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Europe's deadly floods are glimpse of future climate
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I saw a report on the Schelde river. The total amount of water transported per year is not changing. But the difference in volume varies much more than it used to. We have longer periods with lower water heights, and more extreme heights on peak days.
This means a few things: Salinity of the sea perpetrates deeper on land. The risk of drinkable water buffers getting depleted grows. The risk for flooding rises.
Re: Europe's deadly floods are glimpse of future climate
#43What's up with so many Hacker News commenters coming out of the woodwork when headlines blame climate change to challenge it? Just a glimpse of the article shows there's some research behind making the point of the headline, still people feel the need to comment on their feelings to deny it possibly could be due to climate change. Per the article: > The World Weather Attribution (WWA) group said one recent four-day p…
> Just a glimpse of the article shows there's some research behind making the point of the headline, still people feel the need to comment on their feelings to deny it possibly could be due to climate change.
because "due to" is simplistic when we are dealing with multiple factors.
heavier rain might be more common due to climate change, but it causes a lot more flooding than it otherwise would because of the blocking of drainage etc.
> today’s climate, which has warmed by about 1.3C
Warmed by 1.3°C against what benchmark?
Re: Europe's deadly floods are glimpse of future climate
#44I still think that all those oil and weapon depots exploding relatively close to Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Austria and Italy have something to say here.
Hot clouds travel far away in no time and a similar stormy behavior has been seen lots of times in pyrocumulus from big wildfires before.
Re: Europe's deadly floods are glimpse of future climate
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I saw a report on the Schelde river. The total amount of water transported per year is not changing. But the difference in volume varies much more than it used to. We have longer periods with lower water heights, and more extreme heights on peak days. This means a few things: Salinity of the sea perpetrates deeper on land. The risk of drinkable water buffers getting depleted grows. The risk for flooding rises.
Central Europe is in recovery from widespread deforestation. The regrowing forests act as a increasing buffer, weakening floods, overshadowing the effects of climate change.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN audience is both reflexively contrarian (will argue with any article on any subject), and also surprisingly rightwing (exposed to climate change denialists).
There is a surprisingly vocal and toxic community that are fringe members on both sides of the aisle on HN. Hypothetically a good thing, but in action it tends to derail most conversations. The whole COVID Pandemic, the 2020 election, (edit: and the shutdown of SlateStarCodex) definetly brought a lot of nuts out of the woodwork, and they never left. Edit: Here's an example below. It's one account that I've had signif…
> The whole COVID Pandemic and the 2020 election definetly brought a lot of nuts out of the woodwork, and they never left.
HN was downright insufferable during the pandemic, it really made me think about leaving. Thankfully, nowadays the "bad" topics (mostly politically very polarised ones) tend to be fewer and can more easily be avoided.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a surprisingly vocal and toxic community that are fringe members on both sides of the aisle on HN. Hypothetically a good thing, but in action it tends to derail most conversations. The whole COVID Pandemic, the 2020 election, (edit: and the shutdown of SlateStarCodex) definetly brought a lot of nuts out of the woodwork, and they never left. Edit: Here's an example below. It's one account that I've had signif…
> The whole COVID Pandemic and the 2020 election definetly brought a lot of nuts out of the woodwork, and they never left. HN was downright insufferable during the pandemic, it really made me think about leaving. Thankfully, nowadays the "bad" topics (mostly politically very polarised ones) tend to be fewer and can more easily be avoided.
> it really made me think about leaving
Same here, except it just made me combative on HN.
I'm waiting for the day dang blocks my account for a violation AND deletes all my posts, because YC won't honor a CCPA request without proof of identity, and I'm a bit too close for comfort with the YC community so I do not want to furnish that to him or YC.
If there was a way to filter accounts created after 2021, or with a polarity score, I'd be happy staying on here, but at this point it's a form of social media addiction due to the dopamine rush of the occasionally level headed conversation and debate.
Re: Europe's deadly floods are glimpse of future climate
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN audience is both reflexively contrarian (will argue with any article on any subject), and also surprisingly rightwing (exposed to climate change denialists).
There is a surprisingly vocal and toxic community that are fringe members on both sides of the aisle on HN. Hypothetically a good thing, but in action it tends to derail most conversations. The whole COVID Pandemic, the 2020 election, (edit: and the shutdown of SlateStarCodex) definetly brought a lot of nuts out of the woodwork, and they never left. Edit: Here's an example below. It's one account that I've had signif…
Not fringe at all. Watch the all-in podcast on YouTube, who just had Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs as guests, with a large and enthusiastic live audience.
Speaking of which, Calacanis just had Covid. Are you still wearing a mask? If not, why not? Covid is still present but Biden declared it over in March 2022 and then it was suddenly officially over for all followers.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s the Silicon Valley wannabe intellectualism that has somehow allied itself with contrarianism. They just reflexively think the consensus view is wrong because daddy Thiel said you can make big money that way. “The Contrarians”, of course, is its own silly tribe of lemmings that produces its opinions from its identity first and foremost.
> Silicon Valley wannabe intellectualism I've noticed the fringe hot takes tends to occur around this time of day on HN, which is 5am in SV (some of us wake up very early to run/bike without getting run over, as well as answer EMEA emails). Most users at this time of day are European (who tend to be German, Eastern European, and British ime) and some East Coasters. Mainstream HN doesn't kick in until 4-5 hours from n…
I would say that Europeans are entitled to describe the actual weather in Europe as opposed to the SV narrative of it.
Re: Europe's deadly floods are glimpse of future climate
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a surprisingly vocal and toxic community that are fringe members on both sides of the aisle on HN. Hypothetically a good thing, but in action it tends to derail most conversations. The whole COVID Pandemic, the 2020 election, (edit: and the shutdown of SlateStarCodex) definetly brought a lot of nuts out of the woodwork, and they never left. Edit: Here's an example below. It's one account that I've had signif…
Not fringe at all. Watch the all-in podcast on YouTube, who just had Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs as guests, with a large and enthusiastic live audience. Speaking of which, Calacanis just had Covid. Are you still wearing a mask? If not, why not? Covid is still present but Biden declared it over in March 2022 and then it was suddenly officially over for all followers.
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