DJ; "reality is complex"....
Arctic Sea Ice minimum 2024. Three degrees Celsius warming now baked in!
Arctic Sea ice reaches it's minimum extent each year around the middle of September. This year is one of the lowest in recorded history. Ocean temperatures have been so 'off the charts' in 2023 and 2024 that scientists fear those waters have reached their capacity to mop up after us humans and are now starting to release that energy. On our current trajectory, by 2100, our planet will reach a temperature not seen for 3 MILLION years!. So...what's the plan???
DJ-I am NOT any kind of "expert" -just trying to make some sense...
YES all of history we did have storms, extreme weather...
also YES climate collapse is worsening extremes....
Part of the question is "how to deal with it". The floods now ongoing in Central Europe are in a very widespread system of connected waterways...Via canals some of the extreme rain/melting snow-far away from the Rhine-river-system-may be "pumped" into that system...
So part of the flooding in Central Europe will be avoided by the push on some buttons in some control rooms....Water-in a normal time flowing via the Danube to the Black Sea-may now end up -via the Rhine-in the North Sea...
High pressure areas over Western Europe and Russia block a low pressure area over Central Europe. That "low" contains extreme amounts of rain because the Mediterranean Sea is record warm...
Extreme drought in some areas are unable to take up the (amounts of) rain...the ground because of drought turned into almost concrete...
Since weather is not 100% predictable one has to stay "within safe limits" in sending extreme levels of water in watersystems with "some room left"...If extra water ends up in the Rhine system-and we get lots of rain over Germany-than we may end up "transporting a disaster"....
Still compared to Nigeria, Sudan, Myanmar etc. the European system of canals, reservoirs etc. can "limit damage"....
Part of the "extreme weather" is also in temperatures dropping from hot to cold within a week...Snow above 1500 metres this early...with lots of melt expected soon...
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Just like pandemics in climate disasters poverty decreases chances...Increases risks...
If one wants to solve health crises, climate disasters-invest in education, family planning, healthcare...NOT in wars !
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Even if climate destruction now is "beyond repair" it is our duty to limit (further) damage the best we can...Even the best climate scientists can not oversee all of the very complex interactions...
