save this to repost next year. and the next year, and the next year, and the next year
save this to repost next year. and the next year, and the next year, and the next year
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Fun fact: it's not summer. Summer starts in 43 days on June 20th.
And the hottest day of the year is usually anywhere from mid-July to late August. We're just getting started!
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Fun fact! While there is a meteorological standard, in day to day usage the seasons are culturally defined.
In Ireland for example, it's been summer since May 1st.
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/0428/1046589-bealtaine-summer-ireland/
Other places also define seasons differently or indeed have completely different seasons, eg the wet season, hot season, cool season in Thailand.
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My personal definition for my region is based on freezing temps: never gets below freezing? That's summer. Gets consistently above freezing in the day but still often below at night? Spring/fall. Essentially never gets above freezing? Winter.
Winter starts here early to mid November, it's silly to think it doesn't until Dec 21st. Same with summer being in full swing long before the third week of June.
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So still time for me to buy a cave and hibernate the summer away. Perfect.
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Room for one more?
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There's always hoping for a nuclear winter.
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Doubt. This doesn't take weather into account. There are always cold spots even in hot years. Plus, even in warming cycles you still set years that are a little below average. My area was below average in 2023. It's just weather cycles but we need to communicate climate reality more accurately.
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As of the 2022 report the ten hottest years on record for the planet were (in chronological order, not heat) - 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
In descending heat level- 2016, 2020, 2019, 2015, 2017, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2014, 2010.
2023 was the hottest year since records began. So it knocked 2010 off the top ten. Making the last ten years the hottest 10 years on record. If you're a visual learner here's a graph -
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They're not wrong though, and your graph supports that. Not sure if you're stating one way or the other because this is just evidence which is often good.
I saw the other comment where you linked to this one that seems to imply they are wrong and a bunch of people are down voting for some reason too.
Some years will still be colder than the previous and specific regions will be warm/colder year over year as well.
Averages of course only show signs of going up. Hope we somehow remedy that but the outlook of course does not look good.
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Actually for those of us in the southern hemisphere it's more like twice a year, we see it when northern hemispherians post, and also post it ourselves 😂
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I understand the joke but let's be honest an admit we do not know.
Hottest summer in my life was in 2007, being so hot and humid it felt like breathing inside a sauna.
I can objectively see weather patterns changing, which implies the underlying climate is changing as a whole, but objectively speaking, up until now, 2024 has been a proper year, with real seasons, rain, cold and snow where it belongs.
So, I call this on the over estimate.
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objectively speaking
Somehow I doubt you're using data to come to this conclusion
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Here you go, you need to see this comment too.
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Sadly for me, my app doesn't parse me through cross linked comments. But I appreciate the effort.
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Already too hot 😶🔫
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Because it barely exists, doesn't scale well, requires moisture to already be there, and has harmful side effects?
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Not sure if the /s was left off or this was a serious question.
In the case it was a serious question, the first issue that comes to mind is when you seed clouds for one region, what happens to the next region downwind where the clouds would have rained without intervention? You are just moving the drought, there will still be a difference in the rain pattern somewhere.
Seeding to generate more cloud cover at a global scale introduces a whole host of problems. Firstly, you lower the solar output which then means solar power generation will be less effective. That energy will need to be produced by some means, which right now fossil fuels would be the most likely to take up the deficit, increasing atmospheric carbon output. Then to compound problems further, the reduced solar radiation reaching the surface would have a number of impacts such as plant growth being slowed reducing their CO2 uptake, less moisture being evaporated for precipitation over land masses, wind patterns being changed, and wind speeds reduced which means even further reduction in renewable energy generation. So with today's technology seeding clouds would end up compounding the issues in the long term and accelerate the already alarming changes.
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Obviously the answer is to put solar panels into low orbit and have them provide power and shade. Then because we need food we'll do orbital farms. And that means maintenance people so we better have orbital habitats too. And since it'll probably be a crap job with a low quality of life we'll need to conscript people...
Oh and it will be horribly expensive so we better get a billionaire or two on board. And when they suggest loaning workers the money to get and live there until they can work it off, it's totally not indentured servitude.
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Fried bologna, fried Spam, fried humans... meh, all the same. Good luck everyone.
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This meme was used wrong. The second panel is wrong. It'd be funnier as simply "The hottest summer of your life so far." Like the movies actual quote.
Also, it's likely wrong. Many past summers were likely colder in our lives.
If we're being technical, it coldest summer of the rest of your life. So, it's not including their history of summers.
Even that's not technically accurate. That's the kind of thinking that makes people think a snowball means the climate isn't changing. We'll still have some summers that are marginally cooler than some previous summer, but the average over time is gonna keep going up.