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This shit just got real.

Coorie in comrades!

#Eowyn

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24880472

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I keep telling people these things are going to get more frequent.

I get annoyed because I'd really like to be able to separate increasing frequency from increased awareness, but I don't have the data. I only remember 1987 and 1988 (we had additional storm in Scotland that weren't reported on) as big storm years pre-2010 or so, but they can't have been the only ones.

Agreed, but if people only have the news as their information source, how else are they supposed to find out? When I saw how quickly ocean temps rose last year, I was immediately worried. All that energy has to go somewhere. We can't keep thinking of these things as once in a lifetime. They're going to start happening every year, maybe more than once.

That was my thought last year, and even the year before. Multiply up the surface heat step over baseline * the volume of water continually moving into the west, that’s a prodigious amount of energy with nowhere to go except evaporation and wind speed.

I'm an oceanographer, and last year's rapid temperature rise made me physically nauseous. It makes me want to scream at times, but this <waves hand vaguely> is what happens when the people who make decisions don't look at long-term consequences, and don't listen to the experts who understand what's happening.

I try not to think of this as the beginning of the end for the species, because that doesn't help, but I do occasionally wish I'd been born about twenty years earlier -- selfishly! -- so I wouldn't have to see even this much of the way things are going to be. I have little hope that the billionaires and their cronies will develop altruism.

No, neither do I, but I do wonder how much of that is down to a different approach to risk. How much of that is because we didn't take it as seriously? Like I say, I'd love toe be able to tease things apart, but I don't have the data.

I occasionally fantasise about all the environmental scientists and climatologists spontaeously rebelling all at once because of some telepathic signal sent by a mad green god and storming parliament.

The hope is very difficult to find these days. I am glad I don't have children.

Sometimes I even dare to dream that one day "sustainable economic growth" will be recognised by policy makers as an oxymoron.

In that particular case, we might look back on the good old Gulf Stream days.
Fuck, this is all too depressing for the morning.