Back in Mn but I see that heat dome that was over the Pacific NW is headed here. In a typical year Minneapolis has 13 days 90+ F. Just in June this year have had 11 days.
At least two locations in Washington reached 118 degrees, which, if confirmed, would tie the state temperature record that dates back to 1928. those who believe that global warming is a hoax will hold onto this piece of information right here
All of this is happening and we're not yet quite at 1.5°C. Current path blows us past 2°C and sets us up for 3-4°C. All the words have been spoken, there's more than enough science, the impacts are here. We need to act with speed if we're going to keep things from getting much worse. Can't wait on folks who look at it through a partisan lens. Speed matters more and more each day. If we don't act, we'll have to react which will be more expensive, more disruptive, and more deadly.
It looks to me like we're already going to blow the remaining carbon budget with wildfires in the great northern forests, melting permafrost/methane release, Chinese coal plant/concrete growth explosion, and the continued slash and burn of the Amazon. The US could bring our carbon output to zero and we'd still trip the feedback loops that are hanging over our heads. That's not to say it's hopeless and there is nothing to be done.... more that every plan of action I've seen is woefully inadequate and things need to get radical. The wacky scientist plans that have been thrown about over the years need to get serious. Large scale carbon capture, aerosol shielding, iron seeding of the oceans, etc, need real, thorough studies behind them. Cows gotta go, tree planting on a scale not even talked about before now need to be implemented immediately.
Look at the spread between previous records and today in Canada. Ft Smith set the record for that latitude anywhere in the world. And all that's in Celsius where 1 degree equals 1.8 Fahrenheit. For reference: 25°C= 77°F 30°C= 86°F 33°C= 91.4°F 35°C= 95°F 40°C= 104°F 45°C= 113°F
seems like the heat dome is eactly what happend to use with our artic blast pretty much? i def rather be freezing in my house then not have ac and it be those not to super negative and glass half empty. but this is beyond fixing. outside of a 12 monkeys super pandemic situation. I see no fix to this short or long term.
Imagine that temp with high humidity. Should be legal to walk around in a airy light weight tarp with genitals partially exposed at times
Mass scale tree planting has already been happening in China and India. There was a private push for the US as well. Permaculture/regenerative agriculture efforts have been happening in parts of China, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and the great green wall in the Sahara. However, permaculture is not happening on a large enough scale and it is not known well enough. If we blasted hundreds of billions on permaculture/regenerative ag projects instead of “infrastructure” then we would have an unfathomable level of ecological restoration over the next few decades. Feel free to watch on 1.5x speed if he moves too slow. I started at the results portion of the video but in the beginning he gets into why the desertification happened. Geoff Lawton has a bunch of great videos with his projects. We need to think differently about human development and not simply have a reduce the footprint mentality. The technology to create regenerative systems is not complex. We still have some of the systems created by the CCC during the Great Depression. It just takes a little bit of planning, consideration, and patience to implement. Peter Andrews story in Australia is an amazing one as well.
