You need to convince them the Earth is a sphere first.
Then we need to convince them to build more big red arrows to keep the blue stuff up the top
Wouldn’t a big red circle have more power then smaller individual red arrows?
Bet you’re wishing for Trump and his sharpie now!
That’s science though, the people that don’t believe it will not be convinced by smart people sharing their discoveries.
my issue with posts like these is the ppl frequenting these sites already know this, its directed at the wrong audience
I feel like you hit the nail on the head. It’s not that they don’t understand it. I don’t understand most of this, but I can try
There are people out there who just don’t believe and therefore will never try to understand
Go instead with:
Humans helping the global warming demons is causing the polar ice cap gods to become weaker, who in turn are unable to contain the cold yin winds in the poles, causing them to move to your house.
Good luck convincing the rubes that. Literally heard jokes about “global warming” today in the office. Had to say, well its climate change actually and wild shit means its not doing good.
Let them know that they changed the term to “climate change” so that stupid people would understand that the Earth getting hotter on average will make some places colder, because ice that used to be staying put, will now melt into water, which will flow into places where there wasn’t water before.
That’s about as dumbed down an explanation as is possible, I think, lol.
Easy money.
“It’s cold as fuck because a monster bolus of hot air hit the arctic from the other side of the planet, sent a chunk of the polar vortex down here. Heat directly caused this. Did you have a problem with the word ‘bolus’, or perhaps understanding the Earth is spherical? Was ‘spherical’ too big a word? I can dumb this down if need be.”
Yeah except I myself didnt know that directly either. I just knew that, no, this is because of climate change not in spite of it.
Should have called it “climate instability” or “climate chaos” from the start.
It shouldn’t have been “save the planet”, it should have been “save the humans” because the planet will be here long after we’re gone
There once was an explosion the size of Russia because the coal and oil underneath it got in contact with magma, killing 99.8% of all life on earth (before the dinosaurs) 🦕🦖- this process released more CO2 in the atmosphere than if we would burn all the fossil fuel today (I’ve forgotten by how much more)
Earth took its time, couple million years, but the carbon-silicate balance was restored. Edit: Fun fact 2 - during this time there are records of winds >800 mph, acid rain and temperatures >180°F
Fun fact: There was not a single mass extinction because of the shift of the magnetic poles, all mass extinctions can be linked to the carbon-silicate balance.
Woah, never heard of this. Got a link or a technical term?
The naturally occuring nuclear reactor in Africa is really interesting as well. So is the coal fire in Australia that’s been going on for like a thousand years.
It’s called the carbon silicate cycle
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonate–silicate_cycle
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31128-3
Edit: that giant explosuon https://new.nsf.gov/news/volcanic-coal-burning-siberia-led-climate-change#%3A~%3Atext=A+team+of+researchers+led%2CEarth's+most+severe+extinction+event.
Naturally occuring nuclear reactor in Africa? Nature is fucking weird bro.
That’s fucking amazing, Joe Scott should do a video on this.
Climate Crisis is my preferred term. Gets the point across quite nicely.
“war on summer” might be the only one that works
You will pry my summers from my cold dead fingers.
Climate Change: “acceptable”
Please don’t get yourself fired!? Facts themselves are political these days:-(.
‘It’s not okay to be this stupid.’
Speaking of which ~
5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know
https://www.wired.com/story/5-physics-equations-everyone-should-know/
Will the increased snow cover at lower latitudes reduce warming? (I’m guessing probably yes, due to increased albedo. But, snow is also an insulator, and might be holding ground heat. I don’t know which effect will be greater.)
If it does reduce warming, will the amount be significant relative to anthropogenic climate change? (I’m guessing probably not.)
And just out of curiosity, did the Southern Hemisphere experience similar polar disturbances last winter, or in the past few years?
The problem here is that the snow will melt at some point. The reason this is happening is because the sea ice that existed year-round until now is nearly gone each summer. The lack of consistent ice covering means that there is a greater amount of energy being absorbed by the ocean, perhaps not year-round, but that it’s happening so much more in the summer is sufficient to utterly outweigh any amount of temporary snowfall anywhere else on the globe.
How do I quantify this to my hypothetical parents who reject climate change, and to my hypothetical siblings who don’t know one way or another?
I mean, you could think of it like rain. Imagine that you have a bucket, and it’s out in a rainstorm. There’s a plant in the bucket with some soil, and a tiny little pinhole in the bottom that let’s out a couple of drips at any given time. Now, let’s say you want to make sure that the plant gets just the right amount of water, so that it still gets the right amount of rain, but it doesn’t flood and overpower the leak out of the bottom. What’s the simplest solution? Figure out how quickly the rain is coming down, and then cover part of the bucket so you only get the right amount of rain, right? Now imagine that some hooligan comes by and decides to muck with your bucket, because for the slightest moment, it will bring their sad, shriveled heart some measure of joy to make your life worse. They decide to move the cover. Maybe they take it off entirely, and that would guarantee the plant would die, but they’re a sick, evil little gobshite, so they only move it off when you’re out for the day, and then they put it back when you get home. When you go into your house, they take off the cover again, letting in the full torrent of rain. You look at the bucket, and wonder why the plant is getting flooded. Why isn’t the cover working anymore? Because it’s only there to help some of the time, and the damage that’s done while it’s missing is piling up faster than the drain can sink it away
The plant is the entire world ecosystem, you are the careful equilibrium that has been in place since the Oligocene, the rain is sunlight, the cover is arctic ice, the little gobshite is the corporations and individuals that have decided that their personal aggrandizement is the only thing that matters.
