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funny you got downvoted, but its true
This is the kind of news that makes me wish i felt cold right now
But no, im in Berlin, there's no snow anymore and the wind smells of summer >

USA here, Central Pennsylvania to be exact. Tommorow is predicted to be 59 degrees (15 celcius) and Wednesday 65 degrees (18 celcius) with possible "heavy thunderstorms." Yep. Completely normal for this time of year. This is where the fun begins. >

A metric fuckton of rain just dumped on KC tonight in a couple rounds of storms and set a new record rainfall for the day -- almost as much as we get in the entire month. Yet a week and a half ago it felt like -30° here. >

Similar in northern CA with several more inches coming this weekend 😭 >

Northern NV here. Crazy how much snow and rain we've gotten! Hopefully fire season won't be bad. >

Low heating bills are good now, BUT....
Remember the European drought last summer? 
Rivers so low that barges couldn't travel? So low that hydro and nuclear plants had to shut down?
If the mountains don't get a decent snowpack this winter, there will less water in the rivers next summer. Snow should be accumulating at higher elevations now, but instead, the snow that fell in December is melting. >

It’s not just Europe. Both the Mississippi/Yangtze nearly dried up last year. The economic impact will be catastrophic going forwards which will drive further global political instability via resource scarcity/disasters/war/refugees. As a humble internet rando I really don’t see a way out of this (I.e. we can only do damage mitigation at this point) without the mass proliferation of fusion energy over the next decade. A Herculean task. >

There plenty of options to engineer a way out, but with current technology you would need to spend a few percent of GDP >

And we can't be taking such drastic measures yet. >

As soon as quarterly record profits are in danger, we will do something that fixes the record profits of the next quarter! >

Na, they have their bunkers already set up. They will wait it out. >

I know that a lot of super rich think this way, but it’s complete nonsense. There is no “waiting it out”. They are completely dependent on the labor of everyone in lower economic strata, and without them around, the super rich will starve . >

Well, in case of an apocalyptic event, I wish all the best to the armed goons no longer having a reason to keep their previous billionaire psychopathic employees alive! May they repopulate the earth afterwards! >

Well, the good news is Russia failed the whole "freeze Europe out of sanctions" plan. Bad news, we are going to have to redraw the maps once the sea reclaims all the coastlines. >

Rip Holland. >

The windmills will protect them. >

During that time, the polar vortex moved over Canada and the USA. For a few days. And now, we likewise are in as serious warm spell. 62 degrees in the Northeast on Jan.1. >

That same polar vortex which created havoc on holiday air travel, especially from Southwest, is now creating historic ‘atmospheric river’ storms in California in rain levels not seen since the 19th Century. >

Which is sorely needed. Despite the rainflow, we're still deep in drought territory, and will probably need two or three winters like this at least to get back to normal. The issue in CA is the extent to which the underground aquifers have been depleted by agriculture combined with the inability of the Sierra snowpack to hold water in the rising temperatures.
While the recent storms are a welcome respite, if we don't consistent steady precipitation combined with a cooler spring this year, most of it will be wasted in runoff and flooding (as Sacramento is experiencing right now). >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 88%. (I'm a bot)


Sparse snowfall and unseasonably warm winter weather in Europe's central mountains are allowing grass to blanket hillsides across the region, causing headaches for ski slope operators and aficionados of Alpine white.
Next door in France, national weather agency Meteo France said 2022 ended with some of the warmest weather the country has ever experienced at this time of year - capping an exceptionally warm year that saw temperature records broken and rampant forest fires and drought conditions.
Exceptionally warm weather followed, prompting some resorts at lower altitudes to close down as snow cover melted away.


