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Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

Unless posted:

make art and throw parties

I do not feel like your average F-150 owning, suburban McMansion dweller would quickly fall into this routine but maybe I'm underestimating people

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Oglethorpe
Aug 8, 2005

drake no: F-150

drake yes: 150-F

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1549401026666586125

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
yesterday some UK news channel was doing a report on the heat wave and they had a live shot of the Sun in the corner lol like "yup, there's the hot thing. that's the one making all the hot"

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

yesterday some UK news channel was doing a report on the heat wave and they had a live shot of the Sun in the corner lol like "yup, there's the hot thing. that's the one making all the hot"

They've probably never seen the sun before

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

:rubby:

Oglethorpe
Aug 8, 2005

https://twitter.com/Met4CastUK/status/1549386232463081472

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/respros/status/1549392999238537216

Oglethorpe
Aug 8, 2005

https://twitter.com/Met4CastUK/status/1549393481323483136

https://twitter.com/Met4CastUK/status/1549392425260662788

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
how you gonna have an island that's on fire? there's water literally all around it!

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
but seriously though, the gently caress are english people even building poo poo from? we've had 40+ summer weeks on the reg for the last 10 years or so and we had no melting roads or burning cities??

gonna be fun though, this heat wave is just starting here and there's already wildfires

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

how you gonna have an island that's on fire? there's water literally all around it!

unfortunately the island is full of english, a major vector for fire and disease

apatheticman
May 13, 2003

Wedge Regret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6XijqjtJoA

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

Paradoxish posted:

It is unironically impossible to imagine the end of the American lifestyle as it exists right now in part because it's hard to imagine what most Americans would do in its absence other than lose their minds.

probably start drinking heavily and doing even more drugs than now

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001





wait you can have a highway overpass in the uk without a cage over it? nobody throws cinderblocks at cars?

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

it is very sad :D

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

somebody needs to tell this woke mayor that correlation is not causation, we had plenty of fires before heatwaves, and what about 1976?!

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

Real hurthling! posted:

wait you can have a highway overpass in the uk without a cage over it? nobody throws cinderblocks at cars?

there's blocks worth of cinder next to the road now

Armadillo Tank
Mar 26, 2010

GAMER ALERT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02W9VUi8pl0&t=282s

switches auto shutdown over 35 C

this is below ambient temperatures in europe in some places now

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Auq9mYxFEE

"this isn't just in the rural areas, this is in London!!!!"

love some of these accents btw, mainly the Scottish guy

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

yesterday some UK news channel was doing a report on the heat wave and they had a live shot of the Sun in the corner lol like "yup, there's the hot thing. that's the one making all the hot"

It was Sky News lol

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Trabisnikof posted:

It was Sky News lol

If any news channel should have a live shot of the sun it ought to be Sky News

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




read a story today where a teen saves to buy a first car and they get a used 2014 ford focus electric with 60k on it and the battery immediately dies and ford service quoted them 1.5x the used purchase price to replace it but then later it was ok because the less than 8 year old battery design isnt made anymore so the car was just totaled

Rectal Death Adept
Jun 20, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
drat, those people in England should really try recycling

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

God Hole posted:

was there someone itt a while back offering to give location-specific advice on cultivating a garden that would support local wildlife & ecosystems or am i making that up? because i'm NEET for the time being and there is an acre of lawn at my parents' house just begging to be made productive. southeastern pennsylvania ftr

im not exactly that goon, but in general a good resource is your state ag extension. sure they're focused primarily on supporting farmers etc, but they also generally have good advice on plants and wildlife as they're still green thumbed academic hippies at heart

https://extension.psu.edu/landscaping-for-wildlife-trees-shrubs-and-vines

https://extension.psu.edu/management-practices-for-enhancing-wildlife-habitat

https://extension.psu.edu/landscaping-to-attract-and-conserve-beneficial-insects

https://extension.psu.edu/neighborly-natural-landscaping-in-residential-areas

https://extension.psu.edu/trees-lawns-and-landscaping/home-gardening

Rip Testes
Jan 29, 2004

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Nice national news segment on the situation with the Great Salt Lake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ni29GipkU

RockyB
Mar 8, 2007


Dog Therapy: Shockingly Good
Say it with me folks

Thorn Wishes Talon
Oct 18, 2014

by Fluffdaddy

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

lake mead water level dropped 0.75 ft from monday to tuesday, and 0.15 ft from tuesday to today. according to my calculations, this means water levels will start increasing tomorrow, which means crisis is resolved

Lake Mead water level: 1,041.21 ft
Change since yesterday: 0.00

I was off by a few days, but I loving told you guys. :smug: Crisis is over. Number only goes up from here!

