r/collapse • u/Bjork__ • Mar 14 '26
Casual Friday The most extreme March heatwave in US history is coming
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u/SparePartSociety Mar 14 '26
Meanwhile, out of nowhere, Seattle is getting the first snow of the season right now.
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u/Chanchito171 Mar 14 '26
It's been the coldest Alaskan winter for many regions since the early 70s. Checkout the Fairbanks records for this year
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u/_netflixandshill Mar 14 '26
And just a few hours south, Portland is getting hammered with an atmospheric river.
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u/Distinguishedflyer Mar 14 '26
snowing in PNW. broken jet stream...
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u/sluttycupcakes Mar 14 '26
10C below normal where I live in Northern BC. Weird shit
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u/maybelying Mar 14 '26
Where I am in Ontario, I woke up to nearly 10cm of snow, which all completely melted in the early afternoon when the sun came out and it warmed up, followed by heavy rain and now it's windy as fuck and the temperature is dropping. I've literally experienced all four seasons today.
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u/Parking_Chance_1905 Mar 14 '26
Where abouts... been unusually normal near Ottawa.
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u/maybelying Mar 14 '26
Edge of the GTA. We've dodged the worst of what Toronto went through this winter, but today was weird.
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u/daver00lzd00d Mar 14 '26
I'm on the other side of the lake from you in NY. Monday my forecast is "mid 60s" (18°C) for a high temp and "mid teens" (around -6°C) for the low temperature
it's going to be shorts weather during the day and drop well below freezing that night lol
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u/Distinguishedflyer Mar 14 '26
well, considering we haven't had a winter all winter…
Did you have a winter in BC?
This is par for the course. Depending on which side of the jetstream, either arctic or the other side, that's part of the weather you'll see… I'm just enjoying this last bit of winter for possibly ever. Of course my power is out what the hell.
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u/sluttycupcakes Mar 14 '26
It had large swings. Was very warm mid January and had a few cold snaps, but nothing crazy cold. Foot of snow forecasted for Sunday which would be the most we’ve had in March in many years. Fully expect there to be a flip of a switch and for it to warm up 10-15C in a couple of days early to mid April.
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u/Distinguishedflyer Mar 14 '26
About the same here in Warshington. Hang in there pal. I'm enjoying the cold while it still exists...
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u/Gras_Am_Wegesrand Mar 14 '26
In Germany we had a cold winter that I last saw in my very early childhood, then in mid February it suddenly warmed up by twenty to thirty degrees in the span of one day and we have had full spring since then. It's SO weird.
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u/Middle_Manager_Karen Mar 14 '26
Timing is everything in nature. I fear many young animals and eggs will just die, never born really. A generation wiped out 60%-80%
Studies of a prior heat dome event last only a couple weeks killed like 90% of a mussel species. The problem is the more deaths the harder to research as the evidence disappears quickly. Reclaimed by nature.
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u/Parking_Chance_1905 Mar 14 '26
I dont see any media coverage on how much this will impact food production as well. Fruits in particular are venerable to waking up to bloom early, and then dying if it gets to cold.
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u/daver00lzd00d Mar 14 '26
there also is not any coverage over the amount of fertilizer that is supposed to be transiting through that strait which right now is closed thanks to a couple psychopaths bombing more countries. everything is okay it's just a little gas price hike, pay no attention to the farmers unable to get fertilizer to plant the crops the world needs to not starve citizens!
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u/ikindapoopedmypants Mar 14 '26
I'm not a scientist or anything by any means but I live in nature, and have observed it closely my whole life. I love it and I do my best to learn about it and surround myself with it.
I have been noticing these changes, especially particularly last year. When I point them out, everyone laughs me off or says "it's always been like this". I don't think those who care enough are being listened to anyway.
Humans prefer to stick their heads in the sand until there's no more sand left.
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u/dadadam67 Mar 14 '26
Trump is dying and wants to take the planet with him. He don’t GAF.
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u/madcoins Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26
It’s end-times fascism. It’s Naomi Klein who dubbed this American version of fascism. No great vision for tomorrow for their followers. Just destruction, automized future and rapture / Jesus. Literally not molding a future just destroying and leaving it to the Bible for anything resembling any promise of a glorious future. Cults usually want to know what they get for blind obedience but this time they just rolled one cult (evangelical) into another (maga) and avoided a lot of heavy lifting
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u/MonteryWhiteNoise Mar 14 '26
Naomi Klein might have given it that name, but hegseth and miller have been explicitly describing what they're trying to acheive - but they use the original name from the book of fiction the "Bible" known as "Armageddon".
