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The hype about this is really funny. "Climate change is making heat-related extremes of weather more intense and when we think about those record-breaking temp
by ipspam 5y ago
The hype about this is really funny.
"Climate change is making heat-related extremes of weather more intense and when we think about those record-breaking temperature the chance of breaking temperature records – or coming close to breaking records – is greatly increased."
Thanks Einstein!
Let's say hypothetically weather works a 100 year cycle, and that the mean global temperature rises 0.1 degrees per decade.....
Guess what! Every single temperature record gets reset multiple times per 100 years, but at the end of the day the temperature is only 1 degree hotter even though I have had to endure 10,000 articles claiming global warming and weather disasters and records etc.
It's really a quite vapid but easy headline clickbait that we aren't getting away from anytime soon.
- CarelessExpert 5y ago> but at the end of the day the temperature is only 1 degree hotter On average, across the whole planet, yes. In specific regions, this is absolutely false. There are non-linear effects in the climate system that result in some areas warming much faster (e.g. the arctic). Frankly, if any analysis is vapid, it's this one.
- ipspam 5y agoRight, so I'll have to endure 30,000 articles because some regions are heated up more and some regions are cooling down, so even more temperature records will be set. Which only makes the relevance of the headlines even less