Oswald DrudnerJul 30, 2023
Dr. Farhana Sultana
No, your body cannot build tolerance to endless extreme heat. Unless you’re a soulless capitalist right-wing fascists ghoul. The shite these ghouls try to peddle in late-stage capitalism to the masses just beggars belief.
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Show threadDr. Farhana SultanaJul 30, 2023

Expect to see more snake oil salesmen as more absurd and toxic ideas and quick fix techno solutions are offered to desperate people by wealthy colonizers & capitalists.

Reducing GHG emissions & reliance on fossil fuels is a must, as is reducing overconsumption & waste culture. Can’t adapt to climate crisis & ecosystem collapses after a certain point, then it enters loss & damage phase. Faster & more just energy transitions are essential now.

Show threadFlorian HollenderJul 30, 2023
@[email protected] optimism at its best. Hey, there's a fundamental crisis going on, but you as individual really have it in your hands if you let that kill you or not. If you die, you certainly did not try hard enough to be hydrated and smart.
Show threadJohn MeadowsJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana You have nailed the key point: overconsumption and waste culture.
Show threadKarl KatzkeJul 31, 2023
@farhanasultana @lisamelton The quick-fix idea that irks me the most is the assumption that we’ll be able to farm former tundra and boreal forests the way we did the mid-latitude breadbaskets. It doesn’t work that way for dozens of reasons, from unsuitable soils to limited light. The maximum population carrying capacity of the arable land, or the land that can be made arable in those regions, is single digit percentage points of our population even in a stable climate and not one where three years of freak heat waves and early frosts destroys the one possible harvest per year.
Show threadDoug BostromJul 30, 2023

@farhanasultana

The truly grating thing about this article is how it blithely suggests methods unavailable to most people faced with exposure to extreme and prolonged heat.

Show threadDr. Farhana SultanaJul 30, 2023
@Doug_Bostrom that’s the ghouls way. And then they will sell their snake oil solution and PR it as the silver bullet.
Show threadProScience 🇪🇺Jul 31, 2023

@Doug_Bostrom @farhanasultana

.. and it won't even "help" the #FFF (Fossil Fuel Fascists) survive themselves:

They'll die pretty much as anybody else.

Show threadkryphosJul 31, 2023

@proscience @Doug_Bostrom @farhanasultana the desire for poetic justice is understandable, but unfortunately those who benefit from fossil fuel will also benefit from climate change.

The opposite will happen. The will enjoy lavish life in biospheres, while us peons will perish in scorched heat toiling for food and water.

Show threadJenkins. Tom Jenkins. 🤮🤢🤮Jul 31, 2023
@kryphos @proscience @Doug_Bostrom @farhanasultana I assume someone has to clean up their biospheres. And provide all the other services that can’t be outsourced to #AI or the machines. They won’t do it. So they gonna die too, just a bit later. And even if they could see it coming they couldn’t refrain from making mo’ money. Right?
Show threadkryphosAug 5, 2023
@ewos1986 @proscience @Doug_Bostrom @farhanasultana Hard to say how this plays out in the long run. At least for the first generation it should be paradise for rich people, they have everything for themselves and us peons exist only as servants, not as actual people participating in society or even have a say. It might fall apart at some point, who knows.
Show threadDoug BostromAug 6, 2023

@ewos1986 @kryphos @proscience @farhanasultana

Biospheres seem to be remarkably difficult, or at so says a friend who was part of the staff during the Biosphere 2 attempt.

Show threadMrShoggothJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana - Good to know us rich people will outlive you loser poor folks by a bit if we acclimatize to the heat 15 minutes a day.
Show threadDr. Farhana SultanaJul 30, 2023
@MrShoggoth you mean us loser people who are from the tropics and deserts and have historically adapted to heat better than northern collate folks? 🧐
Show threadMrShoggothJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana - Exactly. That’s the thinking of the bozos who write those idiotic stories. It’s like the rich guys on the Titanic thinking they’re better off because they’re on higher decks.
Show threadTito CiuroJul 31, 2023
@MrShoggoth @farhanasultana Speaking of the Titanic, it’s as if someone said “just swim 15 minutes a day to build stamina and stuff” and expect them to survive the gelid waters while the T was going down. Because you know, it’s all about adaptation.
Show threadMrShoggothJul 31, 2023
@titociuro @farhanasultana you bet.
Show threadJude-last-mask-standingJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana what a load of 💩! When I was young I could tolerate heat. Now I’m in my 60’s and more than 10 minutes in the sun causes dizziness. The old folks are suffering due to excessive temperatures.
Show threadcarlos quintanaJul 30, 2023
@stayingjude @farhanasultana - We 60-somethings have to face the fact that we have no place in this right-wing assholes' concept of society.
And act accordingly.😉
Show threadmarkJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana did an oil company write this?
Show threadDr. Farhana SultanaJul 30, 2023
@auditorydamage haha that’s what I thought. Koch funded probably too
Show threadGatekeeper..Jul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana
More garbage from the Post...jfc
Show threadMoJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana hah
Show threadFrances_Larina 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 30, 2023

