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Comment by ornornor | Hacker News Reader

“Climate anomalies” is a very mild sounding way of calling what’s happening globally. Well done.

“Anomaly” is a technical term of art in climate science: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/global-temperatu...

Didn’t realize, thanks for the link.

Climate change is predicted to cause both more rainfall and more droughts—in the wrong places, of course.

And more severe winter outbursts (hint hint) in addition to warmer summers.

Even the mild days will become more extremely mild.

Your neutralness, a beige alert.

1. Start The Boring Company

2. Buy The Weather Company

3. Make Boring Weather Products

4. ???

5. Profit

Well, wether it's colder, warmer, dryer, wetter, the same or different, at this point all possibilities are predicted by someone to be the consequence of human CO2 production at this point

Yes, but some more than others. A very zeitgeist example: warmer atmosphere stores more moisture and/or energy, thus causing more abrupt and violent changes of weather patterns - see the polar vortex breaking up and brining -40 degrees temperatures to unusual places in North America. This is something you can’t really negotiate about, it’s just applied thermodynamics.

The issue was clearly predicted. Even ignoring climate change it would have been a problem but they went ahead with the changes and now don't want to admit that the experts warned them.

Has more to do with their local geography, but any excuse right?

Of course. Climate change will impact different areas differently, based on local geography. Some areas get dry, others wet.

If this was simply and only 'local geography', then why doesn't this happen all the time? Since local geography doesn't change.

Climate has cycles, besides the effect of global warming. Not every change in local climate is attributable to global warming.

For example, SE Asia is settling into El Niño patterns — which cause it to be drier than its long term average.

https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/asia-and-pacific-el...

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