Why Is The U.S. Warming Faster Than Average?
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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2023
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We’ve all heard that we should keep global climate change under 2 degrees of warming, but did you know that there are many places around the globe that have already surpassed that? Some places around the globe are experiencing extreme warming, while other places have actually seen some cooling. So what’s with all the variation?
In this episode of Weathered, we’ll talk with a couple climate scientists from NOAA to dive deep into the numbers, and we’ll call up a resident of the fastest warming county in the U.S. to see what it's like.
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Anyone claiming that global climate change is false because a single country had a temp drop over the course of less than a decade, clearly has no understanding of the terms "global" or "climate".
"The gras in my backyard is green and there is still ice cream in my fridge" /s
That's why I prefer the term climate chaos. Change is natural, and anyone can say that it's just normal or well it's cooler in this place than that place. Chaos implies events that are once-in-a-century happening seven out of ten years for instance. That is noticeable regardless of whether one particular place is warmer or cooler.
I don’t deny climate change. It’s been changing from day one. My problem is with governments that are push authoritarianism and creating a false flag. I will not eat the bugs, I will not sort my thermostat to 86F. Build me nuclear power plants and quit wasting money creating a fake energy crisis. If you think anything that government is doing is to save the planet, you haven’t been paying attention.
@@dougfowler1368 you prefer a term that is meaninless because you can claim it's true no matter what is happening. this is your religion.
Anyone blaming climate change on humans has no understanding of science.
And anyone wetting their pants over global "increases" that are equivalent to statistical noise are in that group.
My father is a die hard trump supporter and climate change denier. Last time I went to his house, we actually had a productive talk about the climate. He had alot of questions that, thankfully, I was able to answer and by the time I left he had a much better understanding of why the weather and climate are doing what they're doing. It all started with the simple phrase if him saying, when I was your age, we didn't have this kind of weather in March... I saw the opening and took it to make him more informed and educated on the subject. Hes no longer a climate change denier. One down, 75 million to go haha 😂
Little t to spell trump...lol.
You mean you don't believe that trump can sell clean coal, or stealth jets can be completely invisible...lol.
So why did NONE of the climate predictions come true??
@@AcccountableBecause predictions aren’t 100% accurate.
@@Acccountable What do you mean none? The temperatures are rising. That is true. Predictions, however, are merely predictions based on statistical chance and data extrapolation. Although the chances are rising, they are still PROBABILITIES. If you need me to dumb it down further, let me know. Happy to help :)
@@muzaffarkrylov2365 Trump 20-24 years in jail.
Living in Mumbai, India. The average temperature here hasn't changed that much over the last thirty years, but it is a lot more variable than years gone by. The main reason is longer, heavier rains. The rains used to start in early June and end in September, with the inner months getting around a week of sunshine on average. Now the rains start in May and end in November, with not a single sunny day in July.
This is too unsensational, no one likes your comment. Don't you have any bad news?
I spent a week in Mumbai in 2017. The weather report on my phone read: SMOKE. Air pollution levels range between horrible and horrific all year round in Mumbai, and many, many other Indian cities, big and small. Please take the tourist bus to Himachal Pradesh and other high altitude vacation places. The traffic and the pollution are hurting the environment. Don't speed, or drink and drive on mountain roads. Too many dead tourists. Please live. Please care. Walk in the forests. Don't throw your burning spliffs on the trails. Thank you. 🙏🏽
@@nyoodmono4681 he literally typed the bad news all there for you to read.
@@eVill420 How is that bad news?
@@nathancocco5606 False.
I'm a landscaper in Portland Oregon. I've been noticing some native plants really struggling in the last few years due to heat waves. During summer the year before last, we had an awful heat wave, with official records saying it hit 117 F, but some areas were a little hotter. I've seen that the Salmon Berries, Rhododendrons, and some prunus still haven't recovered from that event. These heat waves are destabilizing our fragile ecosystems, especially in our forests.
Holy shit 117 ° that's crazy. I live in Rhode Island, and I can't imagine.
Same, up here on Vancouver Island. Salmonberry is doing okay, but the rhodos have been struggling, and we had a big salal die off the past couple summers. Oregon grape is struggling too.
The past few years? Yes, it's called weather. And weather is highly variable.
@@xyzct We all know weather is variable. What's your point? My point is that the new extremes are making it difficult for plants that historically thrived, can now only barely survive. If that heat wave was any worse, the damage to ecosystems could have been permanent.
@@jasonclow6962, you are assuming that ecosystems are fragile. The entire history of life on Earth surviving far more extreme changes than your few hot days, begs to differ.
Here in the UK we've had the highest ever recorded temperature records broken 3 times in the last few years. It's not a coincidence.
Including last year where it got up to 39 degrees Celsius where I lived last year I could barely sleep😢
@@thechelsearantman6717 especially given our buildings are designed to retain heat and no AC - people are dying from the heat every summer
I’m loving the mild UK winters, doesn’t get much below zero now where I am.
@@Cloysterpete - I’m guessing you won’t be loving the record breaking summer temperatures.
It will come back down, don't worry. You won't need any heating in your home.
I live in England. I know our memories of our childhoods aren't always accurate, but I remember it used to be far more cloudy than it often is now, especially in Summer. We used to get a lot of cloudy summers, whereas now the summers are hotter, sunnier, and dryer, and heat waves seem more frequent, more intense, and longer. Also it used to be that every few days of a heat wave we'd get a thunderstorm, but last year we went over a week of blistering heat without any storms or even rain. Also, we definitely used to get proper snow cover most winters, whereas that's definitely a rarity now. I loved the temperatures in England, but now it frequently gets too hot for me in the Summer. I'm planning to move to Scotland once I'm done with my commitments here.
Eastern Scotland seems nice rn. Less extreme rain and wind, more snowy easterlies. I live in NI, most rain, least sun.
I'm in north Mississippi. The extreme heat over the summers has changed when I plant my gardens. I now start my seeds in January and try to plant as much as possible in early April. Spring rains can complicate that, but I want to beat the summer extremes.
I've lived in southern Oregon for more than 5 decades, and I can say with authority that our weather has changed dramatically. On June 27, 2012, it hit 117.2° in the shade at my home. That's the highest ever recorded in the Rogue Valley. And east of us in the Klamath Basin, Klamath Lake used to freeze over every year; it's been at least *eight* years, and I think it's actually over ten years since it froze over. The Klamath Wildlife Refuge normally hosts the largest gathering of Bald 🦅 Eagles and snow geese, but since there's no water, there's very few birds compared to centuries before. The climate now is closer to 200+ miles south of us, so I feel bad 😞 for those who live the now. On September 8, 2020, the entire state of Oregon had wildfires and evacs from border to border. What a way to spend Labor Day. 🙄 So, yeah, I'm a believer in climate change. I also think we need to do everything we can, although I'm skeptical 🤨 that I'll work.
Due to the buckling of the jetstream & the northern migration of the Hadley Cell. Then along came La Nina.
I’m in the Central California Sierras. In the last ten years, we’ve had high temperatures, hundreds of millions of trees die, wells go dry, fire year after year, and lots of smoke.
Back in the 19th century in NYC, the East river, between Manhattan and Brooklyn, used to freeze over every decade or so and people could to walk across it. This hasn't happened in over a century.
The only solution there’s ever been to climate change is for industrial civilization to collapse causing billions of deaths so sit back and enjoy the show
Lived in interior Alaska for 25 years….1979-2004 and still visit on a frequent basis. As a pilot, air traffic controller and certified weather observer, I was witness to astounding temperature changes and watched as glaciers receded. In 1979 thru the mid 80s, we had weeks long cold snaps with temperatures as low as -65F. Winter warming after that was amazing with many years in the last two decades not even reaching 40 below!
