Re: The heat records thread
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 11:34 am
Nunavat, record smashed ... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/he ... -1.5212801
Excerpt: Records have been falling — not by fractions, but by large margins.
"That's what we're seeing more often," Phillips said. "It's not just half a degree or a 10th of a millimetre. It's like hitting a ball out of the ballpark. It is so different than what the previous record was."
More is to come, he predicted. "Our models for the rest of the summer are saying, 'Get used to it."
Our comment: On the longer term, there's nothing to get used too. This is not a new normal. This is just another year in the planet's transition ever upward to a global hothouse climate. It will keep getting hotter even if mankind's CO2 and methane emissions are stopped, which of course won't happen. Life will soon enough be all about adaption and survival for the great many people who live in marginal areas. Perhaps the global conversation should be more about survival than mitigation, because it does appear that the horse has bolted.
Excerpt: Records have been falling — not by fractions, but by large margins.
"That's what we're seeing more often," Phillips said. "It's not just half a degree or a 10th of a millimetre. It's like hitting a ball out of the ballpark. It is so different than what the previous record was."
More is to come, he predicted. "Our models for the rest of the summer are saying, 'Get used to it."
Our comment: On the longer term, there's nothing to get used too. This is not a new normal. This is just another year in the planet's transition ever upward to a global hothouse climate. It will keep getting hotter even if mankind's CO2 and methane emissions are stopped, which of course won't happen. Life will soon enough be all about adaption and survival for the great many people who live in marginal areas. Perhaps the global conversation should be more about survival than mitigation, because it does appear that the horse has bolted.