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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by evan_ on Monday July 26, 2021 @02:55AM (#27956475)
Dozens dead and more than one million people displaced by flooding in China

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/21/china-floods...

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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by adrianN on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:07AM (#27956544)
No effect of global warming will be a historic first. It's about the frequency of events and the rate of change.
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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by gpt5 on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:21AM (#27956624)
That example says nothing about frequency or rate of change.
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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by adrianN on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:24AM (#27956641)
Sure, you'd want some actual climate scientist to do a statistical analysis. But just dismissing it with "it has happened before" is too simple too.
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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by AlexAndScripts on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:29AM (#27956672)
It's quite sad that this forum, usually one of the most civil and thoughtful places on the internet, is full of climate change deniers with pathetic arguments that even they must see the issues with.
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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by canal-crab on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:43AM (#27956753)
It seems like you're actually being uncivil and unthoughtful, and actually upset because other people have different viewpoints, which you are calling "climate change denial", when I doubt anyone here actually denies that the climate is changing.
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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by adrianN on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:52AM (#27956803)
"climate change denial" has become a term that has a more nuanced meaning that what the literal words say. It for example also includes viewpoints that deny that human influence is the main driver of climate change ("the climate has always been changing"), or the viewpoints that the effects of climate change are not bad, or even desirable ("CO2 is good for plants").
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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by c0nducktr on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:57AM (#27956834)
Sorry bud, but it's not "unthoughtful" to discount your opinions. I, and apparently a good percentage of the site, have considered them, found them fruitless, and tire of the arguments.

Your beliefs are incorrect. You can think what you want of course, but there comes a point where nobody needs to care what you say.

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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by howaboutnope on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:39AM (#27956727)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-heat-wave-pacifi...

> In addition, the World Weather Attribution team also found that climate change made this heat wave at least 150 times more likely and nearly 4 degrees hotter than it would have been before humans began warming the climate back in the 1800s.

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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by adrianN on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:08AM (#27956551)
That depends on your definition of "impact". Everybody currently alive has experienced some effect of climate change already. Where I live for example the number of days with >30°C per year has roughly doubled since I was born.
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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by MattGaiser on Monday July 26, 2021 @02:44AM (#27956415)
Heatwaves, forest fires, and dying coral have all been experienced in the past few years by some people.
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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by Stevvo on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:25AM (#27956644)
Attributing any specific extreme weather event to global warning is problematic.
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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by prince781 on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:25AM (#27956652)
Did you forget this happened only a few weeks ago?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_North_America_hea...

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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by k3liutZu on Monday July 26, 2021 @02:50AM (#27956448)
Haven't a _lot_ of people already experienced it?
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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by contravariant on Monday July 26, 2021 @02:51AM (#27956454)
Pretty sure an increase in average temperatures can be seen pretty much everywhere at this point.

Though its effect on weather patterns is harder to estimate.

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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by fouc on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:07AM (#27956546)
The impact is happening right now. There will be increasingly more extreme weather events over time, heat waves, cold waves, flooding, hurricanes, etc. The frequency of events and extremeness of events are increasing.
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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by wumpus on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:13AM (#27956572)
obxkcd about days below 0F in St. Louis https://xkcd.com/1321/
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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by admissionsguy on Monday July 26, 2021 @02:58AM (#27956487)
I think ca 2150 would be a reasonable non-cranky estimate, assuming current trends hold.
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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by wiz21c on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:18AM (#27956609)
At that time, if things don't improve by a huge margin (like in : never before in human history; except maybe at WW2 levels), hundreds of millions of people will have moved away from their birthplace (taking the place of other who may or may not be happy with it, which may lead to "tension" between populations; see what happens today when a few refugees (yes, a few) reach the borders of Europe...)

My understanding is there will be many more losers than winners.

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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by admissionsguy on Monday July 26, 2021 @04:10AM (#27956918)
Then I would kindly suggest governments stop encouraging people to continue reproducing at an unsustainable rate. Reversing overpopulation would make both mitigation and adaptation much more feasible.
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Re:US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settl... by eyelovewe on Monday July 26, 2021 @04:23AM (#27957022)
Not requiring ones next generation to be precisely from local genetic stock is a good start. Being able to absorb refugees into ones culture vs crying on and on about low domestic birth rates, that’s a pet peeve of mine
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