Is THIS the Real Reason Weather is Getting Wilder?

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    If you feel like the weather has been getting a lot weirder and wilder lately, you’re not alone. While it’s easy to blame climate change, we need to dive deeper. There has been a recent increase in polar vortex events bringing arctic air far enough south to cause snow in places like Texas, extreme heat waves like in the Pacific Northwest, and extreme rain like we saw after Hurricane Ida. Even fires in Siberia and drought hint at a new dust bowl. NOAA’s 2020 Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster report showed a notable uptick in extremes. And 2021 was no exception, with 10.6% of all weather stations reporting record temperatures. And with the continued emission of carbon into the atmosphere, this should come as no real surprise.
    But some new scientific research shows that there is a surprising thread that connects nearly all of these weather events. Tune in to learn why it feels like our weather is spiraling out of control and what we might have in store.
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  • @Francois_L_7933
    @Francois_L_7933 2 года назад +1193

    Living in Canada, we've been seeing the changes for a long time. Over 20 years ago I noticed that in my city (east of the Great Lakes) we didn't get winter days where your nostrils stick together anymore. Winters also began being more humid because the lakes don't freeze solid as they used to. The seaway canal rarely freezes now. And last week we had a visit from the Polar Vortex which allowed us to break records that date back to the 1930's (it was -32°C plus wind chill). We're not supposed to get the Polar Vortex because the Jet Stream normally protects us from arctic air. And this is just the start...

    • @devinsmith4790
      @devinsmith4790 2 года назад +111

      I think that's why "climate change" is the prefer term over "global warming" because yes while the world is warming at a fast rate, it's more complicated when you view it at a more local level.

    • @_ch1pset
      @_ch1pset 2 года назад +95

      @@devinsmith4790 just my opinion, but I dislike the focus on calling it "climate change" alone. It should be, "rapid climate change caused by global warming". The climate is always changing, usually at a much slower pace, but simply saying "climate change" is not specific enough to describe what is actually happening. It also takes focus away from greenhouse gas emissions, which directly contribute to global warming. Just because the weather is colder than usual for a couple weeks doesn't change the fact that greenhouse gas emissions are causing the atmosphere to retain more heat from the sun.

    • @davruck1
      @davruck1 2 года назад +37

      @@devinsmith4790 it’s also not what they’re telling you. How many times do they have to change the narrative and you think it’s “new science.” Almost everything that the public knows has been researched for decades, and then the narrative is spun by centers of power to fit their agenda. Watch them tell you that they need to save you.

    • @davruck1
      @davruck1 2 года назад +16

      @@_ch1psetlmao how do you know? Were you there? Keep an open mind and be open to new info. Stop trying to fit things into existing theories. That’s not science.

    • @devinsmith4790
      @devinsmith4790 2 года назад +31

      @@_ch1pset
      If you want a term that's less of a mouthful, there's "anthropogenic climate change".

  • @breccamerie1
    @breccamerie1 2 года назад +567

    I live in south Tennessee in the United States. We've been hit by an unprecedented amount of tornadoes and flooding. When I bought my house, which is over 100 years old, I asked the previous owners (a church who had it built for their ministers) about flooding in the area and if it was necessary to buy flooding insurance. They told me they had only seen the back field flood once since the 60s. I was not in a flood zone either even though we have a small creek about a quarter of a mile behind us. Needless to say in the past 14 years I've lived here that creek has flooded our back field nearly to our back door at least twice a year in the past 5 years. Additionally, we are having a pretty bad mold problem in the area even in newer housing and people are seeing a pretty large amount of floor rot due to moisture. 100 year old farm house which is JUST now seeing the floor rot out due to moisture, well that says something. Never mind the animal migrations. Mountain lions and bears coming south while armadillos are coming up from Mexico. Nature speaks for itself if you listen. You may not agree with the human impact on climate change, but you'd be a fool not to agree that we are seeing change for what ever reason.

    • @ryanrickerts5982
      @ryanrickerts5982 2 года назад +23

      you are a wise person, Heather. Thanks for the news from Tennessee. Where I live in the PNW next to the ocean with a great deal of rain, we are also seeing 100 year floods as rain falls on the large Cascade volcanoes instead of snow and/or heat waves (like the one mentioned in the video) melt snow and glaciers so quickly, the rivers rise to levels not seen in decades and spill over the banks into farmland that was drained in the 1920s or 40s (much to the chagrin of the Native Americans who used those waterways in their lifestyle). Highways were destroyed in the interior parts of British Columbia, cutting off communities from supplies. Some towns like Hope required food to be helicoptered in. It was very frightening and likely our biggest risk up here.

    • @trevorh6438
      @trevorh6438 2 года назад +6

      You're right, I don't agree with the narrative that climate change is human driven. But there's far worse to worry about, such as the coming pole flip.

    • @mickeycabrera325
      @mickeycabrera325 2 года назад +15

      It's call harp

    • @trevorh6438
      @trevorh6438 2 года назад +10

      @@mickeycabrera325 thats Haarp, to be sure. But it has nothing to do with the coming pole shift.

    • @breccamerie1
      @breccamerie1 2 года назад +13

      @@mickeycabrera325 I'm more for the pole shift idea rather than HAARP if we are going down rabbit holes.

  • @williamgibble8361
    @williamgibble8361 Год назад +14

    Growing up up in the 70s and 80s. I can see a massive difference from then till now.. it's not the same anymore. You knew what to expect as the seasons rolled in years ago. Not no more ...it's nuts...

    • @jacquelyndiamond3301
      @jacquelyndiamond3301 3 месяца назад

      Weather engineering isn’t a conspiracy theory; it’s a FACT! Climate Change isn’t from humans using fossil fuels - it’s from wealthy globalists trying to play god- to cause chaos, fear and death, as usual! privatized Aerospace and Advanced Technologies have no Congressional oversight, no checks & balances. So what we get are parasitic, dim witted psychopaths sabotaging our world. They gotta go. They are outright narcissistic, self serving lunatics. Just ask the natives of Lahaina, on Maui- They have too much power! You don’t let someone with the awareness of a toddler drive your car do you?
      Some powers that be - are corrupted, depraved, and opened themselves to being possessed, due to their lack of spiritual empathy and their self serving, power hungry lust to control e Euronext and everything! When will they ever learn???

  • @theWarriorUnknown
    @theWarriorUnknown Год назад +83

    I'm not an expert but I know that one cubic meter of water can heat three thousand cubic meters of air to the same temperature, so ocean currents must play a big part in weather patterns because the air above the sea gets heated or cooled by these currents, maybe you guys should make video about that, it sure would be interesting to know more about this concept.

    • @brisafey
      @brisafey Год назад +3

      I have seem documentaries about ocean currents. Not certain if this channel has made them yet. even more terrifying...

    • @robertterrell3065
      @robertterrell3065 Год назад +2

      @@johnnyrebel3340 no

    • @luciferangelica4827
      @luciferangelica4827 Год назад +8

      @@johnnyrebel3340 um, what you said is like the opposite of what's happening in this episode, in which they're examining how different forces are interacting with each other. you so brainwashed you just spend all your time remembering what you heard on fox instead of paying attention to what you're watching?

    • @sandersson2813
      @sandersson2813 Год назад +3

      Correct, you're not an expert.

    • @glennmiller7274
      @glennmiller7274 Год назад +3

      For every degree C the atmosphere heats it can hold 7 % more moisture

  • @ETBrenner
    @ETBrenner 2 года назад +712

    Resident of western Oregon here, at ground zero for last year's Pacific Northwest heat dome. This science is vital to me, and I heartily encourage you to keep up this coverage. Thank you!

    • @ricecakeboii94
      @ricecakeboii94 2 года назад +11

      Just get an air conditioner & not worry about it. Probably would just use it a week or so a year.

    • @behram11
      @behram11 2 года назад +10

      Check out Paul Beckwith, you will learn all about the shifting jet stream.

    • @darthmaul216
      @darthmaul216 2 года назад +6

      @@ricecakeboii94 we already send energy to power California’s ac

    • @ricecakeboii94
      @ricecakeboii94 2 года назад +10

      @@darthmaul216 And California wants more water from us. I say we should just get more AC here & send less power there.

    • @mtn1793
      @mtn1793 2 года назад +12

      You want to hear something totally weird about Portlands heat dome last summer? I was committed to be fishing all 3 days just barely north from the Ridgefield WA boat ramp. We thought we were in for a terrible time but a marine layer moved in for the whole time and protected us as well as the fishing. We hardly caught a sweat and caught limits. Blown away!

  • @razz02
    @razz02 2 года назад +9

    As a Texan I’ve only seen snow 2 in my life. This past year I’ve seen it 3 times!!!

  • @biggallcaps
    @biggallcaps Год назад +26

    Living in Indiana means the Jet Steam passes over us many times a year. This is why our weather is so erratic. We can have 30+ degree swings in the same week and sometimes the same day. Not to mention the extremes of having snow, rain, and then heat waves all in one day or the same week. It is wild

    • @domcizek
      @domcizek Год назад

      YES, I LIVED THERE AS WELL, BUT FROM CHICAGO , MOVED TO FLORIDA AFTER THE BIG SNOW OF 1979

    • @isaacshaver6218
      @isaacshaver6218 Год назад

      I miss the indy ice storms. We have them in Ohio but not to the degree, dangerously beautiful extreme my old Indiana home has

    • @ellamick5038
      @ellamick5038 Год назад +1

      you are right I live in Ohio and we laugh looking at the weather forecast the temperature goes up and down in throughout 1 week and does it continuously up and down every week, we ride a teetered totter up and down!

  • @bremCZ
    @bremCZ Год назад +2

    It's getting less and less wild where I am. Not only does it not snow anymore, it's not even below 0 overnight.

  • @robertcoplin2830
    @robertcoplin2830 2 года назад +146

    This is interesting. I knew things were changing in the early 1990's because the local lake I would go ice fishing on was freezing up less and less. Being a gardener, I also noticed that my growing season was shifting, some years I could plant a little earlier. It was erratic of course, but general trend was tending toward a shift in my frost zone.

    • @tylerharris1
      @tylerharris1 2 года назад +4

      @laughing Atyou what a catty response hahaha you must be reallllly smarty. Praises

    • @lindabidwell6722
      @lindabidwell6722 2 года назад +1

      I had annuals planted outside Spring 2021. They never died back. It wasn't cold enough. South USA. Blooming their heads off right now! Spring 2022.

