Climate Change Is Real...
... and I don't need an expert to tell me that.
Today, as there will be 38° C (100° F) the highest temperature, much like the entire week, nobody can tell me this isn't real.
My sister and her family just got back from their summer vacation, and they have issues adjusting to the weather at home, which is the same as it was when they left, but about 5 degrees or more higher temperatures on average than at their vacation spot, which is further south by the way, and theoretically it should be hotter.
I tried to think of extreme weather from my childhood. I couldn't think of many, and when they were, they were... different than today. For example, I remember an episode with hail and rain that caught us at our grandparents when we were kids. Being a little boy, the house old and the grown-ups being very upset because it destroyed the crops, it probably stuck in my mind to some degree. But hail is not something unusual in our part of the world in the summer. What is different nowadays is that due to extreme temperatures very rarely does a weather change comes without strong storms.
Otherwise, I do remember playing around all day in the hot sun without any protection, which I doubt children do these days at these temperatures (and are ok), we certainly didn't have any AC and I don't think we had a fan either, but I'm not sure. So it was manageable.
What was also different was the winters. It's been a while since we had more than a few snowflakes and a snow bed that lasts more than a few hours. Back then, winters with 30-50 cm of snow were... regular, and those without snow were highly unlikely.
The first episode of extreme weather I can vividly remember even after some 20 years, was at our old flat, when the wind (possibly a small tornado, although at that time nobody talked about tornadoes in our country, but later they started to), took off the rooftop off the block we lived in like it was a piece of paper. I watched as it did in dismay, and it was close to send one of the roebucks through our window, as I was watching. Everything lasted a few minutes at most (for us) without any warning, except the sky getting really dark right before that.
The last few years in the house we own has been eventful due to the weather every summer. The house is only 20 years old, and is solid like many in the neighborhood.
Yet, until last year, every year for a few years, summer storms either moved or took off a few tiles off the house and/or fences. That happened to pretty much all my neighbors too. A few are spared due to their less exposed positions compared to the usual pathway of these storms. Anything you leave unsecured in the yard and the wind can lift off gets destroyed and becomes a projectile. Learned the hard way a few times. The problem is you can't be always there to make sure everything is secured before hell breaks loose.
Since last year we made extensive (and costly) improvements, and no tiles have been shaken this summer. But we didn't get off so easily. We have a polycarbonate rooftop over an area where we kept the car, like an open garage.
Well, this summer we had a strong storm with hail. And we need a new polycarbonate rooftop (apparently hard to find these days). We also had a few broken lamps which we already replaced. We are lucky! Others in town I heard were left without any windows after that storm, and other significant damages.
So yeah, the climate is changing before our eyes. Others may look forward to summer and vacation time approaching. I simply hate it and can't wait for it to be over already. Only to start over next year...
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It is real, but it has not too much to do with CO2-levels, and the idea that "saving" CO2 can change the course of the climate, is lunatic. In the past we had cycles of climate changes than span 1000s of years with no fossile combustion cars, etc. Ask the "experts" how they explain these changes :) They won´t know (or won´t admit that the sun has something to do with it), so why they are so certain about what to do now?
The climate change discourse is more about control of people and their habits than about their influence on climate change, imo.
Maybe the cows from that time had something to do with it, lol. Like a mass bad stomach for centuries, or something like that...
We’re getting to see more of extreme things these days. Extreme heat, extreme rain and all
It’s crazy
Yep, other areas on the globe get extreme rain, which is bad also. We could settle with a little rain every once in a while during summer (but often nowadays rain is not enough in other seasons either). But that rarely comes.
So are you trying to say you had more snowy winter back when you were a toddler more than you actually have snow in nowadays winters?
Yes. Back then we had snow practically every winter. Nowadays it's a rarity to have snow in our area. Maybe a few snow flakes, but rarely something that sticks. Not that I am a fan of snow either, but I just remarked the difference between the two periods.
I don't understand the mysteries of the weather, however I have a theory. I think the impact of human development gradually slows down the frequency of nature itself.
I don't know what to say. To me it seems like we are to Earth something like ants are to us. It is a self-regulating organism, and when a high enough imbalance will be created, it will rebalance itself. That doesn't mean we'll be around to see it when it does.
There does seem to be bouts of extreme weather. I do wonder if they are doing any cloud seeding to cause this as it wasnt so in the past, or at least so extreme.
Maybe they are trying to fix a problem (drought) and their solution leads to extreme weather conditions. I know at some point we had an anti-hail system close-by. I don't think it's being used anymore or it's not as effective as in the past. Maybe storms come too quickly now and they can't "fire" at them and disperse the hail clouds.
When you play with complex systems like the weather, you should expect some anomalies, for sure.
100%!
I think generally many people have agreed that the Earth is getting hotter and those around the equator tend to feel the heat the most. It's unimaginable for me to play outside during hot summer now, but this was a common thing I did more than half a decade ago, the heat wasn't extreme or very intense back then.
A taxi driver once told me that someone from Africa (he didn't say from what part of Africa, and obviously that's a BIG continent) who now probably lives in our town at least for work and told him when he got back here from Africa that he was melting. And the taxi driver asked him: "Aren't you from Africa? Isn't it hotter there?" And he replied: "I come from 33 degrees Celsius. Here there are 39 degrees."
Oh wow, 6 degrees difference can be quite a lot to adapt to. I think it could be that around the equator there's a bit stability with temperatures compared to the North or South where it could be a bit more extreme.
From my talks with Nigerians on Hive, which are close to the equator, but not exactly on it, they dislike most the frequent (daily) and heavy rains. More than the temperatures, which are ok over there.
Yes, I've noticed that heavy rains are becoming more common. Somehow, I liken it to the weather becoming more volatile, how often it rains seems to be decreasing but when it rains, it always rains heavily.
Ah, so you are from Nigeria too?
Lol, no. I'm at Gambia.
Ah, ok. Similar latitude at least. 😄
Yes, and the longitudinal difference isn't that much too, around one hour time difference.
I think times are changing. Our body doesn't adapt as well to changes in temperature and we are also used to the new technology. There is so much happening and things are changing quite fast.
We'll get used to it. There are people living in worse conditions than that. But they kind of expected that from the start. We used to live in a temperate continental climate. There's nothing temperate about it nowadays, at least where I live.
Earth has been both warmer and colder. It goes through these cycles on its own due to various reasons including astronomical reasons.
Thanks for the videos. I liked the second one more. It has more questions than certainties, and I agree with the conclusion: we have no idea why this happens at this speed. We can blame human activity all we want, and it may have some influence, but it seems there are other contributing factors we aren't exactly sure where they come from or where they will lead to.
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