I live in Ottawa, Canada. This was the first-ever winter that the Rideau Canal Skateway did not open. Let me emphasis this point. We have a canal that is a major tourist attraction for our city and a huge part of winter activities and people's everyday commutes. It did not freeze solid enough this winter to allow people to skate on it for the first time in history. The winter simply wasn't cold enough. That is literally unheard of. Our winters are noticeably warmer now and we have moved up at least one plant hardiness zone since I was a kid in the 1980's. I can grow watermelons here in the summer now. If you were to have suggested trying that when I was a kid you would have been laughed out of the plant nursery. The changes are real and happening fast.
ski resorts all over the world have been opening sooner and closing later in the year. It's april 21 now and 4* in ottowa as of now.. it takes a watermellon 70-80 days to mature and the temp only has to be 70* or higher.. so was it really that cold before that you couldn't growa watermellon in your garden? Is there really a watermellon farm in canada now? Growing Degree Days in the US is sharply down, so the notion that the US is 'warming' doesn't make sense.
@@samk2266 your ski resort comment is total nonsense but way to make baseless claims and congrats on being able to google some numbers. Ski hills here are struggling because they open later and close earlier each season despite being able to make their own snow. Thanks for the weather info though, I live here. It was 30C here last weekend. In April! That is NOT normal. We broke all-time records but I see you overlooked that info while googling.
I’m speaking from experience of having actually successfully grown a watermelon. No there aren’t watermelon farms here, it’s normally too cold and no farmer would risk their business on a crop that historically shouldn’t grow here. But we can now grow them in our home gardens and we shouldn’t be able to.
@@samk2266 ski resorts are heavily investing in snow making machines nowadays, which means they can increase the season length with man made snow. Find me a snow resorts that is NOT using man made snow that is increasing it's season time!
& that's total BS re the watermelon growing time & temp! 70 days is for a mini size watermellon, when grown in warm conditions, in cooler conditions, growing time near doubles! & it's not air temperature that must be over 70f to be able to start it growing, it's SOIL temperatures, which means air temperatures must be WELL over that temperature for many weeks & the area be in strong, full sun every day for the soil to rise to that temperature & allow planting to begin!
& I have the same situation where I am with growing zone shifts. I can no longer grow a lot of plants I used to, plants like lettuce are impossible to grow now, because it's too hot. Potatoes etc fail to thrive too. Meanwhile I CAN grow sugarcane, coffee, sweet potatoes & various tropical carnivorous plants, despite being in what is technically a "temperate zone". Some people do manage to grow sugarcane in temperate climates if frost free, but normally only to about 1 metre in height at maturity. Mine reaches 4 metres in height within a year, just like it does in tropical regions where it's designed to grow. Is really annoying actually, I wanted it more of a low hedge, 4 metres is double my roof height! I was NOT anticipating that when planting it! Shouldn't be possible to grow it that high in my climate zone!
I live in eastern Newfoundland. I have not walked across a frozen lake since 2019. The onset of winter went from Mid December to Early February this year. Since 2019 the early winter was mild with short cold shots meaning ice formed later an was not reliable. No ice formed here before mid January this year. The snowy part of winter barely lasted 5 weeks and since February it has been cold windy and damp with few warm days.
@@mehere8038 that's not what the articles i posted indicated, that they were using snow machines, just that there was heavy snow.. and even if they ARE using snowmachines, the temperatureas to be near zero or lower otherwise the snow will melt.. so that doesn't matter the ski resorts are staying open longer because you can still ski
Northeast here. That warm water off the coast from Delaware to Maine explains our weather. We no longer have winter, we have long falls now. Its been happening for several years now. We may have gotten 2-3" inches of snow this year as a total. I imagine we are getting drier as well. Since we don't have a melting snow pack seeping into the groundwater.
It definitely a contributing factor, this winter central CT had maybe 3 days of actual snow on the ground for more than 24hrs. I'm used to Northern NY where the snow lands sometime in early November and doesn't go away until late march.
Also just last week we had a pair of days with the highs of 88°F and 90°F, although i mainly attribute that to having a long strech of super low humidity and 0 clouds, and at night we did cool back down to more typical spring temps.
@@jasonreed7522 We had the same mirror image weather. I've never seen 90 in April before, that is completely insane.
south east PA only had a couple dustings of snow out of the whole winter, nothing stuck for more than a few hours.
I think that's great. Won't need to be a snowbird or move to FL to escape winter.
@@stuarthirsch But where are you going to escape summer when temps are 140+?🤔
I live in New Zealand. There is no denying that the climate has warmed significantly in the province where I live. The occurrence of frost is now less than 50% from 50 years ago. Likewise, our maximum summer temperatures are warmer along with increased humidity.
Roads are more frequently washed away with rains. Glaciers are reseeding.
I do have concerns for the youth of today and the uncertain future we leave them
Living in New Zealand & you didn't mention the cyclones you're now getting there? That's just mind blowing climate change for NZ to be hit by cyclones imo! Imagine what they'd be saying if their places of the same latitudes, like Washington or San Francisco or Spain got hit by hurricanes! In fact I think they've done that with San Fran in disaster movies haven't they? So as to show just how incredibly dystopian the situation really is?
@@mehere8038 The worst storms to affect New Zealand in the last 50 years were Cyclone Bola in March 1988, causing more than 200 million dollars of damage, and the Wahine storm (Tropical Cyclone Gisele) in 1968 in which 51 people lost their lives. Resent Cyclones have had major effect the damage caused by bad management than the severity
So New Zealand is getting better as the temperature rises? Things are getting better all the time. When I was a kid there used to be huge populations of insects and spiders they were disgusting now I can do heavy bushwacking and landscaping places that were allowed to grow undisturbed for decades and I don't see a single insect or spider. Proof that things are getting better bugs are disgusting and serve no purpose at all. Hopefully insects will go extinct making room for nature to thrive.The more animals hat go extinct the better things get for the planet. Insects eat a lot off plants and animals we are better off without them it lets the other creatures eat all that food the insects were eating which makes other animals better off than they ever were.
@david cottrell who said it was getting better? I never made that statement.
Cyclones and weather events become more destructive. That is the global effect. The local effect for NZ as far as climate is concerned is the warming taking place, which includes all the negative environmental impacts that come with climate change.
The reduction in frosts affects the crops that require buds to freeze.
@@sndspderbytesMy country has 75% more insects due to climate change. Also insects do serve a very important purpose
April 15 and 16th just past (2023) and we just had to have our air conditioning on (in Southern Ontario, Canada). We hit 29c twice plus humidity, and most of the week was high 20s. Areas close to us saw over 30c.. highs you expect in peak summer on occasion. Normal around here is maybe 10c, give or take this time of year. A/C on in April is a first in my lifetime (in my 60s). Aside from that event, I have noticed in the last decade or more a lot of swings from warm and dry, to wet... weeks of drought to non stop flash floods. In winter 50-60cm snow storms that melt just a few days later. No longer can we make back yard hockey rinks that last anything like they did as a kid when they stayed totally frozen mid Dec to early Mar. Noticeably warmer over all from the 50s, 60s, 70s, even the 80s.. it has had a severe impact on the forests, and farming.
You have to add concrete to the cause it absorbs heat and makes water flow to other regions coupled with the loss of trees and vegetation it's going to get much worse. I enjoyed the previous video about how grasses play a part in holding water. In China and areas of Africa a lot is being done to bring back growth in desert areas. We need sea grass as well it's been destroyed and it absorbs carbon as all trees and plants it worse when they are burnt or cut down for a parking lot.
Dude I just commented the same thing right after you.
In China... you mean how they are painting stuff green so it looks like vegetation from optical satellites? I mean by that logic yeah.. "a lot is being done" but not to bring back growth.. just to make it look like it.. 🤣 Never forget in China appearances are literally everything, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's probably not a duck but a cleverly designed duck decoy playing sounds recorded from the last remaining duck they slaughtered for ED medication.
