#wetbulb — Public Fediverse posts

#ZoomEarth is an interactive weather map of the world. "With Zoom Earth you can track the development of hurricanes and storms, monitor wildfires and smoke, stay aware of the latest conditions by viewing satellite imagery and rain radar updated in near real-time."

https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/

#Heatwave #Heatwaves #ClimateChange #Wetbulb #GlobalHeating
#ExtremeTemperatures #GlobalWeather #USWeather #ExtremeWeather #WeatherWebsites #WeatherResources #ClimateChangeWeatherWheel

From 2022, via #BulletinOfTheAtomicScientists. Unfortunantely, it seems their "good news" section is wrong about how fast and how much the global temperature would rise in just 2 years!

‘Silent killer’: A series on surviving the extremely hot future

What happens if the world gets too hot for animals to survive?

"This is not something that human beings or other animals can rapidly evolve out of."

By Matthew Huber | July 20, 2022

"[In June 2022], during a slow-moving #HeatWave that smothered much of the United States, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported at least 2,000 cattle had died from heat stress. In 2021, as the Pacific Northwest sweltered under a heat dome, more than 650,000 farm animals perished in British Columbia alone. And in 2015, a deadly heat wave in India killed more than 17 million chickens.

"Hot, humid conditions can lead to massive heat casualties in animals—in #livestock as well as #WildAnimals. These events will become more extensive, longer lasting and more damaging as the world warms, potentially threatening economies and #ecosystems. While many studies have demonstrated the impact of individual events or gradual trends in #HeatStress on livestock, there is a Panglossian tendency among many working in livestock agriculture to believe in a nearly infinite capacity for modern agricultural practices and breeding to overcome heat-stress induced challenges.

"Much of the warming that has occurred in places like the United States or Europe can be dealt with through breeding in key traits from variants from warm countries like India or North Africa. But as high heat conditions travel beyond the upper ranges of temperatures recently experienced (over the past few thousand years) in North Africa, India, or South America, there will limited genetic diversity to draw upon to prepare for these conditions. There are temperature ceilings that humans and mammals (and many other animals) cannot survive, if breached. What those limits are, and what happens when they are crossed, will have profound implications for agriculture and #biodiversity in a warming world."

https://thebulletin.org/2022/07/extreme-heat-animals-livestock-wildlife/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ExtremeHeat #HeatWaves #Wetbulb #Environment #Extinction