    • @grievouserror
      @grievouserror 2 года назад +10

      @laughing Atyou Great advice to Robert Coplin, dear heart, perhaps you should follow it? First off, it's 'Milankovitch cycle', but we'll keep that between just the two of us. Anyway, Milutin Milankovitch hypothesized the long-term, collective effects of changes in Earth’s position relative to the Sun are a strong driver of Earth’s long-term climate, and are responsible for triggering the beginning and end of glaciation periods. The Milankovitch cycles include orbital eccentricity (100,000 yr. cycle), obliquity (41,000 yr. cycle) and precession (25,771.5 yr. cycle), which are all pretty long-term and don't go very far toward explaining why Robert's forsythia are now blooming in January. As a gardener in Michigan, I've noticed a similar trend over the past 10 years or so. It also doesn't explain observed changes in the migratory and nesting patterns of birds, along with a host of other phenomena. Finally, the idea of Milankovitch cycles being responsible for our current unprecedented episode of warming and climate change is so thoroughly discredited you should be kind of ashamed of yourself for even mentioning it.

    • @grievouserror
      @grievouserror 2 года назад +7

      @laughing Atyou Really? You can't even SPELL it and you feel entitled to say that to someone? What a healthy self-esteem you have, bless your heart.

    • @harrycallahan123
      @harrycallahan123 2 года назад +4

      I've had to plant later and later each year and spring takes more time to arrive. If the earth is really warming as the so called experts want us to believe, why are we experiencing colder temperatures? 7 degrees cooler than normal......I suppose theyre gonna tell me that's due to global warming too 😆😅🤣🤣🤣😂

  • @antoniomv9444
    @antoniomv9444 Год назад +21

    Right now the north of Mexico is suffering from a massive drought that has extended for far too long. We had songs about the rains of May, the massive migrations of butterflies in spring, and the cool nights of June. Now it all has changed, insects are almost non-existent, it only rained in may for four days instead of heavy rainfall for at least a week. The nights since April are at least 28°C and May started with 45° days. We haven't even reached the peak of Summer.
    The climate is changing, those who ignore it literally never go out of their house and pay attention to the bigger picture. My city is experiencing a changing climate like no other, and we are not prepared for the drought to last more than a month.

    • @kirkkirkland7244
      @kirkkirkland7244 Год назад

      Yes and in a couple years we will be having floods! The sun runs our climate so it depends on what it's doing!

    • @mrrooster4876
      @mrrooster4876 Год назад

      @@kirkkirkland7244 Axial Precession has a bigger effect than the sun or man.

    • @TheFRiNgEguitars
      @TheFRiNgEguitars Год назад

      The American dust bowl of the Southwest was not due to CO-2 forcing. Climate changes do occur naturally as well as extreme weather events. It is normal to experience extreme weather and more than normal record setting cold or heat events within one to several years or decades. The record shows this.. ie: the east coast USA mini "ice age" of the mid 1800's... the European millennial warming period, etc.

    • @mrrooster4876
      @mrrooster4876 Год назад

      @@TheFRiNgEguitars It was due to shitty farming techniques....not climate change...

    • @TheFRiNgEguitars
      @TheFRiNgEguitars Год назад

      @@mrrooster4876 It was the perfect storm, severe drought, and poor soil management, the great depression and the need to plow more land to break even. Take away any of these factors, no dust bowl... severe drought is significant, if not the primary cause.

  • @Thomas-er9uf
    @Thomas-er9uf Год назад +53

    I've lived where I live my whole life. The weather was way worse when I was a kid. Not just because I was a kid and it, "seemed" that way. We used to be able to jump off the roof into snowbanks, go tubing down drainage ditch chutes etc. It's nothing like that now. Just dustings of snow, a rare blizzard or two that's gone in a day or two, and then evaporated and drained out within a week.

    • @vincentl.9469
      @vincentl.9469 Год назад +4

      @Buck Rothschild ..but the underlying question in all this is "Is it man made" or just a passing phase ? remember our life spans are just a quick flash in the scheme of things...

    • @fourutubez7294
      @fourutubez7294 Год назад

      ​@@vincentl.9469 A question that has been answered over and over again. The only people with doubts are the people selling fossil fuels and they are spending billions on politicians and focus groups telling folk that it's not a sure thing . Meanwhile pretty every single scientists says it is man made and can present thousands of papers with the proof.

    • @kabbythedog9409
      @kabbythedog9409 Год назад

      @@vincentl.9469 Ice age coming the historic data is crystal clear, perfectly natural
      it’s gonna get wild and bill gates is gonna blame it on you and me but I don’t care I’ll be ice fishing like mad 🎉

    • @MrMikeymontemayor
      @MrMikeymontemayor Год назад +3

      So youve lived where youve lived cool

    • @user-fv7pd6cf4t
      @user-fv7pd6cf4t Год назад

      Dumb post with no location sounds like your not truthful

  • @donnyboy9505
    @donnyboy9505 Год назад +20

    About 30 years ago our local weather guy used to tell us that as new developments (housing,apartments,industry..etc) was being build out from the cities on wetlands,farmland and grassland..that eventually it would create a heat island affect…either causing droughts or really bad weather…I do notice now that our region has expanded 20 to 30 miles out from our large city..that storms coming our way either disappears or intensifies..no longer do we have the all day rains of the past…just a observation.

    • @lrvogt1257
      @lrvogt1257 Год назад

      Heat islands are real but insufficient to cause this global warming. 39 billion metric tons of CO2-every year-is.

    • @chuckb25
      @chuckb25 Год назад

      We won't be satisfied until the entire planet is paved in concrete or black asphalt.......

    • @RealD0naldTrump
      @RealD0naldTrump 7 месяцев назад

      I was just thinking the same thing. It used to rain all day but now it only rains for a few hours

    • @user-xq1wz3tp5z
      @user-xq1wz3tp5z Месяц назад

      On SW Long Island, downwind of NYC and NJ, I routinely track rainstorms which have big impact upstream of the city,
      and then often rain on the city, but generally now we just watch dessicated mammatus clouds glide overhead ... the trend is not novel, but has become exaggerated in past 30 years.

  • @Thessalin
    @Thessalin 2 года назад +31

    The lake near by parents house doesn't freeze much at all anymore.
    During the cold weather during La Nina, we seem to get monsoon like fall- winter near New Years. Floods my parents basement it seems every time. People deny this, but heavens, just pay attention.

    • @brianbailey462
      @brianbailey462 2 года назад +1

      people deny your parents basement getting flooded?

    • @Thessalin
      @Thessalin 2 года назад +1

      @@brianbailey462 Heh. But even though it didn't happen 10-35 years ago doesn't mean climate change or global warming... oh no, it just means... pigeons or something.

    • @okiedokie085
      @okiedokie085 2 года назад

      PLEASE LEARN THE TRUTH>>>IT IS OUR GOVERNMENT DOING IT FOR 100 YEARS! WE MUST STOP THEM
      ruclips.net/video/5yZhh2leRJA/видео.html

    • @ivanrodriguez268
      @ivanrodriguez268 Год назад

      @@Thessalin deny deny deny

  • @DrewCantDrive
    @DrewCantDrive 2 года назад +22

    I remember being a kid in California and we would have rainy days and thunderstorms, now that rarely happens

    • @ADreamingTraveler
      @ADreamingTraveler Год назад +1

      California is currently in a new megadrought which is why it hasn't been raining there for the past 22 years. The last megadrought in the western US was about 500 years ago and lasted a very very long time. I don't expect it to end for a long time. Of course climate change is playing a role in making these megadroughts worse than their predecessors

    • @aegaeon117
      @aegaeon117 Год назад +3

      Yup, growing up in the SF Bay Area during the 80's and 90's, it used to rain throughout winter and the skies were always grey. Now it looks more like a semi desert in winter with blue skies and hills covered in dried grass and shrubs.

    • @jakemiller1814
      @jakemiller1814 Год назад +2

      Looking at the latest GFS run, this didn’t age well.

    • @ryanlarbi8157
      @ryanlarbi8157 Год назад +1

      Well there you go then have a bunch of rain

    • @levmoses742
      @levmoses742 Год назад +2

      Oh, it’s happening now!! We’re making up for at least the last 3 years I hope.
      Gonna be a bit wild if we have a quick melt.
      It’s time folks with houses get subsidized water tanks. I have a friend with two. It supports her garden and more 🪴

  • @maryodell8523
    @maryodell8523 Год назад +9

    I just saw the weirdest weather for the time of the year! Today is November 27 and we just had a massive thunderstorm system move through the area. It was moving about 70 mph I estimated. I wish that I could show photos of it from my weather app.

  • @Dreamwarrior0802
    @Dreamwarrior0802 Год назад +6

    This is one of the best and most simplest explanation that I’ve seen on the changes in the jet stream. My husband and I have actually been watching Al Roker on the Today Show for the last 20 years, and I have noticed a change in the Jet Stream because again I’m a faithful Weather Watcher. And so I was not surprised to see you say these changes of the last 20 years because I have to. Thanks so much.

    • @domcizek
      @domcizek Год назад

      YES, I ALWAYS WATCH HIM, AND NOTICED THE SAME THING

  • @kaelee1209
    @kaelee1209 2 года назад +66

    I am in Nebraska. I have been noticing such weird changes in weather. When the Tennessee/Kentucky tornados hit in mid-December we got 80 degree weather and severe thunderstorms. It was so weird considering the fact that we had snow two days earlier. Another thing is we barely get tornados or severe weather in the springtime, now we see the south getting hit much more. Now Nebraska is getting derechos. We had two severe straight line winds go up to Iowa in just two years. Its worrying.

    • @serronserron1320
      @serronserron1320 2 года назад

      Probably just a liberal propaganda

    • @harrycallahan123
      @harrycallahan123 2 года назад

      Chalk it up to high tech, high energy weather machines that can both heat and cool the atmosphere. Nothing new, they've been around for decades it's just that ppl in positions of authority are becoming real control freaks these days.

    • @rnedlo9909
      @rnedlo9909 Год назад

      There are many factors affecting the climate. Every year 14.6 BILLION gallons of fuel are evaporated into the atmosphere just filling our tanks with fuel worldwide. The fluorocarbons released into the atmosphere in the 20th century are finally dissipating, reflecting less light from the sun. The coal and other fossil fuel soot stored in the northern ice pacts over the last 500 years are causing the ice to melt faster than we predicted. Permafrost is releasing billions of metric tons of methane into the atmosphere every month. That is only some of the things we have going on, there are many more. An old proverb says, "The wise one sees the calamity and avoids it." We all should learn to be wise; we will need it in the near future.

    • @harrycallahan123
      @harrycallahan123 Год назад

      @@rnedlo9909
      Don't worry Bill Gates has a plan to spray particles into the atmosphere that will block the sun's rays and cool the earth.
      Also wonder if the light from sun is getting thru more............Why are there ANY areas of the globe experiencing record cold temperatures, which some are? Seems rational worldwide, that it would only be hotter on a continual basis.