China's doing so much that they are painting the wild life green using carcinogenic paints and overpopulating their forests with 3 types of trees. 1 disease or fungi outbreak and it's done for their project.
More cities need to introduce bio swales and other green pockets that will keep the streets cool.
tarmac....so cars can be comfortable. poor cars. they get no love.
don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone...
they paved Paradise, and put up a parking lot
My biggest worry is that we end up on track to stay under the 2 degree warming from the Paris agreement, but that still ends up being high enough to cause an unforeseen feedback loop with something like thawing permafrost which causes warming to take off uncontrolled and out of our hands.
There have been similar runaway feedback loops on this planet before and those changes took millennia rather than centuries, which would give humans, wildlife and global weather patterns much more time to evolve/adapt to the effects of even extreme levels of warming. Limiting emissions is still crucial.
Check out the 19 April article by David Spratt in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
The elephant in the room aka the military industrial complex is exempt from the Paris agreement.
@@lorenzoblum868 Obliged, no voluntarily yes. Army, and Navy, are going to renewables, not sure about the Air Force???
No chance we stay under 2 degrees, we're already at 1.2, we'll reach 2 degrees in 20 years. You really think the world economy is going to completely change in 20 years? we need to plan for 3, 4 degrees of increase, there's no going back, just check the IPCC report.
I'm from southern England which is one of the fastest warming parts of Europe, which is already the fastest warming continent. I've noticed that winters are a lot milder than they used to be even just 20 years ago in the early 2000s when I was a kid. It almost never snows here any more, and if it does it's less than an inch and melts after a day or two. We only have a handful of days that ever go below freezing.
Summer here is starting to feel more and more Mediterranean; noticeably drier and hotter. Heatwaves seem to be more frequent, and we even reached 40C last summer for the first time since weather records began. England and France pretty much turned into a desert last summer because of how little rain there was. You can google the satellite images, they're crazy.
there hasn't been a 'heatwave' in England since 2003. last summer it was very hot for 1-2 days and the media called that a heatwave. it's now april 21 and london is 3*-11*C not really that hot you wont have a hot day there until at least july
Well, it's the fastest warming sub-continent, it's the same size as the Middle-East or South Asia so it doesn't make sense to compare to a whole continent that is 3 times the size as that will bring the average down.
@@jasonhaven7170 there is no warming in north america except for alaska (which warms when most of the worlds regions are cooling) there is no 'global warming' at any given 100 year period, some regions warms while others cool.. when the vikings discovered america they had built their settlements well north of modern day NYC because the climate during the medieval warm period was so much warmer than today, the reality is that north america has cooled significantly in the last 1000 years, if it gets any colder you wont have a growing season in canada
I don't know for England but in France it hasn't rained much this Fall and Winter. (dryest winter ever recorded in the country)
If we have to face another summer like 2022 which was a desert as you said (and it was, I've never seen my village so brown/yellow), this year could be even worse since our water supplies are critical...
And the worse thing is that this is only the beginning. This is what happens at +1.2°C... And we are on our way to +4... Humans are crazy suicidal creatures.
@@samk2266 Yet the UK issued it's first extreme heat warning last July "illness and death occurring among the fit and healthy-and not just in high-risk groups" - the temperature exceeded 40C for the first time. There were level 3 alerts in June and August. What you are seeing is more extreme weather events - be that heat, rainfall or drought, brought on by rising temperatures due to human influence on the climate.
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Would like to hear more about these examples globally, not just in the US. Helps get a better picture of what’s happening. Thank you. ❤
You're exactly right. The weather globally is being impacted. But to be fair, this channel is mostly focused at the US.
I'm pretty sure the USA is warming faster than average because of all the fake news brainwashing republican voters into becoming "steaming" mad about idiotic WOKE issues.
PBS is a US based network so their funding is likely geared towards US based content.
South East Asia... rain forest on fire... and when not on fire... we have flooding... 2 story deep flood waters. Crop failure all across the region. Shortages of vegetables... cooking oil, chicken and eggs. It became so bad that food started being treated like a national strategic resource.... trade of food to the west (ie cooking oil) was limited or barred and food was only traded with close allies... and often food stuff for other food stuff. ie Cooking oil for onions. Cooking oil for eggs/meat.
This is one of the main reason most nations in the region stopped listening to the US. Russia is the world biggest exporter of fertilizer and our primary supplier. We have no time to listen to the US pushing its political agenda. We are staring mass starvation in the eye. We need to talk climate change, adaptation and the need for nuclear power now. Time is up. We need action now. We can't wait for the US to decide if climate change is real or not. So all look to China for expertise, aid, technology and worse comes to worse... food. You cannot eat money... and last year we had a brief glimpse of what it was like when money could buy you nothing... because there was nothing to buy.
You can look up that information. This video focused on the US for a reason.
Here in north Louisiana. We've started getting near-record cold snaps in the winter, but also near-record highs every summer. 'Tornado season' used to be from November-December, then April-May, but now it's stretching through the winter. And there's a pattern shift around mid-July every year, roughly, if it was rainy and mild before that's when the heat cranks up. So that loopy jet stream is having an effect.
That’s awful 😞 Have the tornadoes become stronger as well, or just the timing has changed?
@@magesalmanac6424 I don't think they've become more severe, just more frequent. When we have big seasonal transitions, like in February or March, it's almost every other week. What I would really love to see is somebody plot past tornado tracks on a topographical map, so we could see a history of path and severity over time, and see if there are patterns and could there be factors affecting them. Because where I live we actually joke about what places are 'tornado training grounds', because they seem to get hit more often.
@@GoldenAgeVideo I haven't verified the info but I've read about tornadoes occuring for the first times ever in a few places, some part of Southern California near L.A., and also some place in Massachusetts are the two I readily recall.
The record temperature In Louisiana was 114 F in 1936.
@@DelusionalDoug In what part of the state, though? New Orleans, which everyone thinks of first, is near the coast and has a very different climate from north Louisiana. Up here we get everything Dallas, TX does, just a few hours later. As for a single overall record, that doesn't tell you how many times we've hovered just below it, which has been often. Shreveport has several record high summer temps dating from 2011, all around the 110-112F range, and last year we had a string of 108 and 109 days in early July. And that's the ENTIRE POINT that climate scientists are trying to make: one number tells you nothing, but patterns will tell you everything.
I live in Atlanta, and I still notice the difference. It’s drastically different than when I was younger. It was like 2009 I remember that was the first year without a winter really. It was shocking. Now it’s normal. Winter is more like spring and spring just goes to summer immediately.
My weather has changed drastically , there’s been more building, concrete , in turn more deforestation, rain goes around my city , just to reappear when it is not forecasted . I been studying weather since the 80’s , global warming hits the source of life , lack of proper, or structured environmental projects, is killing the quality of air, land, water……
Thanks for your series. !!!
Winter is definitely less severe here in Northern Virginia as compared to even 5 years ago, we haven't really gotten any snow in several years.
I live in NOVA too, what about all these 80+ degree days in April? Everyone keeps saying "what a nice day" and I'm like, "yea."
NC here, last summer was just utterly brutal, worst I've ever seen (so far...) and our winters are pathetic. So many warm spells, so few cold days.
@@annabbott1963 Agreed. A little of that can be attributed to recent solar activity, but only a little. I mean, it used to be that in Loudoun county, tomatoes shouldn't go outside or be planted until @Mother's Day weekend. Mine have been on the back porch, acclimating to the sunlight, for a week now without needing to be brought inside.
@@victoriaeads6126 Yup, I'm in Fairfax and the biggest thing that stands out to me is in 2020 my son's 6th grade virtual graduation the teacher said they were rolling, not even a snow day and here we are only 3 years later and again not a single snow day. I grew up on the MD side of DC and I don't remember so little snow. Our last big storm was '16 I believe.
