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No doubt the big Canadian Barbecue had a significant effect. Not to say there is no trend, just that this particular year is exceptional for at least on reason.
by phkahler 3y ago
No doubt the big Canadian Barbecue had a significant effect. Not to say there is no trend, just that this particular year is exceptional for at least on reason.
- Macha 3y agoI also wonder if the war in Ukraine had an effect too. To my understanding in a lot of the initial stage, Russia was extracting as much natural gas as stopping the extraction process would render it hard to restart, but with much reduced opportunities to sell it, they were just flaring the excess gas. Of course, the traditional customers of that gas were burning gas too, sourced from elsewhere via LNG, or in some cases, coal. So in effect in 2022, we ended up double dipping on the european fossil fuel usage as it was burned both in europe and in russia.
- phkahler 3y agoThe war has also affected air travel, which puts a lot of water vapor in the sky and seeds cloud formation in some conditions.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoSure, but you can look at the rest of the graph and see the clear trend even if you assume 2023 is an exceptional outlier to the exceptional.
- abenga 3y agoIt does seem like every subsequent year is exceptional though. This is the Simpsons' "the hottest year of your life so far" meme personified.