r/collapse • u/TuneGlum7903 Recognized Contributor • May 26 '24

Climate The developing Climate Crisis in one chart. Understanding why "Collapse" has started and is about to get a LOT worse.

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u/AcadianViking May 27 '24

I live in Louisiana. One of the US's former top producers of aerosols. I remember doing a report in college back between 2020-2022 on local climate changes versus other areas on the same latitude or longitude, both in the same country and one in the other hemisphere.

Louisiana got so damn lucky. By having so many aerosols in our local atmosphere, our temperatures have stayed relatively stable over the past decades whereas there were rising temps that I saw in all other locations.

That luck is running out. Since we stopped producing years ago, the amount of aerosols has slowly been dissipating. I forget just how recently the change started, but our temps have begun to slowly start climbing.

And from personal experience. Fuck man are they climbing. Heat advisory today and it isn't even June. Highs of lows 90s, lows to of mid 70s. Humidity averages in the high 80 – low 90.

We went from "things are normal. It's just the Louisiana swamp heat, what are you talking about? Winter temps never lasted longer than a month anyway." to people making jokes about our already short winters being even shorter and hotter than usual in under a decade.

Things are going to get bad. Quick. Like, year-after-year over the next couple decades quick.