Scientists warn of ‘new reality’ of heat extremes that claim three times more lives than car crashes and 16 times as many as murderers

Scientists warn of ‘new reality’ of heat extremes that claim three times more lives than car crashes and 16 times as many as murderers

  • Grimy@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 month ago

    I’m expecting a mass causality event (not in Europe though) and the kick off to the hard times very soon.

    • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
      23·
      1 month ago

      2027 has a good chance of being the catalyst that takes us to the after times.

      El Nino just ramping up and it’s already pretty much the hottest it’s ever been globally in modern times.

      I’m looking at the weak arctic ice this year, a “super” el nino hitting for fall and winter, weak ice regrowth and a record breaking 2027 summer. I think we will see shockingly low sea ice in the arctic for the next few years and by no later than the next el nino, the disappearance of summer ice completely.

      People know things are changing, I wonder when they’re going to understand that they will not just stop changing. It’s only speeding up. The years will go by, your kids will grow up, and it will not stop getting worse. In fact it’ll get worse faster and faster.

      But I don’t give a shit anymore honestly. Spent 19 years fighting with people about this issue. I’m just focused on my family now, if you want to drive an F-350 and have steak 7 days a week, go right ahead. Enjoy the ride.

      • Jack@lemmy.caEnglish
        36·
        1 month ago

        kids

        Tonnes of CO2e, averages:

         1.60 a roundtrip transatlantic flight
 2.40 one year of car use
58.60 one year, per child you have (dwarfing everything combined in the 3rd graphic in the sidebar)

        Wynes et al. 2017 PDF

        Shown in the most important chart in human history, because human overpopulation is the biggest and root cause for not just catastrophic anthropogenic climate change, but also the biggest and root cause of factory farming, industrial fishing, unsustainable pollution, biosphere degradation, mass extinction, …

        • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
          71·
          1 month ago

          Fuck you for being alive too I guess. You realize the logical conclusion of your line of thinking is, assuming you believe this to be the correct take, right?