Why Heat is So Deadly (featuring Jeff Goodell)

[@roberthornack1692]

Paving over the Earth with concrete & asfault & coating the atmosphere in heat trapping gases is great if you're building a global pizza oven but not so much if you want a habitable planet!

[@aquigriffin]

Brilliant. We are all Pizza!

[@roberthornack1692]

@@aquigriffin I hear melted plastic car bumpers make great cheese toppings!

[@aquigriffin]

@@roberthornack1692 I live in SEA. I’ve got plenty of plastic pollution, er I mean, cheese already thank you.

[@Vincent-ct7ik]

50 % od the world population lives in 3% of the earth superficy.

[@ExtinctionLife]

I read the book....highly recommend. Fires are the warning for what's to come....mass mortality from record heatwaves are just a matter of time, made all the worse by grid and crop failures. The opening in Ministry for the Future by KSR nailed it.

[@charleslindsey6789]

I am on chapter 22, and the book, by Kim Stanley Robinson, is one of the most sobering breakdowns I have read of our near future, or for many, our present. It is listed as fiction, but is actually a clear look at the lives and deaths we have chosen for the world, and ourselves.

[@steve-r-collier]

try researching the GRAND SOLAR MINIMUM..you may change your mind

[@charleslindsey6789]

Bullshit, learn something denialist.@@steve-r-collier

[@44bett]

Great novel by. K. S. Robinson. Many events could happen and have.

[@thunderstorm6630]

why do people believe this shit about solar minimum, we have the hottest temperatures since 120000 years, no sign of cooling@@steve-r-collier

[@roberthornack1692]

The best we can do at this point is coat everyrhing in Sun reflecting white.

[@carolynbrzezinski5779]

We, in the rich west, are energy-blind and resource-blind. We see the wild fires, hear how extreme weather (floods, droughts, intense storms)all around the world are wiping out livelihoods and killing peoples, how people are running out of water, and soon food shortages will inevitably follow. Yet, we carry on with vacations to far flung places (sometimes via private jets and yachts), building big houses that we justify because they have a few solar panels, buying huge new EV pick-up trucks & SUV’s to ride around urban streets, as if everything is fine. We live on a finite planet and our insatiable consumption of energy is at the root of the problem because there are real, biophysical limits to growth. Scientists have warned governments about this for decades. But people are not getting any ‘signals’ from governments that we must CHANGE our behaviors- quite the contrary. Our government insists everything’s fine!…just keep shopping, traveling and using as much energy as you wish. Party on! Make no mistake, our behavior is unsustainable. And if we don’t make some immediate changes to our energy use, it will come to an end.

[@teddybearroosevelt1847]

You’re a Nate Hagens listener aren’t you?

[@karlineschrubberstiel]

I am currently listening to the audio version of his book. Terrifying and important. I also have his book 'The Water Will Come' and need to listen to it again. We need more Jeff Goodells.

[@roberthornack1692]

The massive amounts of plants & animals that feed us will not be able to survive the heat, even if we somehow shelter ourselves underground like moles!

[@jackjohnson9999]

But wait couldn't we eat the moles?😂😅

[@sarahpengelly8439]

In a day just over 2000 people have watched this. Most of these I'm sure are already well aware of the dangers ahead. How to get a large number of viewers is always a problem. In terms of brutal honesty & realism this beats mainstream media coverage every time. (Well with exceptions like the Guardian for instance)

[@PavelDatsyuk-ui4qv]

It's being blared from every gorm of media the past 30 years. Everyone knows its essentially a scam by now . Don't worry though , the economic controllers are on your side

[@drawyrral]

We'll bake long before we'll drown.

[@therealdesidaru]

We'll suffocate from the Saharan Dust (go to Windy and look at the dust going nuts coming off Africa), mass pollen from sooner and longer growing season, carbon monoxide from wildfires, SO2, etc., before we bake. The air has been unbreathable for weeks. The planet is rejecting us, and we will have to live underground or in air conditioned boxes permanently, only going outside with a gas mask.

[@aquigriffin]

I think the families in the Solomon Islands would argue you on that, but I get you.

[@mickoz9389]

How?

[@therealdesidaru]

@@mickoz9389 Just watch the temperatures this week. When it hits 100, go outside and have a nice run.

