Rome today

@DLight The "Warm Arctic, Cold Continents" Pattern: Climate scientists often use phrases like this when describing how a rapidly warming Arctic disrupts the jet stream, driving extreme winter weather down into the mid-latitude landmasses (continents) of North America and Eurasia. Listeners sometimes blend the terms together.Regional Landmasses: While the center of the Arctic is a frozen sea, the broader Arctic region includes large land areas and islands—most notably Greenland, which holds a massive ice sheet that heavily influences global sea-level rise.

@ControlledInKaos
Your link - https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/heatwaves-and-climate-change-are-australias-deadliest-unnatural-disaster

It all looks very colourful, but he's light on the details here. He mentions "the silent and lethal health risks", apparently from these rising temperatures, but fails to mention the fact that more people are at risk in their poorly-constructed homes during the winter months, when old pensioners, because they can't afford the energy bills, come close to freezing to death. Australian houses are COLD. Even the ABC, known for being very mainstream and far left, had a story on that that I saw recently.
Here it is.
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"The Australian news". That's not terribly specific, and our mainstream news organisations are not exactly known for being impartial and committed to telling the truth. Everyone knows they're a joke.
And no, 2026 thus far has not been warm at all. At least not in Victoria, where I live.
Where, specifically, have sea levels actually changed, for this or any other reason? I ask because shouldn't the Maldives be under water by now?
"Extreme winter" - define extreme.
Yes, Greenland is very icy, but guess what? During Medieval times, approx. AD 1000, it was much warmer than it has ever been since, which is one of the reasons why the Vikings showed an interest in it at that time (they colonised Iceland at around this time too, because of the warm environment).
And as for our universities, well they're not exactly world class, having been a student at one of them (Victoria University) myself, so I speak from experience here.

@Ximenajacoba My point is that there's no planet B which means once this one is no longer inhabitable, we're all going to become extinct. Corporations and governments pretend otherwise but there's no fancy way to create water out of thin air or correct the tilt of the earth that has become precarious due to abuse of pumping groundwater.

@ControlledInKaos Oh for God's sake, give it a rest! "We're all gonna die! We're doomed. Doomed!"
Do you have any idea how hot it's been in the past on this planet? During historical times no less?

@DLight Do you know how people can live without water? 3-5 days. Because there's a drought in the US that is only getting worse. I could brought up the water crisis in Italy of 2026 or the one from 2024. And by the way, historically speaking the earth has NEVER changed tilt so drastically without human interference. That's not even beginning to address the impact on crops. In the UK, farmers are already warning of severe shortages due to lack of significant rainfall. I never said we were doomed but I did make a point that you can't argue. There is no Planet B, there is no terraforming the planet to our needs - that is a fantasy found in scifi books and movies. Even Australia is in drought condition with not nearly enough rainfall. The bushfires of 2026 should tell you something. The heat is destroying crops and leading to more starvation all over Europe, Australia is suffering the same thing. If you feel brave, try going without water for two weeks and let me know how you make out.