We need to trick the climate in to either claiming they have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton, or else demand that Assad be removed.
i mean it's the beginning of feburary and winter is basically over where i'm at.
actual "winter" seems to last about 2-3 weeks.
shit's about to get scary i'm really worried about massive crop failures. get to know your neighbors and learn how to do some (at least) minimal gardening.
Yea we used to average 180" of snow in a winter and it would regularly be below zero for a week straight.
We used to ice fish over 100 feet of water on lakes the shallow bays didn't ice over once this year.
We got like 2 inches of snow the day before Christmas and it's supposed to be 47 next week.
I almost kind of understand the impotent rage liberals feel when they try to get us to vote for Biden because it's how I've felt trying to get anybody (particularly those previously mentioned liberals) to give a shit about this for the last 15 years.
And the best I've gotten was them lecturing me that Biden is the most environmental president everr as he authorizes literally previously unconcieved levels of fossil fuel extraction, and every chud in town scoffing at global warming anytime it snows more than 2 inches.
i wish it were global freezing because I would rather freeze to death in a snowpiercer hell than sweat to death in endless humidity
At least there's the romanticism of big coats and huddling together for warmth in snowpiercer cold world. Instead we get to lay face down naked sweating ourselves to death in the shade until the wet bulb point takes us
yeah you can always add more layers but you can't take off your skin
Yeah. We're at about 45% of average snowpack for this year where I am.
Yea, where I am we've gotten almost no snow and aside from a week of -40 it's been hovering right around freezing, so everything just gets nice and icy. I love walking when it's snowing so I made a conscious decision to go for a walk when it was snowing because I don't know when I'll get the chance again. It's February and I can't see any snow aside from a few patches clinging to the north sides of buildings.
Summer is going to be an unprecedented fire season that makes last year look like a backyard campfire. That cold snap without a nice think snow layer is bound to have killed a bunch of trees and the dry, hot summer is going to turn entire forests into kindling.
I'm hoping the one coldsnap where I live is enough to knock back the pine beetles for a bit. Having 100 degree temperature changes over the course of maybe 2 weeks does not make me feel good.
Lmao the last time I went looking for this chart was around August, I didn't expect it to still be so bad. We're going to be experiencing unprecedented oceanic ecosystem collapse if this continues and that's just the tip of the iceberg (proverbial of course, since there won't be icebergs around for much longer)
Yeah, we were all expecting this year to be substantially warmer than 2022-2023 because of ENSO, but this is significantly worse than most of the models predicted. That seems to be turning into a trend. Our current 365 day running average for air temperature is 1.51 degrees C above the pre-industrial baseline, which most models thought we wouldn't pass for another ~10 years. Not good.
Its really frustrating that scientists have been as un-alarmist and conservative as possible with their estimates and all their models to avoid being written off as unserious and a bunch of people who don't understand that science really trys to avoid definitive statements have used that to simultaneously argue it won't be that bad and they're a bunch of crazy alarmists.
Each new year is just going to be worse than the last one, isn't it?
We really have to start making excuses for the lack of terror at this point.
kinda sucks that we'll never have predictable weather trends again
Honestly why even bother with photosynthesis. Just grow starch from solar power.
FL finally gone... Maybe it's not so bad after all!
Not depicted most of those green bits should also turn into yellow bits.
imagine one day a storm blows in and then just keeps blowing for decades without stopping
hurricane season 2024 I'm praying for you to send me into 4 weeks of power outages and sweltering heat so I may finally descend off this mortal coil in a fun way
Doomer mindset which is anti revolutionary liberal behavior
I mean unironically, hexbears are so doomer over climate change it’s gotten boring 🥱
The doomer shit makes me spiral into severe depressive episodes. I have to adopt radical optimism for my own survival. You're right though, It is boring. It's unimaginative which is right where capitalism wants us - so colonized in our own minds that we can imagine complete annihilation of life before we can image the end of capitalism.
The whole professional discipline is either so doomer or so blasé about it that it made me actually leave academia and go teach high school instead. It's absolutely awful. My background is in foundation of climate models, and I ended up at one of the better climate modeling labs in the US after my PhD. I left after two years because it was so soul crushing. Half of them think nothing can be done, and the other half don't want to think about the implications of their models at all. There are rare exceptions (Jim Hansen, for instance), but they are rare.
Eww, do they just have engineer brain disease where it's like "oh, social problem, can't do anything about that because it's not a hard science"? Glad you got out and get to teach people before they get their imaginations sucked out of their head. You're contributing to the solution, unironicly thank you for your service to society.
It's partially that, and partially a fear that if they're seen as doing political advocacy, they won't be taken seriously as scientists anymore. Capitalist culture has done such a good job convincing us--even people who should know better--that physical science and public policy are totally separate magisteria that most scientists are really afraid to step slightly out of their lane.
Thanks for your words. I feel like I do more good in this role too, and I'm a million times happier. My administration lets me get away with a lot because of my credentials too: the student body calls my climatology class CCCC, for communist climate change class.
We should probably be concerned, but direct that into organizing instead of doomerism.
The polar ice caps will melt because a groundhog saw it's shadow
now, then when?
