We've been accidentally geoengineering for decades...but then we stopped:

SO2 actually (very temporarily) cools things down by seeding clouds and creating sulfuric acid aerosols. That's not, like, /good/, but by making more clouds (and also decreasing the size of droplets in clouds, and thus increasing their number) more sunlight is reflected to space.... #climate

https://kbin.social/m/climate/t/303680

Wow, just wow. The planet is breaking.

Antarctic sea ice extent. There was actually a net *decrease* in ice extent day over day, and it's mid-winter there, peak freeze season.

https://media.kbin.social/media/44/ef/44efef1dcd8e3e1ef59457412dadacbf1c30643a688f9a4586d56da6e146a8bb.jpg

It's not too late. Also it's not fine

#climate

https://media.kbin.social/media/d7/ba/d7badbe5ebb11503c415399db8ca5218bcfa231991b1bbde9f18fab2ce7fe7a3.jpg

Tennis ball-sized hail pounds Italy injuring more than 100 people | CNN

At least 110 people have been injured after tennis ball-sized hail rained down on a region of northern Italy overnight Wednesday. #climate

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/20/europe/italy-hail-extreme-weather-climate-intl/index.html

North Atlantic has warmed in one year by about the same amount as during the past 15 years. Rate of warming over the past 15 years was already crazy.

#climate

https://media.kbin.social/media/70/cc/70ccf2c233383f8501fdb312c2c33624b40bae6f7ec8aafbcb10277bb75331f1.jpg