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Climate Change
It's mid-April, and only 10 degrees Celsius (that's 50 Fahrenheit for you Americans, just get along with the rest of the world already). I'm wearing two sweaters, heating my furnace and freezing to death, and I remember that only two weeks ago you could walk the street in a T-shirt.
I don't remember the temperature ever being as inconsistent as in the last couple of years. The winters are especially hellish - it tends to switch between -20 C and +20 C on a weekly basis, which means, you guessed, a lot of mud and a lot of depression. I remember that, two years ago, people were swimming in the city lake and girls were walking around in tank tops and shorts in the middle of fucking January, then later that very year half a meter of snow fell, out of nowhere, in late May. It's insane.
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>50 degrees Fahrenheit
>two sweaters
^^ The hell you say, 50 degrees Fahrenheit is comfortable. Maybe a little on the chilly side.
:P
Usually, it wouldn't be a problem, but takes time to get used to it after a sharp drop from 80 F.
Fair enough.
^^ Fair enough.
With the whole -20 C to +20 C bit, it's understandable. I was just messin' with you.
>50 degrees Fahrenheit
>not freezing to death
Weird, it's been unusually warm here in Chicago. We usually get at least one snow storm in March and it stays around 45~ degrees in April.
The southern half of England is officially in drought, mostly because of two successive dry winters. It's quite serious; small rivers are running dry and people have been banned from using hosepipes in their gardens. But you'd never really guess this just walking around London, especially given that it's been raining off and on all week.
Except when it's 'cold and threatening to rain but never does'.
> record-breaking snowstorms in northeastern U.S. in early 2011
> FUCKING EPIC DROUGHT IN TEXAS
> tropical storm wrecks Vermont, breaks power outage records in Connecticut
> late October snowstorm produces white halloween, breaks power outage records in Connecticut AGAIN
> unusually warm and dry 2011-2012 winter
> D.C. cherry blossoms blooming way too fucking early
> wildfires in Miami and Long Island
> time to change tactics! Okay, fine, we agree that climate change is happening. But we're sure it's not our fault!
i'm amused at the fact that everest and forzare's answers were pretty much the same.
carry on
Being from the Northeast my temperature ranges from around 0 to 100˚ F and yep, our weather has been pretty crazy too. Right now it's in the upper 70s and 80s, but just two weeks ago it was around 40 and two weeks before that it was 75. This was an important post
am i gonna have to stab a bitch
all signs point to yes
Yeah, more seriously, it's been weird. Last winter we got record amounts of snowfall, and this year we got like one snowstorm in October and nothing else.
This was also an important post.
Is it bad that for me, 10 degrees C is like a warm day?
It's hard to tell if the weather is off here in Milwaukee since it is always all over the place, but this year we had a frea heat wave of up to 90 degrees in March. People were all cooing about how it was such great weather when I'm getting freaked out that it is far hotter than it should be for weeks on end.
I remember when I was a kid and Australia still actually had four seasons. Around the turn of the millennium, a massive drought hit and we slowly moved into a kind of two-season thing, and so it's been even after the end of the drought.
The two seasons are essentially "hot and rainy" and "cold and dry".
I remember Senior Skip Day really feeling like summer--literally feeling like June. I also remember the next week bringing snow.
This, too, was an important post.
Well, Oregon's weather has always been kind of a crack-addled squirrel with a marked propensity toward raining for days on end, but we have been getting snow snaps and hot days way out of season for the last few years.
testy testy test
If we're talking about shocking changes in weather, here's a story that my mother told me a couple of times (it has nothing to do with climate change per se, but whatever, it's interesting).
In the entire former Yugoslavia it's a tradition to, on the first of May (Labour day), go out with your family or friends, bring grilled meat, a roast pig or a roast lamb and have a picnic.
Well, it were the early 70s, my mom was very little, and she want to such a picnic with her parents and brother to her grandparents' house. It's on a mountain, in the middle of nowhere, and to get to it you need to leave your car on the closest road and walk for several kilometers across a forest, pasture and a fruit plantation. They arrived at the house in the evening on the 30th of April - it was a wonderful day, and they brought no clothes but the light, summer garb they were already wearing, not even jackets.
They spent the night there, and when they woke up, there was a huge snowstorm. The snow was half a meter deep. They figured that, if they stay, they're going to be swept up and probably won't be able to leave in more than a week, and that they'll have to leave immediately and as quickly as possible. Then they had to cross the exact same way that they came by in order to get to the car. All four of them ended up with pneumonia and some nasty frostbites. The kids had to go to the hospital, where my mom barely survived, and my grandfather barely managed to keep half of his toes from getting amputated.
Oh, I forgot to mention the 18 feet of snow in Alaska this past winter.
The unusually warm and dry winter was in the northeastern U.S., and to lesser extent, the eastern U.S. in general.
The weather is now finally resembling spring. Hope it holds.
This species is so very, very screwed...
There are a lot of species in trouble because of climate change, but I really don't think humans are one of them. We're the ones doing the screwing.
I mean that we're digging our own graves with great efficiency. But yes, we'll probably end up killing a lot of other things in the process, which will make things suck even more.
True, it'll suck for us humans, but Homo sapiens are far from going extinct compared to a looot of other things.
I hope you're right. I really do. And to be honest, I don't necessarily think that we'll actually drive ourselves to extinction. But I do think that we are horrifyingly close to that point, and that the path we are on is all but a guaranteed death sentence for us.