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- UnitedKingdom@kbin.social
- worldnews@lemmit.online
We seem to be breaking new records constantly at the moment.
Scientists found evidence that climate change made the warmer weather last month more likely.
And not just a little bit warmer - 0.9C is a lot.
That and the lack of rain made grass everywhere look parched.
We are beating all sorts of records, my concern is that the chnage seems to be speeding up.
We had a whole stretch a few weeks back where it basically didn’t rain for 3 weeks.
Yes, I remember being quite surprised when it started raining - I’d almost forgotten what it was like.
We love to complain about it, but it’s truly unsettling to go weeks without it!
Indeed. Being a pasty ginger who burns under a full Moon I had to really up my sun game. It wasn’t too hot (looking forward to that) but the sun was intense.
I suppose the worry is that it being so dry, so relatively early, any drought will quick in faster and last longer.
Definitely and then when you get lots of rain it’s more likely to cause flash flooding due to the ground being so dry!
Indeed - it’ll be falling and flowing away in sheets of water. If we were any good at planning ahead, we’d ensure the river systems could cope but they won’t and it’ll get messy.
We live very close to a river and according to some of the projected climate chnage flooding maps a lot of the riverside areas and lower land areas near the mouth will just be gone. Dont think it’s quite sunk in for people the potential impact climate chnage it going to have
I live about a metre above sea level. Fortunately the sea defences are solid but the sea level rise maps still aren’t a comfort. I’d need a boat to visit my brother who lives 15 minutes away.
Oh it’s definitely speeding up. Atlantic sea temperature has been flying up this year. The Antarctic sea ice is freezing at an incredibly slow rate, like it’s 2 million km2 less than where it should be right now.
It feels like we’re at the start of a Hollywood disaster film, the scientists running around with printouts of data, but they’re not, because they’ve been warning us for decades and now it’s happening.
If you’re interested in up-to-date data on this sort of stuff, Zach Labe has some really great figures on his website: zachlabe.com
(I mean, the figures aren’t great because of the ramifications, but they’re clear and concise)
Thank you for the info, I’ll take a look
Yep, I just imagine really depressed climatologists just pointing to things saying ‘see, see!’. Everything does seem to be ramping up this year, but then it’s been every year basically. We all need to work out how to make a meaningful change before it’s too late