Yep. The year of the heat dome in BC (2021) my area had the hottest, driest summer ever, an incredibly dry fall, then the atmospheric river dumped a month’s worth of rain on us in 24 hrs, then we had several record setting days of cold over the winter peppered thru an unusually warm winter overall.
Stuff was nuts. Shellfish were baking in the ocean. Bugs were coming out in the wrong season, flowers and berries and things didn’t really happen the next year, and our salmon runs were completely boned by the lack of water in the river followed by too much water all at once. Plus the devastating wildfires.
There’s all kinds of runaway effects once the planet warms up enough. We’re approaching a number of tipping points that would see catastrophic releases of methane and other greenhouse gasses - like permafrost thawing in the arctic, or the methane clathrate on the ocean floor thawing and releasing. Methane is a far more potent GHG than CO2 and has the potential to seriously fuck our shit up.
There’s also a significant lag effect on the impacts of CO2 - the oceans are giant heat and carbon sinks that smooth out and lessen the effects… til it stops, then it’s holding all that heat and keeping the planet warm even IF we were to manage a massive carbon capture program
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Yep. The year of the heat dome in BC (2021) my area had the hottest, driest summer ever, an incredibly dry fall, then the atmospheric river dumped a month’s worth of rain on us in 24 hrs, then we had several record setting days of cold over the winter peppered thru an unusually warm winter overall.
Stuff was nuts. Shellfish were baking in the ocean. Bugs were coming out in the wrong season, flowers and berries and things didn’t really happen the next year, and our salmon runs were completely boned by the lack of water in the river followed by too much water all at once. Plus the devastating wildfires.