@@annabbott1963 We lived in Fairfax, just south of 66, for awhile! We moved out this way over a decade ago now. When we bought our house in 2013, we got snow every winter for the first few years. We got 4 feet in that big storm in 2016, but now, yeah, nothing. The climate shift has been quick and dramatic. We are getting far more heat, of course, too, even though we live in the rural area north of Purcellville. On most of the maps, this is one of the places to be in terms of climate change, but that doesn't mean there aren't clear effects of it here, too. I guess a silver lining is that the warmer weather is great for the wineries as long as we continue to get enough rain.....
Here in Central Maine it is definitely changing. We used to be a USDA zone 3, we are now a 4a, and I have had volunteering self seeding from flowers that would over winter in zone 6.
I remember 30 years ago, we would “suffer “ through the 2-3 days of 90 degree heat, usually the first or second week of August, now it’s as early as late June and stays through September! We have bugs, birds, and animals we never had before, and the ticks! Our cold temps before snow used to kill them off. Now due to low snow amounts and warmer winters, they enjoy hiding in the insulation of the leaves and survive winter. Our evergreen trees are suffering, they are struggling with the hot summer temps. I have lost more trees in the last five years than in my 30 years of land ownership.
Hurricane Camille dumped 25-30 inches of rain in Nelson County, Virginia in August 1969 - in 4 hours. The rain was so heavy that people couldn't breathe without bending over. Over 100 died and people ended up in trees miles away. Nobody said a word about climate change. Johnstown flood, Hurricane Andrew, 1930s dust bowl and heat waves. Climate change? No, just weather. The 1930s still have more daily heat records than any decade since.
Used to be here in Virginia in April that if you had a day in the 80s followed by 40 mile-an-hour winds and a hard freeze people would say "Typical April weather." Now it's just another excuse for the climate change ninnies to go berser
@@michaelk7194 I love it when people copy and paste a response that's BS. It's like the more they spam it, the more they think it's true.
@@allan339 facts scare the liberals especially younger ones that are easily fooled
@@michaelk7194what? The dust bowl was the result of human caused climate change. That’s not under debate. Too many farmers plowed up too much land and the soil left bare causing draught and dust storms
I live in Massachusetts, and we get a lot less snow than we used to (which is fine by me, I hate that crap) and winters are generally much warmer. The rest of the year is a little warmer too, but biggest change is clearly winter. I have also noticed that birds that were once common here no longer are, while some other birds are increasing in numbers
I remember wearing hoodies all of the time outside during spring, now it’s just t-shirts and occasionally a hoodie.
Where I live (north-central Virginia) is warming pretty quickly. In the past 10 years, we've seen snowfall days drop pretty significantly (from ~5-10 at the beginning of the 2010s to 1-5 the past few years), but those days drop more snow per day (from ~0.5-6" to 2-20"). This winter, we had no measurable snowfall for the first time since I moved here in 2011.
Summers are getting warmer too, though not as quickly. I'm particularly heat-sensitive due to some health problems, so I've noticed this pretty strongly. With the exception of Summer 2022, we've seen more 90F+ days. Our average is 35.6 90F+ days. We had 50 in 2021, 54 in 2020, and 62 in 2019. And while I say that 2022 was an exception, it was still above average at 37 days.
By 2100, it's expected to be between 2.9F and 8.8F warmer, and between 8% and 14% wetter. We had our 5th and 10th most severe floods on record in the last 10 years, both caused by extreme rainfall from April to June. At one point, there were portions of nearby forest that had widespread standing water (think like a lake, but with trees sticking out of it) for almost 6 months straight.
Chilean here. The general problem here is drought. It doesn't rain or it rains less where it used to rain in winter or all year long. And sometimes it rains a lot in places that are (and historically have been) desertic, so the land and buildings are unprepared and destructive floods occur.
how's it been there in the last year? Massive, massive flooding in Australia up until fairly recently. Was caused by the water in the atmosphere from the Tongan volcano, that no-one seems to be talking about, but has a massive impact on climates in the southern hemisphere in particular. I'm not sure how you were impacted, cause it varied depending on which side of the continent here, east coped it, west stayed in drought. I'm assuming at least one side of South America would have been badly flooded too, but not sure which side & therefore if you were impacted or not
@@mehere8038 South America is a very large continent, with a very high mountain range to the West. Chile is just between the southern West coast and the mountains.
Nothing here happens at the continental level. And being Chile so long, nothing happens at the full country's level either. According to printed books, the northern part is desertic, the center Mediterranean and the southern part cool and rainy. Not anymore. The center is becoming desertic and the south warmer and drier; agriculture is shifting accordingly. The north goes from desert to flood without a pattern.
This year has rained a little more (maybe the volcano had something to do) but still the situation is anything but "normal" as the climate I knew as a girl and was taught at school.
@@MariaMartinez-researcher Which part of your continent did get the extra rain from the volcano, do you know?
"OzGeographics" did a great video on the climate impacts of the volcano, the amount of water it put high into the atmosphere was incredible! Changed the entire hemisphere's climate for a year, totally changed the jet streams & what air flow was doing between Antarctica & the continents to it's north, so somewhere in your continent must have got it, I'm just not sure where, I mean we got it on the East coast, which is what's closest to the volcano, but I dont' know if your west coast would have got it, due to being closer to the volcano, or if it still would have been your east coast, due to how the global winds move - and of course where your mountains would have fitted into the whole thing, water in the air would have already been higher than them overall, not pushed up by the mountains as usually happens, but some still would have been pushed up. It's just too complicated for me to try to figure out, I'd rather just hear first hand what actually happened :) I thought part of your country at least would have seen some sort of change, given how long it is, so the amount of latitude covered by it, but I really don't understand how any of it worked properly
@@mehere8038 Well, the Andes mountains are high enough as to stop rain clouds. If you cross from Chile to Argentina, the difference is striking as soon as you are by the other side - which doesn't happen fast, because the Andes are also very wide.
Yep, in Chile it rained more, but in Argentina it rained much less. There's currently a drought, and farmers are losing cultures and cattle. Again, the continent is really big, so the idea of two coasts works only in the southern tip; up by the width of Brazil there's a totally different story. Add to that what's left of the Amazon, which creates its own climate. It was very hard to understand when it was working properly - now is a chaotic system.
Well stop cutting down all your trees.
Live in Philly, lived in the area my whole life. Not a single occurrence of snow this past winter. It was lukewarm at around 30-50 degrees Fahrenheit all winter.
Last summer in Philly was absolutely brutal. Constant heat waves, average temperatures ranging from 85 to 95 degrees. While we haven’t been hit by too much extreme weather, the city was heavily flooded by Hurricane Ida in 2021. Turning our downtown expressway into a downtown canal.
Do you really expect snow in a Leftist Hell like Philly?
I am in NM. We had over 1700% our annual snowfall in my area. Basically monsoon season didn't end until April. It just went from rain to snow.
YO, James -- born in Philly (Fishtown) before WW2 -- We had some hellacious snowstorms when I was a kid AND as an adult. Wintertime was SNOW FUN time, but it ain't no more.
Hot as hell here in Phoenix, where I've been holed up since '72.
One thing for sure -- it ain't never going back to the days of predictable weather.
@@SlikLizrd It will, just not on any meaningful timescale.
I live near Portland Oregon, and we now how a “fire season” in the summer like California does. At least once a year in the past 4 years I have to stay inside or go somewhere out of smoke range or I get sick. I grew up here - we never had huge fire issues like this before, and we have lovely summers, and it’s sad having that time taken away by smoke and fire
How’s that weather been lately? The high temps in the 40’s in April? That seems colder than normal to me
@@JC-mn2ll yeah it's almost like (as this video directly addressed), these changes are not smooth and linear but even though this spring is cooler and wetter than typical it is almost certain that we'll end up with another unusually dry and hot summer here in Portland, But then I suspect you don't really care about hard data that conflicts with your ideology.
