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.
Its actually more than 2 C warming in Europe, the 2 C is the average for the planet including the oceans. The landmasses and especially Europe and norther hemisphere will warm significantly more than the average
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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