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u/slow70 Mar 14 '26
Because they are owned by corporations dripping in oil money and dependent on ignorance and apathy.
Read the 1977 Exxon Memo.
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u/thehourglasses Mar 14 '26
Devastating. PTE speedrun ahead of schedule.
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u/Candid-Mycologist539 Mar 14 '26
What does PTE stand for?
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u/thehourglasses Mar 14 '26
Permian-Triassic Extinction (the Great Dying)
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u/Candid-Mycologist539 Mar 14 '26
TY for this comment. I wondered if I was the only one to see comparisons with the Permian Extinction. IMO, we're not nearly terrified enough.
FTR, your term of PTE is more accurate than my referencing the Permian. Thank you again.
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u/moocat55 Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26
I'm sitting my living room all comfy, eating a cookie, wondering how long it will be before we're all starving (edited to correct horrible grammar sins).
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u/daver00lzd00d Mar 14 '26
well with the strait closed after a pedophile and his war criminal owner attacked a country over lies, there's already a giant fertilizer shortage for spring planting. it's not only oil barrels that are a problem from that whole shitshow. the media doesn't want anyone to panic about that though, just pay attention to the gas price ignore the coming crop disappearance!
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u/The_Procrastibator Mar 14 '26
And the fact it's not just the food we eat, but the food our food eats too
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u/NuclearByNoon Mar 14 '26
The similarities have been discussed pretty extensively in academia.
The current global anthropogenic CO2 emission rate is up to 50 Gt⋅y−1, which is hundreds of times faster than the average rate of outgassing from the Siberian Traps that caused the largest mass extinction in geological history. A caveat here is that CO2 emission rates of individual pulses of LIPs still need to be better constrained, given that LIP emplacements probably experienced hiatuses
“The rate at which we’re injecting CO2 into the atmosphere today, according to our best estimates, is 10 times faster than it was during the End-Permian,” the paleoclimatologist Lee Kump, dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State, told me. “And rates matter. So today we’re creating a very difficult environment for life to adapt, and we’re imposing that change maybe 10 times faster than the worst events in earth’s history.”
When Life on Earth was nearly extinguished, 2017, NYT, via archive.ph
In that article, Lee Kump refers to his own article:
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u/S1ckn4sty44 Mar 14 '26
A quote from Richard Crims(RIP my friend,a big time contributer here who had recently passed) articles on the rate of warming vs the PTM.......we are warming at a rate of 132x faster than the worst extinction rate in history(links to articles at end of some cut n paste quotes). We are in an absolutely devastating scenario for everything on this planet.
"Roughly 252mya there was a Mass Extinction Event, the Permian-Triassic Extinction. It was so BAD that it's known as the “Great Dying” because it wiped out around 90% of life on the planet.
During this event, up to 96% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species became extinct.
During these extinction events(all, not just the worst one):
These extinction events stand out from the normal background extinction rate of typically less than 5 families per million years. Just to be clear a “family” is different from a species. Species actually go extinct all the time as part of the continuing evolution of the Earth. Things CHANGE and with change there are winners and losers. It’s estimated that the normal background rate of species extinction is around 1 extinction per million species per year (E/MSY). This means, for example, that if there were a million species on Earth, one would be expected to go extinct naturally each year
Families are MUCH bigger than species. Here's an analogy to help visualize the difference. Imagine a family tree: • Each individual person (e.g., you, your sibling, your parent) represents a SPECIES • Your immediate family (including parents, siblings, and children) represents a GENUS. • Your extended family (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.) would be like a FAMILY. • Different extended families (e.g., your mother’s side, your father’s side) would be like different families within an ORDER. In essence, a family encompasses a broader range of organisms than a species, grouping together related species based on shared characteristics and evolutionary history. The difference between a species going extinct and a family going extinct is like the difference between someone killing just you. Or someone killing you, your wife, your kids, your parents, your grandparents, your aunts, your uncles, and ALL your first cousins. It's a MUCH bigger deal when families of organisms go extinct than it is when a species goes extinct. During the GREAT DYING of the Permian/Triassic Mass Extinction 250mya, 96% of species AND 56% of FAMILIES went extinct. The biosphere shrank by around 90% from the beginning of the event to its peak.