    • @lucbos7516
      @lucbos7516 Год назад +1

      Climate change is a hoax

  • @davewilson4058
    @davewilson4058 2 года назад +141

    Here in New Zealand's North Island's Waikato region, my personal experience over the last 54 years, is that our average climate has warmed. Our cold months in 1965 were from May to August, when we had frequent, frosty mornings. Now we don't really experience frosts that much and our Winter has shrunk to half of June and the month of July and what rare frosts we have, are almost a non event. Our Summer's are becoming extended and hotter. We are having more days up in the high 20's, low 30's now, than we did 50 years ago and rainfall seems to be more spasmodic and less. In the 60's, I would quite often wear a heavy coat ,scarf and gloves in the Winter. In the last few years I just put on a Jersey and haven't worn my heavy coat once during the very mild Winter's we've had. If this trend continues, I feel we will become frost free like the far North region of the North Island.

    • @yt.personal.identification
      @yt.personal.identification 2 года назад +18

      Your Aussie cousins here.
      Do you find it difficult to find similar information about the Southern Hemisphere?
      It's all connected, but they appear to be looking at only half of the information.
      Is it just me?

    • @alexlancaster7681
      @alexlancaster7681 2 года назад +3

      I'm in QLD Australia in now. But growing up in England is was used to seeing hard frost in the winter, cold winds and actually quite dry after the storm season in October and November. But from my teens until I moved to Aus we found that we hard mild winters that brought more rain and warmer weather. That's in my time growing up, only 29 years.

    • @autochton
      @autochton 2 года назад +5

      @@yt.personal.identification One aspect probably is that more of Earth's landmass and population both are in the northern hemisphere - but let's not miss that most countries at or south of the equator were colonized by Europe, and still deal with the aftermath. The money and resources for this research is concentrated up north.
      That said, the impact of the Antarctic continent and the South Sea on the south jet streams would be very interesting to know about.

    • @yt.personal.identification
      @yt.personal.identification 2 года назад +2

      @@autochton Sure, but as the data appears to be mostly from satellites, then it suggests the data is available, but just not as 'popular' to analyse.
      I imagine someone somewhere is working with the data.

    • @davewilson4058
      @davewilson4058 2 года назад +5

      @@yt.personal.identification It's the same with astronomy. They always concentrate on the Northern Hemisphere. We've always been considered to be slightly less important in the scheme of things. We're rarely mentioned on International news channel's

  • @bobjacobson858
    @bobjacobson858 Год назад +12

    I wonder how the 'dust bowl days' of the 1930s compare to the present, and whether there were similar causes.

    • @user-xq1wz3tp5z
      @user-xq1wz3tp5z Месяц назад +1

      Farmers have reported they see resemblance.

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds8581 2 года назад +28

    Lived in Oregon my entire life. I hate that this hot patch is sitting over the PNW and keeping it dry and hot and not rainy and foggy and diverse climate with temperate rainforest type ecosystem... I hate warm muggy dry weather.. things really have been very different lately. That huge fire evacuated so many towns around where I live and where people I know live. People lost their homes. We've not seen stuff like that my entire life. I was born in '89.

    • @ashleyandersen4375
      @ashleyandersen4375 2 года назад

      i moved back to oregon from michigan to escape the muggy summers and chilling winters just to have my neighborhood burn down and have a muggy summer afterwards. It's so different now. First a huge fire and then this winter we got snow that lasted TWO DAYS ON THE GROUND only 8 miles inland from the ocean.

    • @AdvEug
      @AdvEug 2 года назад

      I miss the hotsprings the most. The fires were so terrible and some forest roads will be closed for 5 years.

    • @ashleyandersen4375
      @ashleyandersen4375 2 года назад

      @@AdvEug I haven't gotten to go to any of the hot springs. We're any of them affected by the fires? 😬

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 2 года назад +1

      Support carbon-free nuclear power.
      And a moratorium on immigration. In 1950, pop of USA was 150 million. It has more than doubled to 335 million, in 70 years!!! Unsustainable!

    • @Jc-ms5vv
      @Jc-ms5vv 2 года назад

      @@scottslotterbeck3796 and then when civilization collapses, then what?

  • @TanjaStoyan
    @TanjaStoyan 2 года назад +24

    Also, here in Southern California, this Winter has been the coldest average temperature in my memory, and we hardly got any rain (again). It's still relatively "subtle" but the fires speak for themselves.

    • @therealthreadkilla
      @therealthreadkilla 2 года назад +8

      Fires are at a multi decade low.
      In spite of all the recent focus on the California forest fire tragedies and contrary to most public pronouncement, forest fires in his state are declining with the rest of the northern hemisphere. The United States Geological Survey’s fire scientist Jon Keeley checked the data for California back to 1920 and found that the number of forest fires peaked in the 1970s with a significant decrease since.
      I can't post the link because if I do RUclips deletes the post. The more facts I post the better the odds of deletion.
      Reminder: disinformation is only that which doesn't fit the narrative that the ruling masters are forcing you to believe in.

    • @michael1345
      @michael1345 2 года назад

      ​ @Mark Berryhill Here in Australia we are pretty much aware of the effects of climate change and the causes, although it would be good to include the other half of the world.We suffered what we now call the "Black Summer". We choked on the Eastern Seaboard from Southern Queensland down for months. We have bushfires here, in fact our Forests have evolved to account for it but NOT that extensive and that intense. "The Climate scientists predicated Australia would be the first to feel the effects of climate change and its increasing severity. They were right. However, like every where around the Globe, where ever there is a Conservative government, there is little or no action. At the hight of the conflagration, our Prime Minister snuck out of Australia and went to Hawaii.He was pilloried for it and our own Shock jocks tried but failed to put a positive spin on it. Our PM and his government is STILL in denial , taken kicking and grumbling to the Paris agreements. Here we are talking about science and then politics sneaks in, so desperate are they to prop up the existing order and ideology. Houses on the east coast are being washed into the rising seas with every severe storm. Mild dry winters and either intense dry heat or tropical humidity summers, where it shouldn't be. That is our reality now and this in only 20 years. I think the scientists projected time for change is overly optimistic. They should shave 20 to 30 years off their future projections on the ill effect of severe climate change.

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 2 года назад +6

      No. The fires are poor forest management. We suppress fires in every case, leaving more and more downed trees to add to the fuel load.

    • @Hathorr1067
      @Hathorr1067 2 года назад +2

      @@scottslotterbeck3796 California doesn't even do forest management to prevent fires anymore. It's not really that it's poor, it no longer exists.

    • @JoeyJoJoJr0
      @JoeyJoJoJr0 2 года назад +3

      Fires have happened all the time; the only difference is the amount of people now living in fire-prone areas. Same with the water supply in the Colorado River basin; the water supply hasn't changed over centuries, only the demand.

  • @candaceaustin4258
    @candaceaustin4258 Год назад +2

    I live in PNW and I've seen intense changes in weather. We've gone as long as 7 months without any precipitation. I've put a bucket out with a stick to prevent small animals from drowning. Deer have sucked it dry.

  • @Anne5440_
    @Anne5440_ Год назад +2

    I had a junior high teacher in the early 60s who told us about the global warming theory. He told us that the jet stream and weather would get unstable and the extremes would get more extreme. He was teaching what theories are and said global warming was an example of a very new theory.

  • @TanjaStoyan
    @TanjaStoyan 2 года назад +135

    My home area in Germany was flooded last summer, and the amounts of rainfall were completely unprecedented. About 100 People lost their lives when their houses were swept away. It was really chilling to watch it unfold from afar (I live in California and saw it happen on youtube), especially because I am so familiar with the region. This was a wake-up moment for me. Making the public aware of this is absolutely important. Keep up the good work!

    • @robertblackburn790
      @robertblackburn790 2 года назад +8

      Unprecedented?
      The flood disasters of 1804 and 1910. What was probably the most catastrophic flood event in recent history hit the villages along the Ahr already at a "CO 2-free" time in 1804.

    • @bbruce995
      @bbruce995 2 года назад +1

      THIS IS THE REASON FOR THE WEATHER CHAOS AROUND THE WORLD ruclips.net/video/V2decDcEJqo/видео.html

    • @jwil4905
      @jwil4905 2 года назад +4

      @Sam Bourgeois No, it won't be more interesting to you because you'll stick your fingers in your ears and stomp your feet like a child.

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 2 года назад +4

      Not true. You had disastrous flooding 100 years ago.

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 2 года назад +2

      @Paul M Yet the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will lead to an ice-free Earth in 500 years if left unchecked. Not an existential event for humans, but certainly less hospitable. There is no downside to more nuclear power plants, solar and geothermal.

  • @emilv.3693
    @emilv.3693 2 года назад +14

    As a guy living in southern California, I can safely say that clouds are the stuff of legend

  • @Klacto1
    @Klacto1 Год назад +3

    Thank you so much. I loved the presentation is was simple and easy to understand how the jet stream is effecting our planet’s weather. I have been living in San Francisco for 45 years and have noticed less fog as I live by the ocean , alot less rain, and HUMIDITY which is highly unusual for this mediterranean climate. It has been a Mediterranean climate unlike that of for ex. Roma, Italy, which has hot humid summers and sometimes snow in the winter. Unfortunately it has not rained substantially here for years. Very informative thanks PBS!

  • @supertuber120
    @supertuber120 Год назад +14

    Whenever you watch the news and it comes around to the weather report the meteorologist will always mention when a record has been broken. Over the past 25 to 30 years the increase in the number of records broken really scares me. The first day of summer this year was 101 degrees (38 Celsius) where I live and throughout the summer there were several days in the 90s. Last December we had a couple days in the 60s and 70s and even had a few tornadoes. Where do I live...Minnesota. Yeah, tornadoes in Minnesota IN DECEMBER!

    • @kabbythedog9409
      @kabbythedog9409 Год назад +1

      60-70 send that north buddy I’m pretty sure 11 or 12 was actually the warmest winter on average I’ve ever seen

    • @glennmiller7274
      @glennmiller7274 Год назад +1

      Like it’s happened before …… but it hasnt

    • @nmefdappl
      @nmefdappl Год назад

      Wow!!

    • @sedg03
      @sedg03 Год назад

      Canadian Granite Shield ? Will do a lot to protect Minnesota from devastation w CC.

  • @daveharrison84
    @daveharrison84 2 года назад +11

    Even if you think you don't need air conditioning where you live, you could still get a freak event like in the Pacific northwest in late June 2021. Then being able to cool the air in your house could become a matter of life or death. So get an air conditioning unit and have it ready in case of an emergency.

  • @stupadass6989
    @stupadass6989 2 года назад +7

    Great presentation
    When I was 3 years old , the snow was knee deep . 60 years later just above the ankle only !

