‘The Earth is screaming at us’

    Washington's governor on climate: 'The Earth is screaming at us'
    Gov. Jay Inslee said that the consequences of climate change have hit sooner than expected.
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    Washington’s governor on climate: ‘The Earth is screaming at us’

    Gov. Jay Inslee said that the consequences of climate change have hit sooner than expected.

    A digital billboard displays the temperature July 17, 2023, in downtown Phoenix.

    A digital billboard displays the temperature July 17, 2023, in downtown Phoenix. | AP Photo/Matt York

    By DAVID COHEN

    07/23/2023 09:42 AM EDT

    Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Sunday that this summer’s record-setting heat is proof that climate change is harming the planet.

    “The Earth is screaming at us,” the Democrat said on ABC’s “This Week,” adding that the impact of climate change is being felt two decades earlier than scientists had expected.

    June and July have seen scorching heat waves in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, with July 6t h having been identified as the hottest day in the world’s history.

    “The fuse has been burning for decades and now the climate change bomb has gone off,” Inslee said Sunday.

    Despite the scorching heat and intense storms in so many places, Washington’s governor said the problem is a solvable one.

    “We need to stop using fossil fuels,” he said, adding: “We do have the ability to restrain fossil fuels.”

    Inslee said that individual states can be the leaders on the U.S. response to climate change, which needs to be “further and faster” than it has been. “States can act,” he said and added that his state has been a leader on the issue.

    When asked by host Martha Raddatz how to respond to those like former President Donald Trump who don’t see a problem, Inslee called Trump a “knucklehead” and said the world can’t wait for climate deniers to realize there is a crisis.

    “Let them go off and play golf,” Inslee said.

    I thought it was a funny quote. Made me think of this:


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    1540 European drought - Wikipedia


    The Swiss historian Christian Pfister described the events of 1540 in a newspaper interview:[12]


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    The 1540 drought in Europe was a climatic event in Europe. In various palaeoclimatic analyses the temperature and precipitation regimes were reconstructed and compared to present-day conditions.

    On the basis of historical records Wetter et al. (2014)[1] derived that during an eleven-month period there was little rain in Europe, possibly qualifying as a megadrought.[2]

    Orth et al. (2016)[4] concluded that in summer 1540 the mean temperature was above the 1966–2015 mean and with a probability of 20% exceeded that of the 2003 summer



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    For eleven months, there was practically no rain, temperatures were five to seven degrees [Celsius] [9–13 °F] above the normal values for the 20th century, in many places summer temperatures must have exceeded 40 °C (104 °F). Many forests in Europe went up in flames, choking smoke darkened the sun, not a single thunderstorm was reported in the summer of 1540. Water was already scarce in May, wells and springs dried up, mills stood still, people starved, livestock was slaughtered. Estimates are that in 1540 half a million people died, mostly from dysentery.

    Everything began in northern Italy, with a winter that felt like a July. Not a single drop fell from October 1539 to early April 1540. Then the drought advanced north. ... July brought such a frightful ember-like heat that churches made prayers while the Rhine, Elbe and Seine could be waded through without getting one's feet wet. Where there was still water, the warm broth acquired a green colour, and dead fish floated belly-up. Water levels in Lake Constance sank to record low levels, and Lindau actually became connected to the mainland. Soon the surface water had completely evaporated, soils broke up, some dry cracks were so wide that a foot would fit into them. ...


    • 1540 European drought - Extreme drought and heatwave lasting 11 months in Europe.
    • July 1743 heatwave in China - Beijing reached 44.4 °C (111.9 °F) on July 25, higher than any modern records. 11,400 people reportedly died.[1]
    • July 1757 heatwave – Europe, hottest summer in Europe since 1540 and until 2003.[2][3][4]
    • 1808 United Kingdom heat wave
    • 1881 North American heat wave[5]
    • 1896 Eastern North America heat wave – killed 1,500 people in August 1896.
    • 1900 – historical heatwave of the center of Argentina between the first eight days of February 1900 known as "the week of fire" affected the cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario with temperatures of up to 37 °C (99 °F) but with a very high index of humidity that elevated the sensation of heat to 49 °C (120 °F) severely affecting the health of people and causing at least 478 fatalities.

    So weather happens. Got it. Do you dispute that July 6th was the hottest day in recorded history?

    And if you actually care to read about anything rather than just reading stupid ass headlines, you will know that they've only used this measurement system since 1979.


    It's just the weather event. El nino and so the fuck what?


    I love how people just read headlines think they know things.


    It literally takes two seconds to go look and see for yourself.


    They have no fucking way to measure accurately the heat or temperature around the globe on any given day. We still don't. But the measuring system we have now was only in place since 1979.


    Everything else is just a guess. It's their fucking guess.


    In the earth has been much hotter in the past. Before man even existed. It's also been much cooler in the past. It's called fucking climate change because the climate fucking changes. It's normal.

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    Yes. Maybe recent history.

    All of recorded history is recent history in terms of climate.




    As usual, the Democrats acknowledge that a real problem exists. OK, So far so good. Then they push for a solution that won't work and that most people won't support. Then they frame the problem as yet another facet of racism/sexism. That's how you suck up the votes of rational people and then make damn sure that you accomplish NOTHING with them. It's their job, as directed by their corporate donors. Squander the votes of rational people who want real solutions to real problems.


    Then, having squandered any opposing political power, our corporate overlords utilize our minority of gullible retards to give away more handouts to billionaires. Good job, bootlickers. You're playing your role as directed.