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Coloratura · Apr 2, 2025

Aside from the fact that we have some hellacious wind moving through the valley right at this moment and I figure we might lose power soon, and that we're seeing some powerful storms already this year, I wanted to start a thread focusing on heavy storms, climate change, and all of the wonderful shit we're going to have to deal with going forward.

Hell, we had several tornadoes land nearby the other night during that big Midwest storm, and even as the trees were bending over and touching power lines, there were people on the community message board saying "we don't get tornadoes in this town, relax."

People get too complacent.

Oh, and fuck Federal Farmer and anyone who believes climate change isn't man made and real.
There.

CBS News said:

A new report from the World Meteorological Organization delivers a stark warning: climate change is accelerating, with some impacts now irreversible for centuries. The State of the Global Climate report confirms global temperatures, greenhouse gas emissions and sea levels all reached record highs in 2024.

The report, compiled with data from 101 countries and various scientific organizations, provides a comprehensive look at the state of the planet. Here are five key takeaways from the WMO's findings.

2024 was the hottest year on record
2024 set a new global temperature record, averaging over 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. For years, climate scientists have warned that exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming would lead to increasingly disastrous impacts around the globe, and it is a key goal of the Paris Climate Agreement to try to keep warming below that threshold.

"While a single year above 1.5 °C of warming does not indicate that the long-term temperature goals of the Paris Agreement are out of reach, it is a wake-up call that we are increasing the risks to our lives, economies and to the planet," said WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo.

Last year's record was just the latest in a decade of record-breaking heat, with every year since 2015 ranking among the 10 hottest ever recorded.

According to John Kennedy, scientific coordinator and lead author of the report, the primary driver of this heat was the continued rise in greenhouse gas emissions, with El Niño playing a smaller role in the spike. "Maybe a tenth of a degree or two-tenths of a degree from El Niño and other factors," Kennedy said.

Greenhouse gas emissions continued their upward trend
Greenhouse gas emissions continued their upward trend, the report says.

Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide all reached record levels in 2023 — the latest year global data was available — surpassing pre-industrial concentrations by significant margins. These gases trap heat in the atmosphere, fueling global warming and its cascading effects.

Oceans are absorbing record heat, leading to rising sea levels
Over 90% of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases is absorbed by the ocean, and in 2024, ocean heat content reached a new high in 65 years of observational records. The report notes that 2024 was the eighth consecutive year of record-breaking ocean warming.

This warming is contributing to widespread coral bleaching, disrupting marine ecosystems and accelerating sea level rise.

The WMO report states, "The ocean will continue to warm for the foreseeable future — a change which is irreversible on centennial to millennial time scales."

The long-term rate of increase has more than doubled — from 2.1 mm per year between 1993 and 2002 to 4.7 mm per year between 2015 and 2024. For coastal communities, even minor increases can lead to more frequent and severe flooding.

Glaciers and ice sheets are rapidly melting
Glaciers and ice sheets are shrinking at alarming rates. Between 2021 and 2024, glaciers experienced the most severe three-year mass loss on record, the report says.

Arctic sea ice reached a minimum daily extent of 4.28 million square kilometers on Sept. 11, 2024, marking the seventh-lowest in the 46-year satellite record. That was 1.17 million km² below the 1991-2020 average — meaning an area of ice nearly equivalent to the size of South Africa had been lost.

Antarctic sea ice has remained at historically low levels, with its extent falling below 2 million km² for the third consecutive year. These losses contribute to rising sea levels, disrupt water supplies for millions of people, and threaten ecosystems that depend on stable ice conditions.

Extreme weather is displacing millions and costing billions
From deadly hurricanes and historic floods to devastating wildfires and droughts, 2024 was marked by extreme weather events. In the U.S., hurricanes Helene and Milton caused more than 250 deaths and tens of billions of dollars in damage.

Extreme weather events linked to climate change are also displacing millions of people worldwide. In 2024, climate-driven disasters triggered the highest number of new displacements in 16 years, exacerbating food shortages and economic instability worldwide.

In Brazil, devastating floods overwhelmed parts of Porto Alegre, displacing approximately 420,000 people and causing extensive economic losses. In West and Central Africa, widespread flooding affected multiple countries, with Chad and Nigeria among the hardest hit. More than 1 million people were displaced, and over 639,000 homes were damaged or destroyed.

