I am mortified by how hot it is right now

souperk@reddthat.com to Environment@beehaw.org – 67 points –

The title says it all. It's November and I have yet to wear anything but shorts and a t-shirt. It's 25C outside and whenever I go for a walk I sweat like a pig. This time of the year I should be taking out my heavy coat, jeans and a jacket should be the bare minimum.

I am located in Athens, Greece where the weather is usually nice but not this nice...

It's like a daily reminder of the doom that has to follow. How are you coping with this?

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It's extra difficult sending my kids to school every morning seeing this. I go between thoughts of "well, at least I have time with them right now" and "you're a selfish asshole for bringing them into a mess like this."

So I pretty much feel terrible about my choice all day every day but try to make the most of the time we have right now? It's hard.

Someone’s gotta live through it, give them a fighting chance.

Of course I will, doesn't change my guilt and feelings of helplessness though

You can't change the decision you made. Focus on improving the current situation.

I'm coping with the shadow of doom by not breeding. To be fair, my initial reason was simply that I didn't want to mess up any kids the way I'd been messed up, so I chose sterilization. I've never regretted it and repeatedly found great comfort in my refusal to subject offspring to this world (and in sparing this poor overcrowded world to the burden of more people).

Underrated solution. I think the biggest threat to humans is that we simply made too many of ourself.

Not having kids is the best thing you can do to help the climate.

You could drive a Dodge ram pickup, eat meat everyday, and use plastic straws, and you'll probably contribute less harm to the environment than the greenest person out there if they have a kid.

I live in a colder part of Canada, usually it's starting to get cold(ish) here around now with snow on the ground and average lows of -7c (19f)

Right now it's 2c (35f) and raining... and the forecast for the week is much warmer than this, with highs near 8c (46f) for the next week.

Not that I'm complaining. I never got around to getting my snowblower ready yet this fall and my back hates shoveling.

You should be complaining. Small inconveniences like shoveling snow are worth having a planet that isn't too hot for our children to survive.

True, but I ran out of complaints this summer when it was stupid hot here.

A vasectomy

The state paid for mine, which was nice. Unfortunately mine went wrong in the worst ways. The antibiotics weren't working, went back after a few days. My sack was the size of a softball. 2 different antibiotics later and finally the swelling started to go down. It was excruciating.

All that said, Mine went as badly as one could possibly go, yet you still couldn't pay me to have not done it. Best decision ever. All this to say, 99.9% of people will have some sore balls for a few days and that's the end of it. And still the 0.01% of people who do have complications are telling you that it's totally worth. If you're on the fence, that should tell you something.

Yeah I mean, these are the stories you only hear on the self selecting sample of the internet. My physician has done thousands and claims to have never had a compilation. Pick someone who does it for a living, and you’ll be fine.

I'm shocked no politicians talks about how we reduce CO2 emission by 1/3 in 10 years (or 7 years, actually).

I thought that was what was meant by "carbon neutral by 2050". Apparently, we will go from 100% in 2049 to 0% in 2050 /s

Temperatures have felt pretty normal for the UK this year, but in my corner of it, the number and severity of storms has been unusual for this time of year. I'd expect to see a lot of rain in late October/early November, but not storms like this, and not so many of them.

I'm coping by not breeding. Nothing else I can do. I've given up on politicians listening and companies doing anything, and I do my best to live sustainably as my finances allow.

The amazing thing is climate denialists are successfully gaslighting people about the blazing record heat and melting icecaps. I mean it's fucking happening and people like "everything is fine"

Yeah.. typically the high for today where I live should be 60° f but today the forecast high is 82. It’s insane

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm in the far northwest USA and it's 51 F here which is also way too hot for November. It should be 40 F or even 35...

There is only 1 climate-model, that I know-of, which isn't contradicted by the still-accelerating planetary heating, and it predicts planetary heating of over 5C if one doesn't include the CO2 equivalent of the methane we've added to the atmosphere, & it predicts about 9C planetary heating if we keep the CO2 & methane the same.

It's a powerlaw. Same as what actually rules lightning, flooding, hurricanes, tsunamis, quakes, climate punctuations, etc.

Notice that the world "consensus" is centered on 1.5C and 2C.

The accelerating release of methane from melting permafrost .. probably means it isn't possible for the amount of methane in the atmosphere to be reduced .. any more.

( 1ppm methane in the atmosphere has a 20-year effect about 82.5x as intense as 1ppm CO2.

I've no idea how long it actually lives in the atmosphere, though, so it may be much worse )

I don't know that Greece will be inhabitable by the end of this century.

I honestly don't know if anything in the tropics, or even near, will remain inhabitable.

It might be that only Siberia will remain inhabitable, and Antarctica.

I don't think it'll get that bad, but .. dear God is humankind ignoring reality as devoutly as it can.

We're blissfully unaware here where I am in the UK, daily temps ranging 5-10 degrees C in the Midlands. Spoke to a friend in Japan (in countryside not far from Tokyo) yesterday evening (JP time) and he said it was 25C all day there... very unusual temps for late autumn in JP.

I live in a colder climate area, so I'm enjoying the nice weather rather than snow and rain. Weeee!