@ai6yr Ben, this seems like your type of story:
Desert icons collapse as southwestern US gets pummeled with rain and flooding
https://apnews.com/article/new-mexico-desert-hoodoos-collapse-rain-a8ab9a1cc0dc71b0682586e0092ef16c
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@darkuncle @jeridansky @ai6yr And yet, just a couple hundred miles to the east, and we’re still looking at 10 year drought conditions. It’s insane.
@MissConstrue @jeridansky @ai6yr I keep having to explain to my conservative friends and family members that “global warming” really means more “climate change” and what it *really* means is “more extreme *everything*”
@darkuncle @MissConstrue @jeridansky @ai6yr
Yes. A major part of the problem is that we informed folk just can't seem to get the name right. It's not global warming. It's not climate change. It's climate disruption.
Pass the word: climate disruption. It's not a just a statistical warming trend, and the climate didn't just "change". Everything's gone haywire because of sustained economic activity.
We've disrupted the climate cycle. Just like we disrupt everything. The threat is climate disruption. We need to stop disrupting the climate.
@RustyRing @darkuncle @MissConstrue @jeridansky @ai6yr
Hello from the UK. It's not "climate disruption". It's "climate crisis".
This is the term I and many others have routinely used for quite a while now. "Disruption" doesn't even begin to convey the necessary sense of urgency.
Where I live used to be outside tornado alley. This town was founded in the 1800s, and there were only 3-5 recorded tornadoes until about y2k. We’ve had two in 15 years. Our insurance has tripled, and we’ve got plans for how to manage after the next one, because there surely will be one.
@jeridansky Yep, indeed. Thanks!
@jeridansky @ai6yr “Experts have estimated that more than 20 trillion gallons (75.7 trillion liters) of rain fell across the Four Corners states and Nevada during late October and early November as tropical moisture was funneled into the region.”
The scale of natural phenomena even in just one local geography of our little planet is hard to comprehend