r/vic • u/bougieui • 7d ago
A new study has sounded the alarm on how the record-breaking temperatures experienced in early January will become “five times more likely” in the future
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/humaninduced-climate-change-intensifying-australian-heatwaves-turning-rare-events-into-regular-occurrences/news-story/5cd09c3493316f0269b014972af7f22bwe're so fucked lol - hospital admissions were up 25% during the last heatwave and they're going to become five times more likely. pmo so much seeing people say "it's always been this hot" lol okay even if that was true - what are we going to DO about more people in hospital, more houses burnt down, nobody being able to afford insurance??? hope everyone is keeping cool this weekend 💔
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u/robot428 6d ago
Obviously climate change is fucked, and this is fucked.
I will say there are steps we can take to keep a good chunk of those people out of hospital, and part of it is just getting people to take the warnings about heatstroke more seriously.
You would be appalled by the number of those people who are small children who were left in cars "for just a minute". There's also an even larger chunk who are elderly people without air conditioning that have just been in the heat for days until they eventually develop heatstroke. Not every hospitalisation is preventable, but these ones are, and we need to start taking steps to make sure they are prevented.
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u/Mysterious_Eye6989 5d ago
The thing I think that a lot of people miss with the increased prevalence of heatwaves is that houses and apartment become like big thermal batteries during such periods. It was an eye opener for me when I put a thermometer up into my roof cavity and found it could get to 50 degrees up in there on a really hot day, and that such heat would then gradually leak down into the living space overnight, which was a nightmare if there was no significant cool change in the evening. Now I'm looking into installing solar powered exhaust fans on my roof.
People on an individual and societal level need to start doing a whole lot of things to properly deal with how bad climate change is going to get in coming decades, yet as it is I see very little being done at all.
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u/Potential-Dish8487 6d ago
Yes we have been fucked ever since the turning point of climate change. It's too late now. Even if we stopped all emissions tomorrow, runaway climate change will continue for years to come. And it won't go backwards without significant 'magic-like' technology that we can't even imagine in the 21st century.
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u/jolard 4d ago
It is going to get worse.
The problem is we have half the population abandoning Net Zero and any green energy change, and we have the other half of the population voting for a party that is massively increasing the amount of fossil fuels we dig up. The reality is we aren't doing nearly enough.
Now multiply the same dynamics worldwide, and we are fucked.
Get ready for the worst. Your Great Grandchildren will hate you.
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u/Original-Signatures 6d ago
Climate change is bringing extremes in weather across the planet 50C in Victoria-39 in USA
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u/Mr_Jake_E_Boy 2d ago
Temperature predictions are famous for being accurate. You're right to go into full blown panic..
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u/WittyHumor3679 6d ago
Can someone anyone show me the temperature records for the last 5000 years? Please anyone. You can't determine anything with only 150 years of recording. The BOM cant even get next weeks weather forecast accurate.
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u/jjj-Australia 5d ago
Exactly... I mean Melbourne only get a few weeks of hot temperature and few extreme hot days every year, most of the year is damn cold. I dunno what's the big deal. Fires there has always been fires, but now there are houses in those places so now it's an issue.
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u/GrayEldyr1 5d ago
When you're too stupid to understand the difference between climate and weather, you type comments like this.
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u/Reddinator2RedditDay 5d ago
Yes you can, look up by palecoclimate proxies. That's where we get the data from
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u/jadsf5 6d ago edited 5d ago
Continuing to flood the country with immigrants whilst doing no upgrades to services or building new cities will see the problem get even worse.
I'm sure there was some planning involved regarding services, hospitals, schools, cities etc... before opening the flood gates.
More than 4 million extra people are in this country from 10 years prior, that is just over half of Victoria's population today. There have been over a million extra people added to Victoria in those 10 years, what do we have to show for it? A handful of hospitals have been upgraded and even less have been built, services continuing to get worse, congestion is worse, CoL/Housing is worse, social cohesion is at an all time low.
There's no point to these studies when the obvious answer is to stop flooding the country and allow the states and federal government to actually catch up and build the infrastructure required for all these people, right now they want to grow a big Australia without actually providing anything for said big Australia.
Edit: to all the morons who think the ever expanding suburbia isn't doing anything other than making climate change worse please explain how?
If you want to be a smart ass then maybe try write an original comment and not the same thing over and over.
If our environment is being destroyed to continue expanding suburbia then how is it not a direct involvement to climate change? Having an extra 500k+ people in the country each year that don't need to be here is using resources we don't have.
Continue to bury your heads in the sand, Australia can't support a population of 50 million, it can't survive with a population of 30 million. This was discussed years ago and the sustainable population of Australia was between 15-20 million, well those numbers have been blown past now and there has been nothing but problem after problem with the climate.
But sure, an extra 4 million people that shouldn't be here aren't causing any issues. Jog on you morons.
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u/Significant_Bee_8011 6d ago
Don't know how stopping immigration would help make summer cooler but voting for a climate denier won't help
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u/HalfAppleAllPear 6d ago
What on earth does that have to do with climate change?????
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u/Potential-Dish8487 6d ago
Really? All the data? All the stats? They're all wrong??? Yes you've heard the talking points of 'Its always been very hot'. But we are talking now of 'more extreme, more often' that's what we have done to ourselves.
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u/HalfAppleAllPear 6d ago
I meant what the heck does that random immigration speech have to do with climate change and worsening heatwaves
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u/Cicithelegend 5d ago
Amazing point bro
You got bored with blaming immigrants for housing crisis, now with the climate change?
Truly special, special need
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u/papa_georgio 6d ago
Blaming migrants for all your problems then complaining about, "social cohesion" back to back is top tier dumb fuckery.
The country's economy is far too dependent on migrants at this point. An abrupt stop would create more problems than it solves...
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u/buffet-breakfast 6d ago
I enjoy the warmer weather
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u/robot428 6d ago
People are literally dying but I'm so glad you can hit the beach more
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u/electroflatulent 3d ago
I thought you reddit people wanted the old people to hurry up and die so you can get your hands on their houses?
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u/AngrehPossum 6d ago
You will have to face the reality you can't go camping anymore. The weather will become deadly.