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I traveled through France via train and this is way WAY scarier when you go through. This aerial view is still abstract, actually seeing it, kilometer and kilometer through the entire country is deeply unsettling. This is the new normal and it is catastrophic.
I live close to the french border and while it's really bad here - our forests already switched to autumn mode due to heat stress and dryness - it's much, much worse once you drive around an hour west.
unsettling is an understatement. I get the feeling people are avoiding the topic - not denying - but avoiding it, so they don't have switch into full panic mode.
Huh, didn't expect Nintendo to be the one to get the post apocalyptic world right. All hail our future Squid overlords I guess
So, when do we drop a giant ice cube in the ocean?
We've already got giant ice cubes in the ocean, but they're melting!
We just need to get some more ice on a nearby comet or something, thus solving the problem once and for all.
But
ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!
a comet perhaps like the old days.
Don't worry everyone, the next set of world leaders will take swift action on climate and fix it, just wait. We can't do it now, the numbers are up.
If there's a government left that is...
More than just France. I went to Ireland this summer, and I have been several times before. In a country that is normally cloudy and rainy, it was sunny and bright. It didn't rain for the 10 days I was there. That sounds nice, but everything was dried up, it was sad. What is normally a drive through the lush and green countryside, was a drive through the brown and dry midlands. Not seeing those rolling hills of emerald green really bummed me out.
Although snow in winter in Ireland is rare, it used to be much colder. Over 15 years ago, my mates and I would walk in mornings to school and we would slip on frozen footpaths during winter. Now, the winters just tend to be warmer with more rain. Roads don't really get frozen anymore apart from the rare snow events that happen every couple of years. The north gets more snow but anecdotally it is getting lesser and lesser over the years.
Same in a lot of the UK, it straight up does not snow in the winter where it used to in the place I grew up. I live in Wales now and it's scary seeing such a wet country so dried out, it's not natural.
I'm in Bavaria and even the dandelions have given up by now. An article said that there's an extreme drought were ground is completely dried out over 2 maters deep.
What's that supposed to tell me?
Mater is the character's name. I believe they were just being silly.
deniers will be like "it is two more days into august that is why"
So I'm from northern Italy and I remember travelling to southern years for the first time over 20 years ago and noticing how dry and yellow everything looked in the summer, which was unusual for someone used to green vegetation even at the peak of August.
Guess what it looks like this year here in the North? "Summer's always been hot, you were just younger" my ass.
And more of those AI data centers are going to catapult this into perpetuity. So, are we sure this isn't the march toward literal "Hell on Earth?"
While it's focused on France. It also shows how bad it is in the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain. Spain is a bit more prepared for conditions like this, but the rest (Inc France) really aren't. The consequences of this potentially becoming the new normal are alarming, to say the least.
potentially becoming
Not only potentially, it is going to become the new normal. At least for a while, as who knows how it will be, when AMOC really gets going.
Europe's climate isn't dominated by 1 or 2 core effects. It's a balance of multiple competing ones. Climate change is affecting a lot of those, at the same time. It's hard to predict which way things will tip. E.g. if the golf stream fails, then we could get FAR colder winters.
Some of the new potential balances are more unpleasant/annoying, others are more deadly.
Unfortunately, we will see how it plays out over the next few decades. Short enough that us and our children will take the brunt of it. But long enough that a lot of leaders won't care yet, they won't live to see it.
Holy fucking shit, I knew it was bad but this puts a whole new perspective on it...
It even goes up all the way to Britain, and all the way east as far as the map reaches.
The heat index is 119 degrees where I'm at in Texas right now. That's enough to be lethal for many people.
Don't sorry people. Gerhard on <insert any "social media platform> said, it has always been warm in summer.
Climate change is nothing but alarmism, guys. Just some conspiracy to keep us all "in check".
Oh that? Oh I remember when we had that in the 80s. Nothing new. Nothing new at all.
Oh shit
Holy fucks....
