Conservatives do control the largest portion of the textbook industry, and intentionally try to wreck science education for everyone, so naturally many liberals will be affected too.
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What effects of climate change have you witnessed?
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Climate is the overall average temperatures, patterns of weather and weather intensity, and so on. Big stuff. Any one weather event, or series of events, in a locality isn't indicative of anything regarding the climate overall.
Several weather changes but those are localized.
I do think that we are already in a runway climate change environment and will not be able to make significant changes to save the planet.
I do think that we are already in a runway climate change environment and will not be able to make significant changes to save the planet.
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None? Climate change takes thousands of years. You're witnessing normal variation.
I've done a fair bit of atmospheric research, so I'm hesitant to say anything too specific. However, the area of the US I live in (the southwest) is getting increasingly dry. I don't want to say I've seen it (because I'm a human and in my 20s and have only been paying attention recently) but its evident in the data.
And it's a big deal given much of the southwest is already in drought.
What we're seeing now is climate change due to an uptick in CO2 (and other gases which trap heat). The rate at which it is happening is variable, but it's generally well known the climate is changing on the order of decades (each decades average is warmer than the last, that is to say).
I can provide sources if you'd like : )
And it's a big deal given much of the southwest is already in drought.
Climate change can happen over a large range of timescales from just a few years, to decades, to hundreds, thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years.
What we're seeing now is climate change due to an uptick in CO2 (and other gases which trap heat). The rate at which it is happening is variable, but it's generally well known the climate is changing on the order of decades (each decades average is warmer than the last, that is to say).
I can provide sources if you'd like : )
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My parents own a small ranch on MN and they grow alfalfa hay. It used to be they'd get 2 crops, 3 if they were lucky. Nowadays 3 is a given due to longer growing season.
We also own a cabin built in early 1900s which contains a journal cataloguing snow depth. Not comprehensive since somebody needs to have gone up there, but it's got like minimum 5 entries a year. Anyways, it's crazy to read back and see how much snow there was. We eithet get significantly less snow now or it's melting quicker.
I've always wondered if this journal would have scientific value to somebody.
Edit: to the people debating whether human lifetimes are too short to notice climate change... ask a farmer if they notice anything.
We also own a cabin built in early 1900s which contains a journal cataloguing snow depth. Not comprehensive since somebody needs to have gone up there, but it's got like minimum 5 entries a year. Anyways, it's crazy to read back and see how much snow there was. We eithet get significantly less snow now or it's melting quicker.
I've always wondered if this journal would have scientific value to somebody.
Edit: to the people debating whether human lifetimes are too short to notice climate change... ask a farmer if they notice anything.
i'm in scotland and we like to joke that "summer is my favourite day of the year" because of how shite our weather is but it really is fucking shite the last few years. too much snow and it's constantly wet/cloudy/miserable. i really don't think we're gonna have any kind of good weather this year. wouldn't be surprised if it snowed again. if we're lucky we'll get a week of nice weather than that's us had it for another year or two. the last good weather i remember was in 2014/2015. there have been warm days but shitey warm days.
Living in fear of it.
I was always wonder how it'll be towards the end of my life. The single most important issue of our lifetime.
I was always wonder how it'll be towards the end of my life. The single most important issue of our lifetime.
It's snowed a week ago where I live, typically now it's mild temps and rain. I could literally see confused birds.
Yup. The glaciers vanishing here in Switzerland is very evident. As a child, I remember having lots of snow in the Jura geographic region of Switzerland. We're lucky if we get at least some snow now during the Winter.
I live in Switzerland, so It's mostly mild winters/melting glaciers. The one on the picture is Aletsch glacier, biggest glacier in the Alps, which is about 20 minutes away from where I live. It's an iconic piece of Swiss landscape and seeing it recede like that hits close to home.
Edit: I agree with the other posts mentioning a word of caution, as to not confuse weather with climate. However, I still think certain larger-scale examples are becoming more and more evident. I truly believe humankind needs to feel like everything has gotten worse because of climate change before big and impactful measures will be done (i.e. like large-scale carbon capture tech perhaps?). For the record: I'm a chemist dealing with environmental stuff and have to regularly explain the carbon cycle, greenhouse effect and the vast amount of CO2 and CH4 we're pumping into the atmosphere. It's a shame we can't see these gases with our eyes...
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And yes, climate != weather, even extreme weather.
It's a common misunderstanding but one that has to be sure not to be made. It's true that climate change causes extreme weather events, but the most that can be said is that climate change will lead to x% more extreme weather events than the baseline. And even that is very difficult due to coupling of climate and weather in data.
