Marisa Kabas: climate change is cool bc we get neat new terms like "heat dome" and "polar vortex" and "fuck we're all gonna die"

climate change is cool bc we get neat new terms like "heat dome" and "polar vortex" and "fuck we're all gonna die"

Don’t forget “wet bulb,” too. Not new maybe but a great way of explaining how you can die from the heat when it’s “only” 95 degrees or even as low as 88 because the humidity is so high that evaporation doesn’t work as a cooling mechanism.

wow fun!!!

Seems it’s basically like getting boiled alive.

Human sous vide.

Sounds more delicious when you put it that way!

This blew my mind when I first learned about it

Hello from Alabama, where we got 90+ temps with 50-60% humidity from about June-September *already* (AND seeing more artificial turf fields where I referee so yes heat stroke /exhaustion protocols… we need an ice tub)

Ugh, sorry to hear that, man. I once lived in SC with very similar weather. 🥵

Here is a really good chart on how it works!

apollo.nvu.vsc.edu

One of my favorites is "bomb cyclone"

oh yea! forgot about that one

Atmospheric rivers hell yes

My favorite 😍

That last one is from the Bible originally.

"Climate destabilization" "Unprecedented heart wave" "Extreme flash flood" "Wet bulb" "Super cell tornadoes" "Category 6 hurricanes" "Mega drought" "Hottest ocean temperatures ever" "Too humid to sweat" "Highest freeze warning" "Harmful Mega algae bloom" "Worst red tide in history" And more!

Wet bulb is a good one.

If it's too high you'll die!

I try not to think about it.

I moved out of Florida to northwestern PA to escape out. Climate destabilization has brought it here. But our water is clean for now. And the winters aren't that bad.

Arizona favorite: "haboob"

what's that? sounds kewl

an intense dust storm, usually caused by the collapse of a thunderstorm, but sometimes they occur right before one. they're really not new, but we started using the Arabic word in the mid to late 2000s.

It's a North Africa, Egyptian word for severe sand storm.

Small/half boob in English slang, like a ha’penny under the old pre-decimal system of British currency.

I don't miss dealing with those!

2030s Satanic Panic will be about how people keep bursting into flames

No, because that will actually be real

Planting my stake early in the "spontaneous human combustion from climate change isn't real" spot before any of the usual ghouls get it.

Incubus is gonna have to revise their set lists.

Where I live in TX, a few weeks ago we had a ‘derecho’ which, before I knew the word, I described to my coastal friends as a mini-hurricane on land

neat!

Linear hurricane!

lol, lmao , we're fucked

ok doomer.

breathe poncho, we're shitpostin over here

Rude

Labeled by Bluesky Moderation Service

It's funny because it's true

don't forget the fancy 'derecho'

yeah but can you imagine a gay bar / club called "CONCRETE EFFECT/heat island." (the period is part of the name)

Thunder snow!

::AC/DC voice:: THUNDER SNOW

"Thunder thunderdome" gonna be lit. By, like, 8 lightning strikes per minute per square mile

Fire tornados!

Don't forget "bombogenesis"!

And "rapid intensification", always a fave!

When the weather starts sounding like the doomsday devices of supervillains, things can’t be looking good in the long run.

Don’t forget about my boy “bomb cyclone”

And we thought El Niño was worrisome enough

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. I could have happily gone my whole life without ever learning what that was or why it's collapse is imminent.

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