Anthropogenic Climate Change

Yeah. Typically around 2 Atlantic storms get retired a year, sometimes more and sometimes less. The year Katrina happened was particular bad and saw 5 name retirements.

Here's the US NHC website I've been getting all this info from if you are interested.

@megarockman: You joke, but ideally we'd have legal structures for apportioning responsibility for externalities like smoke caused by wildfires caused by human activity (and those would include international treaties because smoke doesn't respect borders).

But before America could do that, we'd have to recognize that our system creates negative externalities, such as our failure to keep an eye on our guns leading them to walk south to Mexico.

Good luck finding a fair way to apportion blame for such complex climate interactions, anyway. Probably also need to consider positive externalities, if they exist.

(Although it's an interesting what-if concept. In one of my settings, a country has covered large swaths of the Sahara with wind and solar farms and suddenly there are lots of weather anomalies in other continents linked back to this project)

Edited by SeptimusHeap on Jan 19th 2024 at 11:06:44 AM

In which German weather forecasts say that tomorrow maximum temperatures will be 18 degrees Celsius. In February. With no commemt.

A boy is not inherently a bad thing but El Niño is really putting its foot down. Rather than progress in combating climate change, it feels like the train has no brakes.

But it's gonna be cold tomorrow so it's okay.

Don't buy roses for Valentine's Day says this French-language yt video.

This video maker explains that (in the North hemisphere at least) roses don't grow in February, and are imported from equatorial or South hemisphere countries with a terrible ecological impact. She suggests buying seasonal, local flowers instead.

I'd add fake/synthetic roses as an alternate option as well for if your valentine is adamant on having them.

CHOCOLATES!!!!!

Chocolate is even worse...

Also, El Nino will pass, eventually, and it will be a little colder for a few years then. Relatively speaking. Climate change does not mean cold snaps or extreme weather events will stop happening.

That's not how it worked in 2020-2022 though.

Oh? What was different?

With more energy in the atmosphere, the weather should become more extreme.

The Concordia-Dome C research station deep within East Antarctica experienced a 40⁰C (72⁰F) above seasonal average temperature back in March 2022, according to a report released earlier this year.

Random musing (not a peer reviewed scientific survey!) about the Gulf Stream/thermohaline circulation:

While its shutdown is often (incorrectly) framed as a "new ice age" thing, the main and principal danger iis that it would shut the northern hemisphere monsoons down. In a way, it's an example of the rich screwing the poor over, when you consider who relies on the monsoon and who produces greenhouse gases...

...but arguably, the rich can't fix this. A shutdown of the monsoons is a problem with most geoengineering schemes, and removing greenhouse gases might have the same effect. On the other hand, planting the Sahara with either vegetation or solar farms or wind farms might prop up the Gulf Stream, or at least the monsoons.

City has been orange for the last two days, damned dust from Sahara.

Wasted efforts of elite Marathon runners under a warming climate primarily due to atmospheric oxygen reduction note that it's due to pressure changes, not concentration changes which are irrelevant. On the other hand Warming climate is helping human beings run faster, jump higher and throw farther through less dense air

I'm afraid some corporations may use that second study as an excuse not to reduce their carbon emissions.