Super long form article on the politics of water, housing, development, farming and immigration in Arizona where the legislature is almost fully captured by MAGA nihilists and where the kinda-hero of the story is a Mormon zealot who believes in the divine inspiration of the Constitution

We’re fucking doomed y’all

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    29·
    5 months ago

    This map is on a percentile scale, but it does illustrate how screwed the southwest is compared to the rest of the country. In 20-30 years, the desert southwest - and removedpa in particular - is going to be uninhabitable. People know this; politicians get briefed, scientific papers are getting increasingly blunt. And yet the insanity continues.

    What’s it going to take?

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        21·
        5 months ago

        To be fair people used to say that about a future global plague and then…

        This country’s appetite for death is endless until it hits the suburbs

        • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          18·
          5 months ago

          Ahhh, I see. I remember now that we’ve run into this specific sremovedhorpe before, apparently it’s like an obscure spanish slur. I guess it doesn’t come up enough for the admins to have added an exception for it lol

        • krolden@lemmy.mlEnglish
          9·
          5 months ago

          Yet another reason I hate slur filters. If you need a filter to not make slurs then you’re probably a piece of shit.

          Context means a lot and this is another example of it

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      tl;dr:

      Conclusions

      This study shows that the frequency of and population exposure to extreme heat index conditions in the US will increase substantially by mid-21st century under a range of emissions and population change scenarios. By late century, depending on the scenario, these changes amount to a 4- to 20-fold increase in person-days per year of high heat index conditions from 107 million historically to as high as 2 billion. The current extreme heat alert system used by the National Weather Service relies on specific heat index thresholds. This work illuminates how, across much of the country, those seldom-crossed thresholds become frequently surpassed over the course of this century, putting millions of people at risk.

      Economic development, technological advances, and improved communication efforts have reduced heat-related mortality in the US in recent decades (Davis et al 2003). Given the future frequency and extent of dangerous heat events, however, additional efforts to help people cope with extreme heat, particularly in places unaccustomed to such heat historically, will likely become necessary. With late century extreme heat index conditions and exposure under RCP8.5 being roughly double of that under RCP4.5, reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions are a complementary strategy for managing the future impacts of extreme heat in the US.