    • @lorihemminger6793
      @lorihemminger6793 2 года назад

      When i was a kid the clouds were always very high in the sky.. now there are days that the clouds seem barely above the trees..i noticed this a few years ago and all jetss that flew over head had two contrails that dissipated.. more they get long and wide enough to cover the sky.. are all these things connected?

    • @nolu0000
      @nolu0000 2 года назад

      G V W W umm maybe the snow is at your ankle and not your knee is because you’re taller than you were when you were 3?
      Hahahahaha

  • @tasmaniandevil7610
    @tasmaniandevil7610 Год назад +4

    August 12, 1936 and June 28, 1994 - 120 degrees
    As crazy as it sounds, there are two dates that tie for the hottest day in Texas history. The heatwave of 1994 earned the most spots on this list, but the summer of 1936 is the earliest super-hot day in history. On August 12, 1936, Fort Worth and Seymour clocked in intimidating temperatures reaching 120 degrees.

    • @arnoldfrackenmeyer8157
      @arnoldfrackenmeyer8157 Год назад

      I survived the Texas heatwave of 1980. Havn't experienced anything like it since.

  • @Weathernerd27
    @Weathernerd27 8 месяцев назад

    I study weather as a hobby and have hundreds of pages of weather notes. The poles are warming faster than the tropics and it makes sense to me that if you decrease the temperature difference between the poles and the tropics the jet stream will get weaker and a weaker jet stream is wavier/more likely to get stuck in place. I'm amazed that this issue hasn't been studied more, some meteorologists suspect this but that hasn't been a formal study to confirm it. A few meteorologists say the jet stream has not been getting wavier/more stuck in place but I question this because we have had alot of extreme weather lately and if you pull up a upper level wind chart you will see that there is a big ridge or trough in the jet stream where the extreme weather is occurring.

  • @johnwalters6800
    @johnwalters6800 2 года назад +21

    Back in the 1970's when picking plants for the yard I was told that temperature range was moving to the north. No one was in tuned to climate change. This was simply observations that were made at green houses. We now have a reason for these observations.

  • @sandyallen1523
    @sandyallen1523 2 года назад +5

    About 25 years ago I heard a scientist say that we have had about 150 years of unusually good weather and we should prepare for it going back to normal. I've always wondered how bad normal was. Guess I'm getting a good look at that normal lately

  • @mrrice117
    @mrrice117 Год назад +1

    I noticed that here in AZ that 2021 and 2022 were the coolest and wettest summers we had. I’m used to 115 to 125 degree summers but this summer and last summer we were usually around 105 to 110 which is waaaay better than 115 to 125. Even with winter, we got a bit of rain too

    • @nmefdappl
      @nmefdappl Год назад +1

      Thats probably the influence of la niña. It won't last. El niño coming into play this year

  • @frankperkins8100
    @frankperkins8100 Год назад +2

    Thanks Maiya. Very informative.

  • @emtee40
    @emtee40 2 года назад +32

    The eastern and southern shift of weather patterns is interesting. Especially the late fall tornados that keep recurring out in the Tennessee region.

    • @topfuel29channel
      @topfuel29channel 2 года назад +2

      The first December tornado in Minnesota's history reportedly touched down in Plainview in Wabasha County during the 8 p.m. hour Wednesday ...
      Dec 15, 2021
      That is unheard of until now.

    • @trevorh6438
      @trevorh6438 2 года назад +3

      Solar induction heats the poles due to magnetic coupling with the sun. Check the science, its the sun driving everything climate related, not CO2

    • @briancollett961
      @briancollett961 2 года назад +1

      @@trevorh6438 the sun gets 10%hotter every million years so in about 2 million years bacteria will not be able to live on earth.

    • @briancollett961
      @briancollett961 2 года назад +1

      @@topfuel29channel it's not unheard of just hasn't happened as much recently. But yes they have been tornadoes as far north as Canada in the winter time do the research

    • @trevorh6438
      @trevorh6438 2 года назад +2

      @@briancollett961 what observational science do you have that proves that?

  • @gregoryteeple9306
    @gregoryteeple9306 2 года назад +133

    I wonder if there is any correlation between jet stream movement and the heat island effect of sprawling cities. I remember riding my motorcycle out of city limits at night in the summer and the temp dropping significantly

    • @lawneymalbrough4309
      @lawneymalbrough4309 2 года назад +6

      Yes you may well be right. Heat added is heat added. Concrete heats up where forests don't. It's not the co2. It's the heat added through human activities and infrastructure not the air. We can't stop that unless we kill off billions of people. This I would not recomend.

    • @Jermain-cz4bh
      @Jermain-cz4bh 2 года назад +6

      @@lawneymalbrough4309 well crap. so its wild weather until the end of humanity :/

    • @Slowbravic
      @Slowbravic 2 года назад +13

      @@lawneymalbrough4309 I wonder if putting roof top green spaces, and painting roofs of homes and minor buildings white would help alleviate heat soak and reflect solar radiation/absorb it in plant life, would help anything. Like minor changes might have drastic long term benefits, like asphalt roads being painted or having dyes in them to make them light gray instead of black, as black soaks up heat and radiates it for hours and hours. Light gray will still heat soak, but nowhere near as bad or for as long.

    • @Katzbynite
      @Katzbynite 2 года назад +12

      I would agree that there is a correlation to these massive concrete structures in which they cause more heat in the cities due to the lack of green spaces. When you have cities that have these huge warehouses sprawling all over the place it causes major environmental problems. One has to wonder how much junk do we need to keep flowing into these countries? Maybe if we go back to the basic necessities of life we may help change the course of all this.

    • @mikeloghry9521
      @mikeloghry9521 2 года назад +3

      It's all because Jesus Christ. Is coming back Soon. Read my comment. What I typed takes out all the guess work. That I have commented often to folks. In this Nation and world wide on You Tube. For a very long time now. I take none of the credit in doing so. ALL the Glory and Honar goes to The Lord. I'm just a messenger (-:

  • @shirleyandrews1152
    @shirleyandrews1152 4 месяца назад

    This is such a good program for the average person who doesn’t have the time to study the problems our Earth is experiencing. Plz share 😻

  • @chrismusix5669
    @chrismusix5669 8 месяцев назад

    Drop a small rock in a pond, and your waves are small. Drop a large boulder in the pond, and highs are higher and the lows are lower. More energy everywhere.

  • @blackbird5634
    @blackbird5634 2 года назад +3

    In New England winter is coming later over the last five years and it's staying longer with snow (sometimes) as late as May.

  • @SzymczykProductions
    @SzymczykProductions Год назад +2

    Girl, you are proving that your people CAN be productive and CAN do good. This is amazing.

  • @abrianlim1918
    @abrianlim1918 2 года назад +65

    I would be interested in knowing exactly what different countries are doing about this issue and how each individual can help. I feel that some countries are more concerned about invading other countries rather than actually preserving the world we live in.

    • @UmmYeahOk
      @UmmYeahOk 2 года назад

      Not sure what the point of invading a breadbasket like Ukraine is, if they’re just going to end up growing oranges in Siberia

    • @TheLosamatic
      @TheLosamatic 2 года назад

      @@UmmYeahOk think about the power of money! Russia is nothing more than an old gas station, but as has been reported putin is one of, if not the richest men in the world. He did not become that without pilfering the Russian peoples resources along with his oligarch buddies. With the encroachment of NATO after they gave up east Germany the deal was that no more would join NATO. Now that many have, and the history of Russian treatment of thieving dictators once out of power putin is naturally worried as he is without a doubt been the biggest thief Russia has ever had! Keep in mind that Ukraine is not just a bread basket, it has become a manufacturer in great demand for their educated skilled work force especially for automotive wiring harnesses. Then there is the topography, as there is nothing but plains between Western Europe and Moscow in fact Ukraine goes even further east than Moscow. Just seeing how putin meets with his closest people, generals and political underlings, at those insanely long tables, the man is obviously becoming more and more unstable in his fear of being assassinated.

    • @lifeongps
      @lifeongps 2 года назад +3

      They do the opposite of the USA!

    • @frankhartman323
      @frankhartman323 2 года назад +1

      We cant do shit, this planet has always had hot periods, cold periods, polar shifts, earthquakes, ice ages, asteroid strikes, volcanoes etc! 250 million years ago there was a period where the whole planet rained for 2 million years!

    • @lifeongps
      @lifeongps 2 года назад +4

      @@frankhartman323 Agreed! The insane part is people thinking they can stop or change weather patterns with Money and restrictions from individual Country's. Stop the Madness People!

  • @kenanzavrosa5183
    @kenanzavrosa5183 Год назад +2

    It would have been interesting to add the correlation between the jet streams and the earth’s magnetic field which is also going through changes. Maybe also to overlay graphs of the evolution of jet streams and magnetic field strength’s over time

  • @emagneticfield
    @emagneticfield Год назад +2

    Why is it years ago all weather broadcasts included a jet stream map ? It is hard to even find one anymore and why is this information not being shared anymore ?

    • @lilbluefreak
      @lilbluefreak 3 месяца назад

      Because anyone who's observant enough to notice the usual weather patterns deviating drastically out of nowhere would be able to tell immediately that someone's been tampering with it and they REALLY don't want the lil kiddies catching on to their tricks. You can't sell climate change to the masses if the weather always behaves for you, so they gotta spice it up a bit. When nature disappoints, man intervenes. And climate change seems to be real profitable right now. Go green! 🙃

  • @newcoyote
    @newcoyote 2 года назад +7

    I was in Lytton BC (near Vancouver) when it caught on fire and burned to the ground. The whole town. Gone. The previous two days it got up to 49.6C. This is no joke and I don't think it is even a matter of being optimistic or pessimistic anymore. Too little too late.

    • @johnchedsey1306
      @johnchedsey1306 2 года назад +1

      I lived in (sorta nearby) Pemberton BC for a few years and all the horrible things that have happened to BC this past year just breaks my heart for everyone. It hit 40C a couple times in Pemberton when I was there, but I can't imagine it getting any hotter. I'd much rather experience those hot temperatures in Arizona, where I currently live.

    • @trevorh6438
      @trevorh6438 2 года назад

      You have a pole flip and ice age to look forward to. Not to late to adapt there.

    • @MultiObeone
      @MultiObeone 2 года назад +1

      The north American drought is moving N at the same rate as the poles are moving.
      Approx 50 miles a year

  • @michaelrichie5
    @michaelrichie5 2 года назад +7

    When I was young (1950) weather was just something that happened. Now it is a major aspect in the lives of people everywhere. One Observation of local weather in northern Thailand (my home for 20 years) has been the flower season has moved from April to March.

