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Except when these "freak heat waves" start becoming common place. In recent years many places around the would appear to be setting new temperature records on

by jussij 5y ago

Except when these "freak heat waves" start becoming common place. In recent years many places around the would appear to be setting new temperature records on a rather regular basis.

TheFreim 5y ago
Are they more common? Summers and winters don't feel any different to me than what they were when I was a child, they just get talked about a LOT more (my specific geographic location is probably a factor).
- blackbrokkoli 5y ago
  Take any region, country or city, look up heat highs or averages. You will inadvertently find that around half a dozen extreme events happened in the last two decades. Since a giant political movement seems to be based on the unwillingness to read more than ~24 characters at a time, here is a beautiful chart that really shows this: [0]. It does not even have text! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warming_stripes#/media/File:20181204_Warming_stripes_(global,_WMO,_1850-2018)_-_Climate_Lab_Book_(Ed_Hawkins).png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warming_stripes#/media/File:20...
  - swader999 5y ago
    This is false. USGCRP Climate Science Special Assessment: Volume 1: Chapter 6: Temperature Changes in the United States https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/6/ https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/6/ Scroll down to figure 6.3. You can see that the 1920's to 1940's had more extreme heat events than any time since. Figure 6.4 is also useful to look at.
  - jussij 5y ago
    This page lists the highest temperatures from around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records The nice thing about that page is when you scroll down to the continent/country table data there is an option to sort by date column. Sorting by date shows most of these records were set in the 21 century. More worryingly many of those records were set in the last half decade. While this might be coincidence, it could also be a trend and if it is the later then things are starting to look rather ominous. Time will tell.
- gpm 5y ago
  > my specific geographic location is probably a factor A substantial one too, here's a very very rough map (which only measures one aspect, and has terrible resolution) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_effects_of_climate_change#/media/File:Change_in_Average_Temperature.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_effects_of_climate_ch...

by jussij 5y ago

Except when these "freak heat waves" start becoming common place. In recent years many places around the would appear to be setting new temperature records on a rather regular basis.

TheFreim 5y ago

Are they more common? Summers and winters don't feel any different to me than what they were when I was a child, they just get talked about a LOT more (my specific geographic location is probably a factor).

blackbrokkoli 5y ago
Take any region, country or city, look up heat highs or averages. You will inadvertently find that around half a dozen extreme events happened in the last two decades. Since a giant political movement seems to be based on the unwillingness to read more than ~24 characters at a time, here is a beautiful chart that really shows this: [0]. It does not even have text! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warming_stripes#/media/File:20181204_Warming_stripes_(global,_WMO,_1850-2018)_-_Climate_Lab_Book_(Ed_Hawkins).png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warming_stripes#/media/File:20...
- swader999 5y ago
  This is false. USGCRP Climate Science Special Assessment: Volume 1: Chapter 6: Temperature Changes in the United States https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/6/ https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/6/ Scroll down to figure 6.3. You can see that the 1920's to 1940's had more extreme heat events than any time since. Figure 6.4 is also useful to look at.
- jussij 5y ago
  This page lists the highest temperatures from around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records The nice thing about that page is when you scroll down to the continent/country table data there is an option to sort by date column. Sorting by date shows most of these records were set in the 21 century. More worryingly many of those records were set in the last half decade. While this might be coincidence, it could also be a trend and if it is the later then things are starting to look rather ominous. Time will tell.
gpm 5y ago
> my specific geographic location is probably a factor A substantial one too, here's a very very rough map (which only measures one aspect, and has terrible resolution) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_effects_of_climate_change#/media/File:Change_in_Average_Temperature.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_effects_of_climate_ch...