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


RockyB posted:

Say it with me folks



indicating WHAT??!?!?!?!?

indicating....low prices!

Enfys
Feb 17, 2013

The ocean is calling and I must go

God Hole posted:

was there someone itt a while back offering to give location-specific advice on cultivating a garden that would support local wildlife & ecosystems or am i making that up? because i'm NEET for the time being and there is an acre of lawn at my parents' house just begging to be made productive. southeastern pennsylvania ftr

mahershalalhashbaz posted:

if you're time poor, post your bioregion itt and i'll research it for you

:siren: Lighting the climate copepod beacon :siren:

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

lol just found out that the Thames is prone to drying up and stinking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink

quote:

Great Stink
The Great Stink was an event in Central London in July and August 1858 during which the hot weather exacerbated the smell of untreated human waste and industrial effluent that was present on the banks of the River Thames. The problem had been mounting for some years, with an ageing and inadequate sewer system that emptied directly into the Thames. The miasma from the effluent was thought to transmit contagious diseases, and three outbreaks of cholera before the Great Stink were blamed on the ongoing problems with the river.

The smell, and fears of its possible effects, prompted action from the national and local administrators who had been considering possible solutions for the problem. The authorities accepted a proposal from the civil engineer Joseph Bazalgette to move the effluent eastwards along a series of interconnecting sewers that sloped towards outfalls beyond the metropolitan area. Work on high-, mid- and low-level systems for the new Northern and Southern Outfall Sewers started at the beginning of 1859 and lasted until 1875. To aid the drainage, pumping stations were placed to lift the sewage from lower levels into higher pipes. Two of the more ornate stations, Abbey Mills in Stratford and Crossness on the Erith Marshes, with architectural designs from the consultant engineer, Charles Driver, are listed for protection by English Heritage. Bazalgette's plan introduced the three embankments to London in which the sewers ran—the Victoria, Chelsea and Albert Embankments.

Bazalgette's work ensured that sewage was no longer dumped onto the shores of the Thames and brought an end to the cholera outbreaks; his actions are thought to have saved more lives than the efforts of any other Victorian official. His sewer system operates into the 21st century, servicing a city that has grown to a population of over eight million. The historian Peter Ackroyd argues that Bazalgette should be considered a hero of London.



"The Silent Highwayman" (1858). Death rows on the Thames, claiming the lives of victims who have not paid to have the river cleaned up.



“I live(d) by the river!”

God Hole
Mar 2, 2016

Enfys posted:

:siren: Lighting the climate copepod beacon :siren:

ah cool, thank you! mahershalalhashbaz, time poor is exactly what i am not, so i would appreciate your insight if you're inclined but if not, Trabisnikof's post looks like a good start :) i'll document my progress in this or the next thread

Rectal Death Adept
Jun 20, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
I have been assured just today that the fires in Europe were started by climate terrorists, that the rock with the warning being revealed by drought means the drought is natural if they carved it the first time, that we were told global cooling existed in the 1970s and that plymouth rock, which has been moved twice and had a seawall built around it, is at sea level so water isn't rising.

None of these are particularly new idiot denialist talking points but the frantic nature in which they are being presented to me today shows these people are really struggling to cope.

You see Al Gore said there would be a blue ocean event in 2014 and it didn't happen. Checkmate.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

RockyB posted:

Say it with me folks

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

london bridge is falling down, my fasterthanexpected climate

DynamicSloth
Jul 30, 2006

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

Oh look the "climate change is no big deal, technology will save us" guy cannibalizing the technological solutions of earlier big brained libs.

Oglethorpe
Aug 8, 2005

https://twitter.com/BoulderCityNev/status/1549446959366230016

https://twitter.com/kristynashville/status/1549441916000825344

https://twitter.com/YWNReporter/status/1549449436606119941

TeenageArchipelago
Jul 23, 2013


Wondering if that's related to the qanon guy who had an armed standoff on the dam a few years back. Wondering if he knew something that we don't.

Probably :tinfoil:

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

First the guidestones and now the dam… what’s next??

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JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


mawarannahr posted:

First the guidestones and now the dam… what’s next??

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