@farhanasultana

Just to note, soulless capitalist right-wing fascists ghouls have A/C and are typically mobile enough to simply live out their days in the last pockets of liveability.

Show threadDr. Farhana SultanaJul 30, 2023
@Frances_Larina exactly. And this is why they peddle such garbage.
Show threadRon DeSantis's BDEJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana
"Democracy dies in darkn... hey, did you guys know that climate change is about getting used to it being hotter? I just learned this cool life hack!"
Show threadChu 朱Jul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana
When we hit wet bulb 35C and the avg adult male dies inside of 6 hours. The capitalists will then start to tell us how to dig holes to lie in and keep burning fossil fuels.
Show threadDr. Farhana SultanaJul 30, 2023
@chu Correct, and they will blame individuals for not being resilient enough while it’s a structural systemic problem they created. And they will do all the gaslighting from the comfort of their AC rooms
Show threadChu 朱Jul 30, 2023

@farhanasultana

Haha. Yes. It'll somehow be the fault of faulty genetics that we can't survive in wetbulb 35C conditions.

In all seriousness though. When this hits regions in the mid east (where it is projected to hit first in populated areas), there will be dead bodies littered on the streets and no capacity to deal with them.

This is a recurring #ClimateCrisis nightmare of mine and it is quickly becoming a reality thanks to #ExxonMobile heatwaves.

Our best hope as a species is that this hits oil pumping regions first so we lose the ability to pump oil. It'll give the rest of us a chance. The capitalists won't stop at anything short of this.

Show threadespoir, she/her, immigrant 🇵🇸Jul 30, 2023

@farhanasultana

In Finland we go to the sauna regularly. People grow up like this, it is a way of life.

We still cannot tolerate the summer heat of the Mediterranean.

Show threadStefan Müller Jul 30, 2023

@farhanasultana

Very funny (not).

The picture shows Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen, who explains that proteins denaturate at 42°. This means that our brains will die at this temperature. All the scales of thermometers for humans end at 42°, since we are dead at this temperature.

So, the only way we could live is in air-conditioned houses. Cool down our bodies all the time. I wouldn't call this living ...

Show threaddochtJul 30, 2023

@farhanasultana

They frame the climate crisis as a problem which can be solved on the individual level. What they really mean is: "Shame on you if you can't cope with the heat. You better work out."

This reminds me of the concept of "carbon footprint" which was coined by the fossil fuel industry. It's always about shifting responsibility to the individual.

#climatecrisis

Source:  

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook

Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook

Climate-conscious individual choices are good – but not nearly enough to save the planet. More than personal virtue, we need collective action

The Guardian
Show threadAlpine JoeJul 30, 2023

@docht @farhanasultana

You can tell corporate execs don't really believe the "personal responsibility" thing because they are all jetting around the world on ultra polluting private jets!

These are just the old 2014 figures:
https://ig.ft.com/sites/business-jets/

All forms of high polluting transportation should be charged a hefty climate mitigation fee. From corporate jets to SUVs and vanity trucks.

Precious perks: Free flights for business executives cost US companies $40m last year

An exclusive FT investigation takes a closer look at some of the most expensive corporate flights in the US.

Private jets: free flights for corporate executives in the US add up to $40m
Show threadUrban HermitJul 31, 2023
@alpinejoe @docht @farhanasultana
I took my small fishing boat out today. I went to a lake I had never been to. It was more popular with power boaters than I was comfortable with. Besides the fact that I had a bad time and left early, I thought "look at all those boats, racing around & wasting gas for almost no reason". A lot of working class people who get a little wealth get into power sports after they get the big truck. The price of all gas needs to include the cost of CO2 mitigation.
Show threadbobocubedJul 30, 2023

@farhanasultana

I wish I could re-boost this a billion times.

