43 Celsius...along the Atlantic coast too.
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You can argue with scientists all that you want to, they're not infallible, it's true.
But you were warned for many decades, don't act all shocked and surprised.
Doesn't matter what your intentions are.
Doesn't matter what earnings you posted this quarter.
Doesn't matter if you believe in climate change.
Doesn't matter if you need this truck.
You're on this rock of wind and water and it'll do what it needs, to get back to it's equilibrium. That might be at a level we don't exist anymore nature is emotionless and you can't control it.
That's 43 celsius? Holy shit, good luck to the french, it will soon be everyone.
Last summer in Canada my car read 44C. Was fucked up.
You know it's crazy. This weekend I drove through Southern Utah Arizona and Vegas in Southern California. It was 109° in Las Vegas 106 in St George Utah and 105 and Baker California. But it's expected in those areas during the summer. Canada that's insane to have those temperatures. It's hard to fathom that in France. Maybe in the south of France where it's closer to the equator. But it's still crazy to me. Well not crazy it's further proof of global warming. Not that anyone that can do anything cares.
Was your username inspired by the air quality that day?
Nope, they turned into soup last summer and have been that way ever since
No you just haven't adjusted the numbers for inflation
I am convinced all the climate change predictions were WAY too generous and reality is gonna be far worse.
They were
Scientists always were afraid to be too alarmist and be ignored, so they always went conservative with their estimates.
Now we are here
Yep that's my fear
It will be even worse than what you're expecting right now
People in Brittany in 2014: oh we’ll be fine no worries 😙
People in Brittany in 2026: what da fuk just happen? 🥵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4yrb8hRFKQ
Mozinor, la météo du futur. Not a clip on climate, more a parody about canicule. France had gone through the 2003 heatwave with an awful lot of casualties amongst old people. Had cost his seat to an unskilled unqualified health minister (something Mattei) under Chirac last presidency. The clip is typical of Mozinor with childish high-pitched voice and many video samples of blockbusters. In France there is no copyright when it comes to "détournement" of a scene from a movie. I believe Mozinor is still active but I don't follow anymore. 300, dead zone, Olivier Besancenot, 007, baboulinet, search for any of these adding Mozinor to the request , if you are curious
Yeah just don't fall into the old mistake of weather = climate. Heat waves happened before climate change as well. But our current changing climate makes them more likely to happen more often and more intense, if I am informed correctly.
Look up how many heatwaves happened in France during the 20th century, and how many happened in the last 10 years. Yes, weather on any single day is not climate, but we are quite past "oh heatwaves happened before".
We are projected to potentially have the warmest day ever recorded in Denmark this weekend, I would call that a direct sign of climate change.
It's not high summer, and 40C is crazy. This is climate chang. Saying it's weather is oil propaganda.
Its not one or the other, that's overly simplistic. Using this one data point to "prove" climate change is about as honest as someone bringing a snowball into congress to prove it's fake.
You need both to prove a sustainable point, otherwise it's forgotten with the next cold snap. This is one extreme data point, and it helps to showcase the problem, but it is not the only one. Use it as part of a whole, not as a singular showcase.
Thats my interpretation of OPs comment.
Idk when record-breaking high temperatures are showing up weekly I think they stop being "extreme" data points
Outliers aren't outliers anymore when all the measurements are in that range
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The cynic in me imagines that the media purposely promoted the longer timelines to lull people into thinking we had more time, and so there was no rush.
I think it's more about scientists being extremely conservative with their estimates, because they know they'll get impaled over being 'alarmist.'
And then (effectively) fired from their job.
Also, you should check out conservative coverage. There is no timeline compression, its strait up cynicism, hostile denial.
EDIT: I forgot hand wringing. A perfect example: fairly scientific family showed me a WSJ article about how future geoengineering is going to make climate change a non-issue.
"Offended" did not begin to describe my reaction.
I've been reading geoengineering research papers for years, and they amount to things like:
Well, if we redirected a significant portion of the global economy to custom airplane and chemical production, we could rain sulfuric acid over the poles and wipe out all life beyond a certain latitude, and maybe counter the warming some if we keep it up... ecological implications aside, its still rather impractical, but an order of magnitude cheaper than previous proposals. Shows table.
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We could really use a covid-style lockdown for a few years.
But this time no cure until we wipe out all the anti mask/ anti vaccine idiots first
And "AI" idiots who insist on burning entire areas just to generate shrimp Jesus memes
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I expect climate change to be consistently worse than the mainstream predictions.
There's a huge political incentive to err on the side of downplaying than to exaggerate, and those models should have been bad enough to make the point.
About a decade ago a group did a study on it.
They first created a simplified model. That model was still a fairly good match with the fully featured models. They then varied the parameters around reasonable possible values. If scientists were using most likely assumptions, you would expect a 50/50 split of better/worse predictions.
In practice it was 93% worse. Scientists were (unconsciously) using a lot of best case figures, not expected case.
When I read about that, and the complete lack of follow-up coverage, I knew we were fucked.
I came to the same conclusion after reading papers and articles for years and every year it got a little bit worse and a little bit sooner. Just following the trajectory of the changes in their expectations told me that we would hit ~+6°C by 2100.
Which I don't blame the original scientists or studies for. Their predictions were bad enough that we should have done something then. It's been clear for at least 30 years.
They did what they thought would have the most traction and not get them dismissed as crackpots. And, to be clear, they were still within a margin of error. They weren't generally wrong, considering their margins. It's just that they're not going to be perfect and they made the better choice.
Even now it would be easier to dismiss climate change if the reality ended up better than predicted, even if it was still bad.
This is one of the reasons my spouse and I opted to not have kids. This place is doomed.
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