Daily Dose of Doom Thread

[MU82]

Enjoy Galveston, Charleston and other soon-to-be-sunk places while you can.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/southern-us-sea-level-rise-risk-cities/?

At more than a dozen tide gauges spanning from Texas to North Carolina, sea levels are at least 6 inches higher than they were in 2010 — a change similar to what occurred over the previous five decades.

In December, Charleston, S.C., saw its fourth-highest water level since measurements began in 1899. It was the first time on record that seas had been that high without a hurricane. A winter storm that coincided with the elevated ocean left dozens of streets closed. One resident drowned in her car. Hundreds of vehicles were damaged or destroyed, including some that were inundated in a cruise terminal parking lot.

The average sea level at Charleston has risen by 7 inches since 2010, four times the rate of the previous 30 years.

Jacksonville, Fla., where seas rose 6 inches in the past 14 years, recently studied its vulnerability. It found that more than a quarter of major roads have the potential to become inaccessible to emergency response vehicles amid flooding, and the number of residents who face flood risks could more than triple in coming decades.

Galveston, Tex., has experienced an extraordinary rate of sea level rise — 8 inches in 14 years. Experts say it has been exacerbated by fast-sinking land. High-tide floods have struck at least 141 times since 2015, and scientists project their frequency will grow rapidly. Officials are planning to install several huge pump stations in coming years, largely funded through federal grants. The city manager expects each pump to cost more than $60 million — a figure that could eclipse the city’s annual tax revenue.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Enjoy Galveston, Charleston and other soon-to-be-sunk places while you can.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/southern-us-sea-level-rise-risk-cities/?

Galveston, Tex., has experienced an extraordinary rate of sea level rise — 8 inches in 14 years. Experts say it has been exacerbated by fast-sinking land. High-tide floods have struck at least 141 times since 2015, and scientists project their frequency will grow rapidly. Officials are planning to install several huge pump stations in coming years, largely funded through federal grants. The city manager expects each pump to cost more than $60 million — a figure that could eclipse the city’s annual tax revenue.[/i]

Socialism. They need to pull themselves up by their own soggy bootstraps.

[MU82]

Remember when America's largest state (by far) - a state with a GDP larger than all but 4 countries - was doomed because people were moving out "in droves"?

California’s population grew in 2023, halting 3 years of decline, state estimates

https://apnews.com/article/california-population-growth-pandemic-decline-0d2bfc2c0a4ced0c3c2ad934207818bc?

Of course, one really needed a generous definition of "droves" to justify the doom talk ... and California's population today is larger than it was just a few years ago.

And thank goodness! The taxes paid for and income generated by California corporations and residents helps carry money-sucking states like Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, etc.

[SoCalEagle]

Remember when America's largest state (by far) - a state with a GDP larger than all but 4 countries - was doomed because people were moving out "in droves"?

California’s population grew in 2023, halting 3 years of decline, state estimates

https://apnews.com/article/california-population-growth-pandemic-decline-0d2bfc2c0a4ced0c3c2ad934207818bc?

Of course, one really needed a generous definition of "droves" to justify the doom talk ... and California's population today is larger than it was just a few years ago.

And thank goodness! The taxes paid for and income generated by California corporations and residents helps carry money-sucking states like Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, etc.

Don't get me started ....

[tower912]

5th largest in the world with a 6.1% growth rate over the previous year.

[warriorchick]

Remember when America's largest state (by far) - a state with a GDP larger than all but 4 countries - was doomed because people were moving out "in droves"?

California’s population grew in 2023, halting 3 years of decline, state estimates

https://apnews.com/article/california-population-growth-pandemic-decline-0d2bfc2c0a4ced0c3c2ad934207818bc?

Of course, one really needed a generous definition of "droves" to justify the doom talk ... and California's population today is larger than it was just a few years ago.

And thank goodness! The taxes paid for and income generated by California corporations and residents helps carry money-sucking states like Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, etc.

I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that even with that 67,000-person increase, more people moved out of California to other states than moved into California from other states.

[SoCalEagle]

169 consecutive years of population growth isn’t enough for you? Wow, I wonder what you said when Steve Novak hit 68 straight free throws, but missed on number 69. Oh well, 40 million citizens in any one state is probably enough anyhow.

[rocket surgeon]

Enjoy Galveston, Charleston and other soon-to-be-sunk places while you can.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/southern-us-sea-level-rise-risk-cities/?

At more than a dozen tide gauges spanning from Texas to North Carolina, sea levels are at least 6 inches higher than they were in 2010 — a change similar to what occurred over the previous five decades.

In December, Charleston, S.C., saw its fourth-highest water level since measurements began in 1899. It was the first time on record that seas had been that high without a hurricane. A winter storm that coincided with the elevated ocean left dozens of streets closed. One resident drowned in her car. Hundreds of vehicles were damaged or destroyed, including some that were inundated in a cruise terminal parking lot.

