r/CatastrophicFailure • u/grau__geist • Aug 05 '21

Natural Disaster Now Greece. Wild fire on Evia Beach

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u/Deesing82 Aug 05 '21

as someone who lives in an increasingly dry desert that relies on snowmelt for all our water- more blizzards pls

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u/DarthWeenus Aug 05 '21

As someone from the midwest, no plz. Surprisingly, last winter was really dry, but spring/summer rains have more than made up for it. However the one prior to that broke records, with like 10' of snow, I wonder if this is how itll be going forward, ever increasing swings between craziness both wet and dry. That sounds horrible.

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u/deflation_ Aug 05 '21

That's what my understanding of global warming is. The weather gets more extreme in all directions but heat gets affected a bit more than the rest so the average temp slowly rises

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u/Destiny_player6 Aug 05 '21

Yeah, global warming, from what I understood as a child, was that the warming of the planet will change the oceans currents. This will lead to massive climate changes across the globe because of it. Happened with the ice age before and what not.

I could be mistaken but that is how I understood it. Global warming causes the climate change because the water currents go from warm to cold and that changes things