Be the change you want to see

I want to live in Cali lmao

Weren’t u like in Washington or was it OR

I’ve lived in Minnesota for most of my life. I was out in New Hampshire for like 2 years.

this 3min read shows just how pivotal Cali is for the food supply chain in the US

fastcompany.com/90422553/the-first-map-of-americas-food-supply-chain-is-mind-boggling

If it felt hotter than usual to you yesterday, don’t worry… it was

The previous world's hottest day before Tuesday?

Monday

lol lmao

lmfao

Daily standard deviations for Antarctic sea ice extent for every day, 1989-2023, based on the 1991-2020 mean. Each blue line represents the SD's for a full year. Lighter is more recent. 2023 is in red.

so el nino + warming would play a part in this right?

we make it through these 2 years heads better start rolling ong

Can you explain wet bulb temperatures some more? Heard about it for the first time a few weeks ago

Something about there being too much water in the air to the point that you can't sweat well enough to cool off?

What's The Carrington?

Just copy/pasted an explanation below I read a few weeks ago.

I'm going to start off with why it matters because the definition of what it is makes a little more sense with the background.

Like a car engine, our bodies can overheat and break. If it's hot outside, we need something to cool us off. Luckily for us, evolution gave us a solution: sweat. Sweat is mostly water and has a high thermal conductivity, which means that heat transfers to/from it faster than other materials. When we sweat, it absorbs some of our body heat then evaporates into the air, taking the heat with it.

Now, this isn't perfect. There are situations where sweat will do nothing. Air can only hold so much water. When you see humidity measurements, it's always in %. Well, that % is how much water is in the air compared to how much it can hold. At 100% humidity, the air is holding a much water as it can and water can no longer evaporate.

When this happens, sweat can no longer do anything to cool us off so we have to rely on the air temperature, which most of the time is also enough to prevent us from overheating.

However, in recent years, we've been having weather events where not only is it very humid but also very hot. It's humid enough where sweat can't cool us off and hot enough where the ambient temperature doesn't do it either, so we overheat. This is a "Wet Bulb Event"

So then, what exactly is "Wet Bulb Temperature"? What we do to get it is take a thermometer and wrap the bulb with a wet rag. The rag acts like sweat soaked skin, so it cools off the thermometer. It's effectively a measurement of how effective our natural cooling will work. To add to this, while our bodies operate at 98.6 °F, it actually needs to be cooler than that to prevent overheating. 94 °F is around the temperature we begin to overheat. If the Wet Bulb Temperature is 94°F or higher, being outside is incredibly dangerous as you WILL begin to overheat, and as such when the wet bulb temperature is 94 or greater, that's a wet bulb event.

The most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history.

space.com/the-carrington-event

At best it would take down the global internet, at worst it would fry power grids and leave us in some stone age s***

Yeah it seems like a culmination of factors. Doesn't seem like we're gonna trend in any other direction tho

@plants thanks for both answers

@plants given the recent news about July being the hottest recorded month on average in human history, do you foresee governments and financial institutions changing consumerism trickles down to the masses?

i feel like there will be substantial policy changes in the coming years

I really dont think s*** is gonna change tbh

If those in power wanted to do anything in regards to the current climate catastrophe we'd be seeing it right now. Instead we're seeing billionaires building doomsday bunkers and planning to outfit their guards with shock collars and s*** like that

understandable.

here's hoping international policies come in place sooner rather than later

same

you will die under neoliberal hegemony

Nothing is gonna change

to reinforce my belief that nothing will change, you may have seen some headlines on his renewable energy is really taking hold finally, becoming the dominant power for some regions.

well we have never been using more oil in the history of the world than we are right now.

business. as. usual.