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Japan's summers have lengthened by 3 weeks over 42 years, say resaerchers
- SeanAnderson 1y agoReminds me of one of the more conclusive pieces of evidence that global warming is occurring - the date cherry blossoms flower in Kyoto (https://i.imgur.com/sD4nZuh.png https://i.imgur.com/sD4nZuh.png) It's a cool piece of data because it's been tracked for over 1100 years. We don't have a ton of sources of information like that.
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- monster_truck 1y ago[flagged]
- bsimpson 1y agoLooks like a regression line between April 1 and May 1. The line moves around between the 11th and the 16th from the year ~850 until ~1950, but never crosses it until ~1950. The current average is about 6 days earlier (April 5th).
- Mistletoe 1y agoAfter 1900, it starts nose diving.
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- cryptonector 1y ago1,100 years is not much in geological terms. In the time we had the little ice age come and go.
- bigiain 1y agoWhile that's true, it's pretty relevant if you're trying to detect or measure human-caused climate changes. And particularly with respect to changes in both population growth and the effects of the industrial revolution. The planet went from having around 350 million people in 1000AD, to over 8 billion people now. We went from powering things with human and animal muscles and heating things with effectively carbon-neutral woodfires with only decades or centuries of captured carbon, to burning coal and oil releasing millions or hundreds of millions of years worth of captured carbon into the atmosphere.
- port11 1y agoOkay, but have you looked at the chart? Because it's very clearly changing in the past century or so.
- 12345hn6789 1y ago"climate change is a hoax." "Climate change has no scientific evidence" "Climate change is only peddled by quack researchers" "Climate change isn't widely accepted yet" "Climate change cannot happen as fast as research is predicting" <---- you are here "Snow rarely happens around town anymore" "I hope my children can vacation to Alaska to ski"
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- martinpw 1y agoThat graph looks quite old - here is a more current one showing the continued decline: https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/japans-cherry-trees-have-been-blossoming-earlier-due-to-warmer-spring-temperatures https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/japans-cherry-trees... Looks like the 20 year average is around 2 April.
- xrd 1y agoI believe I heard that Miami has added 40 days of summer weather.
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- jongjong 1y agoWe are quite literally baking the planet. First with Bitcoin mining now with AI data centers. I pray that at least the AI datacenters will be allowed to be put to good use instead of BS jobs.
- Gigachad 1y agoWe are going to bake the planet for AI Stephen Hawking videos and Twitter politics bots.
- ninetyninenine 1y agoAi will take over our jobs which makes it so we can’t afford ai which causes ai companies to go belly up which causes the economy to implode thereby saving the planet.
- z3c0 1y ago..."first with Bitcoin"? Is that the narrative we're buying now? That this problem starts at Bitcoin? Not the coal-fired electrical grid fueling it?
- kibwen 1y agoAny proof-of-work cryptocurrency is literally a system that incentivizes runaway, self-reinforcing energy consumption like no other product in human history. Bringing it into the world is the dumbest idea that any human has ever had. I hope Satoshi is ashamed of his mental lapse.
- lozenge 1y agoDon't worry about it, as one very famous and respected climate change economist once calculated, farming only comes to 3% of global GDP.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoCoal powered steel mills and aluminum refining are orders of magnitude more impactful.
- shoobiedoo 1y agoThe worst part about this is that the motorcyclists stay out longer and longer until it gets below 10 degrees. I live in the "quiet countryside" and all I hear on the weekends, holidays, and often Monday/Tuesday is over the top loud motorbikes racing past my house.
- monster_truck 1y agolol
- brendoelfrendo 1y agoYou should try riding, it's fun.
- shoobiedoo 1y agoI'd love to to try a motorcycle that doesn't disturb people for at least a half kilometre around me while I wear comfy ear protection, sure. Unfortunately that isn't anywhere close to the norm in Japan
- bigiain 1y agoThose motorcycles definitely exist, and are pretty much just as much fun to ride as the noisy ones - except for the extrovert, obnoxious, or insecure riders who _need_ noisy exhausts. At least here in Australia, any new bike you buy off a dealership has to meet the noise regulations, and under normal use they're almost as quiet as modern cars. The noisy ones you hear are all modified or old, perhaps both (a bike needs to be pre 1972 in Australia to be completely exempt from modern noise restrictions.) There are even fully electric motorcycles available, but they're really not prime time "just go down to a dealer and buy one, and get it serviced everywhere" ready yet. (Full disclosure, 2 or my 5 motorcycles have noisy exhausts. Not "hear from half a kilometer away" loud, but technically illegally loud and definitely loud enough that I take extra care arriving or departing home very late or early, out of respect for my neighbors. Interestingly for this discussion, the 3 bikes with quiet, factory stock, 100% road legal exhausts are all Japanese - in fact all Hondas. The noisy bikes are both Italian - a Ducati and a Cagiva.)
- johnnienaked 1y agoShareholder value must increase, planet be damned.
- Aeolun 1y agoCan confirm. 12th Oct in Tokyo, is 23 degrees (celsius) out. It’d be nice if it didn’t mean the rest of summer is hotter too.
- yayo1 1y agoI'm sorry, but it will obviously do, especially in Tokyo. Tokyo is experiencing a serious urban heat island effect, which is exacerbated by an increase in sources of exhaust heat.
- thenthenthen 1y agoI am in Shanghai and it is 33 c… on 12 OCTOBER. Very bizarre.
- stefantalpalaru 1y ago[dead]
- ggm 1y agoSummer is an overloaded word. The solstice doesn't change. What changes, is the temperature and thus climate, out of sync with the longer baseline. Lunar calendars don't generally inform plant behaviour as strongly as temperature but day/night cycle time isn't changing while temperature is, and that may play havoc with wildlife and plants which depend on aspects of day/night cycle for best breeding outcomes.
- tmtvl 1y agoTypo in the submission that isn't in the original (or which has been fixed in the original): researchers instead of 'resaerchers'.