  • @jeremiahgroovy3480
    @jeremiahgroovy3480 Год назад +2

    In the midwest we have a very obvious difference in the weather. Winters are virtually non-existant and summers are more oppressive. 30 years ago we would get good sized snow storms now we get an inch here and there. The summers used to get really hot in August but now it happens in June sometimes may. Spring and autumn is non existent.

  • @clivematthews95
    @clivematthews95 Год назад

    This is educating me so much, thank you 🙏🏾

  • @Grantonioful
    @Grantonioful 2 года назад +24

    I live between Ottawa and Montreal in Canada and we have started to get more and more tornadoes. It's also hard to think that while we in eastern Canada got heavy rain, the west coast was burning :(

    • @sleepingwhale758
      @sleepingwhale758 Год назад +2

      I live in Ottawa and for years I've had recurring dreams about living in communities where the buildings are domes to be tornado resistant. They are a concern to me as well.

    • @boopjackrex7598
      @boopjackrex7598 Год назад +1

      In the west we have always a loads of rain but last year we had more rain than ever before, so much so that the Fraser valley completely flooded. Summers have been hotter an hotter to the point that we got halfway to boiling. Autumn winds have been getting stronger and stronger and so have spring winds to the point that we have had extreme weather warnings that include tornado warnings

  • @vecnagreyhawk78
    @vecnagreyhawk78 2 года назад +62

    Do a story on the “Aerosol Masking Effect”

    • @DavidKcPrice
      @DavidKcPrice Год назад

      The X lines facing the west on sundown

    • @martinnielsen5851
      @martinnielsen5851 Год назад +1

      ​@@DavidKcPrice
      so you can't see our binairy sun.
      They do not want us to know our realm!!!

    • @GR40RCapri
      @GR40RCapri Год назад +1

      @@martinnielsen5851 also- sun color & position... and magnetic shifts... 🤔🤔🤔

    • @chrisbennett7039
      @chrisbennett7039 Год назад +2

      Chemtrails FACT NOT FICTION

    • @adams.9029
      @adams.9029 Год назад +2

      @@chrisbennett7039 lol it’s not Chemtrails it’s “cloud seeding” that is real. That’s a fun rabbit hole to fall fkr

  • @theman8447
    @theman8447 Год назад

    Where im from S.E.A, during the drought monsoon, tempurature is higher by 2-4cc. Then rain unexpectedly, flash flood and storms. It is very drastic change.

  • @99Racker
    @99Racker Год назад +1

    I agree. We need to pay attention to history to better understand our future. I believe that previously, when every home and business used coal/wood for heat, etc that we produced at least this amount of pollution. As an example from recent history, we just have to look at coastal LA in the mid '60s where you could see a purple band of pollution on the horizon. Much has improved since then.

  • @Monk_705
    @Monk_705 2 года назад +58

    This has caused the annual amount of tornados in my region of Ontario Canada from 2 to ~40. One nearly leveled my house in Barrie this summer, it came within 150m of it!

    • @tristancordero3157
      @tristancordero3157 2 года назад +6

      150m is far where I'm from 🤣 but I'm glad to hear you made it out alright and hate to hear that.

    • @420AlucardMr
      @420AlucardMr 2 года назад +2

      Bohoo try waking up in a Sandstorm! But really glad you ok mate! The weather on drugs whatcha think?

    • @nicostrabac768
      @nicostrabac768 2 года назад +2

      @@tristancordero3157 cut through a town, so for someone who isn't used to tornados, 150meters is pretty close

    • @adrianc6534
      @adrianc6534 2 года назад +3

      i live in texas and luckily have never seen a tornado, but have definitely been close to a few. nothing is worse than huddling in a closet, hearing the sirens going off. all you can do is hope you dont get hit, it is a hopeless feeling.

    • @OHMYYYGODDDD
      @OHMYYYGODDDD 2 года назад

      @@tristancordero3157 thats pretty close

  • @jimcahill8143
    @jimcahill8143 2 года назад +86

    I’ve only been on the planet for 70 years, but my recollections back to my youth are that, although we certainly had extreme weather-3 feet of snow, powerful thunderstorms, hot and dry summers, etc.-one, the frequency has increased, and two, anomalous weather patterns like superstorms, the polar vortex, etc. have also increased. Something as simple as the jetstream moving northward could explain a lot. I guess the million-dollar question is whether we can reverse that or if it’s too late.

    • @fudgedogbannana
      @fudgedogbannana 2 года назад +15

      We were talking about the coming ice age back when you and I were kids in the 1970's. Earth has been in an ice age cycle for the last 2.5 million years (100,000 of ice, 10,000 years or so of interglacial warming period). I comment " Who ever told you that climate stability is for this planet, do you see any other planet with climate stability anywhere?" on all the climate topics.

    • @undertwotimes
      @undertwotimes 2 года назад +6

      It's never too late, the longer we put off ending emissions the more changes will happen but it's a sliding scale, we can avoid worse outcomes by starting now.

    • @judithwake2757
      @judithwake2757 2 года назад +5

      Some times it is too late and you can never have what you want ever again.

    • @fwdcnorac8574
      @fwdcnorac8574 2 года назад +13

      These comments are a kaleidoscope of emotions.

    • @kittimcconnell2633
      @kittimcconnell2633 2 года назад +7

      @@fudgedogbannana A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. You have some understanding of facts, but miss the actual picture. Please keep reading and learning.

  • @randomdude8877
    @randomdude8877 Год назад +1

    Fascinating.
    Would be cool to also get a video on the south pole and why it can grow amidst the global warming event.

  • @JS-jh4cy
    @JS-jh4cy Год назад +2

    The jet stream characteristics is most of our weather, but does it also change in layers from altitude perspective?

  • @user-uj6sc7ls9y
    @user-uj6sc7ls9y 2 года назад +28

    Back in the late 1980s I was shovelling a foot or more of snow off my grandparent's driveway, several times a week. It was considered normal (as was our nose hairs freezing together) and there was no question of shutting down in those conditions.
    Just last week my Ontario Canada city pretty much shut down because we got 5cm/2" of snow. We've become so used to warmer winters, here, that we no longer have the infrastructure to cope with a light dusting of the white stuff.

    • @cryst2hu
      @cryst2hu 2 года назад +2

      That's nuts, I figured all of Canada would have all city's covered with plows, we don't get what we normally get her either and that's in western Michigan. 10 years ago we had so much snow my cows could have walked right over the fence if they wanted. But that's with lake effect snow. We got dumped on that year.

    • @macmurfy2jka
      @macmurfy2jka 2 года назад +1

      You’re not the only ones. It seems the whole of the NYC metro has forgotten how to deal with winter weather. I swear it’s almost as if the majority of people are actively wishing for climate change to bring an end to all forms of solid perspiration in the area.
      I can’t stand it!

    • @ricecakeboii94
      @ricecakeboii94 2 года назад +2

      Technically Seattles’ landscape was formed by glaciers & we too can’t deal with 2” of snow. However, this doesn’t support human caused climate change so we dismiss this as climate change

    • @okiedokie085
      @okiedokie085 2 года назад

      WATCH THE TRUTH
      ruclips.net/video/5yZhh2leRJA/видео.html

    • @matthensle9391
      @matthensle9391 2 года назад

      I was thinking this exact same thing the other day when we got just a couple inches of snow in Chicago.

  • @amadeusguy1009
    @amadeusguy1009 2 года назад +12

    The increased north/south amplitude of the jet stream means more dramatic shifts in weather. I tell people that when the jet stream dips over the east then we have "snowmageddon" in Washington DC while Denver has a thaw. After two to 6 weeks these arctic dips move eastward and then Denver is in deep winter and DC is in a thaw.
    Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University hypothesized over ten years ago that the loss of perennial arctic sea ice created these dramatically greater "meanders" in the jet stream north and south. I have been watching it happen from NE Utah for ten years.
    These are dramatic shifts from cold to heat and wet to dry. Over a greater period of time (decades) this will "average out" and yes southerly areas will on average will be dryer - but the effect on the ground will be very erratic from wet to dry and hot to cold for decades to come. Weather shifting from hot to cold/wet to dry on this 2 to 6 week timescale will become more extreme until there is more mixing of the arctic cold air masses and the tropical warm air masses. Once this mixing is complete and somewhat stabilized (decades ? centuries ?). we will once again have tropical vegetation in Greenland and hopefully more stable and consistent tropical/sub-tropical global climate. If we stop producing greenhouse gases. We could even return to normal after 35,000 to 45,000 years. (see research of James Zachos of University of California.)
    If we keep forcing the heating of the atmosphere and the globe - we will begin to face increased heating and drying of the planet turning large portions of the planet into inhospitable desert. The most severe period like this occurred 250 million years ago during Permian-Triassic extinction event. Known to scientists as "The Great Dying". 80% of marine species died. 70% of terrestrial vertebrates, and it was the largest extinction of insects. Contemporary human civilization as we know it would not survive these conditions.
    The fear is that with the rapid rate of warming we will unlock problems like thawing the vast amounts of frozen methane in the arctic seafloor and releasing gaseous methane into the atmosphere which will accelerate warming. Causing a cascading series of failures that we cannot manage. Even while there are natural processes that are buffering some of these effects, the planet clearly has enough history of dramatic degradations of the habitable environment that we need to be very careful. Already, IPCC is saying we need to stop producing greenhouse gases in 3 years to avoid very grave risks.
    So we really need to pull together and realize that we are all in this together - there is no viable escape (despite what a half-dozen billionaires might believe and are willing to accept - as they try to jump,ship.)

    • @richardrubin1763
      @richardrubin1763 2 года назад

      The hubris of those billionaires will come crashing down once they realize you can't ultimately fight mother nature and natural law.....no matter how rich you are.

  • @HazelYellowbird
    @HazelYellowbird Год назад +2

    I'm really happy this topic is being discussed

  • @glow862
    @glow862 Год назад +1

    I think it's inevitable for the global temperature to increase in the next 20yrs. We need to be moving faster with changing yet it's easier to adapt with the coming realities. I don't expect an impactful turn around until it's too late.

  • @momo7gato
    @momo7gato 2 года назад +50

    Once, the seasons in Chicago were pretty clear cut and stable. Now, anything goes.
    There is a noticeable humidity in the upper atmosphere, which manifests as this very thin haze. It is enough to interfere with stargazing. Looking at satellite weather maps, it looks like it's being generated from evaporation in the Arctic.
    The once-regular seasons seem to be about six weeks or so off, being either early or late. Throughout last year, we got to see that ridiculous "inversion" of the Jet Stream, where it was noticeably vertical (north and south) instead of horizontal. We are seeing cooler summers and warmer drier winters, with both having less precipitation than usual.
    However, we are still getting our "normal" extreme punches of severe highs and lows.