"We are working together with all the scientists around the world and the countries to ease the problem of people around the world, in developing countries, in small island developing states, so we hope that this will continue, despite the differences in politics and internal changes," said Dr Omar Baddour, chief of climate monitoring at WMO.

He suggested the report should prompt greater action to help protect our planet.

"The report highlights that, despite the rapid pace of change, there are still viable pathways of mitigation and adaptation. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions remains essential, with rapid expansion of renewable energy playing a crucial role."
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Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-hottest-year-2024-wmo-report/

Kommander · Apr 2, 2025

You've got Climate Derangement Syndrome. Climate "scientists" are all liberals, and liberals are dumb liars. Therefore, climate change isn't real.

If we use less fossil fuel, that means the oil and coal companies make less money. That's not fair to the people who own those companies, so they have to pay workers less to make up the difference. Aren't you libturds supposed to care about workers?

If you liberals were as smart as you claim to be, you could figure out a way to fix the weather without making anyone change what they're doing. But, you don't, because this is about control. The only reason you people keep going on about climate change is because you want to take away my gas stove and force me to get an induction stove which won't work my aluminum pots and pans. I don't want to buy new pots and pans! The teflon coating flaking off and getting in my food seeps into my brain and makes me stupid and angry, and I like being stupid and angry! STOP TRYING TO CONTROL ME BY TELLING ME I CAN'T BE STUPID AND ANGRY!!!

Coloratura · Apr 3, 2025

On a more serious note, though, last night's storm system that ran from Illinois to Texas was fucking wild. I watch Max Velocity on Youtube when these things come through because he is always on top of it, and I've heard him report a tornado several minutes before our local news reports it, and one of the things he mentioned last night was that he'd called several tornadoes, which ended up being tornadoes, well before the NWS was calling them. I believe part of that is because of the massive cuts in the national weather service and how we're just going to see this happen more and more often. So many people are going to die because of this.

Coloratura · Apr 4, 2025

NOAA websites set to go dark tonight due to lack of funding because of Trump administration cuts, and a canceled contract. Fortunately, the climate isn't changing at all, and severe weather events are highly unlikely in this day and age, so why would anyone need to keep track of archival climate data?

Canceled contract means NOAA research websites slated to go dark

Axios said:

The early cancellation of an Amazon Web Services contract means that a slew of NOAA websites are slated to go dark beginning at midnight, sources told Axios.

Why it matters: This mainly would affect NOAA's research division, and will make numerous websites and data sets inaccessible to the public.

It's another example of how the administration has been taking data offline across the government, said current and former NOAA staff members, who spoke to Axios on the condition of anonymity due to fear of retaliation.

Zoom in: The Commerce Department is requiring NOAA — and possibly all department agencies — to cut its IT budget by 50% across the board.

This is resulting in cloud services contracts being cut — and, potentially more significantly, agency networks that transmit weather and climate information.

Some of the websites slated to go down include the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), the Climate Program Office, the home website of NOAA research and the Earth Prediction Innovation Center, which maintains a cloud-based weather forecasting system developed as a public-private partnership.

The NSSL outage may affect some programs, such as the Hazardous Weather Testbed, that the NWS uses for severe weather forecasting.

Bloomberg first reported the impending NOAA IT outages, and Axios independently confirmed them.

Yes, but: It's possible that this and other contracts could still be extended at the last minute, but that's unlikely, sources said.

NOAA operates complex computer models for weather forecasting and climate change studies, most of which run on supercomputers.

It also must consistently keep its weather data flowing to the public to provide accurate, life-saving severe weather warnings.

The intrigue: Some climate data may go dark Saturday morning as well. But the National Centers for Environmental Information, the U.S. clearinghouse for global climate data, shouldn't be affected, sources said.

In addition, certain NOAA labs could see their websites go down early Saturday as well.

NOAA is facing the prospect of another wave of staffing cuts following the loss of about 800 probationary employees in late February, as well as a new round of early retirements.

Already, some National Weather Service forecast offices have cut back on some of their services, including weather balloon launches that provide key data for computer models.

The other side: The Commerce Department didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

What's next: Additional contracts for IT services are due to be renewed or canceled in coming days, including ones that if terminated, may have a direct impact on NOAA's weather communication systems.

Already, the termination of another contract has stopped the agency from automatically translating its audio forecasts and warnings into Spanish.

As Axios reported, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick must approve any contract or contract extension that totals at or about $100,000, which is slowing NOAA to a crawl, along with research institutes it funds.

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Source: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/04/noaa-research-websites-go-dark-saturday-night

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