[@mickoz9389]

@@therealdesidaru Good answer!

[@singingway]

6:30 exactly! People say "humans will adapt" but meanwhile our civilization's infrastructure and functioning has NOT "adapted."

[@stevangelical7052]

Even the cacti are failing in their habitats. There goes a final days crop.

[@kmoses582]

Most of them seem to being doing fine

[@kbmblizz1940]

The problem with Texas/Abbott, to admit the reality of Climate Emergency (exacerbating heat waves) would not be ideologically acceptable. So the party of deniers will drag us past the point of no return. 😢

[@whatelse1222]

The longer we can delay the panic among the masses the better, it has nothing to do with politics.

[@anabolicamaranth7140]

The deniers HAVE dragged us past the point of no return. Not will drag.

[@margrietoregan828]

We’re toast

[@75642]

With Greg Abbot the cruelty is always the point.

[@kristinab1078]

All good points about the issue of climate change; however, the "anti-vax" analogy and Covid just doesn't relate here. Climate change has been been extensively studied by a large number of researchers in various fields over decades. The other, Covid vaccines, did not go through such rigorous studies, and the short-term studies that were done were substandard and inadequate (no long term safety data) as well as being conducted by companies who stood to benefit the most. With good reason, these studies have come under scrutiny as have the overall increase in heart attacks, strokes, and various other conditions in younger adults the last two years+.

[@daysofourtime]

Of the 1,609 scientists who have signed the declaration, two signatories are Nobel Prize laureates. The most recent to sign is Nobel Prize winner Dr. John F. Clauser, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. In an announcement from CLINTEL, Clauser is quoted as saying “Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience. In turn, the pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. It has been promoted and extended by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies, and environmentalists.”

[@daysofourtime]

Prior doomsdayers , " Science". They are as predictively correct as todays ,*Warmers*. • “The Earth’s Cooling Climate,” Science News, November 15, 1969.• “Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age,” Washington Post, January 11, 1970.• “Science: Another Ice Age?” Time Magazine, June 24, 1974.• “The Ice Age Cometh!” Science News, March 1, 1975.• “The Cooling World,” Newsweek, April 28, 1975.• “Scientists Ask Why World Climate is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead,” New York Times, May 21, 1975.• “In the Grip of a New Ice Age?” International Wildlife July-August, 1975.• “A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable,” New York Times, September 14, 1975.• “Variations in the Earth’s Orbit, Pacemaker of the Ice Ages,” Science magazine, December 10, 1976.

[@anabolicamaranth7140]

I agree, the anti-vax analogy is idiotic. When the Left say things like that it destroys their credibility and it just creates more denial.

[@singingway]

The suburban housing platts built in the 50s, 60s, and 70s in the USA were designed to not even be liveable without fossil fuels keeping them cool and warm.

[@jonathanwest6564]

With a warming planet we will eat different foods like okra. It may not be people's favorite but It has an insane heat tolerance.

[@ryandelatte3294]

True! I’ve been Gardening for years in south Louisiana and this is the hottest year I’ve ever planted in and the only things that are surviving in my garden at the moment are my okra, sunflowers, sweet potatoes and marigold flowers everything else in my direct sun beds have died off. There is hope with hydroponic indoor vertical farming methods. They don’t need soil or pollinators but I’m not sure how their water mineral/nutrient mix is produced so I’m not sure how sustainable it is without that.

[@teddybearroosevelt1847]

Till the heat itself will keep people or till the energy becomes too expensive to transport the food to us or till rising seas or lack of precipitation makes our lands unlivable. You can’t innovate your way out of everything

[@thunderstorm6630]

okra also has heat limits, what will you eat then? grandma? your kids? and then....?

[@larkljc]

Explain the renaissance brought about by the Medieval Warm Period??

[@stevangelical7052]

"No shade and water breaks" capitalism thrives.