    • @nancyfahey7518
      @nancyfahey7518 2 года назад

      How about from nuclear power plants in Russia? Isn't that where your jetstream comes from?

    • @XD-te6vj
      @XD-te6vj 2 года назад +2

      @@nancyfahey7518 seriously? jesus

    • @katiekane5247
      @katiekane5247 2 года назад +4

      That's NOT humidity causing haze, it's dispersed aerosols & yes, that's what's causing the extreme weather. Things have been done without knowing what the long term effects would be. It's a man made disaster.

    • @XD-te6vj
      @XD-te6vj 2 года назад +1

      @@katiekane5247 so what is happening in Chicago is affecting the global weather? seriously? jesus

    • @lookitsvane
      @lookitsvane 2 года назад +1

      @@XD-te6vj reading and comprehension. They’re clearly stating that they’ve notice irregular weather patterns in Chicago. They didn’t say it affects global weather. I’ve noticed changes in Chicago too, we don’t have cold Decembers anymore, we had a couple of 60° days in December for a while now … not normal

  • @christinamann3640
    @christinamann3640 2 года назад +73

    This is exactly what I was suspecting all last year, it was the only way I could explain the Texas deep freeze and the BC heat dome. Where I am in Alberta also felt the heat and choked on the forest fire smoke for two months. We need to adapt better now, because it’s happening now.

    • @ricecakeboii94
      @ricecakeboii94 2 года назад +2

      So glad I don’t live inland. All the pollution from the wildfire smoke went to NY, Midwest, & Europe. Funny cause they’re the ones saying it was a Cal/WestCoast problem when the skies are relatively clean by the coastline where majority of the population lives.

    • @christinamann3640
      @christinamann3640 2 года назад +4

      @@ricecakeboii94 because the wind took the smoke east.

    • @NanNaN-jw6hl
      @NanNaN-jw6hl 2 года назад +7

      Adapt? Why not just stop using fossil fuels and actually tackle the gases driving climate change?

    • @christinamann3640
      @christinamann3640 2 года назад +3

      @@NanNaN-jw6hl that would be great, actually. Even if it started to reverse, it could take years. I was thinking in terms of a city being able to handle a snowstorm, or housing being able to handle heat.

    • @Hexnilium
      @Hexnilium 2 года назад +2

      The waves are deep, and possibly deeper, but I want to see the data or a timelapse of decades.
      Statistical aberrations occur, so intense methods need to be used to determine if these events (jet stream waves) are outside of the statistical norm or not.
      The turbulent nature of the atmosphere makes it a bit difficult to actually assess.

  • @Hellohallo
    @Hellohallo Год назад +1

    In so many of these documentary's, sadly nearly nothing is mentioned about the magnetic field weakening by 10% now, and magnetic north having drifted 24 degrees, at increasing spead.
    Logically this is the main factor.

  • @dsimonc
    @dsimonc 7 месяцев назад

    Imagine if the jet stream was stronger, and how they would be quick to connect it with more intense weather events...

  • @MikesGoogleAcct
    @MikesGoogleAcct 2 года назад +75

    Paul Beckwith has been breaking down the science of the Jet Stream and Rossby Waves on his RUclips channel for years. He did a video explaining why the cold weather in Texas coincided with abnormally warm temperatures over Greenland during February 2021.
    The truck crash at 3:37 in this video is a perfect metaphor for those who ignore the signs.

    • @KB-ke3fi
      @KB-ke3fi 2 года назад +2

      Yes, it was very informative. I wish most of the people in the U.S. could watch this and understand the reasons for it, instead of insulting the way Texas had to respond to something that hasn't happened there in over 135 years with it's sub zero arctic ice storms for 4 days and shutting down everything all the way to Mexico and killing all the subtropical crops and shutting down energy to the rest of the country. Texas infrstructure is designed for extreme heat up to 115 degrees F, not negative 21 degrees F. Utilities here have to be cooled, not heated. Can't have both.

    • @therealthreadkilla
      @therealthreadkilla 2 года назад +3

      @@KB-ke3fi "happened there in over 135 years"
      Are you even listening to what you are saying? You are saying that IT HAS HAPPENED in the past.

    • @MikesGoogleAcct
      @MikesGoogleAcct 2 года назад +2

      ​@@KB-ke3fi I agree; the weather is apolitical.

    • @jamesmorton7881
      @jamesmorton7881 2 года назад +1

      predicting future would support theory (understanding of cause and effects) correctness, so tell me something i do not know
      makes lots of talking head jobs . . . .

    • @jimmysblacksmithing462
      @jimmysblacksmithing462 2 года назад +2

      Thank you for the reference of Paul Beckwith.! Going to check out his videos. It appears he knows what he’s talking about.

  • @Healitnow
    @Healitnow 2 года назад +6

    At 4:11 you show a jet stream over BC Canada. I live in the area that was affected in Kamloops and we hit 47C or 117F during this time. It set a record of 10F higher than any other recorded temperature here ever with the old record being 107F is about 42C. There were 5 consecutive days we were over the old record high. A neighboring town registered 49.8C or 121 F becoming the first temperature recorded in Canada ever of over 120F.
    Then in November in a time when we are supposed to be freezing we had road washouts and flooding in the mountains. 2021was an incredible year for the south of BC.

    • @gailhasler8435
      @gailhasler8435 2 года назад

      😚😚😚 terrible for you.

    • @ronskancke1489
      @ronskancke1489 Год назад

      Last frost day where I live is may 5. Two days ago,may 22 , we had overnight temps that killed my garden and many of the flowers I had put out. Global warming? Save it for someone else.

  • @BAH912
    @BAH912 11 месяцев назад +4

    What of the chemicals being sprayed in to the atmosphere to modify the weather ?

  • @slvrktman7824
    @slvrktman7824 Год назад

    When the glacier visited Wisconsin, it sure sucked…sure glad things warmed up. Even a few degrees more wouldn’t hurt!

  • @SolaceEasy
    @SolaceEasy 2 года назад +132

    Maya, you and your team have sharpened your presentations, increasing your impact.

    • @SolaceEasy
      @SolaceEasy 2 года назад +4

      Maya, you from Phoenix or nearby? Another reference in your presentation to the Valley of the Sun. I'm in S AZ.

    • @RyanWalshGuitar
      @RyanWalshGuitar 2 года назад +4

      Thank you, Steve!

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin 2 года назад +3

      This is the first time I've seen this channel, so the algorithm is speaking.

    • @austinp.5024
      @austinp.5024 2 года назад +3

      The cow print ball cap was probably not the best choice for a serious presentation. Why not just wear the full chick-fil-a uniform?

    • @theweirdmom
      @theweirdmom 2 года назад +4

      @@austinp.5024 mmm idk though. I thought she was low key trolling the corporate farming industry as cows are a HUGE source of greenhouse gases but they are nearly impossible to get in check because we all love our burgers and steaks and there’s really no such thing as successful small family farms anymore. It’s all corporate now. Lobbyists see to it that they are untouchable in every way. No one wants to give up meat even for a single day per week.
      I’m guilty of it too so don’t @ me. I love beef. I love bacon. I’m just sayin why I think she’s wearing that cow print.

  • @johntruxal432
    @johntruxal432 2 года назад +6

    Once the entire planet was frozen if not a few times. Once the entire planet was warmer and no polar ice caps. There's even times where the magnetic North and South shifted. The sun is sometimes generating more or less energy. Climate changes have happened for 4.5 billion plus years...
    History is fascinating and tends to repeat.

    • @Jc-ms5vv
      @Jc-ms5vv 2 года назад +4

      Pumping CO2 into the atmosphere 10 times faster than the petm extinction event. What's the worst that could happen?

    • @johntruxal432
      @johntruxal432 2 года назад

      @@Jc-ms5vv The great oxidation extinction due to excessive oxygen. And yes there's been more carbon in the atmosphere as well...

    • @hardrockminer-50
      @hardrockminer-50 2 года назад +3

      Nailed it! The Climate is not a static phenomenom. It changes! Iceland once had no snow or ice and farmers grew grain in Greenland. Avocados and Fica trees once grew in the Brooks Range in Alaska. More recently, the same plants grew in northern Idaho. Point is, Climate changes. Adapt or perish.

    • @Jc-ms5vv
      @Jc-ms5vv 2 года назад +2

      @@hardrockminer-50 good luck adapting to a dead lifeless planet

    • @XD-te6vj
      @XD-te6vj 2 года назад +1

      @@hardrockminer-50 what fairytales have you been swallowing? Farmers grew grain in greenland? wtf?

  • @dulynoted2427
    @dulynoted2427 Год назад +1

    The temperature differences guide the Jetstream. Just as the fresh and salt water, heat and cold differences guide the ocean's conveyer belt.

  • @abelgarcia5432
    @abelgarcia5432 Год назад +2

    I remember several years ago an attempt was made to curb the winds of a hurricane. It did work to a certain extent. The contentious among the scientist was they were afraid that what they do would make the Hurricane worse. I really doubt that the Arctic is warming because every time a submarine surfaces in the Arctic there is always plenty of ice. Have you seen the Russian side of the Arctic, also plenty of ice and bitter COLD temp. Have you ever considered that the scientist who say it is melting are staying in DC offices because it is nice and warm and can easily go to Post Office to collect their Grant Checks.

  • @tresjolieme81
    @tresjolieme81 2 года назад +8

    This hits home for me because I'm from Atlanta and moved to Seattle last year. The heat wave over the summer here was horrendous and with no AC I had to jump in my cold shower to keep from going into to shock. In Atlanta my parents said the summer temp stayed in the 80s. Rain is normal in summer in the southeast but it was everyday.

    • @flickwtchr
      @flickwtchr 2 года назад +2

      Having a misting spray bottle (even the cheap ones that have at least a relatively fine mist) that you can spray your face, neck, arms, legs while walking (creating a breeze if the air is still), or while at home spraying toward a fan blowing the mist back on you, will help. I've had situations where doing this a few times per minute kept me relatively cool.

    • @theodoreottey9784
      @theodoreottey9784 2 года назад +1

      Come soon Lord Jesus, Come soon!!!

    • @greg2976
      @greg2976 2 года назад

      @@theodoreottey9784 Amen!

    • @johnbob4545
      @johnbob4545 2 года назад

      ATL is chilly in the summer. Down here in the MOB we get heat indexes well above the Seattle heat wave. They aren't used to that, so ya, that was bad.

  • @eman7892
    @eman7892 2 года назад +9

    Has anyone figured in the tilt of the change in the Earth's axis? Goes back & forth from around 24.2 - 23.8°. Has massive impact on glacial formation, moisture content of the Sahara (GreenSahara) etc.

    • @robertterrell3065
      @robertterrell3065 Год назад

      Not one person has ever done this.