@@JC-mn2ll Definitely colder than normal, last spring was really freakishly cold as well (we had snow on april 14th, which i think is the latest ever recorded!) and the fall was really warm and extremely dry before that. Climate's completely fucked and it's only going to get worse. Not to mention that 122 degree heat dome two summers ago, that was fun
@@PK1312 i was there when that heat dome happened, and what was funny I was visiting from florida to get out the hot summer, and into a much hotter summer
We've gotten used to smoke in Western WA even when there aren't notable local fires. Blood red sunsets and air quality warnings are becoming a new seasonal norm.
3:07 She meant to say high LATITUDE here, not ALTITUDE. Pretty minor mistake, heck they use all the same letters!
Good eyes to point out
@@satyasankalpapanigrahi9416 They edited the original so now it's a lot harder to tell hehe
Awesome work! 🎉
Thanks for presenting the information so clearly and personally. I love seeing how climate is communicated. I am very shy, so I have a tough time with in-person communication; I appreciate seeing this work to help me better communicate climate science with folks outside the scientific community and in other disciplines.
- A climate scientist
Chicago and it's suburbs have been experiencing a lot of change in weather. There was almost no snow this past winter. I used to make fun of my cousins who live in Northern California because they drive up a mountain to show their kids what snow is like, but I may have to do something similar when I have kids.
We are also experiencing more tornado winds. Small tornadoes have actually been starting to touch down in the area over the last few years and that never used to happen before. The summers are also getting unbearably hot for days at a time. Overall, it's a hot mess.
Hey, its not so bad driving 20 minutes to snow. although this last winter we had way too much snow in all of cali.
That's wild, Minneapolis had nearly record setting snowfalls and we're just a few hours from you guys. A solid 35 inches above the average year over the last century.
Apparently the heat is all going into the ocean, and particularly around Antarctica the warming can be observed down to the sea floor. This is slowing and eventually disrupting the global circulation of ocean currents that will not only disrupt terrestrial weather patterns, but limit the nutrient distribution through the ocean. The acute impact on phytoplankton would devastate the entire marine ecosystem, and ultimately the global oxygen supply. It seems that to understand global warming, what we need to pay attention to is water, and the hydrological cycle
I live in the southeast. I understand what happens to a glass of ice water left in the sun. Once the ice melts, the drink heats up. Many people are not aware of or able to accept this possibility with the oceans. We are close to a Blue Ocean event. We've passed tipping points that will domino into other tipping points. I've accepted the reality of where we are. I'll do what I can to mitigate and to adapt. I value relationships and community and will continue to engage as intentionally as I can for as long as we have.
In Eastern Nevada where some of the biggest Elk are located, they have disappeared. Gone somewhere else. We have suffered from years of below normal moisture. I have lived out in eastern Nevada for 17 years and the rain and snow have dropped way off. Some of the old folks have said "this was how it was years ago, every few years we would have a big year like this one". I hope this keeps up, but It's a new time with different than normal weather.
gone somewhere else? into extinction maybe?
We had 40C heat in England last summer, I never imagined I would see this. Our buildings are not designed for this and domestic aircon is rare. This could change pushing up power use. A few years back coastal areas familiar to me were flooded for the first time in my lifetime with sea defenses breached.
Move
Don't move.
You could be living here in British Columbia.
Where do u live?
Pretty much all of USA is going through weather changes. Tornados, Hurricanes, droughts, forest fires, etc...
Not in America, but here in South Africa at our farm we used to have droughts every 10 years or so, now we have droughts every 5 years.
Central Illinois here. We have noticed milder winters. As a teen, I would make money by shoveling driveways. I did not shovel once this past winter and only did it twice last winter. The summers don't feel very different to me.
El Nino is starting this year. You will feel a difference in the summer this year, I guarantee you. Hope you have AC
I'm in northern Indiana and am currently looking to possibly move in the next year or so due to the extreme heat/humidity in the summers. I remember as a kid that we would have a handful of 95+ degree days in the summer but we still had a good number of 75-80 degree days. Now it feels like once May hits, the extreme heat is more prevalent and cooler days are few and far between. I've never liked hot weather at all so this warming trend isn't for me.
That’s how I feel about Tennessee but I feel like everyone is so hot now so not sure where to go.
Yes, I grew up on a farm in north western Missouri in the 1940's and 50's. We had no electricity until 1953 when REA came to our part of the state. I remember the snow would come in November or December and the ground would be covered thru January most years. The creeks and ponds would freeze hard by the middle of December so we could ice skate and we had to chop ice for cattle to drink. Summers would get hot but even without electric fans or air conditioning we would only be uncomfortable a couple of weeks in July or August before a rain would come and cool things down again. I don't think I could live up there now w/o air conditioning, at least 2 to 3 months of 95 F or hotter weather with high humidity.
I'm 58 years old and live in Long Island. I remember lots of snow, snow drifts, ice storms, icicles etc when I was a child. Now we barely get snow and don't get icicles any more!
Growing up in Toronto during winter, late october to march, we had natural ice rinks in every school yard and park. We skated every day from after school to dinner then back to school and play shinny hockey. The ice lasted all winter, now it is almost impossible to create a natural rink, and I am only 60 to have seen this much change.
Roughly at same latitude we had about half a meter of snow during almost everywhere whole winter 40 years ago each year. Last ten years barely had any and it usually melts in couple of days and it rains instead of snowing.
Living in the Southeast it's kind of a mixed bag, and the charts honestly surprised me a bit. We really are getting hotter days sooner, but we're also seeing FAR more variance... Some of the folks here say the weather is having mood swings! Which while funny is also really quite accurate, and those swings are getting more and more pronounced: just in April we've seen temps go from mid-40s to high 80s and back to low 50s and back AGAIN up into the 80s. Bugs and birds are confused as heck, and while some of the most adaptable, generalist species are doing okay - I'm not sure how well the specialist species are getting by. And only time is going to tell us that story.
Something that occurred to me as a potential factor in this trend for our region of not heating up quite as fast - you mentioned more moisture in the soil. The soil here has a LOT of clay, it retains water really, really well - and I think that's true of most of the Southeast, not just the "Pine Belt" area of Mississippi. Makes me wonder a bit how much hotter we'd all be if we had sandy, rocky soil like the Southwest does. (Yikes. This is quite bad enough thanks)
I am not all surprised to see some groups trying their damnedest to declare global warming a hoax based on a mere eight years of data. Those groups desperately want to keep everything like it is... but Climate Change with the capital letters is NOT a phenomenon that takes place in just a year or a decade or even three decades. Changing the entire planet's temperature is a titanic and slow process, but a lot of people seem to struggle with that idea. And bad actors are more than willing to take advantage of that fact, unfortunately.
Just adding my observations along with everyone else. I grew up in SW FL and vividly remember helping my mom cover the gardens and fruit trees several times every winter when we would get hard freezes in the 90s and early 00s. Now, I can’t even remember the last time there was a hard freeze. I also used to freeze on my birthday in mid Oct but now it’s always in the 90s and too hot to enjoy anything outside.
I have lived in MN for about 60 years---excepting college and the first five years of my 70 year old life. I remember how cold it was before 1970, when we waited at the busstop in miniskirts and cloth coats in -20 degree or more winter cold snaps. I remember how early the snows came, and how late they left. Since about 1980, we started noticing that there was less snow, warmer weather even in December or in February, and then by this millennium, the springs would start sooner---sometimes winter would return suddenly---but still, sooner. The pace has picked up---and now, where I once learned that you never plant before Memorial Day, it is now not before Mother's Day. The summers are hotter longer---MN always had 90's in the summer, part of being in the middle of the continent where our weather has more extremes, but now there are more 90+ days, and even 100's. I have believed in climate change since I first learned it was possible.
we also had rain in January and February this year! That's unheard of - rain, melt and refreezing ice in the middle of the winter.
