Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

gmuslera•41 minutes ago

Remember that this is just a piece of the complex system that is the global climate. And over it, there are more systems affected, including human ones like food production or economy. Something this extreme may cause from a severe disruption or a permanent instability in those systems, specially considering feedback loops in all of them.

jauntywundrkind•2 minutes ago

Meanwhile West Antarctic ice shelf barely clutching on.

bix6•18 minutes ago

Great write up but bummed to not see any info about the waves. It’s been a bonkers summer!

Noaidi•about 1 hour ago

People really don’t appreciate yet. How really bad this situation is and will be. They’re talking about 1.76°C higher temperatures next year because of this El Niño. Those are climate change temperatures that are not supposed to be around until 2035. So it’ll give us a sneak peek into our future.

But the biggest effect and this is noted by many insurance companies now is going to be in places like India.

But this is something the world has never seen and I mean that literally so I don’t expect it to be anything but really bad and you should be ready.

lukeify•23 minutes ago

It was inevitable we'd get to the point where climate change began substantially disrupting ecology and human livelihoods. Looks like we're ahead of schedule.

People dying from extreme heatwaves, weather, and famines due to climate change has been predicted for decades at this point; and this is exactly the sort of climatic setup that will enable this to happen.

WarOnPrivacy•about 4 hours ago

In the plus column, we've had a healthy rainy season in the SE US. And while storms seem to move slower than before, we're not yet overwhelmed by stall+flood events.

antonymoose•about 2 hours ago

Have we? Most all of South Carolina is in a drought. We experienced an exceptionally dry Spring and have had good but not sufficient rains all summer.

camd32•about 2 hours ago

Yeah and the west is so extremely dry.

mathgeek•about 1 hour ago

Has seemed pretty normal here in central Florida as far as rain goes.

bamboozled•40 minutes ago

Come to Japan and say it

mapotofu•42 minutes ago

Oh thank god, the farms of the SE US must be ecstatic, and surely we will all benefit from the rainfall hitting checks notes… Purdue chicken farms.

Oh that’s not a plus and just another American centric knee jerk comment on nothing.

bamboozled•39 minutes ago

All we needed to do was stop burning fossil fuels we really are fucking dense.

simulator5g•28 minutes ago

Ah yes it could have been so easy: All we needed to do was convince everyone in the world to behave a certain way.

lucb1e•3 minutes ago

Most people agree on basic values. It's really not that big a stretch to appeal to such common values, seeing as rapid global warming would cause mass relocation, suffering, adaptation costs for those who can stay put, etc.

coldbrewed•14 minutes ago

Exactly, kinda like what we did with CFCs!

Granted fossil fuels are much more ubiquitous than CFCs and comparatively more difficult to replace, but we have prior art for changing industrial practices in the interest of improving climate conditions.

Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

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