "we" as a society. I haven't put solar panels on our house or even installed a generator.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, warns AI lobby

BRUSSELS —Europe must prioritize artificial intelligence over its immediate climate ambitions or risk surrendering its tech sovereignty to China.

That's the view of the president of the European Data Centre Association, which lobbies the EU on behalf of data center companies.

Lex Coors said that Europe's energy system is not ready to power advanced AI data centers, and Europe may need to fall back on new carbon-emitting gas power plants to meet its tech sovereignty goals.

"My suggestion is, let's at least open the conversation," said Coors, whose organization represents Big Tech groups like Microsoft, Google and Amazon, along with local data center companies.

It's not a matter of "not doing enough" anymore; the AI push is actively speeding up the consequences. The technology already consumes resources and inflicts environmental damage that are so vastly disproportionate to how "useful" it is that it's almost a joke, but the individual user is separated from that process and only sees themselves harmlessly typing a question into a box and getting an answer, which enables them to claim plausible deniability.