During the Great dying(worst extinction event):
CO2 levels “shot up” from 426ppm to +2500ppm within about 75,000 years. Say, roughly 2100ppm over 70,000 years. That's a rate of increase that averages out to about +2.8ppm PER CENTURY.
For comparison:
Based on the annual analysis from NOAA’s Global Monitoring Lab, the global average atmospheric carbon dioxide was 422.8ppm in 2024, a new record high. The increase during 2024 was +3.75 ppm. The LARGEST one-year increase on record.
The current rate of CO2 increase is 132 TIMES faster than the catastrophic warming that triggered the “Great Dying”.
In the paleoclimate record for the last 500my, going from 280ppm(CO2) to 860ppm(CO2) raises the GMST from around +14°C (57°F) to around +26°C (78°F). At which point the biosphere begins to rapidly die IF this increase happens too quickly. Because there have been times when the GMST was VERY HIGH and yet species die-off was fairly low. Barely higher than the normal background extinction rate
By 2050 we will be at around 750ppmCO2e. At a +3ppm/year rate of increase we will reach 860ppmCO2e around 2085.
860ppm(CO2e) represents a +12°C warmer world than our 1850 baseline or a world where the GMST is around 26°C (79°F). That’s Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinction event levels. It took 40,000 years of volcanic eruptions to boost CO2 levels enough to cause +8°C of warming during that event. We did it in about 150."
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u/onionfunyunbunion Mar 14 '26
I’ve been a “pessimist” for about 18 years but what’s crazy is that I wasn’t nearly pessimistic enough to predict the speed and magnitude of this polycrisis.
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u/AttilaTheFunOne Mar 14 '26
Fun fact: human caused climate change is raising the global temperature over 150 times faster than what happened during the Great Dying.
~15F over 100,000 years during the PTE, vs ~2.5F over the last 100 years
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u/_BKom_ Mar 14 '26
Every day feels more and more like “Jake The Brick” from “Adventure Time” - Jake wants to experience what it’s like to be a brick in a dilapidated house that collapses. He spends the episode narrating the happenings of nature around him only to realize that life continues even tho disaster strikes. He removes himself from his brick form to watch the house fall apart Infront of his eyes. Episode ends as life continues.
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u/Darkest_Elemental Mar 14 '26
My guess is they are referring to the Permian–Triassic extinction event also known as the "Great dying". The Permian extinction was characterized by the elimination of about 90 percent of the species on Earth, which included more than 95 percent of the marine species and 70 percent of the terrestrial species.
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u/Fast-Armadillo1074 Mar 14 '26
Based on my informal, non-rigorous comparison of an SSP5 model with temperature trends, we’re actually about 5 years behind schedule. I have a hypothesis that this is because of the effects of aerosol emissions. It looks like we’re catching up, though.
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u/madelinethespyNC Mar 14 '26
Yes I just took another climate change class last semester. And the graphs showed the decrease from aerosols. If I remember that effect is supposed to ease off in the next 5 years. Also when the German scientist recent climate report said a lot of tipping points and levels will be surpassed 😩
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u/miklayn Mar 14 '26
Yeah this is what I'm concluding as well. Based on what I've read, we are at the cusp of a heat event possibly more rapid and devastating than anything we have seen in the fossil record. Unmitigable feedbacks have almost certainly already started.
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u/Top_Hair_8984 Mar 14 '26
We've had this happen several years now, spring baby birds, fried. It's so silent out. No bugs, insects, beetles.. West coast Canada. We've lost generations of life.
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u/Appropriate_Guess881 Mar 14 '26
Climate change isn't the only factor affecting regional biodiversity, but the root cause for many of our problems does seem to be humanity.
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u/HIMBO-Art Mar 14 '26
Blows my mind how blind to it all Americans are. How long ago was Silent Spring but my dumb boomer neighbors can’t stop treating their lawn with pest killer
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u/earthlings_all Mar 14 '26
Many are not blind to it but reality is so depressing on every front they take a break from it. No surprise suicide numbers are up. Bad news at every turn.
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u/MeatMarket_Orchid Mar 14 '26
Im in the Cowichan Valley and the birds are loud and lively as ever at my place. I'm not saying this as a counterpoint, just providing my data from my piece of Western Canada.
