Climate Change

[stylofone]

The matter of roofs, and their relative reflective efficiency, is raised.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-21/ ... /102990304

Vast surburban chains, capitalism's version of the communist conformity you see in the rows or identical apartments in China, North Korea, and the former soviet union:

Mr Adams says some developers have a strict design palette, offering only two or three roof colour choices.

"That's an unfortunate thing, it leads to a monotonous aesthetic. Whereas you can have a much more interesting and vibrant aesthetic if people have more flexibility," he says.

The fashion for the worst kind of roof is like the fashion for enormous gas-guzzling utes.

[Irrev-Black]

GTFO warnings in Tara, and 250 km west of Brisbane.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-23/ ... /103010840

It is going to be a cruel, cruel summer.

[pipbarber]

It is going to be a cruel, cruel summer.

I hear that Toontown is heading for a lazy 10C above average tomorrow! That's nothing compared to 25C above average last week in Malawi(?). I've been getting a lot of mileage out of that 25C occurrence, it also happened in South America recently. I say, 'imagine waking up in the middle of July (in Melbourne) and it's a 40C day, because that is what is going to happen.' And if that gets some kind of traction, imagine waking up in January (in Melbourne) and you're facing 64C. How's your economy going then?

Anyway, stay cool up there.

[stylofone]

According to weatherzone, we were 12 above average here yesterday. October averages 2.1 days over 30 degrees, and this month we've had 3, with the outlook saying a fourth is due on Monday, so nearly double the number of unusually hot days in Spring.

Meanwhile, I put my doomist spin on this article. Despite all the attention on climate, fossil fuel use is predicted to continue increasing for the rest of the decade, and beyond if targets are not met. That's according to the IEA, but OPEC says it expects oil demand to continue growing after 2030. So what we're experiencing now will be much much worse in ten years time, and even if everything goes to plan with the energy transition, it will be worse still in 2043.

That's the plan - to make it worse, but slow the rate at which the destruction increases. Maybe 2033 will be twice as bad as 2023. But 2043 will be 1.9 times as bad as 2033 was. There's no plan to make things better.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy ... 023-10-24/

[wadaye]

Yes the nonsense of the green transition is to ignore it is additional not displacibg the fossil fuel and unrenewable forests.
Undeniably the wars are increasing and so the myth of progress is shown as so much bullshit. Then think of all the extrametabolites being introduced with all the mining.

[Irrev-Black]

Have a First Dog. That'll fix everything.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... its-course

[wadaye]

With what are you apologizing?
https://africasacountry.com/2023/10/wit ... pologizing


Just wow this speaks of Australias guilt from the national british womb

[wadaye]

It is going to be a cruel, cruel summer.

I hear that Toontown is heading for a lazy 10C above average tomorrow! That's nothing compared to 25C above average last week in Malawi(?). I've been getting a lot of mileage out of that 25C occurrence, it also happened in South America recently. I say, 'imagine waking up in the middle of July (in Melbourne) and it's a 40C day, because that is what is going to happen.' And if that gets some kind of traction, imagine waking up in January (in Melbourne) and you're facing 64C. How's your economy going then?

Anyway, stay cool up there.

Not so sure that 64 degree January is around the corner but definitely 40 degree July is coming quick, very quick

[wadaye]

Just a little bit of reasoning here, is that winter tends to increase in heat quicker than summer, and for the same reason, and a couple of other reasons too, the poles tend to increase in temperature quicker than the tropics. So the extra heat of the summer tropics, although intense, will tend to go blasting towards the poles, thus we are likely to see 40C Arctic and Antarctic ...

[wadaye]

One of the greatest sadnesses of climate change is the monotonising sameness that it causes. Take that glass of water with an icebube in it and power in the energy and the water rises in temperature until the ice is melted. Same for the earth. the magnificent diversity reduced to a ridiculous monotony. Because by definition the insulative capacity of the atmosphere is closer to saturation at the equator, than at the poles, the second law of thermodynamics or entropy's increase requires the heat to flow from the equator to the poles to access that escape route. The only rule is that the poles can't get hotter than the equator, generally speaking. And the other escape route is equally attractive to the heat. Go into the ice.