skooma512 posted:

NGL when the Florida and Texas refugees reach the north, I'm sure not going to be especially welcoming. Unless they're like, cool.

BCR posted:

Today I've been working with maps and info graphics and had 5 min.



Wet bulb world map.

Cuttlefush posted:

just fyi that's from https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL094183 which has the caption etc. open source and good.



she's part of the Climate Extremes Lab at WSU. Their site is https://deeptis47.github.io/. has research summaries and their publications. well researched and peer reviewed doom.

Cuttlefush posted:

what sensationalism

Cuttlefush posted:

that paper's authors are part of the Climate Extremes Lab at WSU. Their site is https://deeptis47.github.io/. has research summaries and their publications. well researched and peer reviewed doom.

jetz0r posted:

Are you ok?

jetz0r posted:

Are you ok?

quote:

Animals Are Dying in Droves. What Are They Telling Us?
From flu-ridden sea lions to elephant die-offs, mass mortality events are becoming more common. We understand very little about their repercussions.

A sea lion slumps on its back, belly and neck exposed. A wildlife worker swabs another’s nose; curled into a comma, the emaciated animal screeches in protest. In another shot of Reuters B-roll, humans in hazmat suits shovel a shoreline grave under colorless skies, sprinkling a red mass of carcasses with chemical powder before sealing the burial with dark wet sand.

The numbers are as bleak as the footage: More than 3,400 sea lions sickened and dead of the H5N1 variant of avian influenza in Peru this winter and spring. With the animal weighing, on average, about 770 pounds, each of those infected corpses threatens to further pulse the pathogen along the Peruvian coastline, according to researchers there.

Scenes this stark are harder to ignore than slower forms of species demise quietly spread out over time and space: Here is a riverbank littered with lifeless mussel shells, the plains where 200,000 antelope dropped dead, corals stripped of sea urchins, a continent across which bush fires killed or displaced three billion animals. Die-offs like these jolt us even as tens of thousands of species steadily twinkle off into extinction in the Anthropocene. “They really feel biblical in their proportions,” Sam Fey, an associate professor of biology at Reed College, told me.

Each year, millions of salmon spawn, stop eating, rot alive, and dissolve away. When billions of cicadas emerge from the ground, their remains fertilize that same soil a few weeks later. A masting beech tree can carpet a square meter with 500 seeds, almost none of which will get the chance to sprout and take life. Nature is full of episodes of mass death; not all are devastating mass mortality events.

The kind of mass mortality events worrying scientists are anomalous punctuations—they are not an evolved and recurring dynamic in a creature’s life history (as the examples above are). They also, for the most part, don’t discriminate. “It’s everything: top of the food chain all the way down,” University of Arkansas biologist Simon Tye told me. “It’s just a full-on decimation of the population.” Most characteristically, these occurrences are dramatic. Experts have described them as single events that wipe out huge chunks of a population, kill more than a billion individuals, or leave behind 700 million tons of dead tissue (a mass equivalent to one million Christ the Redeemer statues).

In the last decade or so, mass mortality events worldwide have included the loss of 450-plus elephants in Botswana, 18,000-plus migratory birds in India’s Sambhar Lake, 350 Magellanic penguins in Argentina, hundreds of emaciated gray whales along the Pacific coast, and 99.9 percent of Spain’s fan mussels. Five thousand dead red-wing blackbirds rained down in Arkansas, and 45,000 flying foxes hung from trees and piled on the ground in Australia. Lightning struck down a huddle of 300 Norwegian reindeer. Billions of starfish melted into goop.

In 2022 alone, many die-offs made themselves known by washing ashore: 2,500 endangered seals on the Caspian Sea’s Russian shores, hundreds of seabirds on ice and shoreline in Newfoundland, more than 2,250 trout and salmon along Ireland’s Glenagannon River, thousands of crabs and lobsters along England’s River Tees, 60 dolphins on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast.

BCR posted:

Wet bulb world map.

MightyBigMinus posted:

makes you wonder how much of the ethiopia/eritrea/tigray/south-sudan poo poo show of the last few years is climate/drought driven

4d3d3d posted:

https://newrepublic.com/article/172221/animals-dying-sea-lions

Unless posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7HlHx0Tdik

Popoto posted:

just normal Arrakis things

TACD posted:

nobody wants to work live anymore!

BCR posted:

actionjackson posted:

what makes northern india and pakistan so extremely hot compared to other countries at the same longitude?

quote:

. A writhing, six-inch-deep, 30-foot-long stream of blowfly maggots flooded the carcasses, carrying away scientific equipment and heralding the arrival of thousands of flies, beetles, spiders, hornets, armadillos, lizards, and vultures.

bedpan posted:

"The world is a vampire."

-Karl Marx in "The Decline of the West"

4d3d3d posted:

"Scientists have been wrong before so they must be wrong now" is a pretty common denialist/optimist trope. It's perfect because it's not really falsifiable and if you've got water on the brain the changing scientific consensus does appear to be indicative of the science still being unsettled

Of course, the updating consensus is almost 100% toward the "worse" side, meaning if anything the fact that we don't know every single thing that's happening vindicates the most apocalyptic pessimists and that cc is absolutely caused by the human race

As usual, rightwingers and anti-science charlatans play at concepts they don't understand because they assume that everyone thinks like they do, i.e. fuckedupedly

BCR posted:

Wet bulb world

Shifty Nipples posted:

I was born with hydrocephalus. lol

Shifty Nipples posted:

I was born with hydrocephalus. lol

cat botherer posted:

Wet brain world