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4 hottest days ever observed raise fears of a planet nearing ‘tipping points’
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2024-07-29 at 4 PM UTC4 hottest days ever observed raise fears of a planet nearing ‘tipping points’
As global temperatures spiked to their highest levels in recorded history on Monday, ambulances were screaming through the streets of Tokyo, carrying scores of people who had collapsed amid an unrelenting heat wave. A monster typhoon was emerging from the scorching waters of the Pacific Ocean, which were several degrees warmer than normal. Thousands of vacationers fled the idyllic mountain town of Jasper, Canada ahead of a fast-moving wall of wildfire flames.
By the end of the week — which saw the four hottest days ever observed by scientists — dozens had been killed in the raging floodwaters and massive mudslides triggered by Typhoon Gaemi. Half of Jasper was reduced to ash. And about 3.6 billion people around the planet had endured temperatures that would have been exceedingly rare in a world without burning fossil fuels and other human activities, according to an analysis by scientists at the group Climate Central.
These extraordinary global temperatures marked the culmination of an unprecedented global hot streak that has stunned even researchers who spent their whole careers studying climate change. -
2024-07-29 at 4:19 PM UTC
ambulances were screaming through the streets of Tokyo, carrying scores of people who had collapsed amid an unrelenting heat wave.
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2024-07-29 at 4:27 PM UTC
Tonga Eruption Blasted Unprecedented Amount of Water Into Stratosphere
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Aug 02, 2022
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https://www.nasa.gov/earth/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere/
humans should stop constructing volcanoes. -
2024-07-29 at 4:39 PM UTCI don't go out much, but I did align this fan to blow from where the airconditioner shoots out cold air onto me. It's so chilly when I drink ice water I need a sweatshirt.
People I live with go outside to smoke a cigarette and come back sweating. Wild. -
2024-07-29 at 4:52 PM UTC
Originally posted by Bradley I don't go out much, but I did align this fan to blow from where the airconditioner shoots out cold air onto me. It's so chilly when I drink ice water I need a sweatshirt.
People I live with go outside to smoke a cigarette and come back sweating. Wild.
If Jesus had meant for you to be outside he'd have prevented the invention of shelter. -
2024-08-08 at 3:44 AM UTCWow, that's crazy.
