Anthropogenic Climate Change

Revisiting Western United States Hydroclimate During the Last Deglaciation - the shutdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation is still cardinal but contrary to what thought before, the "pluvial" period there at the end of the last ice age was not aided by leftover ice sheets, but rather by orbital changes ... and greenhouse gas increases.

Another summer, another bunch of wildfires in Greece. Surely next year we'll be prepared this time.

An ongoing marine heatwave in the Florida Keys may have caused a new world record of over 100⁰F (37.8⁰C) water temperature, but is causing coral bleaching with the Sombrero Reef coral being completely bleached.

In which German churches invite a prayer for one of the last glaciers in Germany. There was an eulogy/"funeral" of sorts for a Swiss glacier a couple of years ago, too.

‘Era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN chief as July set to be hottest month on record.

I wonder how long it will take until that record is broken yet again.

3 months maybe?

I believe it was said elsewhere on these forums that 'politics are immune to facts until they manifest directly'. So governments continue to do fuck-all about climate change because it's all just hypotheticals to them.

At what point do we think it would stop being a hypothetical? Melting of the ice caps? Refugee crises? The current wildfire epidemic hasn't done the job but probably because they're easy to dismiss as anomalies. For now, at least.

The general concern seems to be that the point climate change manifests in a way that is absolutely impossible to deny is also the same point where there's fuck all to do anymore about it.

Edited by OrangeBun on Jul 27th 2023 at 6:43:45 AM

August, because the worst of the Summer for the Northern Hemisphere is still going to be happening alongside a very strong El Nino.

If you're afraid now, just wait until we start breaking records with a neutral ENSO.

Edited by tclittle on Jul 27th 2023 at 5:11:44 AM

I know climate scientists keep saying it's important not to panic and give into doomerism, but the numbers have been making that very hard.

Actually, the world is already doing stuff, it's just happening so slowly that it's easy to overlook.

Individual human lives are barely a blink on geological scale.

Also, don't go into nihilism though my words, please and thanks.

That's kinda hard since that is a very nihilist statement to make...

Fortunately our governments are on the case. Expect them to organise another climate summit near some luxury resort where everyone arrives via private jet and conclude that wagging fingers at people who use plastic bags will fix everything.

A list of each nation's solutions to the crisis:

The Australian government will build more coal mines

The US government will sell sell more firearms

The UK government will stalk more women

The governments of Japan and Norway will kill more whales

The Chinese, Russian and Israeli governments will arrest more of their neighbours

The Brazilian government will destroy more rainforest

The UAE will suppress more women

Everywhere else aside from Europe will persecute more homosexuals

Greece will let more forests burn so we can install more wind turbines. Such a nice thing to tie green energy to...

And South Korean government will most likely privatize the shit out of everything, because "free market and competition!"

Also...

....what's happening there?

I'm assuming it's a reference to the TERF-ism rampant in the UK gov't and their obsession with womens' genitals.

I thought I already posted this, but:

I actually don't believe it's as crazy as it sounds that we'll solve global warming. We have solved the ozone layer and acid rain, so it's really not impossible.

Well…it’s not possible to solve it to the same level as those. With those, the natural systems involved started balancing themselves when the problem went away. With global warming, we’re too far along to really fix things, we’re currently in the “make it as less bad as possible” stage.

It’s also a lot harder to fix it, unfortunately.

Global warming will eventually stabilize, one way or another. Either because we cut back on the carbon we emit, or because the globe achieves a new temperature equilibrium. The question is how much damage will be done along the way.

Lockdown 2.0, for heat reasons: Iran’s surprise ‘unprecedented heat’ shutdown raises questions - Government offices, banks, capital markets and private businesses will remain shut until Saturday.

We will probably start seeing more of those in the future.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service confirms this past July was the hottest on record.

• Average temperature for the month was 16.95⁰C (62.51⁰F), surpassing the previous record of 16.63⁰C (61.93⁰F) set back in July 2019.
• Four days early in the month, the 3rd through the 6th, each set world record for daily maximum air temperature and every day afterwards surpassed the previous world record set back in August 2016.
• The current world record daily maximum air temperature is 17.08⁰C (62.74⁰F) set on July 6th.
• During the first and third weeks of the month, temperatures exceeded the 1.5⁰C abover pre-industrial limits set by the Paris Accords, with the average being just a hundredth (0.01) of a degree of Celsius away from the 1.5⁰C above estimated pre-industrial average temperatures.

Wow, yeah, it sounds like it was pretty bad globally.

Not that people in the Netherlands could tell. Last month (and this month so far) has been very rainy, and temperatures were pretty much average, staying in the low 20s. It did feel warmer sometimes, though, due to high moisture levels, which seems to be on the rise as well with warmer oceans.

Edited by Redmess on Aug 8th 2023 at 5:13:38 PM

Last night, the zero degree isotherm hit 5299m elevation above a Swiss village - highest ever in recorded history.

It seems Hunga Tonga has affected the climate in an unexpected way: due to all the water vapour in the upper atmosphere, the eruption has caused global temperatures to rise by 0,1 degree for this and the coming years.