[deathwalkr]

Originally Posted by V.Narayan

World's first year-long breach of key 1.5 degree C warming limit

Not to worry, we will keep buying more and more air conditioners for all the rooms in the house and bring local warming down!

Sorry, jokes aside, it's a matter of grave concern this news you posted

Will Nature reclaim itself?

[Sree]

A new publication about AMOC. Scary to say the least.

#dayaftertomorrow.

[Sree]

https://youtu.be/HX7wAsdSE60?si=Y0Jo-HZZ01ss9ZdS

For those who prefer a talk over reading the article on AMOC. Well explained.

[deathwalkr]

The devastating landslide in Wayanad, Kerala should be a soul opener. Coupled with heavy rains and floods at the end of July when the monsoon is supposed to have been over here it is just scary.

What a sad and dark day it turned out to be for those folks in the hills.

[DigitalOne]

Originally Posted by deathwalkr

Coupled with heavy rains and floods at the end of July when the monsoon is supposed to have been over here it is just scary.

Let's not be in a hurry to pass the blame onto 'climate change' and absolve the local administration.

This year due to the La Nina phenomenon IMD had predicted a heavy to very heavy monsoon back in April itself. La Nina is a known periodic climate pattern and not because of climate change.

This editorial in The Hindu from April 2024 proves prescient:

Rain shocks: On the monsoon in 2024

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast a bountiful monsoon. Rainfall from June-September is expected to be 6% more than the 87 cm, .....There is however a dark cloud to this silver lining. The IMD’s climate models suggest a 30% chance of “excess” rains — defined as more than 10% of what is usual.

The IMD’s models forecast for this are premised on the development of a La Niña,...

Here is the kicker (emphasis mine):

Two arid monsoon months and torrential rains in the last two may be fine for agriculture but is likely to result in extreme floods and — as has been observed in the past — immense damage to lives, livelihoods and infrastructure.

The 2018 floods in Kerala continue to be a reminder of how vulnerable India is to natural disasters. While an update to the forecast is expected around the end of May, the IMD’s current signal must be urgently heeded. States must, at the soonest, draw up emergency plans from their disaster-management modules to bolster infrastructure, prepare evacuation plans, conduct audits of the structural stability of dams and their distress-signalling network and ensure that broader early-warning networks are in place.

[deathwalkr]

Originally Posted by DigitalOne

Let's not be in a hurry to pass the blame onto 'climate change' and absolve the local administration.

This article was in today's paper:

https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kera...-as-cause.html

[roy_libran]

Originally Posted by deathwalkr

Will Nature reclaim itself?

In a manner of speaking, and in the very long run - YES.
The downward spiral might lead to extinction or near-extinction events in the distant future, post which nature will find a way to continue and eventually thrive but with a very different set of fundamentals.
Whether humans and many of the species that we see around today make it that far is questionable, unless our collective conscience starts yielding.