    • @Thomas-er9uf
      @Thomas-er9uf Год назад

      No sphere, no tilt.

    • @aryangod2003
      @aryangod2003 4 месяца назад

      Does Cycles happen over tens of thousands of years and it's currently going in a direction that would predict cooler weather in few tens of thousands of years so it's directionally wrong to predict as the cause of global warming

  • @Mannygreene
    @Mannygreene Год назад +1

    I think a really awesome topic right now would be adding green space into dense urban settings and also toxic environmental sites influence on the atmosphere!
    I’m in chicago where many neighborhoods are lined with concrete and small strips of grass. For this skinny city, there are huge disparities in health outcomes for many people. There’s huge disparities in air quality and lung health outcomes. Many places where are gun violence is regular are also densely lined with concrete!
    Would love to submits more details to email!

  • @melissageorge2524
    @melissageorge2524 10 месяцев назад +4

    Geo engineering....testing the weather for Mars perhaps even. Climate change yes, deliberate yes too. I've been watching the clouds and ones breathing for years now.

  • @billTO
    @billTO 2 года назад +3

    Toronto here. For years now I have noticed that the temperature at night does not drop nearly as much as it used to. This is manageable so far, but summer nights may become increasingly hot.
    Spring 2022 in Canada has been weird. The whole west of the country has been abnormally warm and dry, whereas here in the east the cold is just dragging on and on right into early May. Not that much rain here north of the Great Lakes either.

    • @ADreamingTraveler
      @ADreamingTraveler Год назад +1

      You're not wrong. Night time temperatures are what has increased the most and where the bulk of the warming has come from. The low temps in my town are nowhere near where they used to be anywhere by a huge margin. High daytime temps aren't as extreme as the lows are though

  • @seththomas9105
    @seththomas9105 2 года назад +14

    I've lived in North Central/Central Iowa for all my life and I can tell you in my experiance the seasons have changed. 52 years ago it was common to have snow on the ground at Thanksgiving and there it was pretty common to have snow cover on the ground north of the I-80 corridor pretty much Nov.-early March. Winters were pretty cold with ice covered lakes and rivers that people ice fished on and snowmobiling was a popular past time. Since the 1980's winters have become warmer and the seasons seem off, as in fall lasts later into winter and winter into spring.
    Also springs have been wetter and cooler and July and August are not as hot and dry as they traditionally were.

    • @okiedokie085
      @okiedokie085 2 года назад

      WATCH THE TRUTH
      ruclips.net/video/5yZhh2leRJA/видео.html

    • @IowaStrmChsr
      @IowaStrmChsr 2 года назад +2

      I agree, I live up near Mason City and over the past 15-20 years the winters are not only warmer, but offset. Over the past 10 years, I've noticed the winters start out warmer (Nov-Dec) but the cold is hanging around longer into the spring. Plus the lack of actual snowfall. Most snowmobilers now must head farther north into Minnesota and Wisconsin to see some actually good snow. Just this last couple weeks, we have seen some incredible temperature differences, starting out with an overnight low of -21f to a high of 32f and then dropping back down that night to a low of -10f. We are definitely seeing more and more greater extremes. During the summer months growing up in the 70's and 80's, the summers were hot and dry with plenty of clear skies. Now the temps are somewhat lower due to months of smoky skies from the forest fires out west. Even though our day to day weather may not have changed much, I can definitely tell what our new climate normal is looking like.

    • @seththomas9105
      @seththomas9105 2 года назад +2

      @@IowaStrmChsr Yep. I grew up in the Ackley area so I know what you mean. Remember how late Feb-March used to be foggy, damp cloudy days as all the snow pack melted, we hardly have any of those days anymore. Then April and May would be on avarage a little dryer and everyone could get crops in. Now springs are usually pretty wet. And May and June used to be tornado time in Iowa, with hot humid days that would erupt in afternoon storms. The tornado counts in Iowa are WAY down. Then July and August would dry out and it would just be hot. Now we get more rain and the daytime highs have moderated somewhat.

    • @bflex
      @bflex 2 года назад

      ..it's just flat out absolutely warmer across the board..your comments are describing somewhat micro climates..which don't exist..
      ..long ago are the days where the nightine temps of Jan and Feb reach -20 to -30° below zero..maybe a few days here in there if even that...then long hotter summers of 80° to 100° for months into October ..the land is drying up and we can no longer be the world's breadbasket unless they want to pay exorbitant prices..like we do ..one thing we can say if our food is clean and not contaminated no we ith these endocrine disruptors..auto immune contagions..just stuff like lead cadmium chromium arsenic ..on n on..that other countries are infested with ..I would not eat as anything that's not grown in this country or Canada or even Australia..definitely not India china Indonesia Mexico...no de cc eloping nations ..DO NOT E AT FOOD NOT GROWM HERE..

  • @maythesciencebewithyou
    @maythesciencebewithyou Год назад +1

    Increasing global temperature of course influences the wind and rainfall. Increasing average temperature means more evaporation, which means more water in the atmosphere. So heavier rainfall is to be expected. If a place is heated up more, the temperature the density of the air changes, differences in air density in different places leads to pressure, which is what causes wind.

  • @TH-eb5ro
    @TH-eb5ro Год назад

    Many places are experiencing drought and more extreme weather, and our cities, and homes are not set up to cope. We need to adapt which will be difficult when many are in denial or are not open to learning about the situation. DW Documentary has various videos that explain things.

  • @flymypg
    @flymypg 2 года назад +51

    I'd like to see how (or if) this ties in with El Niño and La Niña in start, duration and strength. Both affect global weather: Are they connected?

    • @sudeshsinhmar6204
      @sudeshsinhmar6204 2 года назад +1

      L

    • @errol3184
      @errol3184 2 года назад +2

      El Nino could provide a seasonal counter balance but the tropics are not warming as fast so the described trend in the video still holds...I think

    • @MacM545
      @MacM545 2 года назад

      There are also oscillations, which are cycles of climate that aren't specifically la nina and el nino.

    • @Chris-hx3om
      @Chris-hx3om 2 года назад +1

      @@errol3184 I'm in Western Australia, and we are seeing all time record high temperatures. A couple of weeks ago we crack through 50C, while some places in the interior are seeing their annual rainfall in a day. The east coast is awash with unseasonal rain and low temps...
      I've noticed significant climate changes locally over the last 25 years...

    • @ricecakeboii94
      @ricecakeboii94 2 года назад +5

      @@Chris-hx3om worst part is that it doesn’t matter if all the first worlds can go green cause none of the third worlds & Chyna are giving up their sulfur-rich coal.

  • @keithdmaust1854
    @keithdmaust1854 2 года назад +39

    Quality content professionally presented.
    No hyper-graphics, no smoked-glass weather studios, no over-produced segments with over-polished anchors.
    Just clean, factual and highly informative. Score: 10

    • @andredeketeleastutecomplex
      @andredeketeleastutecomplex 2 года назад +4

      Minus 5 for overlooking geo-engineering.

    • @tcatdivadm715
      @tcatdivadm715 2 года назад

      Thanks to Weather Scientist, all about facts, no PR jargon or Marketing gimmics.

    • @walkersmith9009
      @walkersmith9009 2 года назад +1

      Accuracy matters more

    • @trevorh6438
      @trevorh6438 2 года назад +2

      Minus 10 for deliberately ignoring obvious science about the magnetic coupling of the earths poles to the sun which is the reason for polar warming in the first place.

    • @jbird6609
      @jbird6609 2 года назад

      @@trevorh6438 Really? Where did you get that tidbit of information? What does magnetism have to do with airmass movement? So you are pushing your political dogma into science now? Not going to work.

  • @davidhenriksen4368
    @davidhenriksen4368 Год назад +1

    Magnectic field holds the jet stream in place. Its down 25% over the last 50 years.

  • @stuartbedwell8576
    @stuartbedwell8576 Год назад +1

    Memories are short but wisdom is long: just like climate variations - we are in an inter glacial period- Hannibal when he took his armies and elephants over the Alps 2000.years ago, or so, denuded forests to burn routes through the snow, ice and rock. A century earlier Romans freely travelled the Alps with only normal care - not needing to burn everything. Cheers Stuart.

  • @dcvroom
    @dcvroom 2 года назад +15

    There has been a great deal of published research regarding the impact on the Jet Stream in the Northern Hemisphere and the subsequent impacts, what about the Southern Hemisphere? Beyond the impacts of a changing Thermohaline circulation, what's happening (atmospherically) in the south?

    • @henryspoota7722
      @henryspoota7722 2 года назад

      I'll tell you straight up what is going on is directly related to current geomagnetic excursion. Not CO2. I ALMOST thought they were give full honestly here.

    • @larrygiglio5754
      @larrygiglio5754 2 года назад

      Perhaps polar shifting. But why? Is the sun phase the cause?

    • @jamesapel4238
      @jamesapel4238 2 года назад

      This is all Biblical. Jesus Second coming is very near.

    • @okiedokie085
      @okiedokie085 2 года назад

      PLEASE LEARN THE TRUTH>>>IT IS OUR GOVERNMENT DOING IT FOR 100 YEARS! WE MUST STOP THEM
      ruclips.net/video/5yZhh2leRJA/видео.html

    • @r-gart
      @r-gart 2 года назад +1

      Well, Antartica is getting colder and colder since 20 years. So just reverse the explanation and we're good.

  • @benjaminsnell3393
    @benjaminsnell3393 2 года назад +26

    This makes a tremendous amount of sense. IE if it does move north, the northeast will be hit with a lot more hurricanes. Due to them not being able to be pushed east via the jet stream.

    • @NewPipeFTW
      @NewPipeFTW 2 года назад +2

      Not necessary "more" hurricanes.
      But stronger and longer lasting storms and a longer hurricane season.
      Remember the movement of weather systems will slow down with the Jetstream.
      While ocean and air temperature increases and winters get milder.
      Still bad.. if your not a mosquito.

    • @benjaminsnell3393
      @benjaminsnell3393 2 года назад +2

      @@NewPipeFTW I would argue that the increase in sea temperatures, does and will signal an increase in the number of tropical cyclones across the world. Now on the other hand, tornado frequency is not as certain.

