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Posting this from Australia, being +50 and having lived through one of the hottest summers I can remember. Strangely enough today we officially went into Autum
by jussij 8y ago
Posting this from Australia, being +50 and having lived through one of the hottest summers I can remember.
Strangely enough today we officially went into Autumn yet that too feels like Summer across most of Australia.
This leads me to believe that in fact the world has seriously under estimated climate change.
For what little it is worth, my last 10+ years of lived experience here in Australia has seen things getting hotter and hotter.
My take on the situation is the IPC have actually got it wrong and there are way more, unidentified positive feedback loops in play, meaning the global climate system is actually showing signs of accelerated warning.
Here in Australia we are now in Autumn and the temperature is +10 above average, making it feel like the middle of Summer.
Time will tell, if in the next few year's we once again manage to break this current Autumn heatwave record. I suspect it will.
- joaomacp 8y agoI live in Portugal. If this summer is as hot as the last one with several 40c+ days I will move out for sure. I just can't take it, and like most people I don't have ac. I could get ac, but if I have the option I'll escape to Scandinavia or Germany
- Wellshit 8y agoLast year we had 35C in October 15. This year we had 25C in February 25. This is in the northern hemisphere. Both temperatures would be fine between May and September (including)
- perfunctory 8y agoclimate science is very conservative indeed.
- specialist 8y ago"unidentified positive feedback loops in play" Ocean acidification, thawing tundra, burning lands. We could stop all human activities tomorrow and those processes will continue to accelerate, releasing ever more greenhouse gases. And if the oceans warm much more, methane clathrate will be released. We could easily hit 2000ppm. Conditions not since since the Eocene period. We need to actively secure and capture CO2 and methane to stabilize our climate, much less reverse the warming.
- magicalhippo 8y ago> Here in Australia we are now in Autumn and the temperature is +10 above average, making it feel like the middle of Summer. Thing is, when they say global average of +1 or +2 degrees C, people have a hard time mapping that to how that works out. If you measure 4, 5, 5, 6 the average is 5. If you measure 1, 2, 9, 9 the average just increased to 5.25. So very hot summers can be "masked" by colder winters.