Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale

Post by selimthegrim » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 2:43 PM UTC

loblollyboy wrote: post #11

skilled wrote: post #6

Living in Eastern Europe right now. It's +6 Celsius for the last week. Earth hasn't frozen yet, so if any snow falls it melts in a few hours. In comparison, when I was growing up here in the 90s; we had solid -30 Celsius winters for several months. You had to prepare opposed to nowadays, where buying a winter jacket comes down to preference. Cold or not cold... But climate change is a hoax, right?

I “feel” the same way about the east coast of the US, but I know that is super unscientific - comparing impressions as an adult to childhood memories, but I really don’t recall 70 degree days being routine. Now I live in the upper midwest, I learned in some class that the upper Midwest of the US was one of the few places on Earth not warming on average (actually anomalously cold) but this winter is like one of the “o…

Post by bbeckerman » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 2:45 PM UTC

Post by kmlx » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 2:46 PM UTC

buboard wrote: post #35

it would be naive/foolish to expect that the enormous technological progress and overpopulation by humans would not affect the environment. The question is how fast can people and ecosystems adapt. This is not the first nor the biggest change the earth has seen by far. It's also naive to think that politics is going to reverse that change - it's a technological problem.

Post by pnako » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 2:47 PM UTC

mikro2nd wrote: post #33

Taniwha wrote: post #13

Australia is burning, its government doesn't seem to think anything is wrong, they just want to dig more coal

They might not get the chance: latest news[1] this morning is that some of the coal seams have caught fire underground! This is catastrophic. Underground coal (and oil) fires are near-impossible to put out and are generally just left alone to burn, usually for decades before/if they run out of fuel. [1] https://twitter.com/maetl/status/1213420680579964929?s=20

Post by scrollaway » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 2:49 PM UTC

selimthegrim wrote: post #42

mikro2nd wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They might not get the chance: latest news[1] this morning is that some of the coal seams have caught fire underground! This is catastrophic. Underground coal (and oil) fires are near-impossible to put out and are generally just left alone to burn, usually for decades before/if they run out of fuel. [1] https://twitter.com/maetl/status/1213420680579964929?s=20

Is there a source for this assertion?