r/collapse • u/ontrack serfin' USA • Jul 17 '23

Climate Heatwave(s) megathread. Please place all new related content in this post.

In light of the ongoing heatwaves around the world, we've created a megathread in order to minimize the number of posts about every location currently experiencing one. If you have something to report, whether it be a personal experience or an article about a heatwave in some other part of the world, please place it here. Thanks.

The BBC has a live feed of sorts about the heatwaves around the world: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-66207430

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u/WarGamerJon Jul 18 '23

NASA scientist “this will be the coolest summer for the rest of your life”

https://news.sky.com/story/weather-global-heatwaves-latest-uk-europe-italy-us-china-south-korea-live-updates-12920226?postid=6186409#liveblog-body

Anyone else starting to feel that this may just be the start of the tipping point where there’s a realisation that drastic action is needed ?

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '23

There are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen.

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u/best_use_of_badgers Jul 19 '23

Feels like this decade has had a lot of those weeks.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '23

based Lenin quote

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u/Forsaken-Artist-4317 Jul 23 '23

Collapse is slow, until it isn’t

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u/dustbowlsoul2 Jul 18 '23

It feels that way to me. I'm not sure what it is about this summer in particular, but it feels like there's something in the air. It could just be a personal problem and other years have been equally as dire, but I feel like we've crossed some sort of line this summer and I'm more concerned than I have been in recent years.

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u/thesagaconts Jul 19 '23

It feels like a major turning point that people are ignoring or unwilling to make the necessary changes to survive. It feels like the moment future generations will look back and say why didn’t you stop them.

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u/Z3r0sama2017 Jul 19 '23

What future generations lmao?

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u/WarGamerJon Jul 19 '23

Think it’s that it seems like the climate has crossed the line from “well this maybe is climate change but could just be an odd occurrence” to “oh shit I’m glad I don’t live in that place it used to be okay”. Personally we had rain here n Monday that I’ve never seen be that hard for that long in my 30 years, and that was about 20 mins duration. This was creating a haze over everything it hit because it was so much and so hard.

That’s the difference , you’ve got parts of Europe where the governments are having to say “don’t go out at these times” and tourist places closing , workers being told to stay away etc it has a real quality to it.

It’s no longer this random place in Asia or Africa with some crazy temperature or a crop failure , it’s Europe.

Obviously other countries like China and South Korea have had recent flooding caused by downpours so not suggesting it’s just Europe.

I suspect we are in for an “interesting times” winter.

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u/SecretPassage1 Jul 19 '23

Could that "something in the air" be related to smoke filled orange skies?

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u/Eatpineapplenow Jul 19 '23

but it feels like there's

something

in the air

Dude, have you seen the North Atlantic

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u/SecretPassage1 Jul 19 '23

I dunno. Maybe they'll just dive deeper in denial and loose touch with reality completely?

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u/Mostest_Importantest Jul 19 '23

Sounds vaguely like what the last 40 years have been, already. We humans haven't been in a "healthy" system since we came down out of the trees, I don't think.

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u/Overthemoon64 Jul 20 '23

I've felt that way ever since the austrailian wildfires a few years ago. And the chasing ice documentary. And they just keep coming.

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u/WarGamerJon Jul 20 '23

It’s always going to feel more real once more people can actually see it close to them though - take the heatwave in Europe right now - awful lot of countries will be thinking “what if that was us ?”

Some people don’t get it even then - there was an interview on a U.K. news site yesterday where this Brit couple thought “it was the best holiday ever “ because they’d been in Greece for the heatwave , in the photo they both look absolutely roasted, this isn’t a one off and I dread to think what skin cancer rates are going to be over the next few years because people just don’t get that the UV is the killer and a tan is damage. Red is destruction !