[@DraganAlves]

Important and enlightening video - thank you

[@MrRollingEgo]

I'm vegan

[@randallsmith5631]

Phoenix an underground city. (In a quarter century)

[@rdlewis3616]

If they have water

[@singingway]

28:33 i think society must adopt a wartime mentality about climate change. Only then will other considerations fall away and the priority be survival

[@havenmist2216]

1. More people die in Winter than Summer. A hotter planet means fewer deaths. This isn't debated. 2. When people go on holiday they go to hot places. 3. Most densely populated centers in the world lie between the 20 and 30 parallel, where it is hot. 4. In Australia, for hundreds of years, Europaeans have lived snd worked in areas that exceed 40 degrees celcius (105 F) each year for most of Dec/Jan. In 40 years living in this environmentI know of no one that died of heat, other than a handful of tourists that went int othe bush, thier car broke down, they fled on foot and they didnt take water. 5. Its much safer to live in Australia (500 deaths form heat) than it is in Canada (5,640 deaths from cold), obviously.

[@maxshea1829]

"Bop till you drop in the hot city!" -- Rick Springfield

[@raducristiandumitrescu1806]

We have to use heat pumps soil based to cool buildings as fast as we can.And demolish building in big cityes to make room for trees and so on.And no cars in the middele of the city ever, just public transport etc.

[@nebojsag.5871]

The heat itself wont be the big killer. The devastation of agriculture and the collapse of water supplies will kill us far more quickly.

[@donjindra]

Cold kills more than heat.

[@LK-bz9sk]

The title of the book is good. People dont care unless they know they will be affected.

[@peterdollins3610]

Trees. Living on Sifnos, a Greek Island even spring they'd plant sticks of wood in the sand on the beach that grew to be six/seven foot trees i one season. So you might research trees and quick growing specimens before you pronounce on what can or cannot be done with shading trees my friends.

[@dianewallace6064]

I listened on Spotify. Awesome info. Thanks.

[@singingway]

We need ventilation tubes because open windows are not safe or feasible. That was a factor in the 300 heat deaths in Chicago.

[@whereswendy8544]

Far more people die from the COLD than from heat. "And because of Fossil Fuels and the reliable source of energy it provided, that lets us turn on the A/C and the heat on demand, the number of people who die from climate has been greatly reduced." - Tony Heller 2022

[@singingway]

Lets all urge Adam McKay to make a movie of Ministry for the Future.

[@mannatuu]

Well on the question of barbarism , capitalism organically turns to barbarism in the drive to increase the rate of profit through maximising the labour time of the worker. What else would you expect a Texan mayor to do otherwise ???

[@singingway]

Some people will die of mega snowfalls too.

[@TheMrCougarful]

This is an important message. A lot more people are in immediate danger than governments want known. Take evasive action.

[@snotgunsquadron6138]

Maybe we should think about moving to the polar regions

[@anabolicamaranth7140]

We can easily grow 200 bushel corn at the North Pole.

[@davidbarber6001]

This guy is another catastrophe prophet. Fossil fuels cannot be replaced that rapidly. Nuclear power is the best replacement anyway.

[@margrietoregan828]

STUPENDOUS, STAGGERING, SUPERLATIVE……. 😢😢😢😂😂😂😂

[@eliinthewolverinestate6729]

Warming is not a killer, but global cooling is. It would only take a few years of global crop failures from cold weather to put populations at serious risk. Both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are thickening: Leave anything on the ice, and it gets buried pretty fast (for example: the US South Pole Base was recently reconstructed because the old base was being crushed by snow and ice, and WWII planes lost on Greenland’s southeast coast, were covered by 264 feet of ice in 50 years.

[@ktrkradio]

Game Set Match.

[@mannatuu]

It's all very well understanding the science of climate change , but if as is the case at the moment climate scientists are 'anti science ' on the social questions, then is it any wonder that " we must " has achieved diddly squat? We can endlessly 'describe ' this unfolding catastrophe , but that does not constitute 'a solution'. That the climate change community pays absolutely no attention to the social sciences is extremely worrying. For the only global system in existence is capitalism and its character and laws of motion are well understood by Marxists. However no single climate scientist that I've come across has any grasp of this science and even less is in a revolutionary practice to change society according to what those very laws dictate 'you must ' do . The question is not arbitrary . Nature does not afford you 'arbitrary' solutions .

[@christinearmington]

Try Nate Hagens, Paul Beckwith, and Eliot Jacobson.

[@steve-r-collier]

the cold coming will be far worse 2024..

[@EmanM45]

Eat bugs, and live in 15 minute cites and go nowhere. Problem solved. Oh, and population control, can't forget that

[@-LightningRod-]

i thought it was plant food,....

