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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis
Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @ siderea @universeodon.com
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Wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT) warnings for the U.S. today

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    • Wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT) warnings for the U.S. today

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  • @0101010001110100 Thanks for the warning! FYI, wet bulb globe temperatures (which this map reports) aren't the same thing as wet bulb temperatures.

    When you hear about certain wet bulb temperatures being unsurvivable, the assumption is one has already found shade and that is the wet bulb temperature out of direct sunlight. Or put another way, those fatality limits are if the wet bulb temperature in shade is over a threshold, then it's fatal.

    Wet-bulb globe temperatures are slightly different: they're the weather forecast in direct sunlight. Moving to shade helps get you into a lower wet-bulb temperature.

    So this is Bad, but it's not quite as catastrophic as it sounds like.

    • We could be 16 years into a methane-fueled 'termination' event significant enough to end an ice age

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  • @TokenBoomer

    "Landsailor
    Deepwinter strawberry
    Endless summer, ever spring
    A vast preserve
    Aisle after aisle in reach
    Every commoner made a king

    Earthbreaker
    Noble and prized
    Feed me beyond my means
    Hello, worldmaker
    Never deny
    Build all my wildest dreams
    But there's a storm outside your door
    I'm a child no more..."

    (Vienna Teng, "Landsailor")

    @moztt

    • The short list of climate actions that will work

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  • @jsdz

    Article: [list of ways to stop burning fossil fuels]

    jsdz: No! My list is better! [exact same list of ways to stop burning fossil fuels.]

    @DougHolland

    • Collapse @lemmy.ml
    Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @universeodon.com

    Air pollution (PM2.5) can be a direct vector of antibiotic resistant bacteria, and caused approx 0.5M deaths in 2018, per new study.

    Weekly Observations 17th July - 23rd July: What signs of collapse do you see in your region?

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  • @wabooti

    Location: Massachusetts, USA

    First credible flood warnings in my area.

    Some context: The region in which I live, after catastrophic flooding in the middle of the 20th century, domesticated and tamed all of the rivers. We have a system of dams and other flood control that mostly keeps our water levels very stable. New Englanders do not understand how artificial the stability of our water levels is, and the kinds of floods we used to have here before all the dams were built to make sure that never happens again.

    But now we're getting rainfall like never before, and it's not like our dams are any better maintained than our bridges are - and our bridges are a known scandal.