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Yeah - https://www.iflscience.com/environment/we-could-be-heading-m...
It's weird that they call it "mini ice age" then follow up with - we had one in 17th century, London got temperature below 0 in winter. Not what I imagine from the name.
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The most powerful supercomputers in the world are not even close in processing power of a 4 year old. Isn't it possible that some people can see patterns that the supercomputers can't?
That's simply not relevant, nor true.* Modeling climate change is much more complex than the simple heuristic pattern matching of the human mind. You're talking about a huge, complex, and fundamentally chaotic system; the latter property precludes the usefulness of heuristic based predictions by a 4 year old (or a human of any age). There's a reason we run massive numerical simulations on multi billion dollar HPCs. *…
Personal anecdote: my grandmother is capable of predicting rain 1-2 days ahead of time based on smell and just "a feeling." Granted, we probably don't remember all of the times that she was wrong.
Global climate change => higher air temperatures => more water in the air => more water available to fall out of the air.
Global climate change => higher air temperatures => more water in the air => more water available to fall out of the air.
Should we expect dry (arid) regions around the world to experience more rainfall?
But my "more water, so wetter" comment was about global averages. Given that global air and ocean circulation will change, some areas will probably get drier. Such as the US Midwest and Southwest, and perhaps the Amazon.
https://news.uci.edu/2018/04/27/scientists-project-a-drier-a...
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/34232/201...
Global climate change => higher air temperatures => more water in the air => more water available to fall out of the air.
Yup, pretty much exactly. The interesting side effects are the formation of more clouds (in the stratosphere they make things warmer, in the troposphere they make things colder), and bigger temperature shifts in the air when the water finally condenses out in liquid form (more mass to phase change, more net temperature change).
I wonder if this will help to refill some of the depleted aquifers.
What if rather than doom we get global tropical paradise
Look at all the flooding in the midwest this year -- despite dams on every major river, we've still had record-breaking field inundation and crop failure. Is that the new normal paradise you're describing?
Global climate change => higher air temperatures => more water in the air => more water available to fall out of the air.
Are there any record-setting weather patterns that global climate change can't account for?
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We're not talking about vague shifting definitions of "normal." We're talking about "the wettest 12 months ever recorded," in the 125 years we have data for.
125 years is still a very small amount of time to assess climate, and the quality of the data 125 years ago isn’t very good. Considering all “solutions” to the “problem” of climate change involve a radical remaking of society, it’s not unreasonable or unserious to ask for more data.
This is the wettest 12 months in the US on record. This is almost certainly because the global temperature has gone up significantly in the last century+.
If you want to talk about this, talk about this - don't waste time attacking imaginary points you think other people are implying.
What if rather than doom we get global tropical paradise