In Wisconsin a tornado was rare in February. We now get severe thunderstorms and tornadoes when we used to get blizzards.
Much Love to our hostess here. She's doing real journalism that's under (and just not) appreciated.
Nobody wants to know their whole damn planet's descending into Chaos like it was an elevator with the cables cut.
I see you. Pushing some Gratitude back atcha.
In Portland Oregon it's impossible not to see the changes. When I was a kid the temperature rarely reached 100° and we didn't need air conditioning. Now it gets over 100° regularly every summer including a couple days in 2021 that reached 115° (claiming the lives of at least 96 people), which would have been straight-up inconceivable less than 20 years ago.
I grew up in Portland Oregon since 1951. My folks as well as myself have always had air-conditioning.. 90+ degree days with an occasional 100 degree day and nights still in the 80's made air-conditioning a must.. for our family anyway. Yes those 115-117 degree days were a fluke that I hope never happens again.. thank heavens for air-conditioning as it was like an oven outdoors.
In both Philadelphia and Shizuoka Japan where I visited this summer the weather during the day was uncomfortably hot and humid - to the point in Japan where it was not an option to go outside and be active. This is not unheard of in these two locations but the degree (no pun intended) of the heat, meaning the actual temperature, and its consistency day after day was notable.
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I remember winters being so cold and constantly snowy where I used to live back in the late 90s into the 2000s. But the past 5 years have been some of the warmest winters I've seen in Western New York.
Agreed. Another season that's changed is fall, the leaves stay on the trees weeks longer than they used to. By Halloween there was usually nothing but stark, bare trees. Now many leaves are still falling in November. Peak leaf-peeping season is delayed as well.
My city is in the Arctic is expected to get a climate more like one 1100km further south at 1.5°C warming. Due to us being in the Arctic that putd us at 2.8°C warming. It'll become a lit wetter and we experienced that this winter with 4-5 wet snow avalanches which blocked all infrastructure entry points in and out several time, causing damage, sometimes loss of life and isolation. This with floods and landslides are getting worse. Most of the glaciers will likely be gone by the end of the century
If the ground grows warmer up there, what do you think thatll be like? Permafrost into mud? Or will grasses hold it steady?
I'm in the upper part of florida. Last year it rained soooo much and was so hot that I lost a lost of produce I grew to bolt. Being outside was awful. And I love the heat. Can't stand cold. Its changing
I’ve lived in San Antonio for the last 25 years and the weather has definitely shifted, it’s still hot but not quite as hot when I was a kid, it used to be more desert like, with consistent droughts and heat that would crack roads. Within the last 6 or 7 years though it has slowly become more like a swamp, more rain, more humidity, cedar fever lasts longer it doesn’t get super hot until late June when it used to be scorching as early as March. This year we have barely even hit the mid 90s and it’s almost June.. that is just wild.
From my part of the world, for one I don’t live in a city, I live in a semi rural coastal county. Secondly I have a background and education in ecology, with much of my time spent outdoors in various activities, so it puts me in the advantaged position of seeing subtle (and not so subtle) seasonal variations in vegetative cycles, animal movements and behaviour and the all too obvious shift from ‘established’ weather patterns and resultant increased periods of defined drought and deluge.
It really grinds my gears with all of the outspoken but uneducated anti climate change advocates that merely comment on what they see on a screen or are told. I can assure you, we have some interesting times heading our way at an ever increasing pace.
The argument seems to be if the climate shift is anthropogenically caused/exacerbated or not, missing entirely the point that it largely doesn’t matter, rather than arguing, we need to start adapting now to avoid a world reminiscent of the film Mad Max.
Good luck all!
I agree with your comment. What do you think about the effect of animal agriculture on our environment? Going vegan is the single most effective way for each of us to minimize our environmental footprint.
"According to the most comprehensive analysis of farming’s impact on the planet, plant-based food is most effective at combatting climate change. Oxford University researcher Joseph Poore, who led the study, said adopting a vegan diet is “the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth.”
“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use.”.
“It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car,” he explained, which would only reduce greenhouse gas emissions."-Joseph Poore, Environmental Science Researcher, University of Oxford.
Joseph Poore switched to a plant based diet after seeing the results of the study.
Links at my channel under "About."
@@someguy2135 I would say there certainly is merit in the reduction of consumption of meat, I wouldn’t say going vegan is necessarily the most healthy way forward as the uptake of key nutrients and essential vitamins can be severely hampered causing development of health issues for some in the long term. Sadly you don’t necessarily know your choice of diet is causing a deficiency until symptoms occur, then you fall into an internal debate to compromise morals for health.
Tried it for a decade, didn’t work for me health wise so had to revert to an omnivorous diet, more aligned to our evolutionary development.
However, buying whatever produce; animal or vegetable, if you are conscientious, considering the origins of your food, in terms of locality and distances involved, including for water, feeds, fertilisers etc, distance of travel overlaps with welfare conditions where animals are concerned, and the gross shipping mileage of your produce and its constituents and unnecessary processing. ‘Eat local in season produce’ has to be a sensible guide.
Climate change and other factors lately have shown us the weakness in some of our supply chains; As Darwin pointed out; It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
@@megapixies You-"I wouldn’t say going vegan is necessarily the most healthy way forward..." I agree. A vegan compatible diet can be deficient and include many detrimental ultraprocessed products with excessive salt, oil, sugar, and preservatives. However, properly planned, it can be the best diet for a long and healthy life. Vegan Seventh Day Adventists show the way. Link to the peer reviewed Adventist Studies at my channel under "About."
The largest organization of nutrition professionals officially declared- "It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.
These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes. Plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable than diets rich in animal products because they use fewer natural resources and are associated with much less environmental damage.
*Vegetarians and vegans are at reduced risk of certain health conditions, including ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity.*
Low intake of saturated fat and high intakes of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, soy products, nuts, and seeds (all rich in fiber and phytochemicals) are characteristics of vegetarian and vegan diets that produce lower total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and better serum glucose control. These factors contribute to reduction of chronic disease. Vegans need reliable sources of vitamin B-12, such as fortified foods or supplements." -Full abstract from the position paper as found on PubMed from the National Institutes of Health
@@megapixies You-"Tried it for a decade, didn’t work for me health wise..." Kudos for doing so for a decade. There are many different versions of a plant based diet. Unlike those who stay on it for a lifetime, you apparently chose one that wasn't sustainable for you. The Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine has expert advice for doing just that at 21 day kickstart. Everything is free.
@@megapixies You-" so had to revert to an omnivorous diet, more aligned to our evolutionary development." Biologists classify humans as omnivores based on observed behavior in the majority, and the fact that we can digest both plants and animals. Our ancestors had to eat whatever they could get a hold of to survive long enough to reproduce. That included bugs, the equivalent of road kill, and sometimes other humans. Just because we can digest something, doesn't mean we should. Fortunately, most of us today can be more selective. We can eat a diet which is better for our health, longevity, our environment, and our fellow Earthlings- a fully plant based diet centered around whole foods.
The diet of our ancestors only tells us one way to live long enough to reproduce. It doesn't tell us anything about longevity or health in our later years.
Im in Sw Tennessee in last 20 yrs ive experienced 6 tornadoes, one blew 1/2 my roof off, a massive flood in 2010 that killed all my rescue pigs and 2 brutal droughts. Each of these events cost me heartache, hardwork and lots of money. I see wildlife beat up and destroyed by these events. Its extremely difficult for farmers, its difficult just to have my yearly vegetable garden. The summers over last 15 yrss have been longer duration of hot weather that used to be for late July to mid September.
I live in southern New England, in Rhode Island close to several bays and not far from the coast. This past winter it barely snowed at all, and now I am dreading the upcoming allergy season since the pollen was so relentless in 2022 - it was more like South Carolina where I have heard it is routine to see huge yellow puddles everywhere after it rains. I learned from this video that I can blame some of it on The Mysterious Hotspot in the Atlantic, an interesting fact which I doubt will help me feel better while I am constantly blowing my nose or wiping my eyes.
