This thread is just to post interesting news, thoughts, opinions about climate change.
"Fun" page on USAtoday.
You can put in your city (or nearby one) and see how miserable and shitty your children's life will be so that Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, Mark Zukkerberg, etc. can have a few more billions!
Hot, hotter, hottest: How much will climate change warm your county?
I am only getting a "significant" change (3degree F) and only 13 more days above 90 in Des Moines, IA
LOL which is actually worse than Santa Fe, New Mexico at "moderate (2.30 degrees) and 7 more days.
Wait till they start hitting 100 deg C.
You know, next year
I stumbled upon the lovely little fact recently that the last 7 years have been the hottest 7 years on record, each beating the previous one's record in turn.
Thus summer? Hottest summer since records began.
Coolcoolcool.
This is standard practice in Australia and has been for more than a decade. Any mid-size and upwards meeting will start with an acknowledgement of country.
Oh sure, but I (and OP) are mostly pointing out how empty and perfomative land acknowledgements have become that they're being done before strip-mining a forest.
Polish city urged to evacuate as floods batter central Europe
The mayor of a Polish city has asked all 44,000 residents to evacuate, as widespread flooding continues to batter swathes of central Europe.
Nysa mayor Kordian Kolbiarz asked people to head for higher ground, citing the risk of an embankment breaching and releasing a cascade of water into the town from a nearby lake.
On Monday, the death toll from the floods that hit central Europe over the weekend rose to 16, with more casualties recorded in the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria.
Budapest said it would close roads near the river Danube which runs through the city, citing the risk of flooding later this week.
“Please evacuate your belongings, yourselves, your loved ones. It is worth getting to the top floor of the building immediately, because the wave may be several metres high. This means that the whole town will be flooded,” Mayor Kolbiarz wrote.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said one billion zloty (£197m) would be allocated for flood victims in the country, adding that Poland would also apply for EU relief funds. His government has also declared a state of natural disaster.
Although conditions have stabilised in some places, others are bracing themselves for more disruption and danger.
In Slovakia, the overflowing of the Danube River caused flooding in the Old Town area of the capital, Bratislava, with local media reporting that water levels exceeded 9m (30ft) and were expected to rise further.
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