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I am in Rome and there are daisies already on every patch of grass... it's really "scary" to think about >

Why did you put scary in quotations? >

ah, so arctic blast in Americs, unusually warm in Europe. I see how it is. >

polar vortex=planet pushing its hat over a bit >

We have a snowstorm right now in Southern Finland. Extremely cold weather is coming too after the snowstorm. >

I don't understand this map at all because it's -10 with a feels like of -16 now where I live in middle Sweden and is staying that way with so much ice you can't walk >

We have -1 C° right now and snowfall. Your cold weather is heading to Finland is seems. >

God's keeping it warm so people don't need to buy Russian gas. >

Don't celebrate climate change. >

I'm not. But I'm not going to be happy it's unnaturally warm. >

I am not thankful perse, but grateful nonetheless. I don’t think many of us here in the UK could have afforded to even heat our homes (as prices of gas and electric have gone up 4-5x) If the winter was much worse. >

Putin is saying like "Get that f...in Patriarch on the phone, he needs to pray for cold weather." >

Patriarch did a good job... Except for a small detail
. Look at weather broodcast in Moscow for the next week. >

Well this has gotta be good for Ukraine at least? If Russia is trying to freeze everyone over winter at least the temperature will be a bit warmer. >

It's actually bad because the ground is muddy and they can't mount a counter offensive. Same problem Russia had in the spring >

Can they mount a counter offensive in freezing weather with feet of snow? Isn't that as bad as mud? It seems like Russia can't go super offensive either. And It seems to me that any kind of stalemate benefits Ukraine(I could be wrong about this though) >

Ukraine is better equipped for winter than Russia currently, so allowing them mobility would be best, but in any case time is not on Russias side. >

Except the blue bit over the west of Scotland 🤦‍♂️❄️🥶 >

r/fuckyouinparticular >

Putin punching the air rn >

B..... but the Russians said that winter was coming. 
Guess even global warming hates Putin. >

If we can’t get fusion off the ground and at scale over the next decade 1.5c by 2099 and net zero by 2050 are both empty pipe dreams. We’ve already used up the global deep ocean heat-sink around 2010 and sadly the mercury/temperature variances will have no where left to go but up from here. >

There is absolutely no way in hell that fusion is going to be doing anything commercially viable in the next 30-40 years. Who knows after that. But the science, the materials, the money for it just isn't there yet >

Some guy once said something about choosing to go to the moon not because it is easy but because it is hard. For all of our faults as man our collective ingenuity and aspirations to push beyond the limit of the possible isn’t one. when the situation gets desperate enough (and it’s heading that way) we will find a way. >

The last two major massive and "hard" technological leaps that took place in less than a decade were the atomic bomb and the moon landing. Both occurred due to wartime pressure (one hot for survival, one cold for prestige and bragging rights) with a very black-and-white, it's-us-or-them attitude.
The global response to COVID saw partisan division that kneecapped the response. And while it was and still is a constantly changing playing field, it's not surprising that people are sick of the many inconveniences a successful response requires.
But COVID is analogous to climate change, just on a medium instead of a long-term timescale. If humanity couldn't come together for COVID, there's little hope that it can work together to halt, much less reverse, human-caused climate change. >

COVID in its current form kills around 1.0% of its victims, and mostly the meemaws/paws we put away in retirement homes and collectively forget about as a society. If COVID had the same R factor but a mortality of say 3-5% and affected the young/healthy in the same way like the 1918 bird flu things would have been quite different, even with the same absent American political leadership at the beginning (e.g. if the Americans are saying we can beat it by injecting bleach/shining sunlight up our you know where then it can’t be too serious (also for simple folks reading this please don’t inject bleach, it will kill you)). Likewise the incoming rise in sea level can’t be missed. Something like 50% of humanity lives along major coastal cities along with much of the associated economic activity. I’m 100% sure when New York/Shanghai/Paris/London all get flooded during the same year you will finally get an actual material global concerted effort to address the issue. >

I started reading this headline and thought a music store got hit. >

Global warming is just God hugging us closer >

Reminder: The human race is incapable of the kind of cooperation needed to implement any meaningful reversal of global warming. Debating with deniers is a waste of your time. >

This is bullshit. I work in renewable energy infrastructure. That kind of cooperation is happening every day. It just happens outside of Reddit, generally among people who get paid to make these things happen. Stop assuming that because you personally don’t know of something, it doesn’t exist. >

Let's just look at the numbers.  Renewables are at 12% and it took 30 years to reach that number. It's going to take decades for additional meaningful changes to be made.  It's already too late. Climate has been irreparably changed. >