[@larrytaylor693]

Well im sure its a truthful book about whats to come but really puttomg out a book for profit believing what your writing about is beyond belief. A real serious way to not only promote the book would be giving its profits to combating the climate problems maybe feed some of the millons of climate refugees coming to a country near you soon

[@davidmchugh-hypnotherapist7213]

A heat wave is coming to a town near you!

[@mickoz9389]

So as long as I read this I should be fine right?

[@davidmchugh-hypnotherapist7213]

@@mickoz9389 Sure, everyday above ground is a good day.

[@johnstyles7487]

Thats un-American.

[@jonathanedwardgibson]

Weird, when you actually look across this globe total deaths by cold vastly-vastly outnumbers death by heat. Can I get an author’s advance on the next logical book?

[@coleorum]

That is now a temporary situation. Why don't you write a book and convince us all you are a logical thinker.

[@christinearmington]

According to the National Weather Service and NOAA heat is the biggest killer. You may be thinking about the number of people killed by HA after shoveling snow.

[@timeenoughforart]

I keep seeing this "but cold kills more people". Are you implying heat killing people isn't important?

[@mickoz9389]

@@coleorum ''That is now a temporary situation.'' Cold kills 20 times more people than heat. Probably more. Given that you believe in ever increasing temperatures due to co2, you should be glad that that number will come down.

[@PavelDatsyuk-ui4qv]

Shouldnt heat be beneficial? Weve been doing good since the last deglaciation haha

[@doctorrobert1339]

Not really, excessive heat is not beneficial if you haven't been paying attention. It disrupts delicate ecosystems, causes heatwaves and drier climates that cause worse wildfires, and more heat in the atmosphere means more energy for bigger storms like hurricanes.

[@PavelDatsyuk-ui4qv]

@@doctorrobert1339 heat gradients cause storms. That's why there were bigger storms during glacial periods. From what I've understood atleast haha. And I think wildlife have been on the decline due to humab ntervention . There's animals and plants where I live that are disappearing from lack of fire

[@PavelDatsyuk-ui4qv]

@@doctorrobert1339 no way your a doc if you've been paying attention lol. Aren't you spose to not easily be fooled by data manipulation and massaging

[@mickoz9389]

@@doctorrobert1339 How does heat cause drier climates?...Or did you just make that up?

[@mickoz9389]

''Shouldnt heat be beneficial?'' Yes. If someone does not believe this tell them to look up '' Species concentration/diversity over latitudinal gradients''.

[@DanielWatson-vv7cd]

The human body can survive temperatures of up to 160°F. So summer heatwaves of 110°F ain't -ish. Plus, with enough time we can adapt to warmer or colder temperatures.

[@SofaKingShit]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

[@mirandelf]

Delusional!

[@jcall412]

You do not account for humidity. And the human body can survive a “wet bulb” temp of 115. Some states during the heatwave have passed the “wet bulb” temp of 115. “Wet bulb” accounts for humidity and heat index.

[@coleorum]

You need to do some research on humidity.

[@tomkarnes69]

4.5 billion years, how many times has the climate changed? 4.5 billion times, but wait, I know, let's give Al Gore 500 Trillian dollars and he will fix the climate, and I got a bridge to sell you

[@whatelse1222]

May be going back to school at the kindergarten level might help you.

[@seanprice6345]

Plants grow better with sunshine, water and food (CO2).

[@roberthornack1692]

They also emit more CO2 when they are heat stressed. The part of the Amazon forest that is still intact is now a net emitter of CO2!

[@mickoz9389]

@@roberthornack1692 This is incomplete nonsense. If more co2 is emitted than sequestered, it is due to man made fires not climate change. More co2 has lead to more greening and with more greening there will be more sequestration as well as, eventually, more emitting as the material dies. However it will not effect the overall balance.

[@anabolicamaranth7140]

The heat and CO2 in the year 2010 WAS better for plant growing than that of 1810. The heat of 2024 and beyond will not be so. 2010 was the Goldilocks year, it’s over.

[@awinters885]

👀 Promo-SM

[@texassmokingmonkey]

Oh good, more alarmism. And a Rolling Stone guy! Well i’m convinced. Thank you Mr. Rolling Stone expert climate scientist. Now i can embrace the existential horror.