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Rip Holland.
This is the kind of news that makes me wish i felt cold right now
But no, im in Berlin, there's no snow anymore and the wind smells of summer >

USA here, Central Pennsylvania to be exact. Tommorow is predicted to be 59 degrees (15 celcius) and Wednesday 65 degrees (18 celcius) with possible "heavy thunderstorms." Yep. Completely normal for this time of year. This is where the fun begins. >

A metric fuckton of rain just dumped on KC tonight in a couple rounds of storms and set a new record rainfall for the day -- almost as much as we get in the entire month. Yet a week and a half ago it felt like -30° here. >

Similar in northern CA with several more inches coming this weekend 😭 >

Northern NV here. Crazy how much snow and rain we've gotten! Hopefully fire season won't be bad. >

Low heating bills are good now, BUT....
Remember the European drought last summer? 
Rivers so low that barges couldn't travel? So low that hydro and nuclear plants had to shut down?
If the mountains don't get a decent snowpack this winter, there will less water in the rivers next summer. Snow should be accumulating at higher elevations now, but instead, the snow that fell in December is melting. >

It’s not just Europe. Both the Mississippi/Yangtze nearly dried up last year. The economic impact will be catastrophic going forwards which will drive further global political instability via resource scarcity/disasters/war/refugees. As a humble internet rando I really don’t see a way out of this (I.e. we can only do damage mitigation at this point) without the mass proliferation of fusion energy over the next decade. A Herculean task. >

There plenty of options to engineer a way out, but with current technology you would need to spend a few percent of GDP >

And we can't be taking such drastic measures yet. >

As soon as quarterly record profits are in danger, we will do something that fixes the record profits of the next quarter! >

Na, they have their bunkers already set up. They will wait it out. >

I know that a lot of super rich think this way, but it’s complete nonsense. There is no “waiting it out”. They are completely dependent on the labor of everyone in lower economic strata, and without them around, the super rich will starve . >

Well, in case of an apocalyptic event, I wish all the best to the armed goons no longer having a reason to keep their previous billionaire psychopathic employees alive! May they repopulate the earth afterwards! >

Well, the good news is Russia failed the whole "freeze Europe out of sanctions" plan. Bad news, we are going to have to redraw the maps once the sea reclaims all the coastlines.