#HeatDomes

[pennsyltuckyheathen]

An article from 2007 which gives an overview of the devastation and horror we’ll face if we don’t stop using fossil fuels.  

Where no refuge is available, civil war and a collapse into racial or communal conflict seems the likely outcome. Isolated survivalism, however, may be as impracticable as dialling for room service. How many of us could really trap or kill enough game to feed a family? Even if large numbers of people did successfully manage to fan out into the countryside, wildlife populations would quickly dwindle under the pressure. Supporting a hunter-gatherer lifestyle takes 10 to 100 times the land per person that a settled agricultural community needs. A large-scale resort to survivalism would turn into a further disaster for biodiversity as hungry humans killed and ate anything that moved. Including, perhaps, each other. Invaders do not take kindly to residents denying them food. History suggests that if a stockpile is discovered, the householder and his family may be tortured and killed. Look for comparison to the experience of present-day Somalia, Sudan or Burundi, where conflicts over scarce land and food are at the root of lingering tribal wars and state collapse.

The Statue of Liberty in New York will be gone and so will the city.  

Cities and towns around the world will be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels and mega-storms.  Saltwater will penetrate deeply into continents destroying the few fresh water supplies remaining.  Heat domes will linger for months with countless thousands killed by the intense heat, torrential rivers of precipitation will create flooding so severe it will erase the places and the people who live there, and billions will die from starvation.  

Greed, selfishness and the reckless pursuit of profits over people is killing planet Earth and all of us along with it.  

[pennsyltuckyheathen]

When a heat dome is parked over a geographical area for weeks at a time, it's going to get so hot that the electric grid will fail. Air conditioning will cease and so many people will die that it will be logistically impossible to remove and dispose of the bodies.

“This is the coldest summer of the rest of your life.”

[xiomaro]

How it feels today…

Controlled Burn, Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida.  www.xiomaro.com

[aisling-saoirse]

Heatdome Sunset, Long Valley, NJ - June 20th 2024

[gynoidtalk]

heatdomes ➡ gynoidtalk

my username on literally everything else was taken here but Whatever. i dont draw anymore so maybe ill just start #posting

[jynersq]

its soooooo fun and great being in the heatdome. realfeel 97F/33C outside. amazing

[paulshishkoffjr]

While half of the United States face temperatures above 90°, Kirk, Oregon had a freeze warning. #HeatDome

[brightwoodhelm]

Summertime (Livins' Hard)

Ain't no snow up on the mountain

Palmer glacier's getting lean     

Can't stand the site of bare rocks and scree

The lakes are full of algae

Too toxic for a swim

Hope it won't hurt much to dunk my toe in

Another month of fires

To the east and to the south

Praying for the rain to make them fires go out 

There's smoke all in my hair

Smoke all in my clothes

Maybe this'll make them mask I 'spose

Hundred twenty in the city

One hundred at the coast

Heatdome damn near made us roast

Bodies hot and sweaty 

Can barely slake your thirst

But turning on the AC will make summers worse

Somewhere in the world

There's gotta be some respite

Drought war and flooding guess we got off light 

[snorfbin]

in my personal experience as a canadian its only ever the americans who pull that sorta shit. ive never heard an egyptian say anything like that about the weather in egypt or a brazilian about the weather in brazil. it really gets under my skin when a weather event actually kills people and americans are so fucking callous bc they always brag about how much worse they have it there.

i live in western canada and i survived the heat dome of 2021 but that was a downright awful experience. in my own town we got up to 39.8°C, 103.6°F for the americans here. the usual summer temperature for me is about 27-29°C, about 80-85°F, with the usual heat wave being 30-35°C, 85-95°F. the town of Lytton got it so much worse than i did, they got a whopping 49.6°C or 121.28°F AND a wildfire which destroyed most of the town. this heatdome was breaking national historical records all over the place!

that might not be anything special to folks living in states like nevada or texas but also think of this, your homes and infrastructure are made to withstand the climate theyre built in just as canadian homes are. homes up here in canada are NOT built to withstand heat and are designed to keep more heat in bc we have colder winters. a home in nevada is built to release heat rather than keeping it in. we typically have fewer places to go when it comes to the heat, my town has about 50k residents and only one public pool so how are we all supposed to fit in there to cool off? since it used to be very rare to get temperatures that high very few people are actually equipped to handle it; at the time only about 40% of households in BC had air conditioning and the rest only had simple fans; i bet a lot more than just 40% of homes in nevada have air conditioning bc they regularly get high temperatures.

at the time our emergency response services were having their own emergency, especially when it comes to medical workers. we just didnt have enough doctors and nurses to handle patients during an overdose crisis and the covid pandemic to handle the usual health emergencies. people would often have to wait 6 or more HOURS for an ambulance to arrive bc paramedics cant leave their patients to pick up more people until a doctor can take the first patient. other emergency services such as firefighters also respond to calls for ambulances, the idea is that theyre also trained to stabilize someone in a health emergency and prepare them for when the ambulance to arrive but theyre also not allowed to leave until the ambulance arrives. with the ambulances delayed the firefighters were also held up and often have to resort to giving a crash course lesson to the relatives of the person in the emergency in how to drive quickly to the hospital and keeping the emergency person safe so the firefighters can see to other emergencies after waiting for hours on the ambulance that never arrived.

so with temperatures breaking national historical records without the infrastructures or tools to deal with the heat and with a failing medical emergency system that can barely hold up against the drug overdose crisis and the covid pandemic on its own its no surprise that over 600 people died just from the heat alone. i legitimately loathe anyone who says bullshit like "they couldnt handle texas temps lmao!!!" bc they have so fucking little sympathy or knowledge as to how the world around them works.

every single year there is some headline like 30 children vaporised into ashes in record heatwave and the most unpleasant person u have ever met is like "they could NOT handle texas 🤣"

[rebeleden]

#Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signs law getting rid of #water breaks

[pennsyltuckyheathen]

(via Monday was hottest day for global average temperature on record, as climate crisis bites | Extreme weather | The Guardian)

Monday, July 3, 2023 hottest day ever globally 

Of the new temperature record announced on Tuesday, Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, said: “Unfortunately, it promises to only be the first in a series of new records set this year as increasing emissions of [carbon dioxide] and greenhouse gases, coupled with a growing El Niño event, push temperatures to new highs.”

[seasons-saisons]

The Science of Heat Dome Explained! Detailed Analysis of Heat Wave in USA and CANADA

Summers are hot, and sometimes, they become dangerously hot. When that happens, then it is called a Heatwave. But What is a heatwave and a heat dome? Why do Canada and the Western US face extremely high temperatures? Is this linked with Climate Change? Watch this ‘Explained’ till the end, to know all about it.

#heatwave #heatdome #climatechange

[dejufuniverse]

Heb je een paar weken op de camping gezeten in de regen met je kinderen en gaan ze naar school...krijg je te maken met een heatdome...volgens het nieuws. Een mooie nazomer noemde ze dit nog een paar jaar geleden.

[viva1]

Watch "#Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signs law getting rid of #water breaks" on YouTube

[xmaveria]

Everyday the days are hotter... 

[johnhopkinsphotography]

One Hundred and Sixteen Degrees Outside

June 27, 2021