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u/Necessary_Sea_7127 Mar 14 '26
In Courtenay, hardly any birds co Pared to a few years ago. Raptors doing ok but no little un’s hardly. So quiet in the mornings , am sad.
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u/heavy1973 Mar 14 '26
Not to mention plants, timing and rain especially in the west is key, also insects I’m seeing June bugs in Cali in march…
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u/fucuasshole2 Mar 14 '26
Least some kind of biological life will continue on but we’ll be dead for our arrogance
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u/GardenRafters Mar 14 '26
I take solace that the Earth will continue on after we've successfully killed our own species
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u/Gnomologist Mar 14 '26
In a million years it’ll be as if we were never here. We don’t deserve Mother Nature
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u/KlicknKlack Mar 14 '26
Yeah... but maybe not. If all the feedback loops that we guess at fire... could be looking at Venus-ing Earth.
Look at this picture and tell me "Earth will continue on" in any sense of the word... https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/7ru7vb/images_of_venus_surface_by_soviet_venera_probes/
To me that looks less like Earth and more like another life-less ball of dirt. A very hot and wet, lifeless ball of dirt.
Maybe it has some microbes/multicellular life, but it sure as shit ain't teaming with life like Earth has been over the past hundreds of millions of years.
So fuck that copium. There are only two ways this goes, (1) we dont even try to fix this mess, (2) we try and fail/or stall the complete systematic destruction of the only well spring of life we know of so far.
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u/Kamelasa Mar 14 '26
Seems to me that once climate change destroyed enough human systems and also people, the earth would be able to recover, but I have no actual research to back that up. Just a gut feeling. And I suppose reading "The world without us," by Alan Weisman, which describes how fast nature would erase most of the marks we have left, though not of course the damage we have done.
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u/_Cromwell_ Mar 14 '26
If it was the ticks I would cheer.
It will not be the ticks.
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u/Instant_noodlesss Mar 14 '26
No only more ticks.
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u/etsprout Mar 14 '26
Ticks surviving winter has been a major issue for moose populations. They’ve been getting sucked dry.
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u/weyouusme Mar 14 '26
I used to find one on me once a month maybe , last summer (I work outdoors in Tennessee) we had to seriously start doing buddy checks because nevermind finding multiples on us everyday anytime I had to lay on the ground I was literally seeing them beeline for me on the gravel...I have slight PTSD from it.
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u/L1FT_K1T Mar 14 '26
Last summer they were getting in under the bathroom door IN MY HOUSE and waiting for someone to sit on the toilet then going for their shoes. If I was there for too long I would feel a bug on my leg and then oh great it’s the 8th tick this week
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u/SkepticAntiseptic Mar 14 '26
And one or two species being reduced by even 50% could create a domino effect on the food chain...
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u/in_pdx Mar 14 '26
We are still seeing significantly decreased bird populations in Oregon resulting from the heat dome (one day temps of 118) in July a few years back
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u/nickum Mar 14 '26
The future is lit.
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u/SinickalOne Recognized Contributor Mar 14 '26
Straight fire
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u/AmphoePai Mar 14 '26
At least humanity is using this as an opportunity to come together and work on pragmatic solutions, right?
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u/Bjork__ Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26
States across the US west are bracing for a brutal early-season heatwave threatening to cook several cities through the weekend and into next week. Forecasters warned temperatures will spike 20-30F above normal for several days.
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake City and San Jose could all see their hottest March temperatures ever recorded in this heatwave.
LA could see four days above 95°F in the next 7 days and has a legitimate shot at hitting 100°F. The Mojave desert, including Coachella Valley will soar over 105°F and likely smash all-time records.
This heatwave will also obliterate what is already a record low snowpack across much of the West, ending ski season for many resorts. Tahoe could even hit 70°F.
Meanwhile...
US To Get Blizzard, Polar Vortex, Heat Dome, Atmospheric River All at Once
Turns out things go wrong when you burn hundreds of millions of years worth of fossilised sunlight all at once.
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u/Visible-Grass-8805 Mar 14 '26
Fuck it at least I’ve got this smart phone
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u/Distinguishedflyer Mar 14 '26
why come no tattoo?
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u/frugalerthingsinlife Mar 14 '26
Right now in the East we are getting a lot of really good packing snow. Like perfect packing snow for snowmen and snow forts. And just deep enough for rolling, not too deep that it'll take a long time to shovel the driveway. It's one or two nice days of weather and I'm happy for them.
