@snapster The climate change I had in mind was it maybe going from Siberian icicles to Florida golf-course weather (all here in Texas) today – I don’t think we mere mortals are up for that yet.
But maybe long-term, we better get kicking.
Maybe somebody will launch a Kickstarter to develop trees that can eat 10 times their weight in CO2.
@snapster The aroma and flavor of Sunset Sherbet is probably partially what has caused this cannabis sherbetstrain.com/ to grow so much in popularity over the past decade or so. When you first crack open that jar to take a whiff of these buds, whether at home or at the dispensary, your senses will be completely engulfed in an absolutely delectable reality that this strain is damn tasty.The strain features notes of earthy sweetness that some claim reminds them of a natural version of bubblegum, while others say it is reminiscent of fruits or berries, topped off with hints of grounding forest tree-like notes.
A nice(/s), low-key(/s), Tambora-type or Krakatoa-type eruption would “fix things” (ha-ha) climate-wise for a year or two. But only for that duration.
We can already (most likely) adjust climate thru tech.
Which is so much fun to anticipate:
because, of course, of unanticipated consequences, lack of error correction,
and other fun events such as “climate tech wars” (which are kinda likely, even if they are unacknowledged, as the scope of NSA data collection used to be).
The big historically studied one is 1816, following the Tabora eruption.
The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer (also the Poverty Year and Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death)[1] because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1.3 °F).[2] This resulted in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.[3]
Evidence suggests that the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). This eruption was the largest eruption in at least 1,300 years (after the extreme weather events of 535–536), and perhaps exacerbated by the 1814 eruption of Mayon in the Philippines.
The Wikipedia article contains extensive descriptions of local and devastating effects, esp on food supply.
Other such events (most were milder or substantially milder in effects):
Comparable events
Toba catastrophe 70,000 to 75,000 years ago
The 1628–1626 BC climate disturbances, usually attributed to the Minoan eruption of Santorini
The Hekla 3 eruption of about 1200 BC, contemporary with the historical Bronze Age collapse
The Hatepe eruption (sometimes referred to as the Taupo eruption), around AD 180
Extreme weather events of 535–536 have been linked to the effects of a volcanic eruption, possibly at Krakatoa, or Ilopango in El Salvador.
The Heaven Lake eruption of Paektu Mountain between modern-day North Korea and the People’s Republic of China, in 969 (± 20 years), is thought to have had a role in the downfall of Balhae.
The 1257 Samalas eruption of Mount Rinjani on the island of Lombok in 1257
An eruption of Kuwae, a Pacific volcano, has been implicated in events surrounding the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
An eruption of Huaynaputina, in Peru, caused 1601 to be the coldest year in the Northern Hemisphere for six centuries (see Russian famine of 1601–1603); 1601 consisted of a bitterly cold winter, a cold frosty late (possibly nonexistent) spring, and a cool wet summer.
An eruption of Laki, in Iceland, was responsible for up to hundreds of thousands of fatalities throughout the Northern Hemisphere (over 25,000 in England alone), and one of the coldest winters ever recorded in North America, 1783–84; long-term consequences included poverty and famine that may have contributed to the French Revolution in 1789.
The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa caused average Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures to fall by as much as 1.2 °C (2.2 °F).
The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 led to odd weather patterns and temporary cooling in the United States, particularly in the Midwest and parts of the Northeast. An unusually mild winter was followed by an unusually cool, wet summer and a cold, early autumn in 1992 (cooler-than-normal July, August, September, and October in 1992). Enhanced rainfall occurred across the West Coast of the United States, particularly California, during the 1991–92 and 1992–93 rainy seasons, and the American Midwest experienced elevated levels of rainfall, and consequent major flooding, during the spring and summer of 1993.
you mean like terraforming Mars?
/giphy total recall arnold
@snapster As in “useless” or “relevant”?
@phendrick is the “right kind of climate change” human engineered?
@snapster The climate change I had in mind was it maybe going from Siberian icicles to Florida golf-course weather (all here in Texas) today – I don’t think we mere mortals are up for that yet.
But maybe long-term, we better get kicking.
Maybe somebody will launch a Kickstarter to develop trees that can eat 10 times their weight in CO2.
@snapster The aroma and flavor of Sunset Sherbet is probably partially what has caused this cannabis
sherbetstrain.com/ to grow so much in popularity over the past decade or so. When you first crack open that jar to take a whiff of these buds, whether at home or at the dispensary, your senses will be completely engulfed in an absolutely delectable reality that this strain is damn tasty.The strain features notes of earthy sweetness that some claim reminds them of a natural version of bubblegum, while others say it is reminiscent of fruits or berries, topped off with hints of grounding forest tree-like notes.
I saw this too late to march forth, but I’m prepared to take the fifth!
A nice(/s), low-key(/s), Tambora-type or Krakatoa-type eruption would “fix things” (ha-ha) climate-wise for a year or two. But only for that duration.
We can already (most likely) adjust climate thru tech.
Which is so much fun to anticipate:
because, of course, of unanticipated consequences, lack of error correction,
and other fun events such as “climate tech wars” (which are kinda likely, even if they are unacknowledged, as the scope of NSA data collection used to be).
Cf: various editions of a “year without a summer”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
The big historically studied one is 1816, following the Tabora eruption.
The Wikipedia article contains extensive descriptions of local and devastating effects, esp on food supply.
Other such events (most were milder or substantially milder in effects):
@f00l TL;DR:
Shit happens.
[world: “Been there; done that.”]
Just beware the ides!