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Climate change is making severe storms both more common and more intense.

First the river rose in Texas. Then, the rains fell hard over North Carolina, New Mexico and Illinois.

In less than a week, there were at least four 1-in-1,000-year rainfall events across the United States — intense deluges that are thought to have roughly a 0.1% chance of happening in any given year.

“Any one of these intense rainfall events has a low chance of occurring in a given year,” said Kristina Dahl, vice president for science at the nonprofit organization Climate Central, “so to see events that are historic and record-breaking in multiple parts of the country over the course of one week is even more alarming.”

It’s the kind of statistic, several experts said, that is both eye-opening and likely to become more common because of climate change.

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[-] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 18 points 1 week ago

Trump: See how it is? Even the best storms are in the USA now! Make Rains Great Again. Glory to the beautiful me!

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Bullshit. Trump will blame this on Democrats.

Kamala Harris as seen by MAGAts:

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

He already was blaming the Texas floods on Biden. The all powerful Biden, causing all kinds of trouble 7 months after he left office. Trump wishes he had power like that.

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Unfortunately he does. The aftermath of this regime will take a minimum of 50 years to fix, if it can be.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Marjorie Trailerpark Greene is literally advancing a bill to ban chemtrails.

A thing that does not exist nor happen at any kind of scale whatsoever, beyond very, very limited and occasional scientific tests... decades ago, and were funded via programs and grants the Big Bullshit Bill and other Trump EOs have decimated.

They do, literally, unironically, blame made up, magic, conspiracy nonsense instead of even attempting to agree with the vast, vast, vaaaaast majority of climate scientists, and even corpo scientists that work for fossil fuel companies that broadly predicted all this would happen roughly 30 years before public science caught up with it (thanks to the lobbying and propoganda campaigns of the same fossil fuel corps.)

They will do literally anything other than admit that they are wrong, their understanding of the world is objectively delusional.

They're too good at magic sky daddy logic.

[-] abrake@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Anyone remember this classic line from Trump 1.0 about hurricane Florence?

This is a tough hurricane, one of the wettest we’ve ever seen from the standpoint of water

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 14 points 1 week ago

Thoughts and prayers. Sincerely, your fellow Americans who told you climate change is real and bad.

[-] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You’d think that would be eye opening and somewhat concerning to folks. But I’ve found what tends to happen is ‘record fatigue’.

We’ve had ‘record high’ temperatures here in the Netherlands frequently the past few years. Meaning, the news will report ‘it’s the hottest july 1st since the start of the measurements’ and that ‘the previously hottest july 1st was in 2017’

Basically, it’s telling you two things:

  • it’s a record high temperature
  • the time between these records is decreasing.

Which obviously means things are getting worse. But most people just shrug and go ‘Gee, another record high temperature, how boring, those happen so often’.

Same thing with other types of problematic weather. At least stuff like record rainfall or flooding is hard to ignore.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

You tired of winning yet?

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Some are unironically already saying it's evil liberal cloud seeding.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Reply that it's God punishing the nation for electing a pedophile president.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Some are already doing violence about it.

We tried to warn them.

This is gonna create some real bad problems for building codes. Lots of stuff is designed with statistical probabilities in mind, where they account for varying levels of rare extreme weather events. If the 1 in 100 years storm becomes a 1 in 10 years storm, then lots of stuff will be in trouble.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

lots of stuff will be in trouble.

Like, civilization?

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[-] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

thats at least 16000 years of weather!

[-] yucandu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Fun fact, the reason we all call it "climate change" and not "global warming" was because the George W Bush administration directed NASA to do so, as they deemed it less "scary" to the public:

In interviews, Republican politicians and their aides said they agreed with the strategist, Frank Luntz, that it was important to pay attention to what his memorandum, written before the November elections, called ''the environmental communications battle.''

In his memorandum, Mr. Luntz urges that the term ''climate change'' be used instead of ''global warming,'' because ''while global warming has catastrophic communications attached to it, climate change sounds a more controllable and less emotional challenge.''

Also, he wrote, ''conservationist'' conveys a ''moderate, reasoned, common sense position'' while ''environmentalist'' has the ''connotation of extremism.''

