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Apocalypse Now in India :marseyburn: :marseyfine:. Doomers cream their pants at the prospect of climatechange

https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1d3tnvd/heatwave_delhi_burns_at_highest_ever_temperature/

I hope our sexy Indian dude drama-friends are doing fine considering the current heat wave you guys are going through. But it's possible the 52 C recorded could be due to a faulty sensor.

https://theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/delhi-temperature-hits-499c-as-indias-capital-records-hottest-day

Anyway, here are the people at /r/climatechange discussing the incoming collapse and total extinction of the sub-continent and eventually the whole world.

Someone calculated how long until a single heat wave kills a million people in India. It was surprisingly close like 1 decade away. India will be unlivable as a country soon due to heat waves and there will be billions of people fleeing the country. Unbearable is an understatement.

:#marseyburn:

I can't imagine how they are coping. I live in Florida and my air broke over the weekend. It reached into the 90s inside of the house and it was miserable. I couldn't think straight and all I wanted was to just lay down under a fan all day not moving. My pets could not sleep at night it was so hot and humid. I think about all of these poor animals that will die this horrible death so one species's greed

Floridan dramatards, thoughts? I only went to Florida during winter, mild winter close to that of where I live.

I'm surprised India wouldn't be going all-in on renewable technologies/energy if they're starting to see temps above 125F. What is life going to look like in 2040? Millions dying from heat? I hope not

Yes. Exactly. People have modeled it and this is the future.

:#marseypajeetitsover:

So, revolution when?

Climate change? :marseystonetoss#:

Some people are not having it

Turns out that the temperature reading we're talking about was anectodal, cherrypicked, false, and not even taken in Delhi:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/record-breaking-delhi-temperature-could-have-been-due-to-a-faulty-instrument/article68233451.ece

Today in Delhi top temp is around 46 C, which sounds crazy hot to us westerners, but it's totally normal for the hottest days of the year in that part of India, and is expected to drop in the next days.

!ifrickinglovescience

!ifrickinglovescience !physics

And here's more doom!

https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1d4le6a/cleaner_ship_emissions_may_warm_the_planet_far/

Ok. Let's assume emissions were immediately zero, right? The cleaner air will accelerate the speed of global warming. The rate has doubled since 2010 due to low sulfur bunker C ship fuel regulations.

Taking this example further… James Hansen and the team at Columbia University estimate that the current atmospheric composition would result in earth being 8 - 10 degrees CELSIUS warmer than today. It will take roughly 10,000 years of warming for temperature to equalize. It's an exponential function so the last 1000 years the temperature wouldn't change nearly as fast.

We are F-U-C-K-E-D.

What? Where did he pull that 10 C warming?

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I'm surprised India wouldn't be going all-in on renewable technologies/energy if they're starting to see temps above 125F. What is life going to look like in 2040? Millions dying from heat? I hope not

They're doing much better than the USA

By what metric?

They are lagging only China in solar power production.

People like to dog on the raw emissions numbers from those counties. But in terms of pushing sustainable development, and what the average citizens' carbon footprint is, China and India are far more progressive combatting the issue and less harmful proportionally than most “western” countries (for lack of a better descriptor).

:#marseylaughpoundfist:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17171823109157734.webp

>you have to use per capita!!

>hmmm i wonder why raw solar energy production is a proxy for population size :marseyclueless:

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even with PER CAPITA the US is just 4 ranks above US

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!bharatiya laugh at this burger

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>Renewable energy

>Not including nuclear

useless list tbh

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Nuclear is clean energy but is not renewable. There's enough fissile material on Earth to power us for the coming centuries but it will eventually run out.

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With fusion, it'll be recyclable!

:marseyletsgo:

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There's only 6000 years worth of uranium left and we would have to bury a few hundred cubic meters of waste somewhere. This makes nuclear completely unviable so stop thinking about it.

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It's very easy to have a lot of renewable energy if you don't have any energy in the first place. !bharatiya

Which is why ethiopia is the top of the list lol, I will say in the defense of the US, it's very big and a lot of places in it don't have the ability for easy renewable energy whereas some areas like Nevada have the hoover dam.

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Fool. !eurochads

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>Ethiopia is almost 100% powered by hydro

Dang. So how much of the population has electricity 24/7? I just don't see how only hydro would cover all of their needs.

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