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This bad take comes up all the time and I try to educate people every time it pops up: > California is getting hotter and dryer with the climate catastrophe C
by subsubzero 3y ago
This bad take comes up all the time and I try to educate people every time it pops up:
> California is getting hotter and dryer with the climate catastrophe
California in the 20th century was very abnormally wet and mild. Using scientific data and looking back 2000+ years one gets a picture of centuries long droughts, and of extreme weather as very normal. This is the status quo and the past 100 years of mild and wet climate is the weird abnormality(which people think it always should be like).
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/science/californias-history-of-drought-repeats.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/science/californias-histo...
- runarberg 3y agoWhat does it matter? California is getting hotter and dryer regardless, and this still amplifies all the previous mentioned problems of invasive species, and decades of forest mismanagement. Also California does not exist in a vacuum. The earth is getting significantly warmer. West Coast USA will become dryer as a result, if this is the “natural state” of California (whatever that means for a dynamic climate system) than California will become hotter and dryer still.
- yieldcrv 3y agothe earth will be fine its the humans we are worried about
- blooalien 3y agoHonestly, at this point I've given up on worrying about humans surviving. Our "leaders" have made it pretty clear that "long-term survival" is just not on their agenda, and we've allowed them to amass enough "wealth", "power", and weapons to make changing their minds pretty much impossible. What I worry about now, more than anything else, is that humanity has reached a level of destructiveness that we may trigger something literally catastrophic to this planet's ability to support life at all. What an incredible loss that would be.