Did you know ???

[sojapat]

I was sent a chart yesterday by my friend in Peru.
The Amazon river is at its highest level for over 100 years ..
No wonder not many fishes are about

[bigamefish]

No i didn`t know that! thats rather interesting! thanks for sharing!

[sidguppy]

that's climate change for you, all the extremes will occur more often


time and again I run into discussions with people who don't believe in climate change (they think it's a "leftist hobby" or conspirancy of the government for more tax), because they see things like this as an argument that i't's not there

more rain on the amazon: hey, shouldn't it dry out cause of global warming?

snow and ice in a Dutch winter. it should get hotter, shouldn't it?

massive rainfall in july and august; now where's this warming up? it's 12'C and pissing down.....


but they miss the point.
the atmosphere is a closed system, more or less.
the CO2 traps more heat.
heat = engergy

more engergy in a closed system -> more enthropy.

which simply means that any weather extremes will occur more often.

hot places get hotter, and cold places melt or will get extremely cold

dry places will get dryer, wet places can potentially get a lot more wet as in this case and our summers as well.

wind speed goes up! a lot.
see all the tornadoes in the US and the number of cyclones in the Caribbean and the Tyfoons in Japan

and lastly; weird stuff happens. and it'll happen right now, at the doorstep

for years now we have extremely dry springs and dry autumns....
I'm talking about the netherlands!
bone.....dry.

and the summer holiday is a monsoon; with the exception of 2009, all our summers for the last 10 years or so, have been 2 months of solid rain and cold.

we got a forest fire warning out in March! for the third year in a row o.0
like we're in Australia or something......

summing it up:
at home we now have cold freezing winters (it should be sludge and sleet), bone-dry spring (which should be quite rainy and soft weather), a monsoon with low temperatures in summer (which should be sunny and thunderstorms on and off) and extremely dry falls 9which should be the wettest season of the year).

that the Amazon is at the highest level in a 100 years doesn't surprise me one bit.
if it dries up in 20 years it wouldn't be surprising either

sad? yes
but "ow wow, sure didn't see that coming!"
not at all.

[wrasse]

It wasn't that long ago when they were talking about drought and waterways drying up.
Don't know where in SA that was exactly...
But what a turn-around!!!

[MatsP]

It wasn't that long ago when they were talking about drought and waterways drying up.
Don't know where in SA that was exactly...
But what a turn-around!!!

It was Rio Negro, and in general, last season, rivers in the Amazon basin were low. And we had the wettest summer in memory, when it was dry in the Amazon. Now it's very dry here, and wet in the Amazon - correlated or not, I don't know.

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Mats