#record high temperatures

[tomorrowusa]

Parts of Europe are currently baking in temperatures over 40° C/104° F. Despite this, travelers on the continent currently are able fly much more cheaply than go by rail – a far more climate-friendly option.

Europe’s cheap flights and pricey train tickets promote dirty forms of transport, campaigners say, with “outrageous” tax breaks encouraging people to heat the planet as they head on holiday. Train tickets are double the price of flights for the same routes, on average, according to an analysis from Greenpeace published on Thursday. The campaigners compared tickets on 112 routes on nine different days. To get from London to Barcelona, they found, the cost of taking the train is up to 30 times the cost of jumping on a plane. Holiday destinations across Europe this week have been baking in deadly heat made hotter by greenhouse gases released from burning fossil fuels. “€10 airline tickets are only possible because others, like workers and taxpayers, pay the true cost,” said Lorelei Limousin, a climate campaigner at Greenpeace. “For the planet and people’s sake, politicians must act to turn this situation around and make taking the train the more affordable option.” Flying is one of the most polluting activities a person can do and also one of the hardest to clean up. Unlike eating a burger or driving a car – which have cleaner alternatives such as plant-based meats and electric vehicles – there is no way to fly without changing the climate. Experts have criticised schemes claiming to offset emissions from flying as flawed.

Europe has a decent rail transport network, so it's not like the air travel is all that necessary to get around.

Air travel is subsided far more than rail travel with public money. Airports and other air related infrastructure eat up a lot of funds which could go into making railways more efficient.

In Europe, airlines pay no taxes on kerosene and little tax on tickets or VAT. Their emissions are only priced for flights within Europe – at a level below the social cost of carbon. A study published earlier this month by Transport and Environment, a green campaign group, found European governments lost out on €34.2bn from poor taxation on aviation in 2022. The “tax gap” is set to rise to €47.1bn in 2025, the report found. “In short: if you fly, you are subsidised; if you take the train, you are punished by higher prices – as well as the fact that the journey is often longer,” said (Linnaeus University Prof. Stefan) Gössling.

If anything, the situation is worse in the United States where passenger rail travel has been taking it on the chin since the 1940s. Video producer Dean Peterson reports on a three-day rail trip he took from Los Angeles to New York in which he describes how passenger rail routes declined over the past century. Though with the recent Infrastructure bill encouraged by a pro-rail Joe Biden, Amtrak is planning major expansion — provided that climate-denying Republicans don't get a chance to derail it.

Improvements in passenger rail service and rail infrastructure are a necessary part of addressing climate issues.

#rail transport #passenger rail #climate change #subsidies for infrastructure #stefan gössling #record high temperatures #europe #tax gap #dean peterson #amtrak #infrastructure bill

[oscartwofoxtrot]

Generation Kill + tumblr text posts (bradnate edition)

#generation kill #bradnate #gk memes #the only heatwave i choose to recognise is the scorching chemistry between these two #and ​if like me you are currently trapped in record-breaking high temperature hell - stay safe out there!

[thatsleepymermaid]

So if you haven't heard the news there seems to be a mysterious die-off of small tooth sawfish in South Florida. Nobody's sure exactly what's causing it besides the abnormal spinning behaviors being related.

Luckily, this past week a sawfish was captured and relocated to a rehabilitation facility. In Thursday it recovered enough to be transported to Mote Marine Laboratory for study.

Unfortunately more than 30 deaths of the critically endangered sawfish has been reported and now over fifty species of elasmobranches are showing the same concerning behaviors. I'm interested in seeing where this goes in the future since the obvious suspects like bacterial disease and toxic blooms don't seem to be causing this.