You want real trouble? Now imagine that when the level of water reaches high enough in the bucket, the cover doesn’t even fit anymore. That’s what happens when the permafrost and methane hydrates release their payloads in the coming years. That way lies the Permian mass extinction.
The graphic isn’t all that accurate. The text says a colder period is because of a warmer planet but then the cold area from a meandering jet stream looks larger. The missing part is the warmer air that leaks into the polar areas, causing a feedback loop by further deteriorating the balance of cold and warm that drives the jet stream.
You try drawing spherical stuff on a flat surface. Shits hard 🤣🤣
this one might be more clear. still the same story though
It’s a bit prettier. What’s missing (and I know this is meme territory so it’s not a big deal) is how the jet stream is not just weak and wandering, but literally breaking in places and that’s where warm air into the poles happens. And it’s not hard to understand warmer where there’s normally ice means less ice.
Last time that much fresh water got dumped in the Atlantic ocean (when the glacier over north america melted) it resulted in an ice age over Europe… So… Good luck guys 👍
Phew. Glad I’m not in Europe
Western Europe in particular benefits from being warmer than its latitude would suggest due to Atlantic Ocean currents.
These currents are literally a coin toss away from breaking down, and it’s getting worse every year. Climate scientists are in unanimous agreement that the collapse is coming, and faster than a geologic timescale.
If (when) this happens, European countries will look more like Siberia than the Mediterranean.
Humanity is already dead. The time for drastic action was 30 years ago. We’re just talking corpses.
Phew glad I’m in a ski resort lol
Boutta get a few new glacier slopes.
My thoughts exactly. As a non-European, it sounds like the appropriate response is to drive my Chevvy Suburban on 5 miles on the highway for 30 minutes to work in near standstill traffic.
I’ll just be over here with my pickup truck acting as my lights and music while I hang out in the front yard.
I’m ok with colder temperatures. Maybe the tourists will fuck off. (I live in a tourist trap in the Arctic)
Iceland?
Norway, very little of Iceland is in the Arctic.
Great, I’m comin’ to be an annoying tourist now that I know 👍
🖕🏻
Will it cool Australia? Its 45°C next week
It’s just nature’s hernia
Weird, we’re experiencing the opposite in Europe.
That’s because the polar vortex slid off the Arctic onto North America, allowing warmer air to creep northward on your side of the globe. I remember in '21, while we had record cold in the southern US, Siberia was on fire.
This. The meme is inaccurate in that the polar vortex is in fact currently unusually strong. It’s just unusually shaped and oddly elongated. I hope the two following images show up correctly.
Strength of the polar vortex. Blue line is this winter:
source: http://weatheriscool.com/
Map showing the mean 500 hPa geopotential height and surface (2m) temperature anomalies for this week, as forecasted on Monday by ECMW:
Parts of Siberia are still on fire. Slava Ukraine
Glory to the heroes and all that, but gloating over the destruction is never cool.
Particularly terrible when Russians do that, but always bad no matter who says it.
I liked the image of the Titanic nosing down into the water, and deniers up on the stern end saying, “If we’re “sinking” how come we/re up so high?”
Because science, bitch!
i heard climate change is a hoax
Clean yur ears out sunny
obviously you don’t want to make america great
I think we’re past the point of humour on that one.
Fun fact, when the jet stream gets perturbed like that and develops the sinusoidal deviations that we are experiencing, it’s called a Rossby wave.
These waves are actually super normal as the jetstream shifts with the seasons and moves north/south, especially when in a La Niña phase of the ENSO, which we are in right now.
The Hadley circulation cells whose boundaries define the jet stream are driven by convection. The US lies right along a jetstream boundary between two cells, and just downwind from the pacific ocean, so our weather is particularly sensitive to the temperature differences across the pacific ocean.
El Niño patterns have a hot equatorial pacific ocean which drives significant convection on the southern cell of the jet stream crossing the US, stabilizing it. La Niña patterns have a smaller gradient between the temperatures in the cells to the north and south of the relevant jet stream, especially as climate change relatively warms the arctic faster, leading to higher amplitude destabilizations during La Niña patterns like we are experiencing now.
More fun facts about these Rossby waves: they have been proposed as the mechanism to drive the eddies that end up forming planets in protoplanetary disks around baby stars (see the wikipedia page for Rossby waves above), and as the mechanism behind the hexagonal shape of Saturn’s polar cell. Worth noting that the exact mechanism for that hexagon is still highly debated, but Peter Gierasch used to have a fun model using a modified record turn table to create a rossby wave that formed a hexagon as a proof-of-concept that has stuck with me.
Sounds too complicated to be true. Obvious explanation is Jewish Space Laser!
Palestinian*
Ha, you believe in space
From that picture it looks like the weak jet stream is the problem. We just need to build a ton of wind farms across Canada to blow it harder so that it becomes more powerful. Easy.
If we want the wind farms to blow we’ll have to power them using fossil fuels of course. It’s the only solution.
And the pollution isn’t a problem, because the strong winds generated will dissipate it away.
Oh, and the entire system must be ai-based
I swear just a few years ago it was polar vortex this polar vortex that on the news everyday about the cold weather and I haven’t heard it once this year.
Yuuup. A few years ago, when the entire United States was experiencing record lows, the Earth had an above average overall temperature. Imagine how hot everywhere other than the United States must have been, if the average was still higher despite our record lows.
