Extreme heat has gripped the planet in recent months, and according to research, every Monday has the highest record-breaking heat Index. The Heat Index in Southeast Asia already reached 43 °C a while ago and classes are being suspended due to abnormally high temperatures.
Global Heat Map: Tracking Extreme Heat Across Europe and Asia - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

The climate has been changing since forever. Even when humans did not yet exist. The climate will continue to change no matter our efforts. So I have a few questions.

1: What makes you think you can halt a natural process that has been going on since forever?

2: Why is climate change even a bad thing? More CO2 = more plants and a greener planet.

3: Why is CO2 the bad guy? Watervapor is a much more potent greenhouse gas and there is much more of it.

Many have heard the age-old riddle "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?"

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The reason I bring up the riddle is because its metaphorically related to a segment on NPR that I first heard years ago,...

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Most Teachers Don't Teach Climate Change; 4 In 5 Parents Wish They Did

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www.npr.org/2019/04/22/714262267/most-teachers-dont-teach-climate-change-4-in-5-parents-wish-they-did

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then did some googling and found a published study that found,...

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"virtually no Americans know the basic global warming mechanism"

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tops.12187

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...at first I did not believe that adults didn't grasp basic climate science so conduced an informal poll at a tech conference, as well as at a SD350.org meetup (a gathering of people interested in environmental issues),... long story short confirmed that adults in the tech sector AND adults specifically interested in environmental issues actually were unable to explain the basic science (as I was taught)

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www.reddit.com/r/ScienceTeachers/comments/1butzik/this_earth_day_teach_students_the_first_step_to/

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www.reddit.com/r/ScienceTeachers/comments/1bydv12/this_earth_day_teach_students_there_are/

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www.reddit.com/r/ScienceTeachers/comments/1c38rw3/this_earth_day_teach_students_an_important/

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Basically wonder how is the issue of (and problems of) man made climate change going to be addressed,... when the vast majority of people don't have a basic understanding of the science

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Thoughts???

I’ve seen studies that the cooling will be anywhere from 3 to 25 degrees C in Europe and 1-5 degrees C global averages.

That kind of global cooling is equally dangerous as global warming is.

I think it’s not unlikely that humanity might switch gears to 8.5 RCP full speed ahead in that case.

What do you think?

If we recycle plastic instead of letting it pollute our oceans and landfills, and if we reduce carbon emissions by using public transportation or biking instead of driving, we can significantly decrease the factors that cause global warming. When we alter our behavior to be more conscious of our environmental impact and lead a green lifestyle, we actively contribute to efforts to combat climate change. Do you agree?

On my way home driving from San Antonio TX I noticed in the area around Big Spring and Lamesa many gas flares. I counted at least a dozen, the oil producing area of Texas is large so I guess we can assume that there are many more. I thought this practice was illegal these days except in emergencies?

Global Climate Report March 2024 > Temperature > March 2024: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/global/202403#month-temp

Global Mapping interactive map of 5°x5° gridded temperature anomalies - March 2024 Average Temperature Anomaly: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/global/mapping

March 2024 was the warmest March on record for the globe in NOAA's 175-year record. The March global surface temperature was 1.35°C (2.43°F) above the 20th-century average of 12.7°C (54.9°F). ...

March 2024 was ... the tenth consecutive month of record-high global temperatures.

... Jan-Mar 2024 average global surface temperature ranked warmest since records began in 1850.

... Record warm temperatures covered 10.8% of the world's surface this month.

... There were no areas of record cold temperatures in March.

North America had its ninth warmest March at 2.08°C (3.74°F) above average.

North America had its ... fourth-warmest Jan-Mar on record.

The average temperature of the contiguous U.S. in March 2024 was 45.1°F [7.3ºC], which is 3.6°F [2.0ºC] above the 1901-2000 average, ranking it the 17th warmest on record.

The Caribbean region had its warmest March on record, 1.41°C (2.54°F) above the 1910-2000 average. This is 0.41°C (0.74°F) above the second warmest March of 2016.

South America and Africa each had their warmest March while Europe had its 2nd-warmest March on record.

South America had its ... warmest Jan-Mar on record.

Africa had its ... second-warmest Jan-Mar on record.

Europe had its ... second-warmest Jan-Mar on record ...

Asia had its 12th-warmest March and Oceania its 17th warmest March on record.

Oceania had its second-warmest Jan-Mar on record.

Much of Central Africa was record warm in March. In South Sudan, widespread daily high temperatures exceeding 38°C persisted across the country ...

Severe Tropical Storm Filipo made landfall in Mozambique. Strong winds and heavy rain damaged or destroyed thousands of homes and killed or injured dozens of people.

Tropical Cyclone Ganame made landfall in northeast Madagascar with heavy rain leading to the displacement of thousands and the reported deaths of at least 18 people.

In Germany March 2024 was the warmest March since records began in 1881 ... It was the second month in a row to set a new monthly record for Germany.

