Venus by Tuesday

Too many people do not understand the difference between weather and climate.

For being so smart, we are so dumb

The solution to global warming, then, is clearly to just set up a massive ring of fans all pointed in the same direction in a ring around the North Pole, to keep the jet stream going

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/understanding-arctic-polar-vortex

As of 2021 the science was not settled on the ice loss as a cause or an affect. This article goes into both theories.

You can't use logic with these people, they'll try to burn you for being a witch.

Don't worry, the Earth will heal >!once we're gone!<

If those people could read they'd be very upset.

I just hope we’re not seeing the start of a shutdown of the North Atlantic current, which is likely what led to the Younger Dryas ice age, which marked a dramatic climate shift and widespread extinction event over just a couple of decades:

The change was relatively sudden, took place over decades, and resulted in a decline of temperatures in Greenland by 4–10 °C (7.2–18 °F), and advances of glaciers and drier conditions over much of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. A number of theories have been put forward about the cause, and the hypothesis historically most supported by scientists is that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, which transports warm water from the Equator towards the North Pole, was interrupted by an influx of fresh, cold water from North America into the Atlantic.

Right now, it’s looking like that may have already started: Study: Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. If that’s the case, things will become very hot and then abruptly freeze, not over the course of a century, but virtually overnight.

e: better link

Earth's just gotta drink more if its stream is weak. I mean that's what I do

HEY!!!! Get your science and facts out of here!

~ ~Places fingers in ears and closes eyes~ ~ laalalalalalalal

reference

I was trying to look up why less polar ice causes shifts in the jet stream and this article cites an active debate around our understanding on this.

The tweet does not really address that point, and makes the cause and effect sound definitive.

Y'all ready to be gouged for survival items until money becomes irrelevant?

P.S. 'A Capitalist Apocalypse' would be a fun title for a political comedy song.

Even as the US hits record setting lows, the temperature of the planet as a whole remains above average. If it's -20°F across the entire US, how hot must the rest of the planet be?

I would tell this asshole to shut his stupid mouth, but my teeth froze together. I've got one finger left still working. Help me...

And also, it's usually way colder than this here, and while it's frigid, I'm fine. Happy even. I live in one of the parts that is supposed to be cold, and this is a nice regression to normal.

I'm a climate idiot. Does this somehow relate to ice ages, I wonder?

The titty of the polar vortex sags ever southward.

New next level science unlocked.

So that's why that is

Not even a shitpost

Funny that this post would show up next to this one: https://lemmy.world/post/10902481

Ahem…. Shouldn’t that be ‘fewer’ ice?

(JK)

Al Gore and many others said there wouldn't be any ice at all in the polar regions by 2013.

Obviously climate change it happening, but the computer models they keep showing have been proven to be bullshit over and over.

Yep that's a shit post alright

"let's pretend we don't understand La Nina and El Nino during this cyclical winter to push our current agenda. Anyone says "WTF" we brand as a science denier."

Great, but what is the "Great Plains" and how is it affecting me?

Seems too simplistic

I mean, I'm really doubtful when this is what used be considered a normal winter.

Weather is too hot? It's because of global warming.

Weather too cold? Also global warming.

I'm not denying global warming or climate change, I'm just playing Devil's advocate to show how a climate denier might view this.

It just looks dumb when they claim that any/all evidence proves their point. Maybe it's just cold because it's January? December was very mild where I live and it's supposed to be unusually warm next week. I suppose that also proves global warming?