The average sea level at Charleston has risen by 7 inches since 2010, four times the rate of the previous 30 years.

Jacksonville, Fla., where seas rose 6 inches in the past 14 years, recently studied its vulnerability. It found that more than a quarter of major roads have the potential to become inaccessible to emergency response vehicles amid flooding, and the number of residents who face flood risks could more than triple in coming decades.

Galveston, Tex., has experienced an extraordinary rate of sea level rise — 8 inches in 14 years. Experts say it has been exacerbated by fast-sinking land. High-tide floods have struck at least 141 times since 2015, and scientists project their frequency will grow rapidly. Officials are planning to install several huge pump stations in coming years, largely funded through federal grants. The city manager expects each pump to cost more than $60 million — a figure that could eclipse the city’s annual tax revenue.

I thought Hussein put a stop to all this...he's buying up a bunch of seaside mansions on the shekels he's saved up from 8 years of potus-was beddie beddie good to him

[Uncle Rico]

I thought Hussein put a stop to all this...he's buying up a bunch of seaside mansions on the shekels he's saved up from 8 years of potus-was beddie beddie good to him

9 out of 10

[mu_hilltopper]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

Many of the scientists envisage a “semi-dystopian” future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and frequency far beyond those that have already struck.

[tower912]

Many home insurers have pulled out of Florida and California.   How long before they pull out of tornado alley?

[MU82]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

Many of the scientists envisage a “semi-dystopian” future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and frequency far beyond those that have already struck.

The bible was right. Just wait until the locusts arrive.

[tower912]

You mean 'cicadas'.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

This, also, is perfectly fine.
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/all-about-the-gas?utm_source=substack&publication_id=438146&post_id=144207808&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=elvx&triedRedirect=true

+April was the 11th month in a row when the planet set a new heat record. If we are very lucky, that heat may moderate just a tad in the months ahead—perhaps May or June or July will only be the second-warmest of its kind. But at the moment there’s about a 66% chance that this will end up as the hottest year on record—which would make it the hottest in the last 125,001 or so. How hot has it been? Here’s a story about an Indian newscaster passing out from the heat as she reads a story about…heatwaves.

That’s air temperature—but the news from the oceans has been even grimmer, as records get set with no end in sight. As Bob Berwyn reports, marine heatwaves are currently larger than the combined land area of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, and doing almost unbelievable damage:

“I’m not sure I can come up with the right words to describe the global ocean situation at present, but it is pretty dire,” said Ben Noll, a climate scientist with New Zealand’s National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, who recently calculated that 78 percent of non-sea ice covered global ocean was experiencing marine heat wave conditions.

“It speaks to the critical, extreme nature of the warming that the planet has recently experienced,” he said, but the impacts on marine ecosystems are mostly hidden beneath the surface of the seas, except to researchers, divers, fisher people and other careful observers. “The impact of these warm seas may be difficult to grasp and comprehend, but the undersea world seems to be suffocating.”

+Dramatically increased temperatures mean, above all, more water vapor in the air. The numbers are truly amazing—as Kiwi meteorologist Ben Noll said on Twitter, we’re now seen month after month beat the old records for most water vapor in the air.

More water in the air means more water pouring down. Check out hideous flooding in the last few days in Kenya, where people watched in anguish as government bulldozers razed homes in areas behind dams threatening to burst, in Houston where a four-year-old boy was swept away by floodwaters, and in Brazil where the BBC reported that “hundreds of towns were underwater.”

[Uncle Rico]

This, also, is perfectly fine.
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/all-about-the-gas?utm_source=substack&publication_id=438146&post_id=144207808&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=elvx&triedRedirect=true

+April was the 11th month in a row when the planet set a new heat record. If we are very lucky, that heat may moderate just a tad in the months ahead—perhaps May or June or July will only be the second-warmest of its kind. But at the moment there’s about a 66% chance that this will end up as the hottest year on record—which would make it the hottest in the last 125,001 or so. How hot has it been? Here’s a story about an Indian newscaster passing out from the heat as she reads a story about…heatwaves.

That’s air temperature—but the news from the oceans has been even grimmer, as records get set with no end in sight. As Bob Berwyn reports, marine heatwaves are currently larger than the combined land area of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, and doing almost unbelievable damage:

“I’m not sure I can come up with the right words to describe the global ocean situation at present, but it is pretty dire,” said Ben Noll, a climate scientist with New Zealand’s National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, who recently calculated that 78 percent of non-sea ice covered global ocean was experiencing marine heat wave conditions.

“It speaks to the critical, extreme nature of the warming that the planet has recently experienced,” he said, but the impacts on marine ecosystems are mostly hidden beneath the surface of the seas, except to researchers, divers, fisher people and other careful observers. “The impact of these warm seas may be difficult to grasp and comprehend, but the undersea world seems to be suffocating.”

