Remember that this is just a piece of the complex system that is the global climate. And over it, there are more systems affected, including human ones like food production or economy. Something this extreme may cause from a severe disruption or a permanent instability in those systems, specially considering feedback loops in all of them.
Great write up but bummed to not see any info about the waves. It’s been a bonkers summer!
Meanwhile West Antarctic ice shelf barely clutching on.
People really don’t appreciate yet. How really bad this situation is and will be. They’re talking about 1.76°C higher temperatures next year because of this El Niño. Those are climate change temperatures that are not supposed to be around until 2035. So it’ll give us a sneak peek into our future.<p>But the biggest effect and this is noted by many insurance companies now is going to be in places like India.<p>But this is something the world has never seen and I mean that literally so I don’t expect it to be anything but really bad and you should be ready.
It was inevitable we'd get to the point where climate change began substantially disrupting ecology and human livelihoods. Looks like we're ahead of schedule.<p>People dying from extreme heatwaves, weather, and famines due to climate change has been predicted for decades at this point; and this is exactly the sort of climatic setup that will enable this to happen.
In the plus column, we've had a healthy rainy season in the SE US. And while storms seem to move slower than before, we're not yet overwhelmed by stall+flood events.
Have we? Most all of South Carolina is in a drought. We experienced an exceptionally dry Spring and have had good but not sufficient rains all summer.
Has seemed pretty normal here in central Florida as far as rain goes.
Come to Japan and say it
Oh thank god, the farms of the SE US must be ecstatic, and surely we will all benefit from the rainfall hitting <i>checks notes</i>… Purdue chicken farms.<p>Oh that’s not a plus and just another American centric knee jerk comment on nothing.
All we needed to do was stop burning fossil fuels we really are fucking dense.