An interesting phenomenon drowned in a clickbait article.
I sometimes understand the lunatics of the "climate change is a hoax" movement.
I sometimes understand the lunatics of the "climate change is a hoax" movement.
EDIT: Be cause I wrote the above in anger
Scientists have been sounding the alarm for as long as I have lived. They have consistently used the most optimistic scenarios and we have constantly done worse than that. Climate Deniers want to deny because the reality is an inconvenience to their ways of life. The costs of climate denial are diffuse; they can't be directly traced back to me. The benefits are acute and wholly captured by me. Add on to this that contribution toward climate change is disproportionately done by wealthier people and you get the most powerful people, who benefit the most from climate denial, trying to get others to deny with them.
1. actually not believing something
2. astonishment/amazement
Climatologists believe the temperature anomaly, and are astonished by it.
Hope that clears up some of the confusion.
I think a little dose of media literacy is needed here. Obviously scientists aren't literally "refusing to accept", "rejecting", or "don't believe" this data is accurate. Rather "disbelief" in this sense is a normal phrasing used in media to describe the sense of surprise or shock on the part of experts who didn't expect this to happen. One scientist said it was "unheard of".
Yes the article is replacing that with "disbelief" in the figurative sense, but we all know what that means. It's not clickbait.
- "Winter" in the headline makes it sound more extreme. It’s information-free, because winter and summer temperatures close to the equator are very similar.
- Numbers are given in absolutes when convenient to paint a picture and are without meaning without a proper reference.
- References are sketchy: "in winter as hot as Europe in summer". "This would be weird in New South Wales". Ok then.
- Color scheme of maps made to look extreme.
- Map on top and mid don’t match.
- Map on top apparently has "precipitation" selected?! Does the range on the right even show temperatures, especially since this map doesn’t match the second map?
- Cherry-picking most extreme ranges: 10-20°C in some areas. But Buenos Aires is only 5°C hotter. Btw. Germany where I live, is 5-7 degrees cooler than usually in August. Doesn’t matter though.
Do you actually know where the equator is on that map?
The peak anomaly was in Vicuña, Chile, at -30°Lat - i.e. Puerto Alegre, Maseru, Perth-Brisbane. Symmetrically, that would be Houston, Cairo, Delhi, Shanghai...
The tropic of Capricorn is at -23.4°Lat.
The peak anomaly is well below the tropic. And Buenos Aires (where the other biggest anomaly was) is several degrees further south.
Update:
> But Buenos Aires is only 5°C hotter
I think it refers to the previous highest record well over one century ago. It says,
> Buenos Aires set a daily record for the start of August with its high of 30.1C - more than 5 degrees above the previous daily record, and 12C warmer than its August average
(BTW: Wikipedia does not agree with those records in the "Climate data" table, but anyway.)
“Winter temperatures are above 35 in South America and it is exactly what climatologists predicted given our actions” — nice, they know what they are doing, they earn credibility.
“Winter temperatures above 35C in South America leave climatologists in disbelief” — so something extremely unlikely happened according to your models, maybe your understanding is wrong? Or it is really an “anomaly” and things are going to get back to normal soon?
The implication that something that no one has foreseen happened and, therefore, it proves that people who haven’t foreseen it were right is ridiculous.
Rather then them choosing to consume a media diet 100% filled with "liberal hoaxes THEY don't want YOU to know about!!!!!"
There are people asking “Hey, maybe there are additional mechanisms in the climate that cause a hot summer that we don’t know about”? and then there are people running around with their head cut off, screaming about how air conditioning and cars and modern technology is the devil incarnate while offering no practical solutions.
It becomes a binary of we're doomed or we do something drastic right now (massive degrowth, abandon capatalism, quit fossil fuel cold turkey, etc) with little in between.
The real issue here is industry is destroying our planet, and you nitpick the media because you can't handle the real problem. Bike shedding.
What do you propose, going back to a preindustrial lifestyle? Do you have something better than we do that or we all die message that I'm criticizing? Bike shedding my ass.
Bullshit jobs 40-75%, transport & cars to those bullshit jobs, too much stuff produced we don't need, ...
> as will carbon capture
Not soon, no. Lookup how much is already in the air and how much is the technology able to capture. We'd need tens of thousands of such factories. We have the technology - we have trees.
> going back to a preindustrial lifestyle
Living sustainably != preindustrial lifestyle.
> something better than we do that or we all die
Doing what we've done before (= more of the bad stuff that got us where we are) will get us to the "we all die" part.