Re:Water Temperatures Hit ‘Hot Tub’ Levels in the Florida Keys
by cratermoon on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:44PM
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David Wallace-Wells wrote about this, which he called blindness, in 2017[1]
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth... and at the time he wrote that, scientific awareness of the risk was already some decades old.
Re:Water Temperatures Hit ‘Hot Tub’ Levels in the Florida Keys
by hotpotamus on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:45PM
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I think it's an interesting way that GP found to connect to the record heat though. I mentioned to my mother that 1980 was actually the hottest year on record up to that time (the theory was solid and the effects were measurable even then, and now 1980 would be a cool year), and she said she remembered that because she had backed her car into a tree while trying to find some shade due to the heat at the time.
I feel like we went through this last year when the UK went above 40c. And that year “Australia was burning”. And that summer the “Amazon Rainforest was on fire”. It’s sensational and great click bait but looking at any of these events in isolation and thinking “oh yeah that’s the sign we’ve finally fucked it” is silly. If we keep doing what we’re doing we will fuck it eventually but lukewarm tap water probably isn’t the sign that we’ve tipped over the edge of the precipice.