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One of 2023's most extreme heat waves is happening in the middle of winter (phys.org)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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Temperatures in parts of Chile and northern Argentina have soared to 10°C–20°C above average over the last few days. Towns in the Andes mountains have reached 38°C or more, while Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, saw temperatures above 30°C—breaking its previous August record by more than 5°C. Temperatures peaked at 39°C in the town of Rivadavia.

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[-] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 52 points 1 year ago

At this rate we're probably only a year or two away from seeing an area in the world head into the 50°C+ range and kill everyone who can't get into air conditioning.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago

Soon we will be telling next gen peeps (mutant descendants) how 'back in our day' we could walk outside, not pay a daily air allowance to the regional megacorp, and even see animals and plants irl.

But at least Soylent Green will be available in several flavors so that is something to look forward to ...

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago

Yep. It's going to get worse before it gets better regardless now.

[-] Chinzon@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Realistically given our trajectory it probably won't get better again until long after we go extinct

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

We won't go extinct, but we could suffer civilization collapse and billions could die. The survivors would live in the ruins of the planet for basically ever because it could take so long to recover humans aren't humans by then.

[-] dbilitated@aussie.zone 36 points 1 year ago

that's terrifying

[-] DONTBANTHISACCOUNT@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

More terrifying knowing this is really the begging of the end. {{ IMHO}}

[-] Alto@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

You don't have to say IMHO when you're stating settled facts

[-] jcit878@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I still can't believe a huge amount of people don't even care

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They largely believe they're the main characters in a universe created just for them by a super being.

Their belief that this is all planned is unshakable. Because the second that's in doubt, so is everything else they believe.

In order to believe in climate change, they have to stop being religious. That's a harder sell. So they stick their heads in the sand and pretend it's all a part of God's plan.

[-] DONTBANTHISACCOUNT@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am from reddit... If you don't put an "IMHO" in there somewhere; there can be a warning for hate speech or sum other shit; then ban bam bam... IMHO

Hysterical crying

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is like the start of the second act, none of this is surprising or not as discussed before ... but at least the overwhelmingly sad second act will be fairly short - the last act however, with no fat lady to sing, will be a long and painful few hundred million years.

[-] DONTBANTHISACCOUNT@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago

Hi. Ye ... I totally have zero hope in anything anymore, politics, global climate change, global inequality... Looks like things aren't getting better...

BTW what does boost mean?

[-] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

BTW what does boost mean?

I believe boost is similar to upvote on Kbin. I'm not sure what the difference between boost and upvote is.

[-] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Upvoting is like favoriting something, but a boost bumps something up so it’s more likely to appear on the trending section.

So upvote means “I like it” and boosting means “more people should see it,” from what I understand.

[-] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the clarification!

[-] odium@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

It's the upvote of kbin. I don't know much more about it as I don't use kbin.

[-] Roundcat@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Basically it moves content up. Having a few boosts has the same power as a ton of upvotes. Works in comments too.

It's used as a way to move quality content and posts into people's views. I don't know if it affects visibility on Lemmy though.

[-] Leo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 year ago

There was a hailstorm that covered the city in snow two days ago in the middle of Germany... in Summer.

It really feels weird that there is nothing you as a person can do

[-] CommodoreSixtyFour_@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

And it even was the very same city that exactly 10 years ago was hit with a very violent hailstorm that caused billions in damage.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

It really feels weird that there is nothing you as a person can do

You can always vote better. There are choices you can make as a consumer, but mostly it is fiddling at the edges. We need massive action and that means government.

[-] average650@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I think a lot of us have been voting as best we can.

[-] HandOfDoom@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I'm poor, living in a 3rd world country, with no money for air conditioning. What the fuck am I supposed to do.

Guess I'll just have to enjoy (lol, like I can) the few years I have left.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 year ago

At least some select few got briefly rich by capitalizing on destruction of all the things ... I was told that was always the goal, the very best of mankind, the one true god.

Born too early to not give a fuck, born too late to have (or want) a decent life expectancy, but born just in time to witness the global biodiversity collapse at the start of a super fast mass extinction event.