post your prompt as well or take a hike
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Yeah, next year is gonna be wild, and then we’ll get a bump to the baseline temperature that could take us to 1.7⁰C or beyond. We are literally in uncharted territory now, so who the ■■■■ knows how bad it’s going to be.
I hope I’m wrong, but it feels like things are going to really start unravelling quite soon. I’m worried about the fertiliser shortage on top of this El Niño and what that will mean for food production for some of the planets more vulnerable inhabitants.
As usual, the people who have done the least to cause this mess are going to suffer first whilst these greedy techno ■■■■■ are actively making things way worse at hyper speed. Seriously, ■■■■ them. Evil, evil ■■■■■.
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It’s both fascinating and a bit scary to watch this event develop. The effects will be felt deep into 2027 which is going to be our hottest year by quite a distance if forecasts are even close to being accurate.
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Swiss glaciers shrank by 5.5% in the first eight months of 2026, according to an annual monitoring report, after a summer of scorching heatwaves that followed a winter with little snow. The reduction in ice volume falls just shy of the record set in 2022 and brings the total loss of glacier ice since 2021 to 19.4%.
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Well it didn’t say anything to me.
Clearly it’s at least partially anthropogenic.
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Following our hottest August, September comes in as second hottest (1.63⁰C) in recorded history after the insanely anomalous (at the time) 2023. It is just going to get warmer and warmer from here so we will probably be breaking monthly records for a while now.
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so, in summary…
- El Niño is not caused by humans
- However the effects of El Niño are made worse by humans
- Action by humans to reduce the harm of these effects would be a good idea
is that correct?
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That’s kind of what I got from it.
Analogous to the suggestion that seasons are natural, which they are, therefore human activity doesn’t affect the severity of them, which…I mean it just doesn’t follow.
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The downward trend it autumn really stands out.
Still in the 30s in France after a summer that broke all the records. They might look back on this summer very fondly. Next summer is almost certainly going to be hotter. It’s a new world for them. A world they are ill equipped to deal with.
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It begins. This is only the second time in California’s history that a tropical storm alert has been issued by the NOAA. California will be right on the frontline of some extreme weather the next 6 months or so. Damages on the other side could end up over a trillion just for this state, but yeah, it’s just too expensive to fight climate change.
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I could have posted this in the what annoys your thread but decided to put it here.
I read the below quote attribited to Russell Grimwade in 1937, it is on display at an exhibition on eucalypts at the potter gallery at Melbourne University
“We have duty to leave our successors as good or a better land than we have enjoyed, If we do not learn by the mistakes that time is now revealing in other countries we are failing in our trust… Are we yet taking action to avoid those mistakes? There is ample evidence that we are not.”
The only change I see in the last 90 years is we can add “the mistakes in our own country” to his quote.
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It can be a devastating feedback loop that really paints a picture of how intertwined everything is and what messing with it means. For example, Northern Spain where monoculture forests which were used for charcoal production have now dried the soil to the point where the soil in the mycelium has died. It’s creating a situation where the clouds that used to come from the Mediterranean are rising above and sailing past because the forests aren’t releasing moisture. It’s become a self-drying environment. And when it does rain in winter the ground is so compacted it flushes away all the nutrients because of a lack of fauna. So you have a colapse of the mycelium infrastructure and the nutrient base.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1125786521000084
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Desertification, yay. Eventually we’ll wake up…
It’s either going to be the hottest year ever, or extremely close to it. Given that there were La Niña conditions up to April it is quite remarkable. We are probably going to get a full month above 2⁰C in the next 6 months as this El Niño has its impact.
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Nice quote. IIRC, the Grimwades were (don’t know about “still are”) Liberal bluebloods so probably would have been backing “Honest” Johnny’s overruling scientific consensus about global warming, and leading the charge to be where we find ourselves now.
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Is october considered the wettest month of the year?
It is in Gqeberha.
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