sinkingship

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[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

If Im not mistaken, Delhi's hottest month isn't in peak summer but in May and June, so now. As the climate is largly influenced by the monsoon season.

Next year also doesn't necessarily need to be worse, now going from an el niño into a la niña makes that somewhat unlikely, although regional differences will probably make some places worse, compared to this year.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but people may be already dying by the thousands. Isn't it rather difficult for a doctor to point down the reason of death to heat?

If not next year, it will get worse rather quick, that's for sure. Much, much worse.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I also thought about wet bulb and checked the humidity in Delhi, which seems to be just 7 % or so. According to wet bulb calculators that's still good, like around 23 °C wet bulb.

Interestingly the wet bulb temperature calculators that I tried only work until 50 °C, so that was what I put in.

At 50 °C you need about 35 % humidity to get to 35 °C wet bulb.

Regarding your second point: If I'm not mistaken, the hottest month in the region is around May. The temperature is influenced by monsoons, and although the sun peaks higher in summer, it is generally also more cloudy and rain cools of the surface. That's why usually temperatures peak just before rain season.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Do you have a link to source of that? I'm pretty sure there are many sensors measuring the temperatures in a city that size.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

From the article:

At the SMS hospital in Rajasthan’s capital, Jaipur, so many bodies of casualties of the heat have arrived at the mortuary that its capacity has been exceeded.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Warning: comment includes heavy slurs

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the Catholic Church, probably

Edit: Deleted for now, cause I can't figure out how to warn alert my comment.

Edit 2: I think I got it now. Please let me know in case it doesn't work.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

It is far from over.

We are currently doing the easy part of dropping emmissions. We have not yet peaked, globally speaking. Then we need to get to zero.

The only possible pathway now is overshoot and return. Which means we depend on carbon removal in a big style, in whatever form that will be.

It also means we will go temporarily over 2 °C. That is a critical number where several tipping points could be reached.

Pretty much the hardship has just begun. Now we need to stop emitting completely, somehow in the same time start to remove atmospheric CO² and hope that while we will be over 2 °C that no crucial tipping points will be reached.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Wow, I never thought I would enjoy Electro-J-Pop-Metalcore! Those guys humor is just addicting!

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While these policies aren't nice and your assumptions might be right, it's still a valid point that it's unfair for people to suffer the consequences of other people's actions.

In an ideal world everybody and everything would need to face the consequences of their own action. We don't live in that world. So it's not wrong to point out unfairness and fight for better solutions. Not being perfectly right yourself doesn't take away the right to point out wrongness in others.

Now away from the ideal world into reality. In the (hopefully) long term the Maledives are doomed. And they aren't alone. We screwed up the climate so much and we are still screwing up and haven't even peaked our emmissions yet.

We need to accept the fact that life will get hard. We need to finally accept the fact that if we don't overcome our differences, the human suffering will be absolutely brutal.

Unfortunately I am very pessimistic in this regard. Already and maybe since always human suffering gets ignored if it's not your tribe. It seems like humans can't overcome their tribe thinking. It seems like humans don't improve on their hate and brutality against each others. And it seems that many humans aren't able to feel sorry for human suffering if it's far, far away.

The future looks bleak and we made it and still make it look that way.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife, but please don't call me that!

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Usually in a tornado you have a lot of debris flying around. The faster the blades go, the higher the probability to hit debris and damage the expensive blades.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Good read!

It did not mention the nuclear bombs that have been lost somewhere.

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