Is Hot Girl Summer Getting Too Hot?

[Borderlands of Rojava]

I wanted hot girl summer and instead I got flaming hot summer of death.

[Thermodolia]

I am more and more certain that the ecological crisis arising from humanity's inability to get its shit together with regards to the natural environment will bring about the collapse of modern society within my lifetime. Unfortunately, I don't see what can be done about it from the point of view of ordinary people. Decades of campaigning by scientists and environmentalists has failed to produce any meaningful change in policy from the world's major governments, and climate change denialism continues to be a significant trend despite even major fossil fuel companies openly admitting anthropogenic climate change is real because the scientific evidence is too clear to be ignored. Any actions taken at this stage would amount to no more than damage control, and I still don't think that anything meaningful is likely to happen.

EDIT: Potentially of interest- whilst Americans suffer from unbearable heat, spare a thought for the people of small Pacific islands whose homes are faced with the threat of disappearing beneath the waves forever. Islands have already began to disappear as a consequence of rising sea levels.

Eat a CEO. Yes it’s a meme but by eating the corporate leaders of the largest 100 companies you could both reduce hunger and the fucking of the globe

[Thermodolia]

Holy crap! It's nearly 50^oC in the USA. Holy crap! That's friken' hot. I hope the drought and fires end soon.

Yup. That’s why I’m not going outside today until sometime at night

[Ifreann]

Holy crap! It's nearly 50^oC in the USA. Holy crap! That's friken' hot. I hope the drought and fires end soon.

Yup. That’s why I’m not going outside today until sometime at night

Climate change will make vampires of us all.

[Resilient Acceleration]

I am more and more certain that the ecological crisis arising from humanity's inability to get its shit together with regards to the natural environment will bring about the collapse of modern society within my lifetime. Unfortunately, I don't see what can be done about it from the point of view of ordinary people. Decades of campaigning by scientists and environmentalists has failed to produce any meaningful change in policy from the world's major governments, and climate change denialism continues to be a significant trend despite even major fossil fuel companies openly admitting anthropogenic climate change is real because the scientific evidence is too clear to be ignored. Any actions taken at this stage would amount to no more than damage control, and I still don't think that anything meaningful is likely to happen.

EDIT: Potentially of interest- whilst Americans suffer from unbearable heat, spare a thought for the people of small Pacific islands whose homes are faced with the threat of disappearing beneath the waves forever. Islands have already began to disappear as a consequence of rising sea levels.

Eat a CEO. Yes it’s a meme but by eating the corporate leaders of the largest 100 companies you could both reduce hunger and the fucking of the globe

I wonder though. Out of 100 companies responsible for most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, 20 of the largest (which made up around 50% of greenhouse emissions of the group) all sell, well, fossil fuel. Lots of them are state-owned. Even if all those companies' headquarters are bombed from orbit, the global demand for fossil fuel will not decrease.

[Saiwania]

Even if all those companies' headquarters are bombed from orbit, the global demand for fossil fuel will not decrease.

Electricity is needed for air conditioning among other things, and there just aren't enough nuclear reactors and other non fossil fuel sources of energy online to fully meet the demand for it.

[Hrvada]

I'm embracing the weather by welcoming back my tan and going to the lake.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

I'm embracing the weather by welcoming back my tan and going to the lake.

I'm going from brown to browner.

[Hrvada]

I'm embracing the weather by welcoming back my tan and going to the lake.

I'm going from brown to browner.

Yea, I'm going from my normal Med complexion to Sicilian or something.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

I'm going from brown to browner.

Yea, I'm going from my normal Med complexion to Sicilian or something.

Isn't Sicilian normal med complexion?

I'd say I'm going from my med complexion to George Lopez colored.

[Hrvada]

Yea, I'm going from my normal Med complexion to Sicilian or something.

Isn't Sicilian normal med complexion?

I'd say I'm going from my med complexion to George Lopez colored.

They are, that was a bad comparison... I'm ethnically Dalmatian and probably more Slav than Med, so I'm much paler in the winter and don't really get super dark in the summer; but I'm starting to look like some-kind of Southern Italian and it's only mid-June.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Isn't Sicilian normal med complexion?

I'd say I'm going from my med complexion to George Lopez colored.

They are, that was a bad comparison... I'm ethnically Dalmatian and probably more Slav than Med, so I'm much paler in the winter and don't really get super dark in the summer; but I'm starting to look like some-kind of Southern Italian and it's only mid-June.

I'm going from looking Lebanese to looking Libyan.

[Saiwania]

It wouldn't matter at this point. There's a lot of compelling evidence that we've already gone past the point of no return when it comes to the climate. Now we've just got to try and survive.

I say it does matter. A society could eventually quit whining about the hardship/challenges and just begin doing what needs to be done anyways.

[Dresderstan]

This that hot girl bummer anthem turn it up and throw a tantrum.