+Dramatically increased temperatures mean, above all, more water vapor in the air. The numbers are truly amazing—as Kiwi meteorologist Ben Noll said on Twitter, we’re now seen month after month beat the old records for most water vapor in the air.

More water in the air means more water pouring down. Check out hideous flooding in the last few days in Kenya, where people watched in anguish as government bulldozers razed homes in areas behind dams threatening to burst, in Houston where a four-year-old boy was swept away by floodwaters, and in Brazil where the BBC reported that “hundreds of towns were underwater.”

Despite evidence to the contrary, many will continue to bury their heads in the sand because the planet they live on matters very little to them

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Despite evidence to the contrary, many will continue to bury their heads in the sand because the planet they live on matters very little to them

Disastrous consequences for their children and grandchildren are a small price to pay for owning the libs

[Plaque Lives Matter!]

Disastrous consequences for their children and grandchildren are a small price to pay for owning the libs

Everyone likes the smell of a good bonfire. Why not embrace smelling and inhaling it for weeks on end every summer

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Everyone likes the smell of a good bonfire. Why not embrace smelling and inhaling it for weeks on end every summer

Indeed, make lemonade out of methane so to speak

[MU82]

Thank goodness there are still profiles in courage out there!

https://apnews.com/article/virginia-confederate-school-names-26db1b3532208ef8fb1f545c1482b9ff?

A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names had been removed, a reversal that some experts believe may be the first of its kind.

Shenandoah County’s school board voted 5-1 to rename Mountain View High School as Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary as Ashby Lee Elementary.

Bravo. We need more of our elementary schools named after treasonous, anti-American, pro-slavery leaders. Here's hoping they're also teaching the kids at those schools how much slavery taught the fortunate Black people who were whipped, chained and beaten.

[mu_hilltopper]

This isn't really doom, but get your act together, Canada.  This is soooo 2023.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/smoke-canadian-wildfires-reaches-us-minnesota-air-quality/story?id=110149929

[JWags85]

Thank goodness there are still profiles in courage out there!

https://apnews.com/article/virginia-confederate-school-names-26db1b3532208ef8fb1f545c1482b9ff?

A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names had been removed, a reversal that some experts believe may be the first of its kind.

Shenandoah County’s school board voted 5-1 to rename Mountain View High School as Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary as Ashby Lee Elementary.

Bravo. We need more of our elementary schools named after treasonous, anti-American, pro-slavery leaders. Here's hoping they're also teaching the kids at those schools how much slavery taught the fortunate Black people who were whipped, chained and beaten.

I get why people, especially military leaders, admire Stonewall Jackson.  Dude was an unreal general whose death was probably the major turning point in the war...

But Turner Ashby having a fought for legacy is hilarious and pathetic.  I don't care if he is from the area, he was an absolute bum who the aforementioned Jackson thought was a terrible commander.  It would be like a NJ area HS being named after Bob Dukiet.

[MU82]

I'm old, Wags, but Stonewall was before my time. The one thing I know for sure about him was that he was a traitor who went to war against America, all to defend the right of southerners to own human beings. His name doesn't belong on an American public school any more than Hirohito's, bin Laden's or McVeigh's do.

And sure ... that goes double for Ashby.

That so many white folks in 2024 are still glorifying treasonous "leaders" is a sad commentary about the strength and endurance of racism in America - and about how fu%ked up things are these days.

[lawdog77]

I'm old, Wags, but Stonewall was before my time. The one thing I know for sure about him was that he was a traitor who went to war against America, all to defend the right of southerners to own human beings. His name doesn't belong on an American public school any more than Hirohito's, bin Laden's or McVeigh's do.

And sure ... that goes double for Ashby.

That so many white folks in 2024 are still glorifying treasonous "leaders" is a sad commentary about the strength and endurance of racism in America - and about how fu%ked up things are these days.

Gerd von Rundstedt High School did not go over too well in France

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I'm old, Wags, but Stonewall was before my time. The one thing I know for sure about him was that he was a traitor who went to war against America, all to defend the right of southerners to own human beings. His name doesn't belong on an American public school any more than Hirohito's, bin Laden's or McVeigh's do.

And sure ... that goes double for Ashby.

That so many white folks in 2024 are still glorifying treasonous "leaders" is a sad commentary about the strength and endurance of racism in America - and about how fu%ked up things are these days.

First chance I had to reply.
I was going to type similar to your first that every Confederate is a traitor and should have nothing named for them.

The same people mucked up US Grant's reputation simply because he actually kicked their ass in person. 

[MU82]

I'm not sure how to process or explain that, in 2024, school boards and other elected officials are not only willing but actually clamoring to name public schools after racist traitors who literally went to war against America.

Hitler High has a nice ring to it. The Fightin' Fuhrers!

(Though even Hitler wasn't a traitor the way Confederate leaders were.)