One country had 18 times more dangerous heat days in a year as the world marks an unfortunate milestone
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As the world hits an alarming climate milestone, a new report by a US research team shows the staggering amount of extreme heat days each country experienced last year, with the majority made more likely by human-induced climate change.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10230630

Climate Central vice-president for science Andrew Pershing said the figures illustrated the “huge burden” the burning of fossil fuels imposed on people around the world

“Australia didn’t have a particularly interesting summer this year, but in Africa it’s just day after day after day of climate change just beating down on that continent.”

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
    21·
    7 months ago

    I would’ve thought that near all of Australia burning in 2019 would’ve been a big enough wake up call, but here we are, five years later, and now everything is on fire.

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
      15·
      7 months ago

      I gave up hope a while ago that we’ll do anything significant in time for it to matter. I used to be pretty optimistic but this is the topic that changed that. I’m not exactly a doomer but I’m definitely much more jaded and cynical than I used to be.

      • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
        9·
        7 months ago

        I am sure we won’t get out of this.

        You’re in good company with that line of thinking

        https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329820-200-understand-faulty-thinking-to-tackle-climate-change/

        DANIEL KAHNEMAN is not hopeful. “I am very sorry,” he told me, “but I am deeply pessimistic. I really see no path to success on climate change.”

        Kahneman’s views are widely shared by cognitive psychologists. As Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University says: “A psychologist could barely dream up a better scenario for paralysis.”

        Thay said, I keep my emisisons low, vote green, but plan for the worst while hoping for the best.

      • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
        3·
        7 months ago

        LoL yeah. People getting upset because has prices are inconvenient.

        Wait till they see what’s around the corner with this ecological disaster. Gas prices will be the least of their worry.

        Can’t grow crops when the whole soil is too dry and the air is too hot to grow anything. Or when there’s flash floods all the time. Or extreme weather conditions and your home has been destroyed.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      51·
      7 months ago

      A lot of people wrongly though that.

      Mostly the rhetoric I heard in personal conversations was conservative talking points about blaming The Greens for not allowing enough back burning and blame The Greens for not allowing nuclear.

      Insee some if the same.stuoid nonses spouted in the Canadian less by conservative polticans there.

      The Greens have never been in power at the state or federal level and can’t draft legislation. The conservative LNP have been in power literally for decades and drafted all the legislation but here we are.

      I Vote Green, me and the another 128 Australians.