There could be a million reasons why it snowed in June or why it was a million degrees in December, and the changing climate is only one of them.
It's difficult to convey just how dangerous a changing climate is without giving into fear mongering or going into areas were less sure about (such as predicting extreme weather events). It's definitely something that needs to be worked on by both the science communication people and in the general public.
It's a common misunderstanding but one that has to be sure not to be made. It's true that climate change causes extreme weather events, but the most that can be said is that climate change will lead to x% more extreme weather events than the baseline. And even that is very difficult due to coupling of climate and weather in data.
There could be a million reasons why it snowed in June or why it was a million degrees in December, and the changing climate is only one of them.
It's difficult to convey just how dangerous a changing climate is without giving into fear mongering or going into areas were less sure about (such as predicting extreme weather events). It's definitely something that needs to be worked on by both the science communication people and in the general public.
when it is supposed to be hot it gets hotter (and the weird even that it becomes rainy) and when its supposed to be cold it has becomes hot. places where there used to be flush of pine trees and what not, only have like barely any trees left.
my mom's hometown used to be a cold place, now is almost as hot as the city even on christmas time when it was freezing cold some decades ago. i also havent seen light bugs in years cant even remember when was the last time i saw a bunch of them together
longer drought periods as well.
my mom's hometown used to be a cold place, now is almost as hot as the city even on christmas time when it was freezing cold some decades ago. i also havent seen light bugs in years cant even remember when was the last time i saw a bunch of them together
longer drought periods as well.
It was quite cold this spring until April. It usually starts getting hot a lot earlier in SC. Like late February and March.
Only real difference I've noticed over a long period of time. Or I most likely forgot any other differences. Probably that.
I'm not sure if it's wise to walk outside, feel something particularly different and immediately attribute it to climate change. It's all quite anecdotal for most people. I believe in climate change, but not because my neighbor is telling me it's hotter than usual.
Only real difference I've noticed over a long period of time. Or I most likely forgot any other differences. Probably that.
I'm not sure if it's wise to walk outside, feel something particularly different and immediately attribute it to climate change. It's all quite anecdotal for most people. I believe in climate change, but not because my neighbor is telling me it's hotter than usual.
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The 0.4 degrees is a global average but different regions experience different increases (or decreases) in temperature, which is then all averaged out.
I've noticed here in Kentucky we only have Winter and summer anymore. Also, this year has been wierd as fuck. One day it's snowing in spring and the next it's 60-70 degrees. A few weeks ago it snowed in the morning and sunshined and warm that afternoon. We were also having rough tornado's back in December and January too, which isn't normal.
Notably that's for just a single month. Over a whole year it's much more uniform. Over a larger timescale even more so.The 0.4 degrees is a global average but different regions experience different increases (or decreases) in temperature, which is then all averaged out.
It's true that the change in temperature is different in different parts of the world. But in general it's pretty uniform to within any degree humans would ever notice. The one major to exeption to that is the poles which have their own factors influencing them (Antarctica is either getting colder or staying the same temperature while the Arctic is getting much, much anonymously warmer than the rest of the planet)
During last 4-5 years winters start month later, in January and end month later, in April in my region (Northern Europe, Latvia). And March is colder than January.
Winters now are much warmer here than 35-40 years ago. I live 1 km from the Gulf of Riga coast and remember it being frozen completely when I was a child, and Soviet Army helicopters dropped dynamite charges to crack the ice in early Spring. Now it is quite rare we have ice cover strong enough to walk on it.
Winters now are much warmer here than 35-40 years ago. I live 1 km from the Gulf of Riga coast and remember it being frozen completely when I was a child, and Soviet Army helicopters dropped dynamite charges to crack the ice in early Spring. Now it is quite rare we have ice cover strong enough to walk on it.
Yeah, I realize my focus was too much on the past winter but those are factors that have changed over the course of decades as well. For our friends in Labrador and the North, polar bears are constantly found well outside their normal habitat and even on our island due to climate change.
Just crazy powerful storms more frequently. We've had cold or hot weather out of season my whole life so that doesn't really mean much to me.
Seasons are not opperaying right. Fishing spots that were consistent for decades are increasingly sporatic.
Game of Thrones getting pushed back the last few years due to necessary winter conditions arriving later and later in the season. I believe Kit Harrington even mentioned witnessing the disappearance of glacial ice through the years at locations where they would shoot.
Edit: found the article
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/29/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-climate-change
Edit: found the article
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/29/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-climate-change