Can we have a common sense thread?
Boomer cartoons
Tyler Cruz
John Butler
Twenty five years ago I used to wear a jacket in October because it was so cold in the morning at my bus stop. Forecast has a high of 89 today.
Kevin Peterson
You first
Justin Parker
>e=MC^Hammer
What?
Ryan Collins
Can't touch this.
Dylan Phillips
The idea of going with gut feelings over actual science is getting us into trouble. It won't end well.
My personal ancedote is it used to snow pretty decently in Dallas once a year when I was growing up. Often for only a day or two, but it was something to be epected every year.
It hasn't snowed here and actually stuck in years. 5 years I believe officially. You don't even need a heavy jacket here anymore like you used to.
Austin Gutierrez
One hit wonder MC Hammer. Can't Touch This. That guy.
Jacob Perez
ITT:
Leo Hughes
That's not even really the problem. Small increments of change in the global weather is natural.
The problem is that boomers fucked everyone over in the 60s, and now everything is changing way faster than it should. And there's no fucking way of ever going back.
Luis Baker
I live in the South and it used to snow here every winter. Not a lot, it's the fucking South, but we got snow typically starting in December and I grew up with my fair share of white Christmases. Out of the last 5 years we've only seen snow in one of them, and there were two Christmases where it was 75 fucking degrees out when it used to be in the 40s at the absolute most. Winters here are normally brown, grey, and depressing so the light coating of snow we'd get was the one thing that made it more bearable, now it's basically just early spring without the tree buds or flowers.
Dominic Powell
Weak bait.
Brody Allen
>The problem is that boomers fucked everyone over in the 60s, and now everything is changing way faster than it should.
Boomers didn't change jack shit about environmental change in the 60s and actually helped to ease it in the 1970s by introducing comprehensive laws about emissions standards and pollution, shit started to get really get fucked in the 1870s when industrialism started to expand at a breakneck speed.
Cameron Bell
When I went to alaska for a vacation the tour guide, who was in his 50's, said the glacier we were looking at was twice as big when he was a boy.
Carter Collins
Polar bear populations are increasing
Zachary Taylor
Wow, the whole mountain range shifted in a hundred years!
Joseph Phillips
For me it's praying mantises. Insect populations are collapsing pretty much across the board, both in terms of absolute number and species going extinct. When I was a kid during spring and summer praying mantises were literally everywhere, I remember regularly seeing 3 on one window mesh. By high school they hardly ever showed up any more.
Nicholas Perry
That's a second in mountain time.
Landon Davis
I mean technically even a change in a few degrees can cause irreversible damage to the world, though since you'd need to do it on a planet wide scale it'd be insanely hard to do so.
Adrian Lopez
What does MC Hammer (3 times Grammy winner/funky headhunter) have to do with global warming? Is he hiding something?
>C+O2+L=COOL
I don't think that's right
Henry Wood
Use celsius or die
Wyatt Anderson
There is no place on earth that has seen those type of radical temperature changes. Not a single one, and I guarantee you won't post even your general region because you know you can't back this up.
Colton Watson
>31.666
Happy?
Charles Flores
Post state or die
Landon Rogers
Weird because I live in the northeast and I’ve seen snowstorms in October almost every year for the last 6 years when it almost never snowed before Halloween growing up. They cancelled trick or treating in my town for the first time in over a decade because of a snowstorm in 2013. Not to mention it routinely dips below 0 most nights and the Ivey slush on the sides of the road aren’t gone until mid March. The hottest day of the summer for us this year barely capped 100 degrees.
Joseph Gutierrez
Tennessee, I wore shorts on Christmas five years ago because it got warm enough in the house. Here's an article talking about how warm it was that winter that I found just by googling, and another showing that the last white Christmas was in 2010. Sorry to burst your bubble.
timesfreepress.com
tennessean.com
Justin Young
HOW DARE YOU? HOW DARE YOU? YOU'VE STOLEN MY CHILDHOOD
Jackson Wilson
>.666
metricucks confirmed for spawn of satan
Hudson Scott
Nashville area specifically, I recall there being snow in the Cumberland Plateau and Smokies for several of those years but at lower elevations it's gotten a lot rarer.
Bentley Butler
I'm feeling you. I live in northern NJ and as a kid there was a coating of snow all winter. Now I think it's been a good 6-7 years since the last consistent winter. In 2019 it snowed once in November and once in April, and those two separate instances saw more snow in a day than was present in all the half baked flurries that we got December thru march.
The absolute maddest I got was a Christmas where it was 70 out (usually high 30s, low 40s). All the fucking idiots were walking around going on about how nice it was to have a warm weather Christmas, totally if prong that warm winters suck shit. Everything is still dead and all the heat snap does is melt the little snow and frost that had accumulated and turn everything to fucking mush. Autumn and winter are a time of quite and crispness, not fucking swampass mid all over my shoes misery.
20 years from now I imagine I'll have children of my own and we'll be watching old Christmas movies during the holidays. In the movies it'll be snowing in NYC on Christmas and my kids will be perplexed because that would be like having snow in the middle of the desert. I think I'd have to leave the room and cry. Fuck boomers, fuck America's very specific strain of crony ""capitalism"" and fuck the future they made for us.
Kayden Jackson
Is there any fucking hope for the future or are we as humans all going to slowly roast like marshmallows
Noah Harris
Climate change is a ter that was coined and spreaded by a conservative think tank vastly sponsored by oil money.
Elijah Smith
Reminder for everyone in this thread that the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica was falsely peddled as a cause of global warming when it actually has literally nothing to do with it. It's also been seen that every climate change model from the 80s onward has been seen to be wrong, though not in the way of further/faster change.
Another reminder that India and China have an extremely significant contribution to what is thought to be climate change, and to outright to pollution. 80% of ocean plastics come from these regions, which have not even adopted 70s era pollution control measures.
I know Zig Forums is one of the most lefty boards on pol but look at the fucking forest through the trees God damn.
Sebastian Cook
Earth has never once been rendered uninhabitable because of heat, unless you're talking early formation years or the theoretical Theia impact.
The planet has, however, frozen over completely several times due to too much greenhouse gas being scrubbed from the air.
Camden Martinez
NOOOOOOOO YOU CANT JUST POST DIRECT LINKS TO ARTICLES BACKING YOUR POINT FUCK
In all seriousness that's crazy, snow in 2010 and then mid-70s just 5 years later? Fuck.
Jose Cox
It took quadrillions of cyanobacteria pumping out literal tons of oxygen daily for millenia to create any noticeable change in the climate and you really want me to believe that Humans are capable of doing the same thing in less than a couple centuries? Look I'm not denying humans have a major impact on the global ecosystem and climate but for fuck sake people are greatly over estimating our effect on it especially since the climate has been cycling between hot and cold periods since the beginning of time.
Jack Perry
So why are people freaking out then? Should we be actually concerned?
Aiden Allen
I choose death.
Parker Miller
I say bring it on
Landon Brooks
When they say "uninhabitable" they mean all forms of life. Even if earth is a roasting hellscape and only extremophile bacteria can survive at the bottom of the ocean, it's still "habitable". They're just being cute.
Earth will be fine. Humans might not.
James Sanchez
and 20.000 years ago all of europe used to be an ice desert.
climate has always radically changed for the yeas due active and passive phases of the sun.