Okay, let’s look at them. Renewable energy is the fastest growing energy source in most of the world currently. In the US, renewables increased 42% between 2010 and 2020, and adoption is increasing exponentially thanks to the historic amounts of funding dished out last year. We actually exceeded expectations for renewable electric generation in 2022, by 3-4% according to some estimates. (ETA: Further context on these numbers in the reply below.) 
Meanwhile, we’re braiding renewables into other conservation projects, like wind farms that double as coral and kelp nurseries or agrivoltaics fields that generate their own power while conserving water. We’ve made major tech improvements, particularly in energy storage and efficiency. We’re restoring wetlands and adapting our forestry to stave off mega wildfires. Renewables are just one part of a much larger effort. 
The climate has been changed, but it’s not too late for survival. The question is, are you going to lay back, parrot this corporate propaganda, and give up or not? Because plenty of rich, nihilistic monsters would love nothing more than for us to stop funding these projects, and you’re carrying their water for free. >

Thanks for these comments, they give hope. Doomerism and denialism are two sides of the same coin at this point. >

For sure. There’s a lot to be hopeful about. It’s just slow going and not scandalous, so it doesn’t make the news. So many people are working on this, including major governments, even if it sometimes looks like we’re standing still. >

Hey guys, Global Climate Change isn't real  :\^) >

Just as russia made that stupid hamster video of how we're all freezing to deaths >

This warm winter in Europe turns Putin's energy blackmail attempt into an epic fail.   ☀️😁 >

Then god said “Slava Ukraine, Eff that Putin guy” >

My sleep-deprived brain started imagining the heat causing peoples record collections to start exploding. Brain needs a timeout. >

In yo face putin >

Well why were they keeping the records where they would shatter from thermal shock?!?!  Oh the vinyl! >

In before the various flavours of anthropogenic climate change deniers and conspiracy loons
"hOw CaN iT bE cLiMaTe ChAnGe??? It WaS -7c ThE oTheR wEeK!!!"
"I'vE nOt NoTiCeD tHe ClImAtE cHaNgE aNd I'm 55"
"HuMaNs WiLl AdApT lIkE wE aLwAyS dO" >

It's not a warm spell. It really pisses me off when these articles are written as if this is some kind of oddball anomaly occurrence. This is the new normal, and the sooner people stop lying to themselves that things will just magically go back to the way it should be, the sooner people will start to change. >

We have an old joke in our country, every winter the authorities are surprised by the sudden snowfall. In the same vein, each year people will call it a warm / cold spell / freak weather and quickly forget everything. >

What a shame for all of us, how unfortunate that we could do better for us all but just choose to turn the other cheek. Thanks for sharing >

It was -10° C (14° F) on Christmas Day here.
It's currently 17° C (63° F) today.
I live in South East Pennsylvania, 6 years ago I had a meter (~3.3 feet) of snow on the ground and was breaking my back shoveling a 100 meter (330 feet) inclined driveway
The weather is drunk... >

What happens when the ground done froze but the rain still on your nose ? >

We’re preparing to board a flight to France from the south-eastern USA in a few hours. 
A few weeks ago we checked current weather for our dates and checked the last two years weather for our dates to pack accordingly. 
Earlier in the month it snowed where we’re going so we gathered more layers, a new hat, etc.
Now it’s predicted to not even fall below 10°C/50°F during the day for the entirety of our 10 day trip. >

I saw a butterfly on 31 December. Wtf? >

The gulf coast region of the southern US is generally mild, but 80 degrees yesterday Jan 2 was crazy! >

Copenhagen here - nothing unusual at all just the usual mild winters maybe little milder than usual, so that feels very not normal compare to what I read here >

I was in Paris last week and it was 50 degrees plus day and night for the whole week >

I live on the East coast of Canada and it still feels like fall here. I've been walking around outside in just a sweater quite comfortably for the past few weeks. >

We are going to be the generation that remembers the last long winter and our grandkids will get tired of us talking about it. >

Not going I thought it said hot sperm spray >

Oh THOSE records. Okay that makes more sense