sleepingexplorer3d ago
Zack Labe

Yet again, another record-breaking heatwave is arriving well outside of the typical season. This time impacting the UK and other parts of western Europe with a strong upper-level ridge.

Here's how climate change is making that heat more likely (via Climate Central: https://csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index):

May 26 at 12:01pmWeb
Show threadZack Labe2d ago
Here is our latest alert on this extreme event: https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index-alert?#record-breaking-heat-wave-across-western-europe-fueled-by-climate-change
Climate Shift Index Alerts | Climate Central

Climate Central issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around the world that was made more likely by human-caused climate change.

Show threadKpl Klink1d ago
@ZLabe Very timely as a post. Understanding the mechanics of feedbacks may be interesting too. As an analogy, I had an interesting conversation with a group of medical professionals recently about our planet being a dynamical system much like the body. It readily took.
Show threadBakersRelay3d ago
@ZLabe Promoting to #SevereWeather #Europe
Show threadEndicottRoad593d ago
@ZLabe And yet there are still people who say they "don't believe in climate change".
Show threadFelix Eckhardt2d ago
@EndicottAuthor @ZLabe right answer is: you don't need to believe in it. You can know it exists.
Show threadshem3d ago
@ZLabe no doubt people are still spending half term traveling to Benidorm to drink Stella by the pool
Show threadCornelius Flynn3d ago

@ZLabe
Having another of our annual ten hot days here in the UK… hehe.

MAGAstanis ask us why we don’t have aircon. Well, easy, it would only get used for ten days. We have fridges and ice pops… 🤣

Show threadEvoScale3d ago
@ZLabe The increasingly probable #AMOC #collapse will add multiple unknown swings, to these metrics #ClimateCrisis
Show threadDmian 🇪🇺3d ago
@ZLabe Start hoarding tuna cans, people. Tuna cans are the currency of the post-apocalyptic world. 😝