Most of us will be dying from climate change — sooner rather than later.
If you think this is doomer porn — I won’t go to your funeral if you don’t go to mine.
I am being upfront about where the reactions to climate change are and noting that we: are what we do, not what we say.
If the NOAA climate dashboard were the instruments on display in the cockpit of your aircraft — you would be putting on the parachute. But every time this dashboard is posted the extinction deniers insist that this is no proof that we are in extinction, demand better science refrences and chastise the poster as a …. wait for it … doomer. So here’s the NOAA dashboard, you get the willy wonka golden ticket if you can thread a way to avoid your impending climate death
https://www.climate.gov/climatedashboard
The obvious exponential increases in climate change are already here , and being exponential, they are not plateauing.
As progressives we can write angry articles about under reporting of heat related deaths, we can rage finger point at the right for ruining the planet , and on it goes if you follow the formula — blame someone because it blunts and dilutes the reality that this is affecting me and my longevity.
So when it is pointed out that this is in fact real and in real time pointing to your extinction… good god get the fire company: stat, because the blame thrower is on scorched earth. Delivering the facts that we are in extinction gets full on denial and the extinction deniers first salvo is “ if you say extinction, people’s hedonism will kick in and no one will do anything” There can never be enough evidence and the words can never be accurate enough to prove that we are in extinction, the problem must be that a doomer is engaging in apocalypse porn fantasy at your expense….
Maybe …. just maybe …. it is time to think through and act on the changes and community responses to how we will handle living in this extinction. What can we do to make it less painful, how can we support one another. It is hospice time.
We want proof that we are getting too hot
But wait this was July 2021
https://www.noaa.gov/news/its-official-july-2021-was-earths-hottest-month-on-record
July 2021 by the numbers
- Around the globe: the combined land and ocean-surface temperature was 1.67 degrees F (0.93 of a degree C) above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees F (15.8 degrees C), making it the hottest July since records began 142 years ago. It was 0.02 of a degree F (0.01 of a degree C) higher than the previous record set in July 2016, which was then tied in 2019 and 2020.
- The Northern Hemisphere: the land-surface only temperature was the highest ever recorded for July, at an unprecedented 2.77 degrees F (1.54 degrees C) above average, surpassing the previous record set in 2012.
- Regional records: Asia had its hottest July on record, besting the previous record set in 2010; Europe had its second-hottest July on record—tying with July 2010 and trailing behind July 2018; and North America, South America, Africa and Oceania all had a top-10 warmest July.
… that was then … this is now ….
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/july-2023-is-hottest-month-ever-recorded-on-earth/
and by “taste of the future” that’s ease you in speak that this is extinction
“The extreme weather which has affected many millions of people in July is unfortunately the harsh reality of climate change and a foretaste of the future,” said the WMO’s secretary-general Petteri Taalas in the WMO-C3S press release. “The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is more urgent than ever before. Climate action is not a luxury but a must.”
The level of action required to move the needle — is not here.
EPA Article
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-heat-related-deaths
The death rate from heat-related cardiovascular disease ranged from 0.08 deaths per million people in 2004 to 1.08 deaths per million people in 1999 (see Figure 2). Overall, the interaction of heat and cardiovascular disease caused about one-fourth of the heat-related deaths recorded in the “underlying and contributing causes” analysis since 1999 (see Figures 1 and 2).
And that ain’t good news especially since
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/1-in-8-americans-cant-afford-their-heart-disease-drugs/
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., yet one in eight Americans who suffer from the condition can't afford to take the medication they need to stay alive, according to a new study from the American Heart Association.
Take note!
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/heatrelated-illnesses-heat-cramps-heat-exhaustion-heat-stroke
As goes the North — so goes the South …. what lies ahead????
It is winter in the Southern hemisphere — and let’s be clear what the word winter is commonly associated with — lower temperatures — but that is not happening
https://www.reuters.com/pictures/south-americas-largest-lake-approaches-all-time-low-amid-winter-heatwave-2023-08-04/
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-south-america-high-tempsin-middle.html
Meanwhile in Buenos Aires, the temperature exceeded 30C (86F) on Tuesday, making it the highest August 1 temperature since record-keeping began, according to Argentina's National Meteorological Service. The average August temperature in Buenos Aires is usually between 18C (64F) and 9C (48F).
When people talk about self reinforcing feedback loops …. what do they mean?????
Rojas also warned about the effects of heat at the poles.
"The ice around the polar areas is at minimum levels," she said on X, formerly known as Twitter.
"Especially around Antarctica, where at this time of year sea ice grows to reach a maximum in September, it is at a historic minimum."
How hot is too hot for infrastructure — can we at least start thinking about it?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/20/heat-wave-road-railway-buckling/
“We need to think longer term and more holistically about heat,” Keith said. “We need to make sure that every time that we have a roadway project or a railway project of the future, that we’re making sure to design it for the climate that we’re pushing ourselves into and not the one that we’re currently in or the one that we’ve had been in the past.”
A holistic approach, Bhasin added, should also include taking steps to understand and mitigate the causes for these extreme temperature events.
“If not, we may continue in a downward spiral,” he said.
We definitely are in the “if not” camp all day every day
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-america-aging-infrastructure-sags-pressure.html
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33930272/