Why do I feel you'd have given me a similarly confident answer about air quality or ocean temperatures, if I had asked those questions 100 years ago? Yes, I was talking about localized impact of city-scale thermal draws. Nothing on a mass-population scale happens without impact.
When the earth becomes much less habitable for humans we lose and that is bad. It's just how it is.
Unless we change our ways it will happen eventually. I am not going to pretend to know when but it will happen with our current path. It may be hundreds of years from now or 50 i dont know.
Move to the Virgin Islands or Puerto Rico and ask that question. Locally we just had the driest May/June on record, in wet WA. We have an 80ft coastal redwood dying due to lack of moisture. It's thrived for decades, but now can't make it after 3 drought summers. If you are dealing with insect migrations devastating woodland, or disease creeping northward, you will be feeling the effects of climate change. Wildfire seasons are getting longer and doing a lot more damage as heat waves get longer and hotter. Miami has seawater in the streets on a regular basis. And this is just the beginning.
Yes it is a very simple concept. I cant beleive people would claim it isnt true
Miami has seawater in the streets on a regular basis[/QUOTE
Miami has lived with their "King Tides" for many years. Left out of the discussion are two factors, subsidence and simple heavy rain. many of the worst visual examples we are presented with are combinations of all three together. the only regular thing about King Tides is they usually occur in the fall and are forecasted. that is I guess brings the referral to, "regular basis"
https://speakingofgeoscience.org/2017/02/22/coastal-subsidence-harbinger-of-future-flooding/
"Wildfire seasons are getting longer and doing a lot more damage as heat waves get longer and hotter. "
while longer and more damage maybe accurate, much less area is burning>
then we have this from Climate central
which graph is true? I really don't know! anybody else got the answer?
one thing I'll agree is that so many fires are found to be started by a person making them "man made"
once again I sit on the more than one thing answer, natural and man made. which one has more weight, C02 or sun/moon gravity, subsidence, combined with on going sea level rise. I've mentioned Doggerland before in other posts, always a good reminder.
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/maps/doggerland/
yes, point taken. it is a long term trend and the region is trending drier and hotter so far, but that may change.
I'm really not trying to be a pain in the butt, but? there are some questions one could ask, USGS has a quick answer. one would guess those glaciers came after the pleistocene epoch, slower to grow, faster to recede? https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/are-today...s_science_products=3#qt-news_science_products
A separate topic and still under study. Bring it up in the Inglenook.
The cold weather experienced last winter in the east was countered by extreme warm temperatures elsewhere on the planet. Our NW summers are getting drier and our snowpack is shrinking. This is a multi-year trend so far. Extreme weather, more intense storms, heavy downpour increases, high seasonal average temps, lengthening frost-free seasons are all examples of trends being watched around the world. This is not a linear progression. There always will be deviations along the way.
man didn't the globe cool of fast? NCEP 2 meter anomaly forgot to add the depiction of temps from the night of July 2. same cite that gave us the max temp