According to the German Meteorological Service, Deutscher Wetterdienst ... the past six months had precipitation that was approximately 186% of the 1961-1990 average; the wettest winter half-year ever recorded in Germany.

The lowlands of Austria had a March that was warmest on record in the 258-year history of measurements at 3.4°C above the 1991–2020 average. ...

March 2024 in France was the sixth warmest such month on record, tied with 2001 and 1981, 1.6°C warmer than the 1991–2020 average.

In Spain, preliminary reports indicate the January-March period was likely the warmest since 1961.

Italy had its sixth-warmest March in a record that began in 1800. ... Northern Italy was 9th warmest, Central Italy 2nd warmest, and Southern Italy 4th warmest on record.

Storm Monica hit France, Spain and Italy on March 9 leading to significant rainfall accumulations. Reports included 24-hour rainfall amounts in southeastern areas of the country of 100 to 150 mm with totals as high as 224 mm in Ardèche and 330 mm over 48 hours in La Souche. Totals for the month exceeded 400% of average in large parts of southeastern France.

Temperatures across the United Kingdom for March were 1.0°C above average based on provisional data. England provisionally recorded its seventh-warmest March on record in a series from 1884.

According to the Met Office, March precipitation for the UK as a whole was 127% of the long term average based on provisional data. Much of the precipitation was concentrated in the south. England and Wales both recorded more than 150% of their long term average monthly rainfall, while Scotland recorded just 90% of the average March rainfall.

In Croatia mean temperatures were in the top ten percentile or higher across the country in March.

In Iceland, in contrast to March 2023 which was the coldest such month since 1979, March 2024, was warmer than average in the South, where Reykjavik was 0.5°C above the 1991–2020 average, and generally cooler than average in the North where Akureyri was 0.3°C below average.

In Argentina March temperatures were generally below average in the southern half of the country and warmer than average in northern areas. Monthly anomalies exceeding +3°C above the 1991–2020 average were widespread in provinces that included Formosa, Chaco, Santiago del Estero, and parts of Salta, Santa Fe, Tucuman, Catamarca, La Rioja, and San Luis.

In Argentina, precipitation in March was most notably above average in northeastern provinces. Record rains, exceeding a normal month’s total, fell in less than six hours in Corrientes, leading to widespread damage. Later in March, severe storms in Buenos Aires Province brought one- to two-day rainfall that exceeded amounts normally seen in all of March.

In Brazil heavy rains led to flooding and landslides in the southeastern states of Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo and more than two dozen deaths were reported.

[In March] Approximately 25% of Mongolia remained snow covered following an unusually harsh winter with heavy and persistent snow leading to millions of livestock deaths.

According to the Hong Kong Observatory, the mean temperature in March 2024 for Hong Kong ranked eighth warmest on record at 1.6°C above the 1991–2020 average.

In Indonesia several days of heavy rainfall in March triggered flooding and landslides, damaging infrastructure and leading to loss of life in West Sumatra.

Australia recorded a national area-average mean temperature that was ... tied for the 10th-warmest March on record.

Mar ... South Australia record warm.

Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan made landfall as a Cat 3 storm in Northern Territory Australia on Mar 18. It brought significant damage to ports and major flooding.

According to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology the national area-averaged March rainfall total was 86.1% above the 1961-1990 average, the third wettest March on record since the national dataset began in 1900. Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan, which made landfall on the Gulf of Carpentaria coast, and its remnants, brought heavy rainfall to areas of coastal Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

Do you have any other potential solutions to alleviate climate change?

Given the current situation, I think we might not be able to address it.

I’ll admit I have a pretty mid knowledge about this but just wondering if this is at all feasible and thought I should probably ask people who know more than me.

Desalinization for more freshwater using already available renewable energy such as solar/wind/hydro as much as possible for it -> brine mining to get elements such as lithium -> more lithium equals cheaper and/or more(?) renewable/solar storage so we can better transition away from fossil fuels

Not to say that this will solve the problem as we (I’m from the US so mostly talking about the US) would of course still need to consume far less, be smarter about agriculture and move to a heavily vegetarian diet, invest in green public transport/stop suburban sprawl etc.

Some additional questions I have about this process if it is in fact feasible. Is the waste from brine mining more or less harmful than the unmined brine produced by desalinization and what’s the best way to dispose of it?

Would/could this plan cause more climate harm than it would help?

I’m sure renewable storage is expensive and hard to scale for more reasons then just lithium so would the increased lithium really help with energy storage all that much or is it kind of a less important factor?

Thanks for your answers!