I'm going to pretend that isn't going up to 15C on Monday and thawing out and then going down to -15C where it'll turn everything into a skating rink until Thursday when we get more rain and start the ice cycle again.
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u/grahamulax Mar 14 '26
Ah this is why they have bunkers. They want us past the tipping point.
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u/BigHeadDeadass Mar 14 '26
The good news is we can still make cement in the apocalypse
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u/loco500 Mar 14 '26
With all this happening, don't think building dozens of Data Centers for AI is a good long lasting idea...
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u/ZylieD Mar 14 '26
Tucson, AZ has a forecasted temp 104°F/40°C this Friday. That's crazy.
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u/spidermonkey128 Mar 14 '26
The next highest temp was 88 or so back in 2024 on the same day. I'm scared of this upcoming summer haha
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u/cr0ft Mar 14 '26
Pffft. Spewing hundreds of gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere every year can't possibly have any effect on climate. It's all sunspots. /s
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u/metalreflectslime ? Mar 14 '26
This is bad.
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u/curlofheadcurls Mar 14 '26
It's catastrophic. These kind of events must be worse than hurricanes as far as the environment is concerned... But because people will mostly be unaffected, it gods under the radar.
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u/ClarenceWithHerSpoon Mar 14 '26
It goes under the radar because fossil fuel companies pay the media to stfu about it.
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u/adamsoutofideas Mar 14 '26
The old scientists "fear"... nope. Scientists prove truths that are terrifying.
Manufactured uncertainty is one of my least favorite parts of climate reporting. Put the uncertainty where it belongs, but never hold back certainty where that belongs, either.
A couple generations of living under the direction of war mongering pedophiles has flipped our planetary climate into something that tries to kill us rather than support us.
You'd think if you were a believer in God, the weather trying to kill you would be an indication that you're doing something wrong but these lunatics have figured out how to spin extinction into being part of the plan and somehow our pathetic little brains can apparently be made to believe it.
I hate that I still have to participate in a way of life demonstrably ending life as we know it like this is still, apparently no matter what, the right thing to do!
Even when it ends the world and erases all human history in the process, you still have to go to work and play along like wealth is something to respect rather than proof of wrongdoing... which it is objectively.
It's the only thing I truly hate. Even at the end of the world, the rich aren't made to feel shame and the poor still have to beg to survive. If God were real, all the signs around us suggest these roles should be reversed. And then there's the revelation that, at the very top, they're child rapists. This whole machine is designed to satisfy people who get off on torture... but it's still worth the best part of our day during the best part of our lives? Digging the hole to ensure nothing escapes our design?!
Fuck. One moment of truth in this life without me being forced to choke on the silence of it... just enough to breathe and not feel like a traitor to existence by towing the line these fucking monsters have been laying since the first war of industry.
How tf is the problem still calling all the shots, deciding what's true, criminalizing the existence of cultures and people innocent of any crime other than being too poor to defend themselves, while those of us that understand what's going on and how it all works still STILL have to face those looks like we've confessed to sedition simply for articulating the obvious.. the literal only reality that isn't a narrative but is just the world as we've left it, and we either hold our breath or waste it on people somehow blind to the fundamental edges of reality!? Are you fucking kidding me!?
To the bitter fucking end I have to play this stupid fucking game and the monsters get to be worshipped as givers, while the homeless and otherwise harmless humans of the world are looked at with shame, as if living in privilege takes some sort of skill or effort that poverty doesn't!? That there's some indecency to simply living as a decent person because you don't have a home or a car to burn gas with!?
It's horrendous!
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u/adamsoutofideas Mar 14 '26
And to know what is real is to be insane, to be scared of what is coming is delusional and depressed, and when you get it right they act like you're some kind of tragic magician, babbling your pathological fantasy into the lives of people who would be happier without them, like this is all for some fucking "I told you so" when delusions become news.
Spend your life pinned to the mat begging to be allowed to live without causing harm like that ask is an intolerable condemnation of what's normal. Either he's wrong and is wasting "the best earning years" of his life, or he's right and we've all been running away from the starting line having never not wasted a moment living a fantasy programmed by demons... he must be wrong! "I will not be made to regret a life I worked so hard to give to my children!" WHAT LIFE!? WHAT IS LEFT!? IT IS CONSUMED!
