Communist Thoughts posted:

start bombing factories

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Cold on a Cob posted:

ok i gotta get back to work so i'm done i guess

Petey posted:

thx for posting this! some of this stuff — that deals with selective pressure and differential survival — reminds me of where n*ck l*nd is going with his hyperracism, with the difference being that land sees it as being a noble telos toward which we must accelerate, as opposed to an unspeakable tragedy that we must do everything possible to avoid

Homocow posted:

lol lmao

RIP Syndrome posted:

Cool. So the cloud layer breakdown forecast by the way too pessimist, probably bad new models that was maybe, possibly happening next century in an absolute worst-case scenario:

- Is real
- Started happening in earnest a couple of years ago

lmao

Car Hater posted:

"After this I'll destroy the sun!" the mad ape contentedly thought to itself.

blatman posted:

this is good however i'm still lolling at whoever posted that helicopters are technically the most successful green technology because of how often they crash, killing their rich passengers

blatman posted:

i was just catching up on unread posts and when i realized you were the one posting that garbage i thought i was having a stroke

Evil_Greven posted:

i mean it was longer ago than that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lgzz-L7GFg


lyndon big loving johnson sent a thing to congress about it and there were reports and poo poo at least by 1965
https://www-legacy.dge.carnegiescie...Environment.pdf
(i write this from my shelter due to tornadoes in loving october)

Lost Time posted:

one of my favorites:




lol lmao

FistEnergy posted:

At this point I'll be genuinely surprised if we don't have widespread social unrest and major life changes for everyone by 2030

Rectal Death Adept posted:

have you considered the world's largest carbon capture plant was just opened in iceland

God Hole posted:

my fetish is procreating with my life partner and raising a loving family with them please don't kink shame

Mola Yam posted:

that's a beautiful tweet, one for the ages

Car Hater posted:

Rime posted:

In a little over five months BC has experienced:

- A heat dome which killed hundreds and incinerated a town, temps reaching 50c.

- The worst wildfire season in decades.

- Multiple bomb cyclone events.

- A waterspout making landfall as a tornado, in Vancouver.

- Multiple atmospheric rivers, each breaking the records of the last.

-The worst flooding event in provincial history, disrupting or destroying all road and rail routes in or out of the lower mainland and inundating multiple towns / small cities.

I think I forgot something, tbh.

Sincerely, in my wildest dreams I did not expect my home to be the hyper-accellerating canary of spiralling climate change. If anything, I expected it to be the stable zone everyone else fled towards. Holy gently caress.

quote:

The snap-up sales and bidding wars have elbowed into the lumber mill town of Merritt, a 270-km wind up the Coquihalla Highway from Vancouver. About 90 per cent of purchasers in recent months are from the Lower Mainland, says agent Janis Post, and the half-million dollars that luxury homes in Merritt used to fetch is now the typical price. When locals inquire about selling, she warns them to make plans. “Because if we put your house on the market, it’s going to get multiple offers fast, and you need a place to go.”

Rime posted:

A century ago, Sumas in the Fraser Valley was a vast inland lake.

https://www.abbotsford.ca/alerts/evacuation-order-and-alerts-issued-localized-areas

https://twitter.com/ty_olsen/status/1460818805525860352?s=20

It is currently becoming a lake again, because the Noosack river in Washington has been diverted north (diverted south by the last eruption of Mt Baker) and the Barrowtown Pumping Station (the second busiest pumping station in North America) is failing after its pipes have burst. Several hundred thousand acres are about to be submerged beneath raging floodwaters, with no way to drain them.

This isn't the exciting thing, though. Nor is that every road and rail link out of the lower mainland is, as of tonight, destroyed with no date of re-opening. They might have the longest and most treacherous route, the 99, open by next week.

No. This is the real poo poo: This has not been publicly announced, the government is keeping it quiet to avoid a panic. I, being a big-brained individual with connections in places, am in on some poo poo:

https://twitter.com/KamilKaramali/status/1460731733427449858

Bobbing there in the Coquihalla River, where its protective road has been ripped off, is 200m of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. The 60+ year old, 300,000bpd oil & fuel link between the pacific coast and Alberta. This pipe carries 90% of the refined fuels supplied to British Columbia. It provides 10-15% of the unrefined supply for the refineries in Washington State. This is not the only location where it has been compromised. The road to either side of this location has been totally destroyed in both directions in multiple places.

I really did not have Vancouver, British Columbia down as the first place in North America to collapse due to a climate-change induced disaster, but here we are. It's happening.

We are about to watch some serious poo poo go down over the next few weeks.

Cold on a Cob posted:

unless i missed it, not a single mention in the article about the pipeline or the highways in/out of vancouver

it really does feel like they're trying to not panic people in vancouver

quote:

The Trans Mountain pipeline has been shut down temporarily due to widespread rains and flooding in British Columbia.

Trans Mountain Corp. spokeswoman Ali Hounsell says the precautionary move was taken due to the flooding situation in the area of Hope, B.C.

Paradoxish posted:

the plan for these people is universally some variation of waaaah I can't stand being outside in the cold for ten minutes, let me move somewhere that I'll need to run my AC 24/7/365 until the day my house is finally underwater

Chamale posted:

Thanks to Rime for helping me tip off my loved ones several days ago to fill their gas tank.

Relevant Tangent posted:

sticky rice is better

mod sassinator posted:

dirty rice. so dirty i don't even want to look at its browser history. that is the way

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

petit choux posted:

Floss, you dummies. If you survive to my age you will be sorry you didn't.

quote:

Unacceptable.

That was the verdict of engineers five years ago after they inspected a critical dike on Sumas Prairie. The 17-kilometre levee had a key job: stop the drained basin of what was once Sumas Lake from refilling with 10 feet of water. But inspectors warned the dike was two feet lower than it should be, and that it would be unable to stop flood waters if and when the Nooksack River breached its banks.

The engineers, who were hired by the province to review dikes all around the Lower Mainland, gave the crest (or height) of the Sumas dike the lowest possible grade—one out of four—and a corresponding label: “unacceptable.”

“Overtopping is expected during Nooksack River overflow,” they declared. “The dike design profile likely needs to be updated. The dike geometry is substandard, causing concern.”

The inspectors were right. The levee was never fixed. And last week, waters from the rain-swollen Nooksack spilled north and ran downhill into Sumas Prairie. By Tuesday, millions of gallons of silty water had pushed over, and then directly through, the so-called “interceptor” dike, forcing thousands from their homes, killing livestock, inundating Highway 1, and submerging one of the most fertile sections of land in the province.

petit choux posted:

Aye, and some sternly worded letters as well!

Homeless Friend posted:

randomly ran across this chart