#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming.
Below is the weather forecast for June 22, 2026.”
(By @jakubwiech on unmentionable)
This brings out super starkly how #ClimateChange has accelerated so much more quickly than we thought even just 12 years ago.
these developments never aren't shocking (even if they are not surprising)
Faster than we ever thought…
@Lats @xs4me2 @pvonhellermannn
or perhaps the more concerned scientist are accurate and then played down by politicians
Don't worry too awful much.
The Earth will be completely fine and easily recover once we're gone.
@Walruths @xs4me2 @pvonhellermannn
Always hated this reasoning, just sounds like an excuse to avoid responsibility.
Like, yeah, the literal rock of the planet will be here. Cool. Meanwhile, we're destroying life and ecosystems that have evolved over millions of years, forever. It's not some great comfort that slimemold and cockroaches will inherit the earth.
@contrasocial @xs4me2 @pvonhellermannn
Oh, I want no mistake made, here. I take full responsibility in not successfully ending the actions taken by the selfish, profit-seeking oil barons and politicians ruining our planet. As responsibility goes, we're set, but that really wasn't in question.
As for what to do now, I'd say do everything you can until you can't, optimisic or not, good outcome or not. Less pain is always better than some.
And for those who have children and grandchildren, what happens in the next 50-100 years is still of great importance.
@axnxcamr @contrasocial @xs4me2 @pvonhellermannn
Very much so! Don't stop your efforts, by all means. Less pain is always better than some. Always care for the coming generations.
@cruiser @Walruths @axnxcamr @contrasocial @pvonhellermannn
We are with more…
You might be right there, just a 40000 year ripple of physical evidence of some organized cultural activity…
We are 'the ancients' in some faroff society's scifi novel.
@noodlemaz @xs4me2 @pvonhellermannn
>was
Your pessimism is in your wrist as well as mine is. It isn't an argument, it's the ending we all chose, whether from inaction or lack of care or both.
All you can do is the best you can for the ones still here. Be glad it's that much.
I'm guessing you're both familiar with "wet bulb" temperature and the first chapter of " the ministry for the Future" by Kom Stanley Robinson.
This reminded me of that first chapter, which has left a lasting impression on me.
I've never read these early explorer stories/diaries, so I should look that up!
@folfdk
Have read Robinson; the only sci-fi author I’ve read who has a political-economic take on what it will take to get climate-related change at a global level/ scale. We are a long way from Robinson’s resolution. 🫤
JM Stuart’s journals are worth a read. He trekked south to north 3 times (the telegraph, finished 1872 was a product) & was basically a water-finding machine (he had horses) & a good basic geologist with a good feel for country. Lots of his initial observations about the base & precious metals likely to be found have been proven true. I grew up on a gold & copper mine lease in the middle of his journeys. 😊
@Su_G
Thanks for the pointer, just found the JM Stuart society
http://johnmcdouallstuart.org.au/expedition-one
What a wonderful old-school no-nonsense website!
@folfdk
Let me know what you think of his writing. 🙂
The authors use a physiological approach, finding recent extreme heat events had deadly heat stress conditions, particularly for fully exposed older people. Conditions were well below wet-bulb temperatures of 35˚C, a common heat stress indicator.
@pvonhellermannn @jakubwiech That's terrifying
If only we had received some kind of warning /s
@andycarolan @pvonhellermannn @jakubwiech But climate change isn't real... 🙄
It's shocking because we're getting ths weather in places where habitation just is not built for it.
Only many governments are doing absolutely nothing about it.
@andycarolan @pvonhellermannn @jakubwiech Sadly I think you are correct.
I wonder if any of them have stopped to think what they're gonna do if the core of humanity is wiped out. Who's going to work their fields? Who's going to make their stuff?
I mean, these people don't know how to do anything except hoard money.
@retrosponge @andycarolan @pvonhellermannn @jakubwiech
The flaw to this line of thinking is that it assumes that they have the ability or inclination to plan long-term.
Short-term gain is assumed to be infinite, just like the idea that the stock market 'number go up' forever, and they assume things will just continue to fall into place for them 'in the future'.
Sorry... I'm super ultra salty tonight 😬
@pvonhellermannn @datacyclist @jakubwiech Is there a source to verify the above image?
There has been too much fake news lately.
@Tooden
Or 24 years?
I hope 2050 is not 14 years away 😅
@pvonhellermannn
@Tooden
Don't worry, I'm still trying to convince myself that the end of second world war is 80 years ago and not 50 (what is roughly what it was when I went to elementary school).
So, not so much your math skills as the unfathomable world we live in?
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