T-Paine posted:

Some places like Alaska are already +2.5C: https://apnews.com/article/climate-science-technology-environment-europe-98e55f2c64aa6d3dc76a5fc64f8d4ba2

actionjackson posted:

2.5F since 1992, 1.4C. though I'm not sure how much it's risen since the pre-industrial baseline

Mr. Lobe posted:

Gee wonder why isn't there a line going past 4 c indicating our current trajectory

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It is important to monitor Alaska's changing climate with precision and diligence; the pace of change can be rapid. According to the Fourth National Climate Assessment, Alaska has been warming twice as quickly as the global average since the middle of the 20th century. Alaska is warming faster than any U.S. state. Alaska’s Changing Environment notes that, since 2014, there have been 5 to 30 times more record-high temperatures set than record lows.

On July 4, 2019, all-time temperature records were set in Kenai, Palmer, King Salmon, and Anchorage International Airport. Remarkably, Anchorage hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit; the average summer temperature in Anchorage is normally in the mid-sixties. July 2019 was the hottest month in recorded history for the state. June 2019 was the second warmest on record.

These extremes on land are surpassed by what’s going on in the sea. Alaska’s Changing Environment affirms, “Nothing in the Alaska environment is changing faster than sea ice.” Today, typical summer ice extent on the Chukchi Sea is only 10% of what is was in the early 1980s, and the Beaufort Sea ice-over usually occurs two to three weeks later in the fall than in past decades. In 2018 and 2019, late winter ice coverage in the Bering Sea’s Alaska waters was significantly lower than any winter in the last 170 years. Surface waters along Alaska’s west coast were 4–11ºF warmer than average this summer.

Rectal Death Adept posted:

Did you hear that in twenty years the New York pension fund will only make investments into net-zero carbon entities?

Have you heard that the world's largest carbon capture plant just opened in Iceland?

T-Paine posted:

I found this: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/new-report-highlights-alaska%E2%80%99s-last-five-years-dramatic-climate

Doesn't seem good

T-Paine posted:

Cabbages and Kings posted:

many staple foods vanish because of a blight and the world does not take it seriously until it's way too late and the UK decides to respond by locking down most urban areas and then nuking them, in an effort to preserve the much more limited rural population in what will be an almost impossible to feed world. The book opens on this note and it mostly goes downhill from there.

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Ah, this is awkward, so, like, this is already occurring just in a different form. But if I speak I will be in big trouble, big trouble, and I don't want to be in big trouble so really I prefer not to speak.

T-Paine posted:

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Ah, this is awkward, so, like, this is already occurring just in a different form. But if I speak I will be in big trouble, big trouble, and I don't want to be in big trouble so really I prefer not to speak.

Pryor on Fire posted:

the temp is up +2.5F in Alaska or +1.4C since '92, the celsius tripped me up as well

RIP Syndrome posted:

Or any projection past 2100

r u ready to WALK posted:

i feel so dumb for buying a new snow blower a couple years ago

r u ready to WALK posted:

i feel so dumb for buying a new snow blower a couple years ago

r u ready to WALK posted:

i feel so dumb for buying a new snow blower a couple years ago

r u ready to WALK posted:

i feel so dumb for buying a new snow blower a couple years ago

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Almost nobody currently alive will still be around by then so who cares

Rectal Death Adept posted:

https://twitter.com/sfpelosi/status/1459909210813067270?s=20

Car Hater posted:

The Wisest Moron posted:

I just noticed both my magnolia trees are producing buds right now and popping out new growth.

I uh, don't think they're supposed to be doing that this time of year.

Decades posted:

I was arguing with someone the other day who swore 121F in Canada is not that bad yet because he remembers it reaching 120 when he was growing up in Alaska.

Alaska's all time high is 100F.

The Wisest Moron posted:

I just noticed both my magnolia trees are producing buds right now and popping out new growth.

I uh, don't think they're supposed to be doing that this time of year.

Decades posted:

I was arguing with someone the other day who swore 121F in Canada is not that bad yet because he remembers it reaching 120 when he was growing up in Alaska.

Alaska's all time high is 100F.

Real hurthling! posted:

obviously they are thriving

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Ah, this is awkward, so, like, this is already occurring just in a different form. But if I speak I will be in big trouble, big trouble, and I don't want to be in big trouble so really I prefer not to speak.

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Rice plants become most vulnerable to heat stress during the middle phase of their growth, before they begin building up the meat in their grains. Extreme heat, above 35˚ C, can diminish grain counts in just weeks, or even days. In April in Bangladesh, two consecutive days of 36˚ C destroyed thousands of hectares of rice.

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Salt’s impact is glaringly apparent in the Mekong River Delta. When the river runs low, saltwater from the South China Sea encroaches upstream into the delta, where it can creep into the soils and irrigation canals of the delta’s rice fields.

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The disease, most prevalent in Southeast Asia and rising in Africa, has been reported to have cut rice yields by up to 70 percent in a single season. (...) Most of the genes that help rice combat bacterial blight seem to become less effective when temperatures rise.

Decades posted:

I was arguing with someone the other day who swore 121F in Canada is not that bad yet because he remembers it reaching 120 when he was growing up in Alaska.

Alaska's all time high is 100F.