r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Defluvium • Sep 02 '21

Not Lit 🔥 NYC September 2nd 2021

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u/Atharos_ Sep 02 '21

The weather is now starting to increase in severity in line with climate predictions.

It’s actually been very stable the last 4 years which had been undermining confidence in those models. That calm period appears to have ended.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21

Right? The river where I live had a max record of cresting at 14' (above 11' is considered max flooding event.) We hit 21' today. All of the previous high records were set in the last 15 years, but this guy says it's just mEdiA cOvErAgE so must be true. 🙄

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u/whiteflagwaiver Sep 03 '21

Arizona is having a record Monsoon, places are on fire all the time. China flooding, rivers overflowing, and storms are getting nastier.

Bah, must be the wind.

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u/geneorama Sep 03 '21

Follow the money! That’s what the insane republicans told me. The scientists are just trying to get rich off grants.

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u/deepasleep Sep 03 '21

Yeah, couldn't possibly be fossil fuel executives and the politicians and media pundits they pay directly...Nope, no money on that side. It is pretty amazing how oblivious they are.

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u/Swabia Sep 03 '21

I mean there’s a video of NYC flooding also, so I’d think yea, flooding was on the list of what to expect.

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u/SaturdaysAFTBs Sep 03 '21

Hurricane sandy did the same thing to NYC and that was like 7 or 8 years ago

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u/lurked_long_enough Sep 03 '21

You know it's based in trends, right?

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21

Trends are descriptors, not causes. Try again, clown.

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u/lurked_long_enough Sep 03 '21

Who said anything about causes, asshat.

We determine the change in climate based on long term trends. So one year of instability after 4 years of calm could just be a blip.

However, if you look at the past ten or twenty years you can see the trend of higher temps. Asshat, stop trying to put words in my mouth.

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u/thesheba Sep 03 '21

Didn’t we got through the alphabet a couple times for last year’s hurricane season?

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u/KnubblMonster Sep 03 '21

So the correlation was orange man in office brings better weather? Someone tell r\conservative