Is it too late?

[bcuster]

Global warming ravages once lush nation

‘Climate change-caused’ drought leaves Zambians on the cusp of hunger crisis​

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-10-13/climate-change-caused-drought-leaves-zambians-on-cusp-of-hunger-crisis

 

[bcuster]

Antarctica, the world's iciest continent, is greening at an alarmingly dramatic rate​

Antarctica, the world's iciest continent, is 'greening' at a dramatic rate

Even this vast and isolated ‘wilderness’ is being affected by climate change.

www.usatoday.com

 

[bcuster]

in desperate need of rain, scorching hot autumn

Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US

It's as if Mother Nature shut off the rain faucet in the United States in October. More than 100 cities across the nation are reporting their driest October so far.

apnews.com

 

[Humberto]

And it's not just Trump up for election in the midst of it. It's the GOP too. The Dems are also to a fair degree compromised by the ruling class, but the Trumpers are just wacky. No ones' got time for it.

'I like Trump's celebrity persona' vs I care about functioning civilisation for young children and grandchildren.

hmm they are going for the former aren't they?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

in desperate need of rain, scorching hot autumn

Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US

It's as if Mother Nature shut off the rain faucet in the United States in October. More than 100 cities across the nation are reporting their driest October so far.

apnews.com

Yes, it's really bad. All of the trees lost their leaves at the beginning of October without bothering to turn color. Over the last month we've had day after day of dust storms. It's currently 80 degrees F at 9:30 at night and we're having another dust storm and 50 mph wind. Usually, it calms down at night. We've also had wildfires. About 100 acres burned a mile from me and I got an alert on my phone this afternoon that there was a massive wildfire in the next county over. I've never seen it like this. It reminds me of photographs of the dust storms in the 1930s.

 

[bcuster]

Yes, it's really bad. All of the trees lost their leaves at the beginning of October without bothering to turn color. Over the last month we've had day after day of dust storms. It's currently 80 degrees F at 9:30 at night and we're having another dust storm and 50 mph wind. Usually, it calms down at night. We've also had wildfires. About 100 acres burned a mile from me and I got an alert on my phone this afternoon that there was a massive wildfire in the next county over. I've never seen it like this. It reminds me of photographs of the dust storms in the 1930s.

East of you. Basically same. Really need rain

 

[bcuster]

 

[Humberto]

The problem is systemic, so the answers must be too. Unfortunately major world economies and polities/blocs are wedded to business as usual and mutual hostility. All while deliberately maintaining, accelerating and entrenching inequality.
We are surely in for big trouble.

 

[krtek a houby]

Do you believe that "most of the left don't understand or care"?

Also, fuck twitter.

 

[Humberto]

Do you believe that "most of the left don't understand or care"?

Also, fuck twitter.

This is Urban. Aggressive undermining. Subject dead.

 

[krtek a houby]

Antarctica, the world's iciest continent, is greening at an alarmingly dramatic rate​

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Fake news continues at an alarming rate (meaning the picture, not the environmental disaster to come)

 

[bcuster]

Fake news continues at an alarming rate (meaning the picture, not the environmental disaster to come)

The top picture is fake and posted for the purpose of dramatization. The second is real

 

[SpookyFrank]

The top picture is fake and posted for the purpose of dramatization. The second is real

Pretty sure the first one is a screenshot from Sid Meier's Alpha Centurai.

 

[LDC]

Thanks, it's worth a scroll through that Twitter feed for some pretty horrendous and scary climate related clips and stats, grim.

 

[Pickman's model]

Do you believe that "most of the left don't understand or care"?

Also, fuck twitter.

It's the even that really riles

 

[krtek a houby]

It's the even that really riles

Don't get mad, get even

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I'm certainly seeing changes in the environment where I live. The farmers here have been cutting down every tree they can find. Often, this is either in the belief that trees promote bird flu by giving them a place to roost, or the belief that trees nearby lower crop yields. I'm fending off a neighbor's desire to cut all my trees down because he claims it's cutting his crop yield by 30 percent. What changes I'm seeing is that we're quickly going back to dustbowl days if we didn't irrigate the shit out of everything. For the last couple of months, we've gotten no rain, and I drive it work in a hail of dust particles. Sometimes it's so bad I can't see past the hood of my car. I also had a weird problem with my car. The "change oil" light kept kicking on, despite the fact that I just changed oil. I figured out that the air filter was caked with dust and replaced it. We've also had 95-degree days in mid-October. We should be getting our first killing freeze now, but it's nowhere in sight. The date of first freeze gets later every year.

To update this. First freeze is a month late. I'm still walking around without a coat on most days. At least the dust storms have calmed down now that harvest season is over.