#conservation biology #sharks #smalltooth sawfish #environmentalism #a little part of me wonders if it's immune related #or a response to the record high ocean temperatures #there's a lot of studies on heat stress and the immune system #i just wish i knew about this during my ecoimmunology class so i could talk about it #i should ask my vet med friends and environmental science friends #science #science news #marine science

[notetaeker]

Praying we don’t have another heatwave this year

#the news is like. record high temperatures for May #🥲🥲🥲

[handbagman]

wake up see new climate news feel dread keep moving AMEN☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☹️

#ask to tag #11 years? 11 Years? Record high ocean temperature???? Great this is Great this i

[nautasolis]

#poetry #(the previous post is from yesterday) #(this one is from today) #it's called record high because apparently today was a record high temperature for may 30th in north dakota #writing

[leejeann]

Still not sure if I'm going to make a temperature blanket, but I have made a whole spreadsheet with the potential layout for one so that I can fill in the squares every day and color-code it appropriately just in case I decide to. If nothing else, I'll have a temperature spreadsheet lol

Idk if it's surprising whatsoever, but I'm one of those people who lowkey enjoys making spreadsheets so

Spreadsheet

My plan for the blanket, should I make one, is to do two rows per month. Each day gets a 2x2" square for the high temp and one for the low temp (as it says in the bottom right). I really want to do like the high temp squares have a sun in the middle and the low temp have a moon (using granny square patterns from BJRcreative on Etsy but with a smaller hook size). That might be too much effort though so I might just make them solid squares. Then a black border on the whole thing.

I think I know what yarn I want to use, just need to pick out the specific colors. Not sure they'll even match my current chart tbh, depends on if i can find a shade of each color that all look good together. If not I'll swap some

(The current colors in the actual rows are just my vaguely-synesthesia colors for each month so I could see if the layout would even work)

To be totally honest I don't really need another blanket, so I might make a different temperature thing if I can come up with something. I've seen a temperature snake before so maybe something like that would be fun, idk. Anyway!

#i also have two more sheets in this worksheet with charts for Jan-Jun #and then Jul-Dec #(mostly because I didn't want a super wide spreadsheet) #to record the high- low- and average temp #and then the humidity at noon because why not #idk if I'll do anything with the humidity or averages #but like idk I just like recording data so I figured I'd add them in case I get an idea #No idea if this is interesting to anyone but I felt like rambling a bit about it lol #Any other crocheters of knitters or whatever who want to make a temperature blanket #feel free to use this as a template #Actually I'll totally make a blank version if someone wants it #crochet #lee speaks

[feeling-kinda-sad-ngl]

the suns rising later AND setting earlier :(

#but you know what isnt changing? the heat #ITS STILL GETTING HOTTER. HOTTER THAN IT WAS ALLLL SUMMER #i guess its still summer but still #its gonna be like 99° F in a couple days and where i live thats near record high temperatures #des rambles

[legofrans]

Hypergryph PLEASE add a low performance mode. I haven't even had this phone for 1 year.

#arknights #also i cut the recording about 3 seconds before i got a notification about the phones internal temperature being too high

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! I have a couple weird blood-pressure-related questions, both for people with low blood pressure issues and people without

I already know from previous questions y’all have helped me with (and doctor reactions) that it’s extremely weird that my allergic reactions first raise my blood pressure for several hours before crashing my blood pressure, so I’m just leaving that out for these questions 1. Do you ever find allergic reactions affect your circulation? Specifically, making your hands and feet extremely cold?  2. Do you ever find if you are having unusually high blood pressure readings (if prone to low blood pressure), that it happens when your hands and feet are very cold? 3. Does your ability to produce body heat ever, like...stop working? Like you have a blanket over you but it just will not warm up at all, wake up in the middle of the night because even though you’ve got three blankets still over you and it’s 70 degrees inside the house you’re freezing and the bed just will not warm up? I’ve gotten around this by making myself a hot water bottle on days when I can’t warm up, but like, that’s weird, right? these questions brought to you by today’s Weird Medical Thing, where I appear to be having a mild allergic reaction but my fingers are so cold the thermometer* can’t read them and my toes are so cold they ache. I am wearing slippers, have two layers of blankets over me, and it’s 72 degrees in my house. This is absurd.  *sometimes when I feel cold I take my temperature to see if I actually am cold enough to have dropped my body temp (get a hot water bottle time) or am just feeling cold (put on a hoodie time)

