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Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?
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#102"You have two life lines left: 50/50, and ask the audience" "I'm gonna go with A. Climate change "
Climate change has made us all incredibly intellectually lazy. Literally anything happens and we don't bother trying to understand why past "climate change".
Natural disaster? Climate change. More or less insects/birds/rodents than usual? Climate change. More or less rain/snow/hail/heat/cold/storms/floods/droughts than usual? Climate change. Wildfire? Climate fire. Crypto currencies using record breaking amounts of electricity year over year? Climate change (impoverished countries ravaged by climate change turn to crypto currencies to escape their local inflated currency which further exacerbates climate change in a positive feedback loop - see what I mean?).
In all of these cases climate change may indeed be a piece of the puzzle, but due to intellectual laziness it has become the vast majority of the pie and we don't bother to understand if there are other factors more influential than climate change.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
When Gabe Brown switched from conventional agriculture to regenerative agriculture, he increased water infiltration in his soil from 0.5 inches (1.25cm) per hour to 30 inches (75cm) per hour. So imagine if he and all his neighbors had the same beautiful soil -- flooding just couldn't happen. I haven't seen a list of such measurements from permaculture, but I know it can be used to regreen deserts (as shown in Jordan,…
Yeah just imagine if a billion people completely changed their way of life.
Imagine if they don't.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
The undersea eruption also ejected 146 million tons of South Pacific Ocean water into the stratosphere.[56] The amount of water vapor ejected was 10 percent of the atmosphere's typical stock.[57] It was enough to temporarily warm the surface of Earth. This water vapour was estimated to remain for 5–10 years.[55] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Hunga_Tonga%E2%80%93Hunga...
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Wikipedia is generally a great summarization of a topic and links to numerous sources - that is usually a more valuable thing to link than an opaque research paper.
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#105"You have two life lines left: 50/50, and ask the audience" "I'm gonna go with A. Climate change "
Climate change has made us all incredibly intellectually lazy. Literally anything happens and we don't bother trying to understand why past "climate change". Natural disaster? Climate change. More or less insects/birds/rodents than usual? Climate change. More or less rain/snow/hail/heat/cold/storms/floods/droughts than usual? Climate change. Wildfire? Climate fire. Crypto currencies using record breaking amounts of e…
Climate change is happening and most of us live in a country (or next to a country, yay Canada!) where half the political body actively denies that it is happening and refuses to take action.
As long as half of America continues to engage in such dangerous denialism there is no amount of drum beating that is excessive.
Re: Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article also blames high amounts of glacial melt (to the point of bursting through glacial dams) sending a lot of extra water through waterways in a short amount of time.
With all due respect why are Glaciers melting in August.. or July or June. April and May are hot as hell in Indian Subcontinent. edit: glaciers melt in summer, I am surprised why they are melting in rainy season. No matter how you vote, just explain why this odd behavior.
Why is that odd? Ice melts when it's warm.
Re: Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?
#107I clicked back through the years available for my city on weatherspark.com
Back in the 90s, never above 90-91 in Sept.
In the last 10 years we started seeing 94-95 in Sept.
Coincidentally air travel has doubled in that time period; from 2.25 billion people flying in 2010 to 4.56 billion in 2019. Of course that cratered since 2020.
Thanks AirBnB and other apps that make burning fossil fuels a thoughtless, trivial thing?
Re: Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?
#108Re: Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?
#109"You have two life lines left: 50/50, and ask the audience" "I'm gonna go with A. Climate change "
Climate change has made us all incredibly intellectually lazy. Literally anything happens and we don't bother trying to understand why past "climate change". Natural disaster? Climate change. More or less insects/birds/rodents than usual? Climate change. More or less rain/snow/hail/heat/cold/storms/floods/droughts than usual? Climate change. Wildfire? Climate fire. Crypto currencies using record breaking amounts of e…
Yeah, a drastic change on one of the most important aspects of the biosphere on the entire world is prone to lead to all kinds of changes.
Usually people do go and verify, it's probably you that are not prone to looking. Almost always, it is global warming. This one time, we are not waiting for anybody to verify, because 50 years ago people were already predicting that global warming would almost certainly cause floods on the South littoral of Asia.