in my youth it was big news when a town ALMOST burned down, now that's every town in the west every year lollers
A part of me feels like that places considered "safe" or "livable" will not be the countries and regions people were initially expecting. Will make it funnier when the billionaires realize they created their bunkers in all the wrong places
would be absolutely epic if the 3rd world countries decided to spew white chalk dust all over the stratosphere to block out light, returning their climates back to normal and light-starving the global north in the process
best part is it was estimated to cost only a few billion dollars
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07533-4
"The process does not have to be wildly expensive; in a report last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested that a fleet of high-flying aircraft could deposit enough sulfur to offset roughly 1.5 °C of warming for around $1 billion to $10 billion per year"
what exactly is snowpiercer? just tldr it for me
I know that it contains a train of some sort
global warming comes swinging, scientists put funny dust in the air thats supposed to offset the warming but instead plunges the earth into eternal super-cold winter,
willy wonkathe kid who succeeded willy wonka as an adult decided to build a giant train that goes around the whole world which became very convenient for rich people to jump ship into, but under the hood theres a pretty brutal worker conditions to keep the train so nice for the rich people, then the movie happens and it's very good so go watch it.edit: wrong wonka lmao
hm, ok. Though the premise seems questionable, I don't think it's even possible to accidentally create an ice age with this much CO2 in the air
I mean, there's those whole economy of scale thing that cities have always had going for them. And big population centers are the place that politicians will tend to protect because that's also where all the valuable capital assets happen to be.
It's certainly possible that some militarized redoubt in rural Idaho keeps its line of supply longer than the poorer neighbors. But, at a certain point, the nexus of resources will be where we originally built them. Not in some backwater you need access to a private airport to reach.
No, summer was still disgusting, just less so
Fall and spring used to actually be lightly chilly for more than a week though, you used to be able to use the same jacket from mid-September to mid-November
I have the numbers on this
https://i.imgur.com/C6FyNic.pngIn the 1960s, the typical max temperature in July NYC was 83F. The avg July temp was 75F.
In the 2010s, that changed to 87 F and 80 FYou mean to tell me that the average temperature increase of the globe may increase more dramatically than two or three degrees in my lived experience? Who could have seen this or understood the implications of this?????
So if you interpolate that to the 1990s, the avg July temp would be 78F. Fewer 90+ degree days for sure.
Fuck, that would be so nice. Boomers have no idea how good they had it
I mean, it depends where you live.
But even Boomers complained about the scorchers of the 50s and 60s. They were just... not happening in fucking Vancouver.
I remember when it used to be a real shock that our Rural Fire Sevice cadres would go over to help you guys.
Your guys are cool and we love the tech you bring over to uswhen we have a big fire season (every year for us now too), but they have a very, very shitty organisational structure and your going to be fighting fires that resemble Australian ones way more in the future as things dry out, and aside from California you are not prepared for that.
Lytton BC burned down a few days ago, right after breaking the record for hottest temperature recorded in Canada
Something something efficient market hypothesis something something
