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Stronger storms, heat waves, drought, floods, erratic weather. Check. Where I live, we are on track to have the driest September on record. We have also broke
by chooseaname 7y ago
Stronger storms, heat waves, drought, floods, erratic weather. Check. Where I live, we are on track to have the driest September on record. We have also broken or tied 7 record hot days (and looks like we might go for 8 today)[0]. How much more common does this have to be before people start acting?
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[0] Had someone argue with me that this just means we had record hot months before. I'm like, no, that's not how that works. Those record days were from different years. The new ones were from the same year.
- whatshisface 7y agoRemember when people were saying that global warming wasn't happening because we were in the middle of a particularly cold winter? Treating this year's bad weather as proof of global warming is making the same error in the other direction. The climate can only be understood as a long-term average of the quite large annual variations in weather.
- chooseaname 7y agoI get that. I do. I said: >How much more common does this have to be before people start acting? Because it is becoming more common. Just as predicted.
- justsubmit 7y ago> We have also broken or tied 7 record hot days (and looks like we might go for 8 today). On average, how many record-high days have been recorded each year, for as long as your records have been kept? How many record-low days? A number out of context is not useful for drawing a scientific conclusion.