I see people talking about weather getting unpredictable.<p>This was predictable, and was predicted: <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/</a>. The technical summary is 160 pages and should be required reading for anyone over the age of 13: <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_TS.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...</a>. The Paris Agreement, for all its problems, tries to keep increase below 1.5 C over pre-industrial. We are locked in for 20-30 more years of increases like this if we stop emitting net CO2 in 5 years, best case. This is the <i>beginning</i> of global warming, it will be getting worse. I plan on retiring from software soon to devote the rest of my life to technical and political work to keep Earth habitable for subsequent generations while retaining the knowledge and technological progress made possible from the carbon age. Too many people in software - just my experience, and definitely not limited to software - have no concept of the orders of magnitude of energy involved and unreasonable expectations of other engineering fields to solve this problem. I hope more people will join me.
This is good if you pay for energy in the UK. Prices have shot up recently, and there are fears that a lot of people will get surprised if the winter is chilly. Of course we've yet to see how it plays out.<p>Friends on mine in the energy business think it could get really really bad if it's cold.
This is very menacing, more than could seem at first glance. All sort of crops could bloom much too soon, and be destroyed at the next cold event. And every summer from now on, we'll be under the menace of an extreme hot event destroying major cereal crops around the world. Global food shortage could be around the corner every year, forever. Combine that with a looming fossil fuel supply crunch, and we're on the verge of civilisational collapse, just like that.
French Brittany, was sunbathing this morning at 10:00 at 15°C on the beach, with bees flying around. These are summer temperatures, and even in summer it's usually colder than that at this time of the day. Felt completely unreal.
It was 16 Celcius in Ireland yesterday. I have my window wide open in the middle of winter to cool the apartment. I can appreciate climate != weather. However it is a very odd warming event.
Record high temps outnumber record lows by 2:1. The planet is hotter than its been in 100,000 years. Co2 levels are higher than they've been in 800,000 years. 4 Hiroshima bombs per second worth of extra heat energy are being trapped in the climate system by the co2 we've emitted. The oceans are 25% more acidic because of how much of our co2 has been absorbed by the oceans. Absolute humidity has increased 7% because a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture and warmer oceans evaporate more readily.
Yep, Austin just had the warmest December on record. About 12 degrees F above "normal." <a href="https://www.kvue.com/article/weather/december-2021-warmest-on-record-austin/269-33c5321d-fc57-4e50-b267-c135dbd0538c#:~:text=The%20normal%20December%20average%20temperature,span%20of%20an%20entire%20month" rel="nofollow">https://www.kvue.com/article/weather/december-2021-warmest-o...</a>.
For those of us used to degrees F, keep this in mind:<p><pre><code> 10 C ~= 50 F
20 C ~= 68 F
30 C ~= 86 F
</code></pre>
So 15 C is about 59 degrees F.
I don't have a habit of checking temperature but felt like 15 degree here on Bulgaria. Spent most of the day outside and there were all kinds of insects flying around.<p>Guess the summer is going to suck. Either too hot or too cold.
tongue in cheek uk weather seasons (but close to the truth)<p><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/1Brt04C" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/gallery/1Brt04C</a><p>I think there should be an extra winter in there after summer begins
It was 15C NYE and the record was 18.0C at Abergwyngregyn, Gwynedd in 1972.<p>I am pretty happy to be honest, considering the fuel crisis, this is a blessing to some. I am not convinced that life everywhere will suddenly be terrible just because it is a little warmer. We had warm periods before and things got better. The Late Bronze Warm Period, The Roman Warm period, and the Middle Age Warm Period.<p><a href="https://imgr.search.brave.com/v3hRyzU6Mm1ShpkX2Z4SEYasQRtDD-ENZk_PpK0ovLY/fit/1200/1200/ce/1/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5z/dXN0YWluYWJsZW9y/ZWdvbi5jb20vcGlj/dHVyZXMvQ2VudHJh/bF9HcmVlbmxhbmRf/VGVtcGVyYXR1cmVf/MjAwMEJDJTIwX3Rv/X1ByZXNlbnQtQWxs/ZXktSGFkQ1JVVC1L/b2Jhc2hpLnBuZw" rel="nofollow">https://imgr.search.brave.com/v3hRyzU6Mm1ShpkX2Z4SEYasQRtDD-...</a><p>Also see global greening <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/greening-of-the-earth-mitigates-surface-warming" rel="nofollow">https://www.nasa.gov/feature/greening-of-the-earth-mitigates...</a>