This month:

• Hottest month in recorded history, maybe in tens of thousands of years

• Study warns of potential collapse of critical Atlantic Ocean circulation

• Study warns CO2 removal might not undo some climatic changes

• New IPCC head says world is guaranteed to pass 1.5 degrees

Nitter

Let today be the first day of the end of your life!

If you ever feel bound by red-tape consider a different color of tape or adhesive..

Pick flowers. Smile at police and hand them flowers. Comply. Use a public defender and plead no contest to assault and resisting arrest..

Make the theoretical more literal by rolling a physical boulder up a hill every so often.

Say goodbye to trees you've grown accustomed to and apologize to forests..

When taking the shortcut through the cemetery always whistle like a psycho..

Die a little less every day with the help of big pharma and lil herb..

Focus on the things not currently on fire..

Open up your schedule by glaring at your friends and acquaintances, take a sip from a beverage, exhale with seething anger and repeatedly leave abrubtly without saying goodbye..

Cry in public. Then cry in public wearing a festive outfit. Compare results..

Learn to speak Lobster. Listen to their wisdom. Get the courage to know the things you cannot grasp, the things you can claw and the freedom from rubber bands to operate the claws..

Smoke crack repeatedly for 27hrs, rest for 12 and repreat until you've convinced your shadow to stop following you around like a dick without anything to say..

Have an emotional breakthrough and breakdown at the same time

Cut power costs by stabbing electrical outlets.

Pls I'm so tired.

I'm so sick of seeing shit die and seeing land be poisoned and living in a society where everyone wants to fuck each other over.

I just want one communism to go pls

We are very tired and dead inside and have been since 2008 and everyone hates us for no reason

Help

Americans see children playing ball and think it's an atrocity. They fantasize about breaking open the Three Gorges dam and drowning millions as punishment for having the gall to think they can surpass them. I think I realized this when America, without any provocation, sanctioned Nvidia chips in China, trying to cut them off from a vast and critical field of civilian technology. There is no clearer statement that America is hostile to Chinese advancement and will only tolerant a subservient, under developed china as a base for raw materials and cheap manufacturing.

If you're a westerner who thinks "Orientalism" is just a 50 cent word for racism when it's directed against the Orient, you need to learn more about such an important concept. Orientalism intimately links knowledge about the Orient with control of the Orient. the link between knowledge production and state projects authorizes a birds-eye view of the Orient that categorizes knowledge about the orient in such a way as that positions the observer as superior in every respect (more rational, logical, scientific, realistic, objective, empathetic).

I don't see any benefit to shutting down dialogue with America, but it would probably be a mistake to engage in any way that puts constraints on their actions; America has shown this is always a temporary pause while they try outmaneuver them. They can limit themselves to the most immediate of agreements, and even try insisting that only treaties ratified by congress will be binding. In that case, the US President will have to go to the people and argue a consistent and credible stance to China, not stoking the flames of hatred with one hand while offering bad faith deals with the other. In the current congressional make up however, this would effectively mean a complete standstill in diplomacy. no doubt Americans take it as a severe insult when the "lesser peoples" insist they be engaged with legally binding treaties.

I just discovered that our food containers are riddled with plastic shavings and most of my coworkers (including the manager) just shrugged and basically said lol fuck the customers & we're gonna die anyways

Liberals will do nothing until there's a proverbial gun to their head

Edit: I forgot to mention one of my zoomer coworkers came in wearing an Obama shirt and fondly remembered watching him on TV like he was Mr. Rodgers.

I think that was the tipping point lol

I fucking love Italians and how they cause good trouble. A real inspiration.

Maybe I'm lizard braining here but it really feels like there's a conscious effort to lower and lower our attention span.

Actually, it's not lizard brain at all. Of course capitalists wish to make us consume more quickly whilst becoming less capable of consuming thoughtful content.

They're currently about 1.4°C above the 30-year mean, and the trend shows no sign of slowing.

There's audio at the link. Here's the text...

Temperatures are soaring in the Southwest this week –– with highs reaching close to historical records here in New Mexico.

The heat has researchers worried about birds and their health as climate change diminishes food and water supplies for native and migratory species.

To keep cool, birds have a variety of tools at their disposal.

Some urinate on their own legs, others use their beaks to increase or decrease blood flow –– but the most common is a sort of avian "panting." That's where the bird will open its mouth and flutter its neck muscles. But that panting can cause it to lose water and become dehydrated rapidly.

Blair Wolf is a professor at the University of New Mexico's Biology Department. He said while birds can fight the heat, the climate is now warming much too fast for them to adapt through evolution.

"We're not talking about fruit flies here –– where you can get 100 generations in a year," Wolf said. "We're talking about birds that breed once a year."

That has Wolf concerned for bird diversity as world-wide temperatures reach the hottest they've ever been in recorded history, causing dehydration and loss of food sources.

"The birds most susceptible to heat stress are just going to be gone," Wolf said.