President Bush's speeches on the environment show that the terms ''global warming'' and ''environmentalist'' had largely disappeared by late last summer. The terms appeared in a number of President Bush's speeches in 2001, but now the White House fairly consistently uses ''climate change'' and ''conservationist.''

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/us/a-call-for-softer-greener-language.html

What drives me insane is how everyone on the left just... went along with it. Now we retroactively rewrite history and claim that they were always separate terms with entirely different distinct meanings. And knowing that so many highly educated, inquisitive, independent thinking people didn't think to question that or look into that, it frightens me.

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

While the Bush administration certainly had (very obviou$) reasons for trying to downplay it, I also remember at least some scientists at the time arguing that climate change was a better term because people are particularly stupid about the term global warming when it paradoxically results in some places having a greater number of and more extreme cold events.

Ex: every time some dumbfuck Republican brought a snowball into Congress to talk about how global warming is fake because look here’s snow!!

[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I also remember at least some scientists at the time arguing that climate change was a better term because people are particularly stupid about the term global warming when it paradoxically results in some places having a greater number of and more extreme cold events.

That's how I recall the term climate change coming into favor, too.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

That snowball guy finally died last year, thank God. Too bad it wasn't from a flood or hurricane.

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

The left went along with it because they were tired of all the "then why is it so cold in winter?" comments from the stupid half of the family tree.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

We still get that now. As if cold things can’t exist when it’s hotter.

[-] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

If 4 of them happened in a week, they are not once in a thousand years, lol, they are weekly occurrences

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

Make large reservoirs to catch all the water! This will cause it to never rain again. Just like setting up flood alarms. If it does ever rain you'll catch water.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

That water belongs to Nestlé.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

Oh sure, we could have sponsorship challenges! Gamify water harvesting!

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago
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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Considering I'm already on my fifth "once in a lifetime" economic collapse I'm not surprised.

[-] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The weather this year is scaring me more than normal in south Texas. Not because the abnormal amount of rain but because the absolute lack of heat. Usually this time of year it’s 100+ for weeks on end.

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

...yeah, last year i was telling everyone to enjoy the hundred-degree weeks while they can because it would be the coolest summer for the rest of their lives, then this year comes along and spoils it...

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[-] fodor@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

By definition those are not 1-in-1000. They were, but no longer.

[-] TomMasz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Ignorance is bad. Willful ignorance is deadly.

There are no storms in Bah Sing Se.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

God is angry at the Republican, red states for electing Trump.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Why would Joe Biden do this?

[-] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Honestly it was Obama. Biden died long ago and the wh just used a clone of him. See he used biden as a puppet so he could still have access to the white houses adrinochrome stash. They keep it stock piled in the basement.

Source: my friends older brother that smokes weed all day

[-] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

And people still won't take accountability for their contributions to climate change. SMH

[-] Nualkris@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

They're not "1 in a thousand years" anymore!

[-] kebab@endlesstalk.org 1 points 1 week ago

“Drill, baby, drill”

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

So remember that tipping point we were warned about? Yeah, its happening. The deep ocean currents in the southern ocean have reversed.. TLDR: warmer saltier carbon dioxide rich water is now coming up from the deep ocean instead of being trapped there. It is melting sea-ice from below and could eventually lead to the reversal or stagnation of other ocean currents.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Even better, this occurred about a decade ago, and we didn't even realize it untill now.... meaning the global thermohaline circulation cycle has been collapsing for a decade.

Oops.

Irreversible. Can't fix.

No going back.

In all likelihood, we have Great Filtered ourselves.

Best case scenario, we get a century or so, starting basically now, of civilization collapse, mass famine and death, attempts at mass migrations that mostly get Holocausted, and of course wars, potentially nuclear wars...

...and then maybe in 100 years the remaining human population of roughly 1-2 billion can maybe figure out a new paradigm... if we have not just permanently broken the biosphere, and already extracted all the easily extractable natural resources.

[-] brandocorp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

My money is on nuclear self-destruction. We have way too many of these things in the hands of extremely poor leadership. It really feels like it's just a matter of time.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

... I have a graphic for that, if you're in the US.

"I don't want to set the world... on... fire..."

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[-] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Sure glad republicans are in charge of everything

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