[Fahran]

I was thinking we were gonna be talking about how once the temperature gets over 65 degrees Fahrenheit, all the girls in booty shorts come out. Instead we're talking about how it's get over 95 in April.

Y'all thought we wore "skimpy" clothes to be "sexy." No, we're just trying not to die of heat stroke. Smh. Anyway, I was just trying to be creative with the title given I had to significantly alter my summer plans. I figured it's the most thematically appropriate time to discuss climate change too.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

I was thinking we were gonna be talking about how once the temperature gets over 65 degrees Fahrenheit, all the girls in booty shorts come out. Instead we're talking about how it's get over 95 in April.

Y'all thought we wore "skimpy" clothes to be "sexy." No, we're just trying not to die of heat stroke.

If it's sexy it's sexy. When YNW Melly filmed the music video for murder on my mind he was looking Hella sexy and all he was trying to do was explain to us how he reloaded his pistol, cocked it back and shot a guy twice.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Has there ever been a hideous guy summer? I'm curious to know.

[Fahran]

Because the topic deals with the western United States, which is facing mass drought and record breaking temperatures currently.

While I did focus on the western United States, I do feel it's important to point out that climate change is projected to and is having a pronounced impact in countries such as China, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, France, etc. It's a global occurrence, as one would expect given what climate change means. I've actually found numerous studies talking about the public health and economic impact in places outside of America. Those are no less grim than the prospect of California burning up. In fact, for the Sahel countries, they could be even bleaker.

Also, "my country only hit 80 degrees Fahrenheit" does not necessarily mean climate change hasn't negatively impacted your country. If the average temperatures have increased, some of the effects discussed in my studies might be coming to a forest fire or heat stroke death near you.

[Fahran]

Has there ever been a hideous guy summer? I'm curious to know.

Not yet, but that's because all guys are beautiful in their own way.

[Kowani]

Because the topic deals with the western United States, which is facing mass drought and record breaking temperatures currently.

While I did focus on the western United States, I do feel it's important to point out that climate change is projected to and is having a pronounced impact in countries such as China, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, France, etc. It's a global occurrence, as one would expect given what climate change means. I've actually found numerous studies talking about the public health and economic impact in places outside of America. Those are no less grim than the prospect of California burning up. In fact, for the Sahel countries, they could be even bleaker.

case in point, this drought is leading to a crop failure in Kenya

[Stellar Colonies]

I wonder how worried Russia and Canada will be about the US and PRC eying them up in the coming years.

Interestingly, the Russian population compared to the Chinese one is proportionally similar with Canada's to the American population.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

I came in here expecting it to be a thread on some girl walking down the street naked and instead it's about the end of the world. Ain't that funny?

[Lanoraie II]

It's hot enough that it went from hot girl summer to hot-girl summer. Please help, I'm burning up and it's only 27C.

[Thermodolia]

It's hot enough that it went from hot girl summer to hot-girl summer. Please help, I'm burning up and it's only 27C.

You’d melt then where I live. It’s close to 50C here

[Kowani]

UN warns drought may be 'the next pandemic'

Water scarcity and drought are set to wreak damage on a scale to rival the Covid-19 pandemic with risks growing rapidly as global temperatures rise, according to the United Nations.

"Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic and there is no vaccine to cure it," Mami Mizutori, the UN's special representative for disaster risk reduction, told an online press briefing ahead of the report's release.

Already, droughts have triggered economic losses of at least $124 billion and hit more than 1.5 billion people between 1998 and 2017, according to a UN report published on Thursday.

But even these figures, it said, are "most likely gross under-estimates."

Global warming has now intensified droughts in southern Europe and western Africa, the UN report said with "some confidence." And the number of victims is set to "grow dramatically" unless the world acts, Mizutori said.

About 130 countries could face a greater risk of drought this century under a high-emissions scenario cited by the UN.

Another 23 countries will confront water shortages because of population growth, with 38 nations affected by both, it said.

Drought - like a virus - tends to last a long time, have a wide geographic reach and cause knock-on damage, Mizutori said.

"It can indirectly affect countries which are not actually experiencing the drought through food insecurity and the rise of food prices," Mizutori said. The UN expects more frequent and severe droughts in most of Africa, central and south America, central Asia, southern Australia, southern Europe, Mexico and the United States.

Ibrahim Thiaw, executive secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that deteriorating soil, caused in part by poor land management, had brought the world close to "a point of no return."

The UN has not researched the effect that desertification could have on internal migration within continents, but Thiaw said that it was no longer unthinkable, even in Europe.

"It is certainly a phenomenon that is happening in other parts of the world and may well occur in Europe," he said

More than 40% of the European Union's agricultural imports could become "highly vulnerable" to drought by the middle of this century due to climate change, according to a separate study published in the journal Nature Communications this week.