Northern NM and Central CO here. Forests are expanding very rapidly on the plains and sagebrush flats. The edges of forests are almost all young growth trees, whether that's ponderosas or pinons. Interesting we're getting rapid woodland and forest expansion in the middle of a 30 year drought.
Midwest great lakes here - I've definitely noticed a lot less precipitation in snow and warmer winters over the years. We used to get tons of snow almost every year when I was a kid, now its almost always below average snowfall with several winters having absolutely no snow accumulation.
As for summers, the temps have risen, but not as noticeably faster. Though it has been drier than average
I think we been getting more rain! Especially in the spring keeps me indoors from enjoying warm sunny days
Hurricane Camille dumped 25-30 inches of rain in Nelson County, Virginia in August 1969 - in 4 hours. The rain was so heavy that people couldn't breathe without bending over. Over 100 died and people ended up in trees miles away. Nobody said a word about climate change. Johnstown flood, Hurricane Andrew, 1930s dust bowl and heat waves. Climate change? No, just weather. The 1930s still have more daily heat records than any decade since.
Used to be here in Virginia in April that if you had a day in the 80s followed by 40 mile-an-hour winds and a hard freeze people would say "Typical April weather." Now it's just another excuse for the climate change ninnies to go berser
Ironically, the LEAST cooling region in the U.s. is the area seeing some of the worst tornado outbreaks lately. 😢
my temp goes up just watching this lady!!!
I truly enjoy this series. Thank you for being and presenting the facts in an understandable and interesting way. Love the graphics. I am writing this the week after temperature records have been broken in three consecutive days one after the other. In July 2023.
I live in Canada, Winnipeg and this year we had the warmest January I ever experienced in my 62 years.
It was so warm here in January that I could walk around with a fall jacket on some days. In the past we have had minus 40 weather in January and some wind chills of minus 50, so this year was exceptional.
I hate to say it but I really enjoyed this winter but I know we will pay for it in the summer.
I don't want to think how it will be after I am gone and my grand nieces are my age. It will be pretty much like Dantes Inferno for them.
Twenty years ago, the local ponds here in southern New England would freeze solid every year. They'd test it by driving a fire engine out on it, and then open the ice for public skating. That hasn't happened locally in the last 15 years, and the local ponds haven't frozen at all in the last three years. We've also had horrible tick seasons, as the winters are no longer getting cold enough for long enough to freeze them down, and southern hardwood forest species are migrating up to our northern woods.
Yes, I have noticed a definite change where I live in Wayne county, Michigan, Metro Detroit. As a courier driver in the mid-1990's, every year like clockwork, dandelions always burst into bloom around May 5th. Today, and for the last few years, dandelions now burst into bloom around April 22nd or 23rd on average, almost 2 weeks earlier than 27 years ago.
I live in Fairbanks, Alaska. My office closes when the temperature is 40 degrees below zero at 8 am. We have had no temperature closures for several years.
Last summer, not so much, but the year before, we had some of the hottest days on record in the PNW. We had a couple of days that were dangerously hot. 114°F. People died. My kids and I held up in one room with everything closed and our little AC unit on full blast. We had to turn it off at midnight night so it had time to defrost, then turn it on again at 4am. It was absolutely miserable. I feel bad for people who didn't have one, and I am afraid of what's coming in the future.
People are complaining about these cold wet springs we've had, but they push back the forest fire season.
Late summer of 2020, we had some of the worst air quality on the world. People just don't think about the long term. I've been dismissed when I point stuff out. They only seem to care about what's happening right now.
more people die from the cold than the heat
Flooding kills more people than cold.
@@psymi-hk1fp more people die from the heat than the cold* There honey, i reversed it and fixed it for you
Everywhere appears to be warming twice as fast as everywhere else.
Because a 1.1 °C increase around the globe translates into a 2.X °C (2.3°C in Europe) on lands. Oceans are not increasing in temperature as fast because water needs more energy to heat than lands. And the Northern hemisphere as a lot more lands than the Southern hemisphere (lower albedo). Now you got the two reasons why it increases faster in USA/Europe/Asia.
@david-alexandrelaurent1378 It was a joke. Nevermind.
There's still no climate crisis, though.
I left Germany (most Munich Area) in 2006 and live in Northern Thailand, a bit south of Chiang Mai.
Europe / Central:
So I have seen the melting glaciers in Austria and Switzerland since 1985 !! as visiting some of them every year near 2 times (most Furka)
At that time the climate warming fact was still kept low, and the reason hidden, but that it is getting faster warmer was seen clear by compare year by year distance lost at most glaciers there.
Thailand ...
Temperature:
The Winter, what is called here so, was sometime just 12 degrees (2009-2012) at our area, and I had to wear 2 shirts for cycling.
Nowadays, measuring at the same spot there is maybe one night / morning with 16 dC, but most temp don't drop belog 18 C anymore.
Weather itself:
The rain season gets longer, not much - but clear. Might be about 2-3 weeks earlier, but instead of former final thunderstorm to 1.11. often, now we got rain even into January next year.
The special 3 years I remember was cycle of about 12 days repeating strong rain, after in 2012 it started with wondering clouds and later even rain, when I never had to think about else than full sunshine during the cycling loops or tours.
But I am clear also about the influence of ENCO here, what changes that patterns also a bit. The trend is clear: short cooling Winter, longer possibility of rain.
But I have no clear data about the blocking high pressure data, which also seam to be more often = keep the burning wood / crop smoke, car pollution more often and longer down and cause SMOG.
I can't believe we burn so much more, wood burning is as old as I live here - but the days stay inside got more - or I am more careful.
Great use of data graphics in this video! I find a lot of the climate numbers floating around are telling a confusing story because they are often presented in a vacuum. I like that PBS notes that climate change effects are often different in different parts of the world.
Most interesting. Thank you for the upload. Cheers from England
Out here in Arizona you can definitely tell that a) things are warming and b) the droughts have a big effect. Tucson is a dry city regularly, but during years where the monsoon rains are weak, the heat is worse than ever. 2020 had a weak monsoon and the high pressure, cloudless weather that resulted meant that summer and fall saw record-setting heat. Last couple years have been wetter and therefore a touch cooler, but what you touched on here absolutely matches up with what I’ve observed locally.
Tucsonan here. 2020 was absolutely hell, but summer 2021 had record or near record rainfall everywhere in the state. This winter has been cool and wet, and we haven't hit 100 degrees yet this year. What does all this mean? Are we seeing the effects of climate change, or is it more closely related to El Nino and/or La Nina? My vote is mostly for the latter, but in the end we just have to live with it (or move) no matter the cause. Oh, and today we had nearly perfect weather! Yay! 😎
Only thing climate change has done to Phoenix is make it more popular for some reason.
Living in San Francisco, California, USA I know family the last five generations. We all can tell you for sure 100%. The temperatures have been rising the last 30 years and definitely the last 10 years has been incredible.
Nobody would ever think I’ve ever having air conditioning in San Francisco, California. But in the last 10 years, the majority of the fog that used to call us every morning has mostly disappeared.
Defog no longer travels from the ocean in land as far is it used to
The fog burns off earlier in the day when it does come .
We have set consistent, summertime heat wave records in the last 10 years in our area .
And many of our winters, except for this last, one have been extremely dry and warm .
Many of the trees around our cities and parks that require much water and fog to survive, have died in the last decade, leaving scars of dead carcasses of trees standing rotting away. This has never happened before. .
Because I’m in HVAC, heating and air conditioning for the last 40 years . In the past we have never once ever had anybody ask about air conditioning to be installed in their home in San Francisco people would like that somebody if they ask for air-conditioning..
