Sitting here and it's March 6th and I hear the spring birds outside and it's been raining. Now the months are even getting bumped up.
It was spring in mid February here. Also a few roses were still in bloom at the end of OCTOBER
where I live this year it snowed on Halloween and also yesterday
Robins and red-winged blackbirds have been back in my neighborhood for a couple weeks, and we're hearing spring peepers every night. If it keeps this up, we will have a very early morel season.
Yeah I'm going to start looking for ramps in the woods this weekend, about a month ahead of "normal" schedule
Luckily the rate at which things worsen will never change and everything is very predictable and the experts are in charge.
Good news: We've removed February
Bad news: We've replaced it with Mega-August
The months/seasons in Rimworld are Aprimay, Jugust, Septober & Decembary and for whatever reason this has always tickled me.
I wonder if the release of more Methane than any event in recorded history between September and November of 2022 had any connection to this.
Probably not. Similar to the way that it takes a minute to warm up after you put on a blanket, there's a multiyear lag on the order of 10-20 years between emissions and warming impact.
Methane only stays in the air for about 12 years, but it absorbs more energy than carbon emissions, so it's impact would be seen quicker, wouldn't it?
It very well might but I can't find any global concentration data that recent.
NATOPEDIA:
Andrew Baxter, director of energy strategy for the Environmental Defense Fund, said he estimated that about 115,000 tonnes (250 million pounds) of methane had been released into the environment. To date, this may be the largest gas leak in human history. According to German estimates, about 300,000 tonnes (660 million pounds) of methane, which is one of the most potent greenhouse gases (more potent than CO2), was emitted into the atmosphere. This amount of gas is enough to affect the environment for another 20 years, with an annual gas emission capacity of 5.48 million combustion-engined cars.
Certainly a disaster but a pretty small contribution in the grand scheme of things.
do you have a source for that (not doubting just wanna read more)
I genuinely don’t know, probably not.
I know the 2022 ICCP climate report stated methane mitigation is vital to stopping rising temps.
Then we blow up Nordstream and it create a methane plume in the Baltic that created an energy crisis in the highest consumption continent. Now gas is being moved by tankers from south and east Asia, and North America into Europe.
The point someone made earlier about the short “earth time” being too fast to notice this type of change.
I don’t think it helped the ocean
It's fine, we're going to do carbon credits (which have been scientifically proven to not work) and try for net-zero by 2050 (two decades too late).
Gonna invest in a tree farm to grab up some carbon credits, and when it burns down in an inferno I can collect insurance.
Well the fun thing about this is the temperature of the north Atlantic influences the rate of melting of the Greenland ice sheet, and scientists are predicting that if the ice sheet collapses, that'll blow the AMOC, and if the AMOC goes, the mean temp in Europe drops 17 C. Winter in Western Europe would start looking like winter in Scandinavia.
yeah amoc collapse will make frostpunk happen in the uk thank god
What's happening right now is that the AMOC helps balance out heat between the high latitudes and the tropics, so if it stops, that heat just gets stuck at the equator. Which is bad for a lot of people in a lot of ways. Mexico City dries up, the Amazon flips to savanna, monster hurricanes for the gulf and Atlantic coasts. General meteorological chaos and anarchy.
so what your saying is, global warming in the tempretzones is not real?
also what is Meterological anarchy, is it when the weatherman says what the weather is going to be without consulting any data?
Global warming is happening everywhere, it's just unevenly distributed. AMOC collapse represents a temporary disruption to the trend in a specific region, but the temperature is going up for western Europe now and it'll continue to rise from the dip, if/when it happens.
"Meteorological anarchy" is just a joke referencing the fact that weather (especially extreme events) will get more erratic and harder to predict. Weather prediction works now because we have a lot of historical data to draw upon; it'll stop working once the underlying drivers of those historical weather patterns shift. No shade on human anarchists.
... But I wanted to imply that I knew a few weather men who I thought where meterological anarchists, because I am sure they just threw darts at a weather board
the mean temp in Europe drops 17 C. Winter in Western Europe would start looking like winter in Scandinavia.
You mean winter in Siberia
Scandinavia implies the parts of it where people actually live, which are as cold as the meadows of Pennsylvania
and if the AMOC goes, the mean temp in Europe drops 17 C
btw do you have a source/citation for this? Like that it would be specifically that amount?
I'm not aware of anything saying that drastic of a swing for the majority of Europe, however there are some countries that could experience a swing of that magnitude in just a few years. It's difficult to say what exactly will happen when the AMOC collapses, and there's a chance global warming outpaces the cooling from it in some of Europe
https://www.renewablematter.eu/articoli/article/amoc-collapse-consequences#:~:text=If%20the%20Atlantic%20Meridional%20Overturning,faster%20by%20tens%20of%20centimeters.
life on earth shouldn't have voted for jill stein in wisconsin in 2016
I wonder if all the bombs, mortars, and tanks that have come in to use in the previous year have anything to do with it? :(
The U.S. military alone creates emissions on par with Sweden.
It's a good thing the revolutionary French calendar never caught on or we'd have to start renaming the months
this would make a pretty good sticker
guess it would have to use transparency but still
Don't worry, I've been investing money into ESG funds. It gives money to...uh...shell companies owned by oil companies
Literally praying for one of those now
Send up the fucking sulfur balloons i don't give a fuck can't be worse than doing nothing
if you want mayocide, wait until the AMOC collapses and then pump the sulfur/carbonate dust and also denotate a bunch of underwater nukes near volcanoes
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