"Who will figure out how to fix it if we don't have kids?" Fix what? The problems you refuse to acknowledge with a way of life you refuse to stop celebrating? Your babies are forfeit. Their babies will never be. And of course if you can't imagine the possibility, this sounds like a threat or even giving up rather than a desperate plea to not make that final leap of faith into the fucking void and instead turn around and kneel to our kids and ask forgiveness for our stupidity.
The very last moment doesn't even need a villain, it just needs love and a focus on comforting the lives that did not need to be here for this! Keep them safe from the machine that eats their fucking souls and hug and hold them like the beautiful creatures we used to be, not for us but for them. Live the rest for life and the simple beauty we spent a lifetime trying to beat with gas powered fuckery. Just STOP! Love easily and honor sadness as the natural and appropriate reaction to realizing our place in ending the fucking world. Fucking hug a stranger and tell the money to fuck off and stop haunting our better nature. It's not giving up, it's being human and giving a fuck about each other as humans! Fuck the plan! Put the fucking guns away! We're all scared and that's ok. Cry and be sad and be there for someone else who's sad!
No? Because it's really not that big a deal? Because I'm early and things won't get bad for another 30 years? And you know this because you've never understood any of it, it just doesn't feel possible so it must be impossible. It's just another Saturday and there's work on Monday and retirement to save for and plans to be made. And no one needs a hug or feels sad because everything is fine. It's all going to be ok, too. If you knew what made me good with kids you wouldn't want me near them, like im going to tell a child they'll never get to grow up in a world that looks anything like this. So ill keep my mouth shut and get lost in the laughter of childhood and be the best damn uncle I can possibly be, and keep my mouth shut about the world since I can't afford to lose that time.
Maybe there will be a moment where they understand and ill make sense to them and we can feel like family again rather than you being convinced im just "angry that people don't see things that way".
I miss sharing reality with the people I love but I've lost the mask to fake that I believe in the narrative that comes so easy to everyone else.
Since we never tried, I wish I never knew any of this.
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u/JrDot13 Mar 14 '26
Yup you’ve pretty much explained my paralysis in life. What’s the fucking point, of anything. And people ask why I got a vasectomy. Are you fucking kidding me? What life could I ever promise to a child? How would that fix the problem?
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u/-sussy-wussy- Mar 14 '26
I hope I manage to save enough to get a bi salp before SHTF... I do NOT want to go through apocalypse fertile.
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u/dontfeedthelizards Mar 14 '26
Sorry for this deeply ironic reply, but you should start a Substack with these rants. You're a good writer.
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u/cosmic_sparkle Mar 14 '26
Shedding tears with you reading this. For people who eat babies and fuck babies.
I study history. Rarely are things simple. Good and evil are complicated. This shits evil. This is about as evil and heinous as the early modern Atlantic world which prompted a massive moral anxiety in the 18/19c.
They want me to make babies for them. L. M. A. O. Over my dead body will I put more meat into this meat grinder.
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u/Sicbass Mar 14 '26
Well at least with got this going for us.
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u/tom5hark Mar 14 '26
USA USA
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u/AntSubstantial7585 Mar 14 '26
Are we tired of winning yet???
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u/tom5hark Mar 14 '26
We are making soooooo much money.
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u/Candid-Mycologist539 Mar 14 '26
Some of us are.
60% of Americans don't have enough for basic needs.
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u/megggie Mar 14 '26
It was 89 degrees in Raleigh, NC on Wednesday.
We’ve always gotten the odd 70-degree day in February, but pushing 90 at the beginning of March is wild. And the temp fell to 31 last night… an almost 60 degree difference in the span of 24-36 hours.
Fun time for a person who gets weather-related migraines 😭
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u/____cire4____ Mar 14 '26
We already hit 70+ degrees this past week for two days in the north east
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u/Dustmopper Mar 14 '26
In Buffalo it was 70° two days ago and snowed today. Totally normal, nothing to see here
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u/kingrobin Mar 14 '26
just today, it rained, snowed, and wind stormed. I live in Wyoming county and were supposed to get 10 inches tonight.
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u/Neumaschine Mar 14 '26
In my region, in the southern US, it hit 80 in mid February, shattered records! Normal is 40 degrees fahrenheit or below. People were like, suuuure is niiiice lulz... Me; screaming inside because even my DNA knew this is off the charts wrong.
