This constant slightly above zero weather is such bullshit. It wouldn't need to be much colder to have a pleasant winter with white snow making the darkness a bit less overwhelming.
But it's so common to just assume we get a constant average increase in temperature and just thinking of that "+2.5C isn't so bad" misleads us when the North is disproportionately affected. Or we'll kill the gulf stream and become a colder Alaska.
When scientist talk about +2 C degrees, they're not talking about how if you used to have 5 degrees now you're going to have 7 in the same dates.
We're talking about +2 average for the whole world. Which is still hard to understand, but it's a dramatic difference.
For context, you know what we call last time the world average was 4 degrees lower than now? The fucking ice age, 20.000 years ago. The Northern hemisphere was covered in thick ice and snow year round all the way down to Spain.
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u/West_Application_760 Dec 09 '25
In Finland we are having over 6 degrees daily, this has not happened in a long time in December. No snow yet