Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

good thread title imo

sauer kraut posted:

Wakko posted:

Climate Change Is Taking a Big Bite out of Our Food Supply

we did a lil oopsie woopsie and terraformed earth into a planet that won't be able to support humans by the end of the century

no problem! just have to learn to live with not eating food

sauer kraut posted:

You might be joking, but there is no other plan as far as I can see other than nailing the borders shut and keeping pesky reporters out of the peacekeeping zone (like Poland already does in the east, and probably many other places)

500 good dogs posted:

this image owns. it perfectly captures how hosed we are and why we are hosed

mediaphage posted:

downward facing doompost

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

im the lone LG in a sea of samsungs

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

im the lone LG in a sea of samsungs

SKULL.GIF posted:

https://www.psu.edu/news/story/humans-cant-endure-temperatures-and-humidities-high-previously-thought/

Things are much, much worse than we thought!

sauer kraut posted:

You might be joking, but there is no other plan as far as I can see other than nailing the borders shut and keeping pesky reporters out of the peacekeeping zone (like Poland already does in the east, and probably many other places)

scary ghost dog posted:

the realistic version of that line is a sudden vertical drop but i wont tell you when or why

mediaphage posted:

just anecdata but i would never buy a samsung unit like that. we bought a house with samsung appliances and every single one of them has been loving awful and riddled with extremely stupid and/or cheap design decisions

Karach posted:

Their induction ovens are garbage too. The control module fails and then you basically have a $2000 box to store pans in

skooma512 posted:

Samsung appliances are horrible, don’t buy them

mediaphage posted:

like id buy a samsung box fan or something if that was a thing, probably, but nothing else

Pryor on Fire posted:

All appliances are horrible and fall apart the thread has discussed this at least 3 or 4 times

Cold on a Cob posted:

ice makers and water dispensers in fridges are terrible features that cause no end of problems

Platystemon posted:

Absolutely undercover cop.

They don’t reward snitches like that.

Several of the very tallest trees weren’t cut down. It’s just that we cut down the rest of the forest, depriving the big trees of a wind break, destroying the soil, and dooming them through many other second‐order effects.

I say this not because it makes it better, but because it makes it worse that we are still loving doing it.



This is Big Lonely Doug. The old growth forest around him was clear cut only ten years ago.

He’s only seventy metres tall, but that qualifies as the second tallest in Canada today.

There were once members of his species perhaps twice as tall.

Pryor on Fire posted:

All appliances are horrible and fall apart the thread has discussed this at least 3 or 4 times

500 good dogs posted:

mourning wood

quote:

As sea levels rose from climate change, a new study found, flooding in the underground garage at the beachside Champlain Towers South became more common. Much more common.

In the FIU study, Randall Parkinson, a professor of hydrogeology, compared the elevation of the garage floor with sea levels from monitoring stations in Miami Beach. He found water levels were higher than the garage floor about 244 times a year between 1994 and 2006. From 2007 to 2020, that number nearly tripled to 636 times a year.
That means that in the most recent decade, sea level was above the Champlain garage floor nearly every day at both high tide events. Add in groundwater, freshwater that floats on top of saltwater that has pushed in along the coast, and the potential for flooding virtually doubles.

“It’s pretty mind-boggling,” Parkinson said.

quote:

As global warming swells sea levels, groundwater rises too. But unlike the climate change-driven threats from tides, rain and storm surge, groundwater has been an often ignored and little understood enemy.

That’s quickly changing. Scientists say there is now enough data to show that rising groundwater levels will add to flood risks for South Florida — particularly in low-lying areas or coastal areas that already see repeated problems during heavy rains, like Little River and North Miami.

And new studies, like one charting sharp increases in sea rise at the site of Champlain Towers South, point to potential concerns beyond flooding. The Florida International University analysis found the number of times per year sea level rose higher than the underground garage floor of the doomed Surfside condo has nearly tripled over the last 30 years.
...
Current predictions show Miami-Dade could see around two feet of sea level rise by 2060. And research done by FIU scientists in North Miami, one of the areas where groundwater levels are already high, shows that groundwater is rising at the same rate as the sea. The study projects that sections of North Miami could go from experiencing about three months of rain-driven flooding a year now to six months a year by 2060. And that was considered a conservative estimate.
...
“It rains and there’s nowhere for the water to go,” said Katie Hagemann, the deputy chief resilience officer for the county. “In a handful of pockets, we are at that point where the groundwater is just so close we have to think of something else to address those flooding challenges. Either raise the homes and then the roads or in some sort of concert there.”

In those pockets, high groundwater doesn’t just mean more flooding. It can also cause septic tanks to back up and spew waste in yards and homes because they have no place to drain.

mediaphage posted:

just anecdata but i would never buy a samsung unit like that. we bought a house with samsung appliances and every single one of them has been loving awful and riddled with extremely stupid and/or cheap design decisions

Platystemon posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nB5ozjoXWU

Ihmemies posted:

Under 25 years with home appliances is unacceptable. Who makes that kind of junk? Do I have to buy garbage too if/when something breaks eventually?

My Rosenlew fridge and Siemens dishwasher are 20 years old. My Electrolux hob, oven, hood and microwave are 9 years old. I think my parents have changed their appliances every 20-30 years. They have lived in their current home for 42 years and they are on their 2nd fridge.

My home is on bedrock, 105m over ocean. There is a lake nearby which is 95m and it drains to a lake with 77m height from ocean. I will die but not by drowning in a flood, hopefully.

net work error posted:

groundwater has been an often ignored and little understood enemy