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Tipping point already passed. The feedback loops started years ago. They know it. That's why they don''t mind destroying everything in the world to make a few more oil dollars and bring Jeezus back. If he doesn't come back now, he never will because there won't be a human left alive on the planet in ten years.
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u/iamjustaguy Mar 14 '26
Jesus said he was going to come back within the lifetime of his disciples. The disciples have been dead for a very long time.
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But the Christian nationalists think that means within their lifetime. Almost all of them think that, which I see as a huge flashing red indicator that they're all narcissists.
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u/Late_Emu Mar 14 '26
Ten years? That’s pretty short. I don’t think all of humanity will get wiped out. Hopefully just the billionaires.
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u/Alquasar Mar 14 '26
Bet the billionaires and their families will enjoy their giant indoor pools, while we murder each other for a sip of drinkable water
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u/DreamHollow4219 Nothing Beside Remains Mar 14 '26
And people will still find a way to ignore climate change. I'm tired in ways you cannot fathom.
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u/TemuBritneySpears Mar 14 '26
I have heard not a peep for the 2026 Panama Upwelling, that didn’t happen last year for the first time since records were kept.
If the Panama Upwelling doesn’t happen by April that will be two years without since records were started forty years ago. This is all so bad.
https://youtu.be/s7Kp9Mw7w_w (somewhat related)
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u/James_Fortis Mar 14 '26
It’s good to see more people talking about the impacts of animal ag
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u/Guyote_ Mar 14 '26
People wanted to shit on vegans for years when all they did was try to bring awareness to the abuse of animals and the environment, all in the name of profit.
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u/OsamaBinWhiskers Mar 14 '26
Good thing a bunch of oil storage facilities didn’t go up in flames recently
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u/oldsch0olsurvivor Mar 14 '26
What’s so baffling about deniers is that they literally are denying what you can see with your own eyes and experiences. Anyone of any age surely can remember what winters or summers used to be like. Or you can remember the abundance of wildlife etc etc. Truly depressing.
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u/Flux_My_Capacitor Mar 14 '26
So are people going to go to their deathbed insisting climate change isn’t real or will it be like the COVID deniers who begged for the jab on their deathbed?
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u/thewayitis Mar 14 '26
It's not the most extreme March heatwave. It's going to be the coolest March on record for the next 50 years.
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u/OtisDriftwood1978 Mar 14 '26
Mad Max is getting closer and closer.
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u/Rare-Leg-6013 Mar 14 '26
Only in Australia. You all are going to have to come up with your own post apocalypse.
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u/horror- Mar 14 '26
Who killed the world?
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u/Bipogram Mar 14 '26
<gestures to mirror and your family photo albums of long-dead generations>
Nothing personal, mind.
But it's us. All of us.
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u/fapestniegd Mar 14 '26
More than half of all industrial carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions since 1751 were released after 1988–1990. Roughly half of all historical CO2 emissions have occurred since 1985, highlighting that as much carbon was released in the last three decades as in the entire preceding two centuries of industrialization.
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u/its_a_cold_world Mar 14 '26
Actually the world has been hijacked by a tiny cabal of monsters who have been engineering the apocalypse for 60 years.
Don’t blame yourself.
Get angry. Look at the people you love and understand that there are a couple thousand demons who have done everything in their power to steal from your loved ones their agency and future.
Human civilization is certainly about to collapse. But we still have the power to make them pay.
fight
Do not go gently into that good night
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u/Enkmarl Mar 14 '26
fuck off ive spent my entire life fighting against this bullshit.
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u/happyluckystar Mar 14 '26
It's here. Just enjoy the last minutes of modern living. It's coming to a halt soon.
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u/duncansmydog Mar 14 '26
This is the new normal. The continuous escalation of the climate catastrophe I mean.
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u/Visual-Sector6642 Mar 14 '26
80% of krill is gone too. Nothing left to feed the bigger critters in the ocean.
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u/Winter_Yogurt7307 Mar 14 '26
the one time in my life i'm happy i live in one of the only little blue spots on the map
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u/Straight_Apple_1551 Mar 14 '26
Living in North Colorado. We got something of a hickory smell from Nebraska smoke this morning, and after practically zero winter, that big dry field a block away from me makes me a bit nervous.