Those susceptible birds might include small songbirds like goldfinches, which get dehydrated fast. Or birds like the curve-bill thrasher, which only live in the desert and can't move to cooler places.

Though, Wolf says shade and water are the most crucial aspects of keeping birds in the desert. He recommends helping our avian friends out by simply installing a birdbath or planting shady vegetation as birds struggle to adapt to a hotter world.

I find it hard to bring people to communism because telling them the truth of our system most often leads them to a doom spiral where fighting back against capitalism seems impossible and that the world is fucked. I feel bad because I feel like all it does is make people depressed. It's too much. People are tired and burnt out from daily life too much to handle it.

Yet rich people are supposedly entitled to multiple homes that poor people are supposed to subsidise with astronomical rent prices.

Capitalist society is so monstrous that you don't deserve to simply exist without horrible sufferering unless you dedicate 100% of your life to making someone else rich.

Like holy shit, poor people aren't out there asking for supercars or mansions. Just a place to live. Just to not be scared of dying on the street the moment they can't be used for profit.

What the fuck.

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Even our health foods are poisoned with this shit. Amazing. Funniest part is they found higher concentrations of PFAS in the organic kale, further destroying any meaning for that label.

Studies have previously found PFAS in vegetables in fields where sewage sludge was laid as an alternative to fertilizer, and the FDA claimed it had “no indication” of a health threat in PFAS it found in vegetables grown in 2018 near a North Carolina PFAS manufacturing plant.

The currents of air that wrap around our planet are becoming unrecognizable to climate scientists.

Some have even compared the chaotic pattern of the jet streams to a Van Gogh painting.

The southern part of the jet stream over North America has completely broken apart and is currently trapped in a vicious revolution that has triggered an off-the-chart heatwave.

While it's normal for the air currents to stop, split apart, recombine and flow in opposite directions, on average these tropospheric air streams are typically quite continuous over long distances with an overall west to east flow.

The current fragmentation is unlike anything specialists have seen before.

"When I look at this jet stream the word insane comes to mind," tweeted the chief meteorologist of a local Florida news station, Jeff Berardelli.

"This configuration, likely enhanced by climate heating, is fueling a record heat dome so extreme that even experts are astonished!"

The climate scientist and author Michael E Mann was quick to reply to Berardelli's tweet. Mann has studied planetary wave behavior for years now, and yet online he said that he's rarely seen "such a disjointed configuration."

Jet streams are known to get 'blocked' on occasion, trapping weather systems in certain regions for days on end. But recent evidence suggests climate change could cause more blockages than usual by slowing down jet streams so they break apart, causing chaotic weather on the ground.

That seems to be what's happening right now in North America, and it's not just climate change that's contributing.

Mann explains that El Niño has likely exacerbated the situation, too.

"I'm honestly at a loss to even characterize the current large-scale planetary wave pattern," he tweeted.

Even the average layperson can clearly see the differences when comparing a normal pattern of jet streams to what's occurring today.

At the moment, Mann describes the jet streams over North America as "slow and wobbly", which is probably a result of climate change.

Last year, a study found warming temperatures in the Arctic were specifically weakening jet streams in the Northern Hemisphere.

What's more, because of El Niño, the paths of these jet streams have also changed latitude, exposing the southern regions of the US to the heat dome.

In the United States alone, 40 million people are currently under high heat alert, and in the last week, there have been widespread power outages.

The center of the heat dome sits over Mexico and has already caused a mass death of birds. The climatologist Maximiliano Herrera apparently told Berardelli that the heat wave in some parts of Mexico is like a "category 7". Category 5 is the highest actual ranking on the heat index scale, defined as "beyond extreme" heat.

Herrera is essentially arguing we're now beyond previous extremes.

"[I]t's simply something in its own league, nothing like this even can attempt to compare," Herrera is quoted as saying. "Records obliterated all over with insane margins and beaten as many as 7 days in a row."

Nor is there a sign of the heatwave ending any time soon. Some experts think the dome could stick around until July.

In the past, strange jet stream patterns in Earth's atmosphere have coincided with extreme weather events in both the northern and southern hemispheres, although usually not in both at the same time.

Right now, though, even the southern hemisphere's jet streams look out of whack, experts note.

This week in southern Australia, for example, a jet stream is bringing unusually wet weather to some regions of the nation.

And back up North, the Atlantic hurricane season is starting to brew months early, University of Miami climatologist Brian McNoldy warns.

Meanwhile, sea surface temperatures have also soared into uncharted territory, and don't seem to be returning to normal levels any time soon. This has already caused mass fish deaths and marine mammal poisonings and all before the El Niño has properly set in.

"It is now clear that Earth's climate system is way out of kilter and we should be very concerned," Central Queensland University Environmental Geographist Steve Turton explained for The Conversation.

From pole to pole, the winds of change are here. The climate crisis is no longer a future problem. It's happening now, right before our eyes.

Bet there's microplastics even in water. Did read there is teflon in water too a few years back. Seems a good fit for here.