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Firstly, where did you get 0.1-0.2 degrees (did you mean C or F?) from? We are currently 0.98C above 1951-1980 averages [0], and presumably a bit more above pre
by cranekam 6y ago
Firstly, where did you get 0.1-0.2 degrees (did you mean C or F?) from? We are currently 0.98C above 1951-1980 averages [0], and presumably a bit more above pre-industrial times.
Secondly, as for measurably different: there are a million articles on the internet detailing how weather patterns have changed across the world in the last few decades.
For some personal perspective: I live in Zurich, where winter temperatures once hovered around freezing and there were 20 days of snow per year [1]. Winter gets milder and milder and this year it almost didn't happen. Autumn just became spring at some point. It snowed for 10 minutes. I look around at all the buildings here with snow protection fences on their roofs and wonder when people will remove them through lack of use. Nearby ski resorts were brown and grassy, not white. And as winters have gotten warmer, so have summers. There was a huge number of days over 30 last year -- something that used to be quite extreme.
Also, although global temperatures have "only" risen ~1C this increase is not uniformly distributed. In particular the Arctic is heating much faster, accelerating melting ice caps and sea level rise [2].
[0] https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/ https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich#Climate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich#Climate
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/climate/climate-change-arctic-warming.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/climate/climate-change-ar...
I encourage you to read up on what's going on, get scared, and vow to do something (vote, lobby, educate, etc).
(Edit: added NASA source)
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoMeanwhile today in Hamburg it went down from 4 to 3°C between 00:50AM and 01:11AM at some point, and later, 1,5km away on the outskirts next/near to open fields it went down to 2 to 1° at 04:50AM. That felt rather cold for early May. (I've been walking to the gas station, and ventilating my rooms at these times. BRRR!) As i understand it, it all depends on the shape of the polar vortex pattern which in turn shapes/modulates the jet stream.