In the last 10 years, especially the last five years, my company has never installed so many air conditioning’s in the last five years and in my entire life for my father’s entire life in the business .
Building a new home in San Francisco. Air conditioning is no longer an option. . It’s a must have for the summertime hot heat waves.
We have all made our living off of selling in maintaining heaters furnaces in San Francisco .
Now they are seldom used just a little bit nowadays not like before .
This is coming from somebody who can spend their entire life and heating and air conditioning in an industry in an area that was heating only . And now our area has become air conditioning to.. cannot deny there’s some sort of climate change going on that is for sure.
Very well explained! Love your videos.
In Texas we’re experiencing in parts the worst of both worlds: blazing hot summers and bone chilling cold (for us). If the polar vortex is responsible for this, it would explain why our winters have intensified.
I wish there was some sort of fix we could implement.
I thought there was, you just fly to Cancún don't you? Doesn't that fix it?
@@mehere8038 lol bitch I wish!
@@mehere8038 YEP. Just jet down to Cancun, Mexico when the temps get too cold, and your constituents are freezing to death -- That's the Republican way, as shown by Climate Change Denier Senator Ted Cruz.
it JUST dawned on me that (due to a list of reasons) the overwhelming majority of the largest & richest cities are on the Northern Hemisphere.
which is where the increase in severe weather patterns will be worst.
giving the Southern Hemisphere a nice welcome break lol
unfortunately thats not really the case, the north tends to be cooler already and is more developed and capable of dealing with the changing climate so while the north is heating at a faster rate the south is still generally hotter and when combined with its lack of ability to cope with the changing climate people in the south are still likely to be hit much harder by climate change.
Thank you, very informative!
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All the toxic gases and hot air being generated in DC may have something to do with it ?
If you had 30 trillion 1 dollar bills and lit them on fire all the icecaps would melt and all the oxygen would be gone.
Here in Pennsylvania ~there are alot more 40° abrupt temp changes. Also ice storms were a freak event 20years ago - now they are a regular occurrence.
Thanks for putting this in perspective= I am aware of the Atlantic (Helocline) slowing down,I believe 30%.
Scary because these different forces are contributing to a larger result. Farmers in western PA. had stated 10 years ago they lost alot of their normal rainfall( it was falling to the far south of their location) due to the jet stream sagging toward the Missippi Valley.
When I first moved to San Jose in '90 there was ONE 100 degree day per summer - now its a couple of weeks.
I live at the South Pole. It used to be cold here year round, but I now have coconut palms in the garden that are thriving.
I lived in Oklahoma all my life, and throughout my childhood, tornadoes would occur more regularly during the spring months. Since the drought is worsening in the west, it's affecting the jet stream pattern and shifting that cold air over Arkansas and Mississippi more during the spring months, creating the tornadoes we used to have. Their frequency has gone up while ours has gone down during March-June. However, we have seen an increase in tornado frequency in October more than ever, hitting new records, it seems, each year. We also more recently hit an all-time record for tornadoes in February...smh. Meteorologists here like to call it the second season for severe weather. I call it global warming... 🙃
When I was a kid I lived in a small town on the great lakes. Every spring an ice breaker would come to open the harbour, the captain of the first ship into harbour in the spring got a top hat. Very often now the lake does not freeze at all. Another example is when you used to go over the Burlington bridge you could look down on the bay and see ice sailing, in the winter. Those ice sailors would have to have pontoons now since it does not freeze.
i've genuinely been aware of climate change before i even knew what climate change was. just the difference from winters in my childhood, to now... it feels like the seasons have all shifted, it's really weird. wild to see people deny it...
it's odd you're saying the climtes changing by a degree or 2 in the last several decades and century, when in reality it feels its changing faster then that. winter is coming later, summer coming earlier. i seen it in the 80s here in central alabama in february, something I never seen before. I moved up here from florida because cooler temps in the winter in florida is non existent. Yes, it used to get cold on some days in south florida, 30s sometimes. not anymore. lucky it even gets to 40 in the winter at all. each summer seems more dreadful then last summer. I remember winter cooling started happening in mid october, now summer drags on to november with a mild thanksgiving. Every year we break a record warm temperature, last year got 105 here in july for several days straight
it likely is so dissparent from the data because even regional data includes areas of lakes rivers and forests which dont warm as much while suburbs and cities warm a lot more. dont quote me on that though
There's a video of a guy reading headlines like "_____ is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world" and it's like 30 different places. I think this video explains how that happened.
In south of Sweden I witness that we barely have any snow during winters anymore, summers are becoming longer, hotter, more humid, we have also suffered from summers being much dryer. I shouldn't complain though since there's a lot of places in the world far worse off than Sweden. I'm doing my part. According to WWFs climate calculator I produce 0.6tons of CO2 per year. While Swedish society adds 3 tons on top of that. so 3.6tons. that's 0.1 ton away from where we should be globally in 2030.
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Very informative and timely video! Thanks.
Here in the south of Spain we normally have regular rainfall from Jan to May. This year we had 3 showers in January, that's it. And heating up pretty well right now, already had a couple of 30+ C last month.
Here in Syracuse NY, some ski centers have closed, we had about half the average snow for the last 4 years, and, snow melts all season long. It use to stay and only have a spring thaw or two.
Thank you for this. Such a great explainer.
I live in Oregon and yes the weather has changed dramatically since I was a kid. Generally each season is getting more extreme. The summers are hitting record highs. 100s for days, 70 degrees at night, for a month or more is unusual for Portland Oregon and the coastal areas. The fall this last year was very long… hot temperatures into November almost. And unusual flash freezing and snowstorms during the winter.
In the earlier 20th century there were years that the Willamette and Columbia froze clear over. Go to museums and look at cars driving clear accross' If you lived then, you would be panicking over "global cooling, and what to do about it". Your hero Al Gore would be frantically whipping out a book to sell to the naive.
There is weather and there is climate.. You cannot look at the last century, or even two, and tell anything about change in climate one way or the other.
Might be time to get over it and focus upon real things
In the Netherlands, in the 90's and early 2000's, temperatures higher than 30 degrees Celcius were unusually warm. 40 degrees was almost unheard of.
Now the daytime temperature exceeds the 30 degrees for weeks every summer. And days on which the temperature touches 40 degrees happen every year.
Minnesota has changed a lot since I was a kid.
Winter has shifted. All storms and rain systems tend to come in spurts. Don't have as many day light rains are we did before. Currently we've had a lot more dry days than wet.
Another excellent video from this excellent channel. The Nova episode was wonderful.
I live in Annapolis, Maryland and, while our summers are usually hot and humid, it feels like the temperatures have been way hotter than normal for the past few years. I’m a Type 1 diabetic and also have cancer and a genetic disorder that makes me heat intolerant. I get unbearably hot incredibly fast, which is dangerous for a diabetic. I would love to move somewhere colder, but I currently can’t afford to move. Global warming scares me
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The great Texas freeze a couple winters ago is the coldest temps I have ever seen there. This winter along the southeast gulf coast was also unusually cold. Summer of 2022 was real mild cooled by thunderstorms almost everyday. It was a mild summer. Then winter of 2022/2023 packed aggressive cold fronts that reminded me of living in minnesota. Recently Hawaii got hit with a ton of snow along with Lake Tahoe. The worst part of global warming is all the ice and snow that comes with it down south.
I live in Nova Scotia and things are DEFINITELY warming.
Also in the Netherlands we have changing weather. The winters have hardly any snow and ice anymore, the summer has weeks of very high temperatures and clouds. This was very different during my younger years. For me it is clear the climate changed severely in the Netherlands.
Obviously you don't know how mild the dutch winters has always been for it's latitude , according to the 1991-2020 reference period january has an average high of 6,3c and february 6,8c in Amsterdam, both more than 5c too warm for any sustained winter periods. Even if the 1961-1990 period were 2c colder it wouldn't be enough for what most people define as "real" winters.