The heat here in the U.S. seems to be normal to me, the rest of the world might be another matter.
It's definitely not normal in the US, unless you consider being under multiyear droughts the "new normal" for the US. Especially the area of land that accounts for a huge portion of our agriculture.
Crop Yields Seventy-four percent of respondents rated a reduction in harvest yields due to drought as prevalent or higher in their area, about the same as last year (72%). Forty-two percent of respondents rated the intention to switch planned crops for the growing season due to drought as prevalent or higher (up from 37% last year). Notably, those who reported tilling under crops because of drought conditions jumped from only 24% of respondents last year to 37% of respondents this year. Similarly, 33% of respondents reported destroying and removing orchard trees and other multiyear crops as prevalent or higher, up from only 17% last year. [...]
Livestock Production [...] Two-thirds of respondents reported prevalence of selling off portions of the herd or flock, with average herd sizes expected to be down 36% in the surveyed region. The largest herd decline is in Texas (herds reported down 50%), followed by New Mexico (down 43%) and Oregon (down 41%). Washington expected to have the smallest average herd size decline (down 14%). Insufficient and poor quality forage forces liquidations, which cut into operational income. In Texas, one producer reports, “We have sold half our herd and may not be able to feed the remaining. The ones we sold only brought 60-70% of what we bought them for in 2021.” Scarce and lower quality forage also impacts feed conversion ratios necessary to reach desired market weights. [...]
Although to be fair, it's not limited to just the US and UK. Europe and countries like China are also under severe droughts and extremely high temps.
It's definitely not normal in the US, unless you consider being under multiyear droughts the "new normal" for the US. Especially the area of land that accounts for a huge portion of our agriculture.
Although to be fair, it's not limited to just the US and UK. Europe and countries like China are also under severe droughts and extremely high temps.
California and the west are having "drought" due to not creating enough water reservoirs years ago to account for bigger population growth. The fact our current administration is letting in millions of illegals in when we can't water them is just making the situation worse. America has had dry times before, this is nothing new.
most of the country shouldn't be undergoing sever conditions to begin with
What is it with the younger generations and thinking that every blip in the weather and they think it's unprecedented. History is filled with ever changing weather patterns long before the industrial revolution. To think what we are seeing now is likely a part of a larger but normal weather cycle. We didn't have any real accurate weather measuring out in the west until 150 years ago or so.
What is it with the younger generations and thinking that every blip in the weather and they think it's unprecedented. History is filled with ever changing weather patterns long before the industrial revolution. To think what we are seeing now is likely a part of a larger but normal weather cycle. We didn't have any real accurate weather measuring out in the west until 150 years ago or so.
So are you outright denying climate change and saying everything happening now is merely a temporary fluctuation of whether that will simply go away? Some of the changes that are happening now in the world (such as the melting ice sheets in Antarctic) are going to result in changes that would require something on a geological time scale to undo naturally, so that hardly seems a mere blip.
So are you outright denying climate change and saying everything happening now is merely a temporary fluctuation of whether that will simply go away? Some of the changes that are happening now in the world (such as the melting ice sheets in Antarctic) are going to result in changes that would require something on a geological time scale to undo naturally, so that hardly seems a mere blip.
I am denying MAN MADE climate change. I have been hearing that the world is going to end SINCE THE 1970'S!!! I know you were not even born then but I WAS. Yes, I have been on this since then. I have lost count over every time I hear that we have a dead line before the world ended or New York would be flooded and then they pass and nothing happened. If it was so important than China, India, Africa and the 3rd world would get on board and clean up, but they won't. China ALONE pollutes more than the whole of the Western world clean us COMBINED. If we can't get them on board then everything we do is USELESS.
Also I am tired of HYPOCRITICAL SANCTIMONIOUS SHITS like John Kerry and Leo Caprio and their elite ilk telling us that we need to reduce our standard of living and what little comforts we have but THEY WON'T REDUCE THEIRS! If you fly around on the regular on privet jets and own 5 or more Huge ass houses, I DON"T WANT TO BE LECTURED BY YOU!
California and the west are having "drought" due to not creating enough water reservoirs years ago to account for bigger population growth. The fact our current administration is letting in millions of illegals in when we can't water them is just making the situation worse. America has had dry times before, this is nothing new.
You are so lazy to work your own land you would be starving if EVERY ADMINISTRATION IN U.S. HISTORY wouldn't allow illegals to enter. So thank African/Chinese slaves and Jesus (the one that crossed the border from Mexico) for your cheap food production and low wage work.
Your example shows exactly why we could be causing climate change. If a single volcanic eruption could eject 10-120 million metric tons of SO2 into the atmosphere in April 1815 and effectively kill the summer of 1816 because the SO2 produced aerosols that reflect solar radiation, what do you expect happens when humans in 2021 released 36.3 billion metric tons of CO2 that traps solar radiation?
I understand you Americans love to talk politics in places that don't have anything to do with politics, let alone American politics, but can you like go argue somewhere else so that I don't have to pretend I care about how you're driving your country in the wall? Thank you for your understanding, have a good day.
