WTF Climate Change News

[Khamon]

yeah the hogs are a serious problem

 

[Casey Pelous]

HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE ARMADILLOS!! YOU SOCIOPATH!!!

I have it on good authority that these so-called "armadillos" are merely plastic props that are scattered along West Texas highways by the Highway Department in order to prevent motorists from losing their minds from the unrelenting tedium.

 

[Beebo Brink]

I have it on good authority that these so-called "armadillos" are merely plastic props that are scattered along West Texas highways by the Highway Department in order to prevent motorists from losing their minds from the unrelenting tedium.

Awww heck. You caught us.

Damn Yankees.....

 

[Beebo Brink]

This looks... interesting. If by interesting you mean ominous.

Climate Reanalyzer

Sea surface temperature (SST) data visualizations

climatereanalyzer.org

 

[Beebo Brink]

Yet Another Study Warns We're On Track To Hit 3 Degrees of Warming

Yet Another Study Warns We're On Track To Hit 3 Degrees of Warming

www.scihb.com

 

[Khamon]

As sea levels rise, the East Coast is also sinking

Coastal lands are subsiding and losing elevation, making rising seas all the worse.

arstechnica.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

Spain, Portugal mark record temperatures for April as heatwave continues

Mainland Spain and Portugal have broken temperature records for April, officials said Friday, as both nations wilt in an unusually early heatwave that has raised the risk of wildfires.

www.france24.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

Ocean temperatures are off the charts right now, and scientists are alarmed

ne major driver of the heat is believed to be an approaching – and potentially strong – El Niño, a natural climate fluctuation associated with warming in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, which has a global heating effect.

The world has just emerged from a 3-year La Niña, El Niño’s cooler counterpart, which has helped mask the full impact of global warming. Since La Niña ended in March, ocean temperatures seem to be on a rebound, scientists say.

“It’s a little bit like we’ve had the freezer door open for a while and it’s helped to cool the planet,” Johnson said. But even while that freezer has been open, background temperatures have continued to rise. Now the freezer is closed, everything is hotter than before.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Caete]

I have it on good authority that these so-called "armadillos" are merely plastic props that are scattered along West Texas highways by the Highway Department in order to prevent motorists from losing their minds from the unrelenting tedium.

 

[WolfEyes]

I have it on good authority that these so-called "armadillos" are merely plastic props that are scattered along West Texas highways by the Highway Department in order to prevent motorists from losing their minds from the unrelenting tedium.

Oh. You mean the speed bumps, not the elephant trippers.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Folks, I know lots of you live in places where "OMG, it's gonna be 87 frickin' degrees (30.5 C)!" (Okay, no one actually says "30.5 C" here, so that shouldn't have been in quotes, and I do apologize) is laughable, but very few people* in the PNW have air conditioning or any other form of cooling. Even that relatively moderate temp can be pretty bad here. We're supposed to break 90 F (32.2 C) this weekend. I'm lucky -- my house is well insulated and I have a whole-house fan, so the place stays reasonably comfortable through the day, then I can cool it down at night with the fan. Usually, anyway.

* Yeah, there's my neighbor who works in HVAC and "got a deal" on an AC unit. But, really, AC is pretty rare here.**

** Kinda hoping he might get me "a deal" on one of those.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Folks, I know lots of you live in places where "OMG, it's gonna be 87 frickin' degrees (30.5 C)!" (Okay, no one actually says "30.5 C" here, so that shouldn't have been in quotes, and I do apologize) is laughable, but very few people* in the PNW have air conditioning or any other form of cooling. Even that relatively moderate temp can be pretty bad here. We're supposed to break 90 F (32.2 C) this weekend. I'm lucky -- my house is well insulated and I have a whole-house fan, so the place stays reasonably comfortable through the day, then I can cool it down at night with the fan. Usually, anyway.

* Yeah, there's my neighbor who works in HVAC and "got a deal" on an AC unit. But, really, AC is pretty rare here.**

** Kinda hoping he might get me "a deal" on one of those.

Heat dome 2021 led to a number of deaths in our houses designed to keep heat in.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Beebo Brink]

Climate Change - NASA Science

NASA is a global leader in studying Earth’s changing climate.

climate.nasa.gov

Higher temperatures also affect the length of growing seasons and accelerate crop maturity.

“You can think of plants as collecting sunlight over the course of the growing season,” said Ruane. “They're collecting that energy and then putting it into the plant and the grain. So, if you rush through your growth stages, by the end of the season, you just haven't collected as much energy.” As a result, the plant produces less total grain than it would with a longer development period. “By growing faster, your yield actually goes down.”

“Even under optimistic climate change scenarios, where societies enact ambitious efforts to limit global temperature rise, global agriculture is facing a new climate reality,” Jägermeyr said. “And with the interconnectedness of the global food system, impacts in even one region’s breadbasket will be felt worldwide.”

 

[Beebo Brink]

Montana's New Anti-Climate Law May Be the Most Aggressive in the Nation - Inside Climate News

Montana Republican lawmakers have passed legislation that bars state agencies from considering climate change when permitting large projects that require environmental reviews, including coal mines and power plants. Gov. Greg Gianforte signed the bill last week, marking what could be considered...

insideclimatenews.org

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Beebo Brink]

Never saw this one coming. An entirely new area of concern!

The Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling, Prompting New Climate Concerns

A new study reaffirming that global climate change is human-made also found the upper atmosphere is cooling dramatically because of rising CO2 levels. Scientists are worried about the effect this cooling could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather.

e360.yale.edu

 

[Soen Eber]

Never saw this one coming. An entirely new area of concern!

The Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling, Prompting New Climate Concerns

A new study reaffirming that global climate change is human-made also found the upper atmosphere is cooling dramatically because of rising CO2 levels. Scientists are worried about the effect this cooling could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather.

e360.yale.edu

We are rapidly losing the satellites that have been monitoring the upper atmosphere. We need more missions to study this.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Never saw this one coming. An entirely new area of concern!

The Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling, Prompting New Climate Concerns

A new study reaffirming that global climate change is human-made also found the upper atmosphere is cooling dramatically because of rising CO2 levels. Scientists are worried about the effect this cooling could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather.

e360.yale.edu

...countdown till I see this article headline ripped out of context to suggest global warming is fine since the upper atmosphere is cooling...

But really, interesting article.... it never occurred to me that parts of the atmosphere would cool. Scary we just don't know the long term implications yet.