Why are so many climate records breaking all at once?

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Why are so many climate records breaking all at once?
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Climate change + El Niño

Just to add to this, Climate Change itself is a lot more than mere Global Warming - since weather is mathematically a Chaotic System, the extra energy retained in the system due to greenhouse gases not only increases the average temperature but also makes extreme weather (not just of the high temperature kind) more likely to happen, hence things like for example many and strong storms in a short-time frame which were the kind of combination that used to happen every couple of decades now happenning every couple of years.

Hence why over the last decade we've seen extreme weather events a lot more and more often.

The high temperature related records broken now (due to the combination with El Niño) are but a subset of the weather record-breaking that's been happenning in the last couple of years.

A lot of people think climate change is just heat and desertification.

And its not.

its more akin to a shot of nitrous in your car engine. It will take the normal systems and ramp them up to a realm not normally feasible. Hot weather will get hotter. Hot weather will reach further to places it never did before in summer. Cold weather will get colder. Cold weather will reach further into areas it never did before in in winter. Storms will be more intense. Hurricanes larger. Tornados more prevalent.

But we can't do anything because the rich and their bought politicians would rather stay the course to continue to extract every last ounce of profit from the planet, then ride out the storm on the high seas on their high end expensive mega yachts.

#5MoreYearsAndWeDead

#4MoreYearsAndTheRemainingRichPeopleWeHaventEatenLeavesEarthOnARocket

They'll never survive, unless they take hundreds of poors with them to support them. Cause all their money wont mean shit on mars, when they have to shit in a bag and live in a inflated tent that will kill them all if it tears.

Would be ironic then that what kills them is a lack of longterm thinking.

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Plus sulphur ban on fuels (to reduce pollution but also reduces aerosol cooling effect)

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