I understand you Americans love to talk politics in places that don't have anything to do with politics, let alone American politics, but can you like go argue somewhere else so that I don't have to pretend I care about how you're driving your country in the wall? Thank you for your understanding, have a good day.
I understand that you Foreigners love to talk about things they have no clue about in this politic heavy Current Events pool, let alone their own politics, but can you go argue somewhere else so that I don't have to pretend that I care that when ever they stub their toe that they come crying to the U.S. to save them? thank you for your understanding, have a good day.
Your example shows exactly why we could be causing climate change. If a single volcanic eruption could eject 10-120 million metric tons of SO2 into the atmosphere in April 1815 and effectively kill the summer of 1816 because the SO2 produced aerosols that reflect solar radiation, what do you expect happens when humans in 2021 released 36.3 billion metric tons of CO2 that traps solar radiation?
SO2 =/= CO2 buddy. The plants consume all that CO2, more so the trees and grow better. The CO2 doesn't stay in the air. Besides, the water in the air traps more of the heat than CO2 does anyway.
You are so lazy to work your own land you would be starving if EVERY ADMINISTRATION IN U.S. HISTORY wouldn't allow illegals to enter. So thank African/Chinese slaves and Jesus (the one that crossed the border from Mexico) for your cheap food production and low wage work.
We're not lazy, but it is cheaper for the corporate farms to use the illegals to do the work. I don't like it either, but WHY do they keep coming if they are just going to get used that way? It really makes you think doesn't it?
We're not lazy, but it is cheaper for the corporate farms to use the illegals to do the work. I don't like it either, but WHY do they keep coming if they are just going to get used that way? It really makes you think doesn't it?
The same applies in reverse, you know? If you are so upset with illegals, why don't you take their jobs under the same work conditions and low wages they work with. But of course you prefer to pay less for whatever you don't want to get involved.
They accepted the terms by not returning home, now accept yours and don't bite the hand that feeds you.
SO2 =/= CO2 buddy. The plants consume all that CO2, more so the trees and grow better. The CO2 doesn't stay in the air. Besides, the water in the air traps more of the heat than CO2 does anyway.
If that were true then we wouldn't be seeing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere increasing overtime. CO2 was 280 ppm at the beginning of the industrial revolution, 370 ppm in 2000 and around 419 ppm by 2019.
What you're saying also ignores the vast amount of deforestation going on around the world removing forests as a carbon sink. While that is happening other sinks, like Tundra are disappearing because of the warming and helping to make things worse.
SO2 =/= CO2 buddy. The plants consume all that CO2, more so the trees and grow better. The CO2 doesn't stay in the air. Besides, the water in the air traps more of the heat than CO2 does anyway.
Do you think plants are just empty vacuums for CO2?
I understand you Americans love to talk politics in places that don't have anything to do with politics, let alone American politics, but can you like go argue somewhere else so that I don't have to pretend I care about how you're driving your country in the wall? Thank you for your understanding, have a good day.
We aren't talking about politics, we are talking about climate change, that which is effecting the entire world.
The same applies in reverse, you know? If you are so upset with illegals, why don't you take their jobs under the same work conditions and low wages they work with. But of course you prefer to pay less for whatever you don't want to get involved.
They accepted the terms by not returning home, now accept yours and don't bite the hand that feeds you.
I refuse. We have rules here and they need to abide by them.
If that were true then we wouldn't be seeing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere increasing overtime. CO2 was 280 ppm at the beginning of the industrial revolution, 370 ppm in 2000 and around 419 ppm by 2019.
What you're saying also ignores the vast amount of deforestation going on around the world removing forests as a carbon sink. While that is happening other sinks, like Tundra are disappearing because of the warming and helping to make things worse.
What deforestation? For every report you can cite, i can show you where else in the plants are growing. Where is the Tundra "disappearing" then? this is the same shit i heard years ago about the polar bears vanishing, now we have more of them than ever.
I can't even be surprised you're this clueless, since you couldn't even do a basic Google search to find information on a Vtuber's injury that literally everyone was talking about.
I can't even be surprised you're this clueless, since you couldn't even do a basic Google search to find information on a Vtuber's injury that literally everyone was talking about.
I'm not surprised you bought into something that only the a tiny percent of the world cares about, much less believes exist. To make my point, you can't even keep the name on it. First it was Global cooling, then it's Global warming, now it's an ambiguous catch all of "Climate change". I don't trust the grifters who keep changing the goal posts every few years. If anyone really cared about the environment then they would build Nuclear power plants along side of other "green" energy to power EV, but they are not. We are still dependent on Coal and Gas fired power plants to make electricity. If you were serious, the best way to help heal the world is to make everyone wealthier. Only then they can send their time and money on fixing the planet. The west does that job well, the rest of the world does not nor care too.
I have just given up on any hope fixing it and just want to end this world as we know it. Burn it all down.
