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70º in December
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This reminded me of this old xkcd.
My kids won't have this problem. Given the circumstances that have been obvious for 40-50 years I made the best and most responsible parenting decision possible. I didn't have any.
Your kids warm and safe and comfortable in your balls bro, Im getting real jealous rn fr fe
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70 degrees of what? Freedom?
Temperature translation for non-Americans:
70°F ≈ 21.1°C
50°F = 10°C
20°F ≈ -6.7°C
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YOU'RE IN THE JUNGLE BABY
YOU'RE GONNA DIIIIIIE
This will be especially true once Alaska becomes warm enough to support a jungle.
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Have fun in the water wars, kids!
I can't remember where I first read it but I've agreed with it ever since: "My retirement plan is dying in the potable water riots."
Where's the water going to go? It's in the water cycle, if anything is going to rain a lot more and a lot more violently, and in areas it shouldn't be raining.
If it's contaminated we should be fine collecting and stiling rain water.
"Water is a rare and precious resource" when not talking about habitats, is a silly hyper capitalist argument meant to stoke fear and panic purchases.
It is in the water cycle true, but where it is in that cycle and where it ends up are both critical to our long term industrial agricultural water use.
We need far far more water than collecting it from the rain would provide.
The coming water wars will be fought over the rights to the dwindling supplies...
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A lot of water used in agriculture is actually from underground water sources that refill very slowly. Once we run out of those, many of the things we do can't work anymore.
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Great. Thanks. Now I can't get the image of Kevin Costner pissing into a funnel out of my head.
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70 degrees in Dezember around here would kill most people, since it's only 30 degrees below the boiling point of water.
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This shit is exactly why despite having hated growing up in the frozen tundra... I'm now staying. Its not worth giving up at this point in society.
Been a....something... guys. Best of luck to you in the climate wars.
May the odds be ever in your favor.
You do realize that we won’t be free of the effects, right? Where do you think all the climate refugees are going to go?
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That's ~21 degrees in non-freedom units from someone who has to do this conversion a lot.
Also, that's pretty normal summer temperature if you are from the Southern hemisphere.
If we are being really pedantic, the freezing and boiling part of first paragraph is only true under sea level atmospheric pressure, so technically, you can't really relate these quantities with the given information in the first paragraph either.
But I don't think that's the point this exerpt is trying to make.
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But this is clearly written from the perspective of someone who lives in a climate that used to be solidly below freezing all through the winter months in the northern hemisphere. Now snow seems like a distant memory from childhood.
21°C/70°F is a normal winter temperature where I'm from in the southern hemisphere 🥲
And right now it's summer... let's put it this way, lately it's been over 40°C/104°F for so many weeks in a row that, when temperatures dipped to 33°C/91°F, it felt cold... and to think it's only going to get worse going forward @_@
I call them Generation Last
The crazy part is I have friends who are well aware that the world is completely fucked and they are still making new children.
The cute smile, hugs and sex are pretty convincing 😪
EDIT: of my girlfriend, you sick psychos
Don’t have sex with children
😩
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The German equivalent of JustStopOil is called the Last Generation (or letzte Generation). The official name is like the last generation that can hold up climate crises, but the implication is clear
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I live near the arctic circle.. it's usually -40° right now.. it's actually +5°C today.
T-shirt weather in late December.. wtf humanity
Yeah I never expected a nice day in December to bring such existential dread.
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"That unapparent summer air in early fall"
- "That funny feeling" by Bo Burnham
"The slowly comprehending of the ending of it all."
That's pretty normal for the southern US. I've had several Christmases that were 85 degrees even.
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