Show threadaethervisionJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana I dunno. Once the heat kills you, the body (okay, the skeleton, whatever) is quite resilient to heat fluctuations.
Show threadRamesh #NotGoingBackJul 30, 2023

@farhanasultana

#America can build up #tolerance to #extreme #income #inequality. Four decades of clinging to this #Reagan #dogma prove that #small #gradual #exposures to #trickleDown #economic #policies can help #poor #working #class build tolerance to #wealthy #soulless #capitalist #rightWing #fascist #ghouls

Show threadDer Entgegner (Aka Ratatöskr)Jul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana aaaaaye.
Show threadMichael PorterJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana @breadandcircuses “Climate Solutions” – That’s rich.
Time we have left << Time to evolve tolerance to extreme heat
Show threadशिवदम् ⓋJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana I have lived in this desert my whole life, where temps above 115F are not uncommon. No, one does not develop tolerance to temperatures this high. It kills people every year here. The body MUST cool down each day in order to survive.
Show threadYaoi Box BalloonJul 30, 2023

@farhanasultana This writer can fuck off.

This is clearly written by someone who never grew up in a hot country.

It reminds me of people going, "wHy DoNt U cOmE tO tHe PaRk wItH uS yOu gReW upin a HoT cUnTrY" in 35 fucking degree heat in summer.

Because we' DONT GO OUTSIDE WHEN ITS THAT HOT.

Amateurs.

Show threadlewistimjJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana I think billionaires can build tolerance to higher taxes and that would be way better for all of us
Show threadDr. Farhana SultanaJul 30, 2023
@lewistimj 💯
Show threadDatalessJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana @epidiah As if “you will get hotter” was the core problem anyway🙄 Will they also be publishing articles on how the human body can build up a tolerance to food shortages and floods?
Show threadEast Of The RockiesJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana
Selling, Boiling Frog Syndrome, to the gullible.
Show threadsora Jul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana "climate solutions"???? this is vile...
Show threadVenitaJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana The experts should prove the point by working outside under the extreme heat conditions: deliver mail, work in construction, do some farm work... come back and let us know.
Show threadEdelruth, PBS Passport HolderJul 30, 2023

@farhanasultana

I promise you, even a soulless, capitalist, right wing, fascist ghoul cannot survive extreme heat once the power goes off.

Show threadDudula the DudJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana Lizards like the heat.
Show threadTrashPandaJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana
Show threadDr. Farhana SultanaJul 30, 2023
@toschcrs 💯
Show threadLucifer ☄️Jul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana One thing your body can develop a resistance to is bullshit like 'you'll be fine, no action need be taken about climate change' when really that just means it's the poors that will die
Show threadjuanejotJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana “Learn How To Boil a Frog in a Pot Without Raising Your Utilities Bill, With This One Weird Trick!”
Subtitle: “Hint: You’re the Frog.”
Show threadAvi Rappoport (avirr)Jul 30, 2023

@farhanasultana “People who live in hot environments for most of their lives are already acclimatized,” he added. But those who live in cooler environments can get there with some training. It can typically take about a week or two to become fully acclimatized, experts say.

Ya think?

Show threadUrban HermitJul 31, 2023
@avirr @farhanasultana
Realistically this temp tolerance is like 4-7°F. And that is transitioning from thinking 77°F is a little warm to feeling like 84°F is warm but doable. It is not valid for the extreme end of the scale, and people dying in heat related deaths would not survive repeatedly "almost dying" to acclimate. Who ever wrote this should feel deep shame.
Show threadProbably PaulJul 31, 2023
@Urban_Hermit
@avirr
@farhanasultana It is actually true to a very limited extent (far less so than this author implies) that people can acclimatize to higher temperatures. But that's actually another reason why extreme and unprecedented heat is so dangerous: those not used to it are at greater risk. People from hotter climates laughing at how disruptive last summer was to the British, was amusing. I'm a Brit and even I chuckled at some of the jokes being made at our expense. But many died in those record-breaking 40°C temperatures.
Show threadEarthlingJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana I thought the right wing loons were warning against a conspiracy of lizard people. Now we’re supposed to read their how-to articles about how to become them?
Show threadDave GoldsmithJul 30, 2023

@farhanasultana

Its insane. I dunno. Maybe some few people will be helped by the presumed instructions but, JEEZ, talk about going out with a whimper...

Show threadRudie V.Jul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana JFC this is laughably bad.
Show threadjoeziehmerJul 30, 2023
@farhanasultana Last time people touted that for Olympic wrestlers many suffered with kidney and organ issues. Sacrificing their health to cut weight and reach the weigh in.