    • @joecliffordson
      @joecliffordson 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/rEWoPzaDmOA/видео.html

    • @ADreamingTraveler
      @ADreamingTraveler Год назад

      The Northeast has actually gone through one of the longest periods on record with barely any hurricanes. Back in the 1950's 1960's they got struck constantly. The last Northeast hurricane landfall was Bob in 1991 31 years ago which is a huge amount of time considering there's some years where they got hit by 2 powerful hurricanes in one season like 1954

  • @ADreamingTraveler
    @ADreamingTraveler Год назад +1

    In the past 11 years my town has had 3 of the 5 wettest years ever recorded. 2011, 2018 and 2019. It's a huge change and it's honestly tough to know if we're just in a rainier pattern or not. And since 2010 my area in PA gets more massive snowstorms than I ever remember seeing. For example the Western US has been in a megadrought for 22 years now. The last megadrought that happened was back in the 1500s, before we populated the area. Climate change has played a role in making these megadroughts worse than they already were though

    • @AWindy94
      @AWindy94 Год назад

      Climate change symptoms vary greatly from region to region. Northern Minnesota where I live has been having increasingly colder record temps in winter every year, which is a known symptom of climate change.

  • @chrisdavis9325
    @chrisdavis9325 Год назад +2

    Just new to the channel so I'll be playing catch-up for a bit but here's an idea for a show.
    The effect solar forcing has on the planets systems and in light of new discoveries concerning nova science and our sun's ability to periodically nova, how do we prepare for that? Also, in light of the fact that the magnetic poles are on the move and don't seem to be stopping anytime soon , what could be the consequences for us if this cycle of magnetic pole shifting was to carry on until it flips?
    What happens to our weakening EM field and how will it affect the jetstream as the Sun's influence on our systems are heightened by the lack of EM field protection?
    We tend to forget about scales sometimes. That on a galactic scale there's also cycles that influence solar cycles that influence planetary cycles that influence biology.

  • @JimPfarr
    @JimPfarr 2 года назад +22

    Excellent explanation of the drivers affecting the jet stream. As an old school Air Force navigator the jet stream was highly important to my job, and understanding it's ebb and flow were a primary focus of my preparations and in-flight calculations. Weather has therefore always interested me. That said, I would like to see if there is research going back further than 1,000 years. We are, after all, still living in a period of geologic glaciation (over the last 2 million years) and we are used to the climate conditions endemic in this period. It defines "normal" to us, but our short life spans have necessarily driven the focus to short-term conditions within 1 or 2 generations of our life. We need to understand the larger scale impacts of natural changes throughout geologic history as a precursor to understanding the impacts we humans have been having on the planet.

    • @lunacouer
      @lunacouer 2 года назад

      There's tons of research into climate behavior and global temperature using ice-core samples, going back millions of years. With that in mind, I wonder if it's harder and more time-consuming to specifically study the jet stream.
      Perhaps they can go further back in time now that they've trekked all over Greenland to get the ice-core samples. But the jet stream seems like a very fiddly, highly specific thing to try to nail down, especially when you _have_ to map out every year to see how it's behaving.
      That's an excellent point, about how we need to focus on the long-term too. We've had several greenhouse periods in the past. Maybe we'll end up like the last time it happened, 55 million years ago, when the global temp was 5-8C higher than now. The arctic will turn into a rain forest again, and crocodiles and palm trees will live up there again. I mean, that's gonna take a few thousand years for species to move/adapt. But maybe that's where it'll all end up.
      In the meantime, if that's the road we go down, we're gonna have massive climate migration since the equator's gonna be uninhabitable. Lots of relocating of food production too. I guess the good news is that since the permafrost is melting (which is driving the greenhouse cycle), there will be plenty of rich soil to grow things in.

    • @okiedokie085
      @okiedokie085 2 года назад

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    • @nedames3328
      @nedames3328 2 года назад +1

      Interesting thought. Careful how far back we go though. The north pole didn't have much ice between 5.33 and 2.56 million years ago. Jet stream likely much weaker or non-existant.

    • @matthensle9391
      @matthensle9391 2 года назад +1

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    • @okiedokie085
      @okiedokie085 2 года назад

      @@matthensle9391 Thank you for the heads up. That truly wasn't my intention. I can see how my comment would have come across as so or even aggressive. It is a topic, like most, I am overwhelmed with and frustrated. I apologize if it was taken as spam. My desire is for information in all respects be made aware of, and hope we can shine light on hope. Stay safe out there!!

  • @skyblue-lb9kr
    @skyblue-lb9kr 2 года назад +6

    Since the 1960's, rapid logging has had a tremendous impact on climate change in the PNW, from Northern CA to WA.........
    we would appreciate your investigative report on this topic. Chemical defoliants used on forests have poisoned the water and wildlife,
    humans included......

    • @WaningGibbous
      @WaningGibbous 2 года назад +1

      Well said! We need transparency and accountability from these huge corporations. People should be outraged by what these huge corporations are doing to our forests, not disclosing what they're spraying, when, where...it's actually horrifying!

    • @drscopeify
      @drscopeify Год назад

      The forests grow back very fast here in WA state my property was logged in the 1970s when the house was built but the Douglas fir trees are now full size some must be 130 feet tall or so.

  • @KristiContemplates
    @KristiContemplates Год назад +1

    Below mentioned that the oceans could be heating the atmosphere, postulating a change in the currents.
    What's the geological activity been like that could be influencing the ocean currents?
    Volcanism, tectonic plate dynamics, the rise of Cthulhu, radioactivity distribution.

  • @kittimcconnell2633
    @kittimcconnell2633 2 года назад +17

    I explained to my child (b. 2000) that when I was little (b. 1969), winter was steady cold for a good three months. You needed your coat every day without question. Summer was consistently hot. Autumn and spring were slow changes from one extreme to the other. Now, we get spells of seriously chilly nights in summer, very warm days in the dead of winter, chaos in spring and autumn. This is just the beginning. #GlobalWeirding.

    • @revolvermaster4939
      @revolvermaster4939 Год назад

      We’ve been coming out of an ice age for about 10,000 years now and not finished. What happens in a single lifetime is insignificant and proof of NOTHING.

    • @lynnhettrick7588
      @lynnhettrick7588 Год назад

      Yep. I took a photo of my front yard in Feb 1982 as a preteen, because I had never experienced a February day without any snow on the ground. It had warmed enough to melt the snow. We always had snow for the December holiday as a child. I have moved from the midwest (U.S.) to the New England area so it's hard to compare directly. But even over the years I've been here, we now don't get our first significant snowfall until mid to late January. And anecdotally, today will be 95F and tomorrow is supposed to be 68F.

    • @jasonpettet156
      @jasonpettet156 Год назад

      Durning the last Grand Solar Minimum.

    • @justsayin3600
      @justsayin3600 Год назад +3

      I worked 300+ miles above the Arctic Circle in 2019. Ot was so hot some days the natives were getting heat stress. When I checked the annual rain fall ( I can't remember right now) that it was very low. That summer it rained in 4 months more than 4 years. I happen to be there when the researchers were presenting their data on climate. I took a picture of one of the slide presentations showing a heatwave close to the North Pole.
      The coast line was being eroded and falling into the ocean, permafrost included.
      When I was there I was watching the beluga whales migration from North to South. This is when the natives gauge their whaling season. Then 2 weeks later the beluga were heading North again. Then about 2-3 weeks later beluga were headed South again. The natives said they seemed confused.
      At this presentation one of the elders said the seasonal hunting has changed. Now, apparently because the water had warmed a specific bacteria is growing on shellfish which are giving the seal a disease where the natives can not make a fermented oil for food.
      Since I was there I wanted to get a Polar Bear certificate and jump in the Arctic Ocean. The natives said I was crazy. I ran and dove in and the water was cold but it actually felt like water around the Los Angeles area. What really struck me was the water was barely salty. It tasted more like fresh water. I was actually shocked. The only thing I could think about this was maybe because of all the rain and ice melting around the coastline made it this way.
      My experience there was nothing like I imagined, and the facts brought out by the researchers and natives made me realize that this weather change is a huge problem.
      This is unedited so my apologies if this is all over the place and if there a typos.

    • @ADreamingTraveler
      @ADreamingTraveler Год назад

      Most of that is correct but spring and autumn are seasons of extremes. They're known for the massive changes. Like in my town our average high plummets by almost 10 degrees in just 1 month. You have to have a lot of cold/hot extremes to have that happen. Though it also depends where you live. In PA fall and spring change very fast

  • @ruralidiot5533
    @ruralidiot5533 2 года назад +3

    Yeah try temperatures in the 50s near 60 degrees next week here in my neck of the woods. This is February and it should be freezing 🥶 with snow ❄️ but, it’s not and it just rained here at 48 degrees. Last year on this day 2/11/21 it was 28 degrees with snow on the ground.

  • @alwayslive7460
    @alwayslive7460 Год назад

    SO FORTUNATE TO BE IN THIS COUNTRY , SO FORTUNATE. THANKS MOM AND DAD

  • @joshuadaniel82
    @joshuadaniel82 Год назад

    Iam an hour south of Nashville Tn.... and its perpetual rain ...rain and more rain.. it doesn't even snow anymore. It's like there's an invisible shield around our area when you watch local radar.....

  • @cheshirecat6518
    @cheshirecat6518 2 года назад +4

    I live in Alabama. I USED to enjoy a good rain storm. Now I spend most of them sheltering from tornadoes. The number of them has DOUBLED in the last 20 years...we are in second place behind Kentucky for that.🌪

  • @choirgirlie6183
    @choirgirlie6183 2 года назад +4

    I live in central California and our new issue is relentless high winds, mostly from N-NW. The new pattern over the past few years has been moderate winter rainfall, followed by weeks and sometimes months of constant drying winds that precede the late spring/ summer heat. Our vegetation is already bone dry by mid- May, making us vulnerable to the dry, summer heat. We are a tinder box from mid-May through November.

    • @jamesnoord6295
      @jamesnoord6295 8 месяцев назад

      The cities in california create a heat plume in the atmosphere and this combined with the mountains changes the ocean winds and weather patterns. THAt is the biggest effect humans have in USA on weather. When californi failed forest mgmt causes fires, that too changes the weather for thre rest of the country and potentially world. "Global warming" is simply Liberalism run AMOK!

  • @MichaelSkinner-pq3pe
    @MichaelSkinner-pq3pe Год назад

    I just love how much we can jump to conclusions on what we don’t know.

  • @ausjo8352
    @ausjo8352 8 месяцев назад

    Can you do a story on combinations of countries rain seeding around the globe and the affects on the earth and changes?

  • @kathyhallock2528
    @kathyhallock2528 2 года назад +9

    I would like to hear him talk about how the dilution of the salinity in our oceans has a lot to do with our weather patterns also.

    • @domcizek
      @domcizek Год назад +1

      YES, THE ARTIC MELT IS ALLOWING FRESH WATER TO GO INTO THE OCEAN, AND SLOW DOWN THE GULF STREAM, IF A LOT OF FRESH WATER GOES IN FROM MELTING, AND THE GULF STREAM STOPPES, THEN EUROPE WILL GET SEVERE FREEZES IN THE WINTER , THERE ARE RUclips VIDEOS ON THE SUBJECT YOU CAN FIND