Climate Change/Mass Extinction Megathread

Started by Syt, November 17, 2015, 05:50:30 AM

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Syt

#1575
July 16, 2021, 04:48:38 AM
Meanwhile there's a small and persistent chorus of people saying the disaster shouldn't be politicized (same people who call climate change predictions "fear mongering" on disaster-free days), there's always been floods, it just looks worse because we measure more, etc.
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Syt

#1577
July 16, 2021, 05:18:19 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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celedhring

#1578
July 16, 2021, 05:24:04 AM
God damn, this is terrible.

Syt

#1579
July 16, 2021, 05:26:02 AM
Also, this guy:

https://twitter.com/postillleaks/status/1415915026645504000?s=20

Translation of his comments at the start basically: "Whoa, what a disaster! White water rafting"
When he spots the white car in front of him: "LOL he's floating! He's just floating there! ROFL!"
*keeps driving*
"Oh no, I'm floating too! I fucked up! I fucked up big time!"

I'm partially wondering what he thought would happen when he sees a guy floating with his car in front of him, and keeps driving towards him. :bleeding:
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—Stephen Jay Gould

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Darth Wagtaros

#1580
July 16, 2021, 07:59:08 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 16, 2021, 05:26:02 AM
Also, this guy:

https://twitter.com/postillleaks/status/1415915026645504000?s=20

Translation of his comments at the start basically: "Whoa, what a disaster! White water rafting"
When he spots the white car in front of him: "LOL he's floating! He's just floating there! ROFL!"
*keeps driving*
"Oh no, I'm floating too! I fucked up! I fucked up big time!"

I'm partially wondering what he thought would happen when he sees a guy floating with his car in front of him, and keeps driving towards him. :bleeding:
He thought that the candy ass was faking it and he was an alpha male who wouldn't even notice obstacles.
PDH!

Sheilbh

#1581
July 16, 2021, 08:47:28 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 16, 2021, 04:42:03 AM
What's likely not helping is that Germany has decades of of straightening rivers and creeks (sometimes putting them in concrete beds), building on flood land etc. which obviously exacerbates weather events like this.
There's a similar thing that always happens with floods here - they are normally made worse due to reductions in the amount of river-dredging to stop rivers becoming too narrow and rapid which makes flash flood more likely.

And I'm sure it is part of the problem, but in the context of a global climate emergency it feels like a relatively small detail that some people choose to fixate on to avoid looking at climate.

Really devastating pictures - it'll take a long time for those communities :(
Let's bomb Russia!

Syt

#1582
July 16, 2021, 08:50:41 AM
Words fail.







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Maladict

#1583
July 16, 2021, 09:59:19 AM
Quote from: Maladict on July 15, 2021, 11:26:22 PM
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Lots of evacuations here and lots of flooding, but we seem to escape the worst of it.


Retracted. Reports now of a breach and imminent dike collapse.
I thought we had our shit together for once.  :rolleyes:

Zanza

#1584
July 16, 2021, 10:00:05 AM
A home for intellectually disabled persons was flash-flooded at night and the water level rose to the ceiling within a minute. Twelve inhabitants drowned just there as the nightguards could not evacuate them fast enough.  :(

garbon

#1585
July 16, 2021, 10:02:22 AM
Quote from: Zanza on July 16, 2021, 10:00:05 AM
A home for intellectually disabled persons was flash-flooded at night and the water level rose to the ceiling within a minute. Twelve inhabitants drowned just there as the nightguards could not evacuate them fast enough.  :(

:(
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Maladict

#1586
July 16, 2021, 10:06:15 AM
Quote from: Zanza on July 16, 2021, 10:00:05 AM
A home for intellectually disabled persons was flash-flooded at night and the water level rose to the ceiling within a minute. Twelve inhabitants drowned just there as the nightguards could not evacuate them fast enough.  :(

Oh no  :(

Sheilbh

#1587
July 16, 2021, 10:10:54 AM
Oh that's awful :(
Let's bomb Russia!

Syt

#1588
July 16, 2021, 10:11:49 AM
Quote from: Zanza on July 16, 2021, 10:00:05 AM
A home for intellectually disabled persons was flash-flooded at night and the water level rose to the ceiling within a minute. Twelve inhabitants drowned just there as the nightguards could not evacuate them fast enough.  :(

Read about it this morning; this stuff is heartbreaking. :(
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