#the person behind the yarn #medical mention #allergy mention #blood pressure mention #(I know that's covered by the medical mention but blood pressure squicks out my sister so it gets a separate tag) #(because if saying blood pressure too many times in a conversation makes her queasy I'm sure she's not the only one in the world) #for the record I do sometimes also have moments of feeling overly warm in a not-that-warm room #it's just that they almost always happen as my blood pressure is dropping #and I am pretty sure it's a 'blood vessels near the skin dilating to try to dissipate heat' thing #heating the air near my skin (like how a wetsuit warms the layer of air near your body? maybe? I am fuzzy on this part) #because A. the dilation of the blood vessels near my skin is sometimes visible (like in movies when poison is shown #as like dark lines spreading from the heart? but instead of dark it's greenish blue) #and B. if there is moving air at all (a fan a breeze anything like that) I am immediately no longer feel like I'm overheating #it's very weird because when it happens I FEEL very hot but my actual skin is cold and my temperature can drop down to possum temperatures #*opossum temperatures (by which I mean in the high 96 degree range. nearly two whole degrees lower than my usual)

[jwooyoung]

oomfs who live in places where it's cold rn do you want to switch places it's already too warm here for me 😔

#it's record high temperatures this week apparently like mid to high 90s im literally going to melt away #this is a very serious offer btw i hate summer with my entire being #j.txt

[mxbitters]

hate promoting big corporations but.  can i just say.  five below t shirts are the best t shirts in my humble opinion.  they’re fun.  the designs don’t get all hard or flaky after a couple washes.  and also, best part, they’re like.  baby soft.  like i am physically suffering but this 80s style my little pony t shirt and the duplicate version i cut into a tank top sure aren’t!!! <3

#i have a duplicate because i got one for me as a gift and then months later my friend got me another one also as a gift #and like damn. two versions of the same pony shirt for different temperatures and moods??? incredible <3 #like i still don't quite understand some of the ideas behind aesthetics. #the term started coming up when i was maybe a freshman or sophomore in high school but it wasn't used tooooo crazily #and i didn't like quiiite understand and i still don't with all the -core stuff now #but that being said. kidcore makes neurodivergent brain happy :) bright colors and my interests and also also also!!! #the graphics on the shirt are literally the same size as actual g1 my little pony toys #that may be the best part. #the shirt has parasol skydancer and moonstone on it and i only have parasol but like #i can put her next to the parasol on this shirt and it's like. same size different pose. incredible stuff #im gonna look at kidcore pictures on pinterest and get the same feeling i get when i see colored vinyl records and telecasters anyway #i don't know how to explain it. it activates this primal childlike thing where i want to put things that don't belong in my mouth in my mou #mouth* #..i also age regress though so like that detail would probably make much more sense #mlp tw

[ochrepaints]

I just woke up and both my laptop and body are telling me there’s a heat wave. I wanna make the most of this unreal weather, so I’m going to go out for most of the day!

#my laptop usually says the temperature #or 'record high' #but it just said 'heat wave' #ooc.

[haikuckuck]

I guess the nile goose on the right is the dad yet..?! I call them: " the geese gang".the observating goose stands still on her one leg ,though we had 27 celsius on April6. New highest early April Temperature : 29 and more celsius at south river Rhine Region, Germany.

#egyptian geese #goslings #river neckar #germany #waterbirds #“geese gang” #april6 #new high Temperature record

[prettycottagequeer]

struggling with the fact that it's objectively bad and a problem for it to be 60° in Nebraska at the start of February and global warming is very much starting to affect daily life but also.. I missed the sun and being outside and flowy fairy clothes. It's so nice to be outside and warm and the sun is making me happy

#it's so worrying #the highs are like 20-30° higher than they used to be and this is following record cold temperatures and snow #so weather is all over and is just getting worse

[alpha-mag-media]

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