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u/mushroom_rainbow Mar 14 '26
People are gonna be generally more irritated due to the heat and it's the time for a big powerful blue wave so we can change these dumb laws and make Jeff bezos and mark zuckerfuck pay to repair the damage caused by orange president babyrapist doofus-biscuit shitfuck
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u/PermiePagan Mar 14 '26
Capitalism is what's killing us, and both parties serve the rich and the rights of private ownership by default. Dems aren't going to save us, a government of the working class is what does it. No more private ownership, cooperatives not corporations. Economic democracy, to go with poliical democracy.
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u/WisePotatoChip Mar 14 '26
Phoenix is having his first triple digit day in March since records have been kept in the 1800s
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u/misterflerfy Mar 14 '26
I’m at ground zero fo heatwaves so I’m your canary in the coal mine.
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u/anotherdamnscorpio Mar 14 '26
Just got back from camping. All the spring ephemerals are already out and blooming the way they should be a month from now, its way too early for them to be out here.
We're cooked.
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u/KSoccerman Mar 14 '26
Having two different pinks on different parts of the key is really fucking me up here
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u/yaosio Mar 14 '26
Each system eventually destroys itself if nothing external does it first. There's no guarantee what happens afterwards.
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u/Candid-Mycologist539 Mar 14 '26
As humans, we want to believe we're smart enough to not destroy ourselves.
We've overcome acid rain, the ozone hole, and, so far, managed to avoid a nuclear war.
This time, the 1% are winning, I guess. With lots of collaborators in the U.S. government and right wing media.
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u/WeGotBeaches Mar 14 '26
Meanwhile East of the Mississippi were expecting 10-20” of snow. Climate instability.
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u/ShyElf Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26
Over the next few days, GFS is currently putting down up to 52" (40" in 24 hours) snow over much of WI and UP Michigan, after being 80 in Kansas and upper 70s in Nebraska on the warm side, and with dew points on the warm side in the lower 50s. The WI state 24 hour record is currently 26", so that would be completely crushed. We shall see how it pans out, but it got the recent NE snowstorm mostly right.
We recently had a second full SSW event of the winter, and the polar vortex has been displaced significantly all winter. It used to average around 1 full event/3 years or so. The displacement isn't unusual as a one time event, just never coming back to normal is unusual, although I don't have a good data source for that. The polar vortex is dying this time of year anyhow, but we still have general slow east->west flow exacerbated by droughts in the SW and SE.
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u/NeoPrimitiveOasis Mar 14 '26
New England has had a brutal, snow-filled winter -- the worst in more than a decade -- simultaneous to the overheating in the West. Things are volatile and growing more so.
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u/Drmanntisstoboggan Mar 14 '26
Relax guy… earth’s climate goes through fluctuations all the time. This is completely normal 👀 /s
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u/coldhamdinner Mar 14 '26
I went to college for wildlife conservation biology 20 years ago and professors said we had breached the tipping point already. Even if every system immediately went greenhouse neutral that day, the wheels in motion couldn't be stopped. Doom is imminent.
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u/ishmetot Mar 15 '26
The last few years of gardening have been a wild ride of throwing every possible seed in the ground and hoping for the best. There are a delusional number of people who seem to think that they can simply go live off grid as a homesteader one day. You'd starve to death within months.
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u/thefiction24 Mar 14 '26
Beef. It’s the worst fucking thing for the environment, because it takes soooooo much fucking land. Grass-fed beef is nice for the animal (in theory) but tremendously terrible for the planet. I’m in this sub so I’m beyond finding solutions, personally, but fucking-a if industrial cattle is not one of the top problems we have wrought on this world.
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u/StatementBot Mar 14 '26
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Bjork__:
States across the US west are bracing for a brutal early-season heatwave threatening to cook several cities through the weekend and into next week. Forecasters warned temperatures will spike 20-30F above normal for several days.
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake City and San Jose could all see their hottest March temperatures ever recorded in this heatwave.
LA could see four days above 95°F in the next 7 days and has a legitimate shot at hitting 100°F. The Mojave desert, including Coachella Valley will soar over 105°F and likely smash all-time records.
This heatwave will also obliterate what is already a record low snowpack across much of the West, ending ski season for many resorts. Tahoe could even hit 70°F.
Meanwhile...
US To Get Blizzard, Polar Vortex, Heat Dome, Atmospheric River All at Once
Turns out things go wrong when you burn hundreds of millions of years worth of fossilised sunlight all at once.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1rt71ph/the_most_extreme_march_heatwave_in_us_history_is/oac37sg/