Chaos ensued in the United Arab Emirates after the country witnessed the heaviest rainfall in 75 years, with some areas recording more than 250 mm of precipitation in fewer than 24 hours, the state’s media office said in a statement Wednesday.
Any idea what this means? Dubai is quite dry from my understanding so perhaps this could be a good thing if they get the infrastructure up to try to mitigate the flooding.
My concern to this is similar to my concern that permafrost is suddenly not returning to the poles anymore.
The earth is technically in an ice age right now, since we have large polar ice caps that are supposed to be relatively “permanent”, and rather than a gradual climate change, or even a climactically “immediate” change that takes thousands of years, the world is very rapidly in the last decade experiencing unexpected, literally unprecedented massive shifts in global weather systems that we don’t understand, can’t predict, but appear to be connected to goober warming.
These shifted weather patterns can destroy ecosystems, any number of animal species, human settlements and agricultural practices rapidly.
It’s nice that Alaskans have an extra six weeks of moderate temperatures every year because of global warming, but does that mean that they’ll only have moderate temperatures in another decade? The “warm winter” trend is increasing annually around the globe.
Any idea what this means? Dubai is quite dry from my understanding so perhaps this could be a good thing if they get the infrastructure up to try to mitigate the flooding.
My concern to this is similar to my concern that permafrost is suddenly not returning to the poles anymore.
The earth is technically in an ice age right now, since we have large polar ice caps that are supposed to be relatively “permanent”, and rather than a gradual climate change, or even a climactically “immediate” change that takes thousands of years, the world is very rapidly in the last decade experiencing unexpected, literally unprecedented massive shifts in global weather systems that we don’t understand, can’t predict, but appear to be connected to goober warming.
These shifted weather patterns can destroy ecosystems, any number of animal species, human settlements and agricultural practices rapidly.
It’s nice that Alaskans have an extra six weeks of moderate temperatures every year because of global warming, but does that mean that they’ll only have moderate temperatures in another decade? The “warm winter” trend is increasing annually around the globe.
Me too, but the world has proven it doesn’t have an appetite to fix it so we need to prepare for an iceless world.
I’m gonna get that solar car, aptera.
It’s not what anyone can call a “solution” to global warming, but it is a cool car.
I’m thinking about an ebike. My streets aren’t really bikeable but I am close enough to what I need that I could make it happen.
I would love to sell my truck and be car free, but it freaks me out.
or develop a rain capture/cleaning system and resell it to other nations in the desert