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[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 75 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't worry everyone, the next set of world leaders will take swift action on climate and fix it, just wait. We can't do it now, the numbers are up.

[–] burido@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

If there's a government left that is...

[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago (23 children)

More than just France. I went to Ireland this summer, and I have been several times before. In a country that is normally cloudy and rainy, it was sunny and bright. It didn't rain for the 10 days I was there. That sounds nice, but everything was dried up, it was sad. What is normally a drive through the lush and green countryside, was a drive through the brown and dry midlands. Not seeing those rolling hills of emerald green really bummed me out.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Although snow in winter in Ireland is rare, it used to be much colder. Over 15 years ago, my mates and I would walk in mornings to school and we would slip on frozen footpaths during winter. Now, the winters just tend to be warmer with more rain. Roads don't really get frozen anymore apart from the rare snow events that happen every couple of years. The north gets more snow but anecdotally it is getting lesser and lesser over the years.

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It even goes up all the way to Britain, and all the way east as far as the map reaches.

[–] CobraCommander@quokk.au 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

we need to stop this dynamite guy

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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

While it's focused on France. It also shows how bad it is in the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain. Spain is a bit more prepared for conditions like this, but the rest (Inc France) really aren't. The consequences of this potentially becoming the new normal are alarming, to say the least.

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

deniers will be like "it is two more days into august that is why"

[–] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 2 weeks ago

So I'm from northern Italy and I remember travelling to southern years for the first time over 20 years ago and noticing how dry and yellow everything looked in the summer, which was unusual for someone used to green vegetation even at the peak of August.

Guess what it looks like this year here in the North? "Summer's always been hot, you were just younger" my ass.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

So, when do we drop a giant ice cube in the ocean?

[–] epicshepich@programming.dev 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We've already got giant ice cubes in the ocean, but they're melting!

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We just need to get some more ice on a nearby comet or something, thus solving the problem once and for all.

[–] reptar@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago

ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago

a comet perhaps like the old days.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm in Bavaria and even the dandelions have given up by now. An article said that there's an extreme drought were ground is completely dried out over 2 maters deep.

[–] Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's that supposed to tell me?

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Mater is the character's name. I believe they were just being silly.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I traveled through France via train and this is way WAY scarier when you go through. This aerial view is still abstract, actually seeing it, kilometer and kilometer through the entire country is deeply unsettling. This is the new normal and it is catastrophic.

[–] bilgamesch@feddit.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

I live close to the french border and while it's really bad here - our forests already switched to autumn mode due to heat stress and dryness - it's much, much worse once you drive around an hour west.

unsettling is an understatement. I get the feeling people are avoiding the topic - not denying - but avoiding it, so they don't have switch into full panic mode.

[–] Senseless@feddit.org 17 points 2 weeks ago

Don't sorry people. Gerhard on <insert any "social media platform> said, it has always been warm in summer.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 weeks ago

Holy fucking shit, I knew it was bad but this puts a whole new perspective on it...

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

The heat index is 119 degrees where I'm at in Texas right now. That's enough to be lethal for many people.

[–] Shindo66@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Holy fucks....

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I believe it's spelled "drow". Satellite images are impressive though, they're notoriously hard to see from the sky.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 5 points 2 weeks ago

Spent sometime trying to understand why a fictional race is relevant, did you mean "drought"?

[–] robsteranium@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)
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