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The climate over the last 10 years haven't felt or been exceptional. The news has certainly been sensational.
by ToDougie 3y ago
The climate over the last 10 years haven't felt or been exceptional. The news has certainly been sensational.
- sofixa 3y agoAre you kidding? How many temperature records were broken? How many "once in a 100 years events" happened? Texas had two such winter storms in less than 10 years. There have been record droughts in France, and then record rainfalls. An unprecedented heat dome in the Pacific Northwest. Vast areas in the Middle East and South Asia, and hell the US too, are approaching unliveable wet bulbs temperatures in the summer. If that isn't exceptional to you, what would be?
- phero_cnstrcts 3y agoHappens all the time. Media wants you to believe otherwise so the rich can get richer and have more control.
- sofixa 3y agoWhich exactly part happens all the time? Each year setting temperature records? "Once in a lifetime" climate disasters? Wildfires getting worse and worse? On the wet bulb temperature front, it's literally unprecedented and quite impactful. Millions of people would be unable to survive where they currently live and would need to move.
- netsharc 3y agoIsn't amazing how actual people can put their heads in sand and say "Oh it's just media conspiracy and lies to fuck over us poor people!" about anything they don't like. Added irony that the person is a commenter on HN, who is probably the top 10% of the richest people in the world.
- ben_w 3y agoMonday this week, it was 24°C here, a full 9°C above the seasonal average for Berlin for the beginning of October. I'm aware this is anecdata, but I'm not used to needing to wear shorts in September, let alone October.
- wrycoder 3y agoMeanwhile, the global troposphere is averaging 0.56C higher than it was four decades ago.