The Summer of Climate Change

[Arvaos]

🇪🇺 Europe Heatwave
Over 2,300 deaths across 12 cities. Warming made it 1–4 °C hotter; ~65% of deaths linked to climate change.

🇬🇧 UK: 9–15 July
Third major heatwave. Heat-health alerts, hosepipe bans, and official drought in the Midlands.

🇺🇸 Texas Floods (4 July): Flash floods killed 36 people. Climate change made rainfall ~7% wetter than normal.

🇰🇷 South Korea Floods (from 16 July: Monsoon floods killed 17; thousands displaced. Declared a once-in-a-century event.

The world is changing, will politicians finally wake up and take real actions? Will voters vote green?

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

Id watch the rich people heating 20000 square foot mansioms. If they stop doing that and stop flying to davos then you know its real

[Dutchgamer1982]

it so far is actually an acceptable summer.

2024 was hell 60 days days over 30c and 21 days on end over 35c hell.

this summer is one we have not had in a long time.. normal-ish.

not 1980s normal.. but hey 143days over 25c so far and just 1 over 30c 0 over 35c

so much better than 2024 heatwave.

biggest issue this year : asian hornets reached the netherlands killing our beest #/#:/:# france and belgium why didnt you eradicate them.. we try ti contain.. but its hard if the inflow is not killled off.

its a recent invasion in started in 2015 in france.. it killed there like 80% of bees already.. as a hobby bee keeper this is biiig issue..

normal bee year I am visiting my bees about once every 2 weeks to do what needs to be done.


now I every free hours hunting for hornetnests (it takes hundreds of manhours to find 1.. and 1 nest thats not found can make 500 new nests..

france should have properly gassed all containers to prevent this..
france should have pulled out all expenses unlimited manpower to kill them off before there were so many..

eu weak in responce saying unlikely we can get them out of europe only containing..

cant be done.. look at insane hours volenteer mostly resposciple for finding tlnests we cant keep these hours up permanently..

and for each 1 nest you not kill 500x500 hour work

we need a large taskforce.. and we neef those insect finding drones and transmitters (cost 3000 euro for a transmitter set + 5000 euro for a drone to + 80 euro per transmitter chip.. to pricy for most amateurs..

we need thousands of these and people on full time payroll to hunt them all down...

they must be driven out if europe..

but alas goverments seem to not be willing to make the call and keep debating meanwhile these invasive hornets are murdering all bees in europe..

[Fake]

If climate change is real, why are beachfront houses so expensive? Wouldn't they be unwanted because of rising water levels?

[Immortalis]

Nobody denies the climate is changing.
It is normal, and it has been normal throughout the billions of years the Earth has existed.

What people dispute is the contribution that human activity made to climate change and no matter your disingenuous approach to it, it won’t change.

Because the real issue is: what now? How do we solve climate change?
What happens if today, not tomorrow or 10 years, the entirety of the USA (or Europe) put a total ban on combustion engines?
Will climate change be solved? Would we go back to “normal climate”?

What even is “normal climate”? Do we need to go all the way back to when the Baltic froze in its entirety and people could walk over it? Even further in time to when it was possible to traverse from Russia to Alaska?

[Arvaos]

Originally posted by Fake:

If climate change is real, why are beachfront houses so expensive? Wouldn't they be unwanted because of rising water levels?

Why Bitcoin is over $100,000? Why are collectible Pokémon cards in the thousands of dollars?

[Fake]

Originally posted by Arvaos:

Originally posted by Fake:

If climate change is real, why are beachfront houses so expensive? Wouldn't they be unwanted because of rising water levels?

Why Bitcoin is over $100,000? Why are collectible Pokémon cards in the thousands of dollars?

Because no one believes in climate change?

[videomike_Ultimate_Plushie]

Originally posted by Fake:

If climate change is real, why are beachfront houses so expensive? Wouldn't they be unwanted because of rising water levels?

because none of these people actually believe in the ♥♥♥♥ they are demanding legislation over. It's just about control. If they did they might ask "hey, if we cut out emission totals several fold...why is the trans for temperatures not changing."
I'm pro environmentlaism, its why I parade how we closed the hole in ozone layer as quickly and effeciently as we did, but that was a decided solution to a clear problem. Meanwhile some people are so busy looking at a contentious graph California is demanding...basic decomposition is a threat to life.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Meanwhile 51 C measured at Greece border, 60 C in Dubai and roads are melting in China.
But of course since Trump said there is no climate change everything is ok.

[videomike_Ultimate_Plushie]

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

Meanwhile 51 C measured at Greece border, 60 C in Dubai and roads are melting in China.
But of course since Trump said there is no climate change everything is ok.

Would you care to go through the 10 years of meteorlogical studies and 5 years of whether patterns combined with the external factors of economics in those measuring areas? A number of readings are botched because of poor methodology, like one taken next to an airport on the basis keeping the same measuring location was more important than avoiding risks of economic environment(humans are an environmental factor as well.)

Science is complicated, and current meteorolgy is quite unclear.

[Dutchgamer1982]

there is climate chance.

but it cannot be prevented not in the slightest.

it is debatable how large the part of human contribution is.. but that debate is irrelevant too

there are to many people with much greater needs than "a bit warmer" on the planet.
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thus if you dont burn it somobody else will

so accept the climate will change.. dont weaken your economy with vain attemts to reduce co2 emissions..

and alocate funds to climate chanhe adaptation

if you invest in co2 neutral you only weaking your economy leaving yourself only with less funds to adapt to that change that will come regardless.

if you want limit emissions.. (even if that is weakening you economy) that can only be done by closing your own nations wells and mines.
using less does just mean somebody else will burn it.. but your nation does have control whether it lets whats in the ground in it.

fracking leads to soil polution and coal to acid rain and sulphur polution.. so those are wise to quit for other reasons.

[videomike_Ultimate_Plushie]

Also wait did people forget the texas also froze and that an outpacing of frozen groundwater is one of the potential causes?

[lailaamell]

27 degrees was killing me and i live in area of kiruna

[SophieSkyrim1984]

anyone want anything I am going to the shop

[Dutchgamer1982]

Originally posted by lailaamell:

27 degrees was killing me and i live in area of kiruna

didnt you in sweden have same numbers as netherlands.

2024 hell :
110+ days of over 25C
60+ days of over 30C
21+ days of over 35C

2025 normal year so far
14 days of over 25C
1 day of over 30C
0 days of over 35C

this year is the first normal year temperature wise in a loooong time.

yeah I sufferend those 15 days.. but not remotely as much as the hell of last year heat that would just not end.. 30+ outside.. 35+ inside.. not even a fan works than anymore..

2025 has remarkeble normal temperatures (ok we still had no normal 3 weeks of freezing winter was way too warm I miss iceskating) but this summer is finally a normal one.

[Kobret]

It's not that bad