I currently am an early undergraduate college student majoring in a B.A in Geography. I have been giving much thought to my career paths for a long time. I know what sparks my interest is anything related to animals and weather and climate, especially when related to marine environments (sea level rise, climate change, oceans, etc) and natural disasters (hurricanes!, tornadoes, tsunamis, etc). I always have been interested in the impact of climate change and natural disasters on society and the environment. I grew up very aware of hurricane season, conservation/ecology of oceanic habitats, and areas prone to sea level rise, flooding, etc. I am trying to see if I can switch to a Meteorology (General Atmospheric Sciences) major at my college, but I may most likely stay in Geography and minor in either Physics, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Statistics, or Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. As you can see, my options are still really broad and open to many things. My interest in GIS is also growing and I have heard that is becoming a nice interdisciplinary skill to have. Despite my major being a B.A., I aim to build my science and math background more, too. At this moment, I plan on getting a Master's degree too but for now, my goal is to start exploring career and interest paths that fit what I love, what can make good pay, and what I am good at, or all of the above. I would like to try to get a sense + start so I can start looking into internships and experience with more foundation plus direction. Thank you for reading!

Hey! This may be a long short but oh well. Does anyone knows how I can compare the different CMIP6 models? I need to pick 5 (from drier to wetter to show so different scenarios) for the Mediterranean region. I am looking everywhere but no much luck. Anyone has some sort of magical resource for this? Thank you!

So I was curious and decided to look at some emission statistics, and to me it made sense to look at emission/capita, since it wouldn’t be fair to judge Greenland and Chine by absolute output. What I found was interesting: China and India, two countries often demonizsd for being bad on climate isaues, weren’t that high on the list, and countries like Canada and the US were really far behind of other Western nations.

I guess my questions are the following: -Is ’per capita’ a reasonable way of looking at emission data, or is there a better way of thinking?

-Is it reasonable to put pressure governments according to their per capita emissions? Here I know we have to be careful, in particular, we can’t demonize poor countries for building industry and infrastructure (although most poor countries had quite low emissions to start with)

I’m not sure how emission was attributed, that is, did the counrty that produced an thing bear the emissions, or was it borne by the country in which it was consumed.

I also understand that different countries face different challenges. It gets cold in Canada and it’s sparcely populated. But then again, Greenland get’s super cold as well as is sparce, and for a fairer comparison, Finland is sparce (not as sparce as Canada), and also quite cold, but still a lot better emissions wise.

Here’s the source: https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-per-capita/#google_vignette

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/All-the-Worlds-Carbon-Emissions.jpg

...for 4 weeks, and the next two weeks it says only one thunderstorm with 1-2L/m2 60% probability...

this is western turkey and from june onwards there is reliable dry hot summer until end of november. (except when part of the climate change is mix up of seasons, which might be the case for some regions, but the past years have proven classic long dry summer for here) the spring rains are the most important for the year.

the older neighbors told us they used to have cows grazing here below the olive trees. now this land is suited only for goats, donkeys, maybe we can be avantgarde and get ourselves a few camels :D

also we are doing olive harvest more for ourselves and hobbyish, our neighbors however are commercial olive farmers and told us they haven't been harvesting for the past 4 years because it simply makes no sense from an cost/profit point of view. OLIVES, around the corner is a ~2000 year old olive tree... and we are the lucky generation to see this era vanish.

Last year we started to use our collected rainwater in June, this year, we're already now taking from the reservoirs. we'll see how it goes.

if it doesn't rain 1 or two more times, it will be a wild and sad year for the garden.

Hey there, i was doing some reading and found out in canada, that wildfires produce around 480MT of emissions in my country. But this isn't added onto our countries emission footprint. Are wildfire emissions different?

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hi i have a mate that refuses to believe climate change is happening, he says sea levels havent risen , no land has been flooded etc and he drives me mad ..what can i show him to prove he is wrong ( bear in mind he is very unlikely to bother to read any article i send ..he only uses a basic mobile phone and doesnt seem to have internet access ) thanks

So the John Cook study on climate change is one of the most cited sources on the "97% consensus on anthropogenic climate change" narrative. From this study we hear that of scientists "97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming". However upon reading the abstract, the 97% is only a percent of the 32% overall who had an opinion on anthropogenic global warming. The other 66 percent said they had no opinion.

I feel like I'm definitely missing something here.

Claiming this study says that 97% percent of scientists believe in man made global warming seems totally inaccurate.

What am I missing?

Edit: ok to clarify. I believe in made made climate change. I just recently saw a presentation questioning the medias presentation of the John Cook study. I came here for counterarguments, not to be a "merchant of doubt". I've gotten lots of convincing arguments.

Edit 2: I know that subsequent studies have confirmed the 97%. I'm not criticizing this study. Merely the media coverage of it.

So, I was reading an article and it was saying How we have machines that take off carbon so why don’t we do it, it also said it would be expensive which is true but think about the outcome more food, more land, more availability.

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I listened to a recent podcast episode that included an interview of an author discussing floods and wildfires. His book included stories of survivors and that scientific research was ignored. I want to find that episode and book. Any help will be appreciated.

I think that battery-powered planes can decarbonize and make the aerospace industry greener.