Climate change is making severe storms both more common and more intense.
First the river rose in Texas. Then, the rains fell hard over North Carolina, New Mexico and Illinois.
In less than a week, there were at least four 1-in-1,000-year rainfall events across the United States — intense deluges that are thought to have roughly a 0.1% chance of happening in any given year.
“Any one of these intense rainfall events has a low chance of occurring in a given year,” said Kristina Dahl, vice president for science at the nonprofit organization Climate Central, “so to see events that are historic and record-breaking in multiple parts of the country over the course of one week is even more alarming.”
It’s the kind of statistic, several experts said, that is both eye-opening and likely to become more common because of climate change.
But if we don’t talk about it, climate change will not happen. /s
Something something Jews controlling the weather with chemtrails all praise Trump.
Why would Joe Biden do this?
Honestly it was Obama. Biden died long ago and the wh just used a clone of him. See he used biden as a puppet so he could still have access to the white houses adrinochrome stash. They keep it stock piled in the basement.
Source: my friends older brother that smokes weed all day
You’d think that would be eye opening and somewhat concerning to folks. But I’ve found what tends to happen is ‘record fatigue’.
We’ve had ‘record high’ temperatures here in the Netherlands frequently the past few years. Meaning, the news will report ‘it’s the hottest july 1st since the start of the measurements’ and that ‘the previously hottest july 1st was in 2017’
Basically, it’s telling you two things:
- it’s a record high temperature
- the time between these records is decreasing.
Which obviously means things are getting worse. But most people just shrug and go ‘Gee, another record high temperature, how boring, those happen so often’.
Same thing with other types of problematic weather. At least stuff like record rainfall or flooding is hard to ignore.
They’re literally turning to “weather control” conspiracy theories rather than just accepting the known science.
I think this too, but I think the reason people get desensitized to it is that it just happens so frequently that it turns into background noise. Similar to alarm fatigue that nurses experience in ERs. Sort of an interesting piece of alarm fatigue is that too many warnings make people ignore them completely, and we get increasingly alarming news about climate almost daily at this point.
I think the reason people get desensitized to it is that it just happens so frequently that it turns into background noise.
This, but also a, “WTF more than I’ve already done am I supposed to do about it?” attitude.
The billionaires are still globetrotting in their private jets. The corporations are still spewing out pollution in the name of shareholder value. And our political leaders are, at best, saying, “Golly, maybe we should do something about this,” and at worst, actively denying that there’s a problem and doing everything they can to block any attempts to fix anything.
So you can’t really be surprised when regular people just throw up their hands and say, “Fuck it! I did my part. I need to prioritize protecting myself and my family now.”
Absolutely understand the point of view, but also think the doomer mentality is exactly what those fuckers want. I know this will be a huge shocker, but the richest people running around causing the most pollution are broadly made up of actual narcissists. They don’t care about the future past themselves, and they don’t care why people quit giving a shit as long as they can continue with their lifestyle. Oil companies are also just fine with doomers, too, as long as they aren’t actually doing anything about it.
I think the doomers have alarmed me almost more than the deniers. I can’t really argue with them like I can deniers, because they are working on the same set of facts. All I can do is basically plead with them to start giving a shit, which is almost as ineffective as arguing with deniers. I think more painfully is that it means we’ve just given up on trying to make things better. That we’re ready to just lay down and let the planet be squeezed by the greed of a few. Which means that we’ve given up on even a CHANCE that we’ll make the changes necessary to stop climate change.
Trying to stop that well funded greed train means taking a LOT of L’s. I’m just not a person that gives up easily. I genuinely believe that if we all keep hammering on it then it still has a chance of changing. That if we keep it as a priority that we can at least stick it to those greedy fuckwits a tiny bit. More than that though it means that we still have a chance to actually tackle this problem, where the doomer mentality takes that chance away.
On the other hand, I also spend my free time hand writing letters to conservative politicians to get them to replace Confederate statues with statues of John Brown. So my tolerance for pissing into the wind is quite high.
If 4 of them happened in a week, they are not once in a thousand years, lol, they are weekly occurrences
Believe it or not, there’s actual science and statistics that go into what is considered a “100 year storm” or “1000 year storm”, and yes they will be adjusted. That’s how it’s meant to work.
thats at least 16000 years of weather!
You tired of winning yet?
Thoughts and prayers. Sincerely, your fellow Americans who told you climate change is real and bad.
