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I don’t like using snow as a measurement of climate change. Snow is weather. Global warming is not weather.
If the gulf stream closes, we’re going to have ice ages in Europe and scorched earth and soup like oceans in the Americas.
It’s bad, m’kay.
The consequences aren’t if we’re going to have white Christmas or how well the financial reports are for skiing resorts. It’s literally the doom of most life on earth. Don’t give me the “The uh planet will be fine”. I don’t give a shit about a planet in space. I care for the living beings on the planet. Fuck.
There are in fact meaningful trends in snow cover
Thanks, more data is always appreciated, but of course there is trends in snow coverage. Global warming is going to affect everything. Including snow coverage. I’m not worried about snow coverage.
Climate change is scary only because it affects our way of life. Get over it, humans are like that. And the rich fucks who could change things (or at least not make it worse) were raised to have no empathy; they don’t care for nature or if the world is liveable after their death.
Our way of life ? Like breathing life?
Yes life will continue. For the methane breathing bacteria. Humans not so much.
The rich won’t survive either. Money and all the bunkers in the world are worthless in what is to come by continuing the pursuit for money.
Snow is very noticeable. It’s weather that is very pretty and visual, but also impacts your daily life.
I remember how many snow days I had back in school, and how kids now often don’t have any
It’s very visceral and memorable weather - most other things are vague and easy to write off, or they’re a life changing catastrophe that is basically up to luck.
If snow is what makes people understand, viscerally, “things are changing very, very fast”, then that’s fine
That’s where we are right now. People generally believe it’s happening, but only intellectually - they have no sense of scale or urgency. Most still think they’ll be gone by the time it gets bad, and that it’s a long term problem.
Any and every way you can make people understand this is a “right now” problem helps
Yeah I’m living through it right now. We’ve never had this much snow since I was a kid. I encourage my kids to go out and dig into it like I dug in to it forty years ago and I’m trying to explain and hope that they understand the oddity of it and not just taking it for granted whether or not it comes again every year or never again from here on.
Yeah, in Southern Germany, we’ve had some of the heaviest snowfall in a long time this year, because of a local dip in temperatures below freezing (likely caused by gulf stream shenanigans), in combination with the rest of the planet boiling.
All the hot oceans were evaporating lots of water and when that wet air reached our cold pocket, it all just precipitated on top of us.
There’s no existential threat to the living beings on earth from climate change according to the IPCC reports. We/they’ll have to move according to changes in local climate, sure, but that’s not the same as general extinction.
Doomerism doesn’t help climate action.
Hot take, easily debunked:
https://www.ipcc.ch/2022/02/28/pr-wgii-ar6/
Climate change: a threat to human wellbeing and health of the planet. Taking action now can secure our future
BERLIN, Feb 28 – Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks. People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released today.
“This report is a dire warning about the consequences of inaction,” said Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC. “It shows that climate change is a grave and mounting threat to our wellbeing and a healthy planet. Our actions today will shape how people adapt and nature responds to increasing climate risks.”
The problems with “move according to changes in local climate” are, to name a few:
- It causes conflicts with the previous inhabitants. Someone will have to lose.
- If you keep moving north, and hit the sea, what then?
- Many animals are tied to specific locations, like Salmon and migrating birds
- The unprecedented speed of change overwhelms natural adaptation, driving species instead extinct
JSYK one of the most progressive states, Vermont, has said that they see their snow season ENDING in 2050. Meaning we are in the throws of climate change already and have been for 20 years. OOPS!
The narrative will now be “we are in climate change, too bad, deal with it.”
We were led here by certain types of humans. The weak, stupid, billionaire water carrying, self righteous ones.
You can see climate change happening in our popular culture.
The poem “Over the River and Through the Woods” mentions sleigh rides at Thanksgiving in New England, and was written in 1844.
About a hundred years later, the film White Christmas has a New England ski resort that can’t open because it hasn’t snowed by late December.
That, and the East Coast is getting smoke for the first time this past year. 20 years ago, the west didn’t burn like that. Didn’t have smoke like that. That was a very recent development in the past 10 years or so. Now the east is starting to burn like us.
I lived in the west and moved for a number of reasons, but one of the reasons was that the city nearly ran out of water twice within a handful of years. One year was a bad drought that depleted the river. The second, rain melted all the snow at once and caused floods that destroyed the water intakes for the city. Nobody could purify the water and the city had a day (1) of reserve water.
I moved to a more climate resilient city, but not everyone will be able to do that. We gotta take care of the planet better, because there’s not another earth-like world within a couple hundred years of us, at least.
Yet anyone I speak to is thrilled to not have winter weather to deal with. I have to bite my tongue to stop ranting about how it’s not good.
(Sample of people: doctors, nurses, cashiers, neighbours)
Similar thing is happening where I live too. Living on the Great Lakes, we’re usually being dumped on with -20 to -40 degree temps. Right now, we’re barely below freezing and there’s no snow on the ground. The Lake is struggling to freeze and we’re at that time of year where it should be close to 100 percent ice cover by now.
We have a lot of events this time of year that are dependent on ice (Ice fishing tournaments, ice races, marathons where you hike across the frozen bay), and I think all of them have been canceled. It’s crazy, I’ve never seen anything like it
Yeah I’m in southeast Michigan, and I’m missing wintertime. I really don’t like summer, so I’m screwed.
Same thing in northern Ohio. Lake Erie used to be ~90% frozen by now where I’m at. The last few years, it hasn’t frozen at all. Which in turn has the lake battering the coast all winter, speeding up erosion.
At first, this meant getting lake effect snow all winter, where traditionally it would stop once the lake froze. Now, it’s in January and we’ve barely had maybe 4” of snow this season, and it melts off immediately. While some people love that, there’s no way it can be good.