Make large reservoirs to catch all the water! This will cause it to never rain again. Just like setting up flood alarms. If it does ever rain you’ll catch water.
That water belongs to Nestlé.
Oh sure, we could have sponsorship challenges! Gamify water harvesting!
No, see, all this happened to maga coded places not famously queer places, do it’s not the wrath of god.
The weather this year is scaring me more than normal in south Texas. Not because the abnormal amount of rain but because the absolute lack of heat. Usually this time of year it’s 100+ for weeks on end.
…yeah, last year i was telling everyone to enjoy the hundred-degree weeks while they can because it would be the coolest summer for the rest of their lives, then this year comes a long and spoils it…
Ok
Some are unironically already saying it’s evil liberal cloud seeding.
Some are already doing violence about it.
We tried to warn them.
Reply that it’s God punishing the nation for electing a pedophile president.
Fun fact, the reason we all call it “climate change” and not “global warming” was because the George W Bush administration directed NASA to do so, as they deemed it less “scary” to the public:
In interviews, Republican politicians and their aides said they agreed with the strategist, Frank Luntz, that it was important to pay attention to what his memorandum, written before the November elections, called ‘‘the environmental communications battle.’’
In his memorandum, Mr. Luntz urges that the term ‘‘climate change’’ be used instead of ‘‘global warming,’’ because ‘‘while global warming has catastrophic communications attached to it, climate change sounds a more controllable and less emotional challenge.’’
Also, he wrote, ‘‘conservationist’’ conveys a ‘‘moderate, reasoned, common sense position’’ while ‘‘environmentalist’’ has the ‘‘connotation of extremism.’’
President Bush’s speeches on the environment show that the terms ‘‘global warming’’ and ‘‘environmentalist’’ had largely disappeared by late last summer. The terms appeared in a number of President Bush’s speeches in 2001, but now the White House fairly consistently uses ‘‘climate change’’ and ‘‘conservationist.’’
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/us/a-call-for-softer-greener-language.html
What drives me insane is how everyone on the left just… went along with it. Now we retroactively rewrite history and claim that they were always separate terms with entirely different distinct meanings. And knowing that so many highly educated, inquisitive, independent thinking people didn’t think to question that or look into that, it frightens me.
The left went along with it because they were tired of all the “then why is it so cold in winter?” comments from the stupid half of the family tree.
We still get that now. As if cold things can’t exist when it’s hotter.
While the Bush administration certainly had (very obviou$) reasons for trying to downplay it, I also remember at least some scientists at the time arguing that climate change was a better term because people are particularly stupid about the term global warming when it paradoxically results in some places having a greater number of and more extreme cold events.
Ex: every time some dumbfuck Republican brought a snowball into Congress to talk about how global warming is fake because look here’s snow!!
I also remember at least some scientists at the time arguing that climate change was a better term because people are particularly stupid about the term global warming when it paradoxically results in some places having a greater number of and more extreme cold events.
That’s how I recall the term climate change coming into favor, too.
That snowball guy finally died last year, thank God. Too bad it wasn’t from a flood or hurricane.
God, I wish it only happened once.
Good to know! They should have been a little more creative and called it something familiar and snappy like Sport Utility Environment or Gas Guzzler.
So remember that tipping point we were warned about? Yeah, its happening. The deep ocean currents in the southern ocean have reversed.. TLDR: warmer saltier carbon dioxide rich water is now coming up from the deep ocean instead of being trapped there. It is melting sea-ice from below and could eventually lead to the reversal or stagnation of other ocean currents.
Yep. SMOC reversed.
We. Are. Fucked.
Sooner or later the AMOC will start to be affected as well
Even better, this occurred about a decade ago, and we didn’t even realize it untill now… meaning the global thermohaline circulation cycle has been collapsing for a decade.
Oops.
Irreversible. Can’t fix.
No going back.
In all likelihood, we have Great Filtered ourselves.
Best case scenario, we get a century or so, starting basically now, of civilization collapse, mass famine and death, attempts at mass migrations that mostly get Holocausted, and of course wars, potentially nuclear wars…
…and then maybe in 100 years the remaining human population of roughly 1-2 billion can maybe figure out a new paradigm… if we have not just permanently broken the biosphere, and already extracted all the easily extractable natural resources.
My money is on nuclear self-destruction. We have way too many of these things in the hands of extremely poor leadership. It really feels like it’s just a matter of time.
… I have a graphic for that, if you’re in the US.
“I don’t want to set the world… on… fire…”
Sure glad republicans are in charge of everything
