Why Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average | The wildfires sweeping France and Spain this week are the largest blazes either country has faced in modern history.
https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/497041/spain-france-wildfires-europe-warming?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6InBhQ21aa0R0QXAiLCJwIjoiL3RvZGF5LWV4cGxhaW5lZC1uZXdzbGV0dGVyLzQ5NzA0MS9zcGFpbi1mcmFuY2Utd2lsZGZpcmVzLWV1cm9wZS13YXJtaW5nIiwiZXhwIjoxNzg2NDg0NzM1LCJpYXQiOjE3ODUyNzUxMzV9.TmcEyGTKbwAQ-ostOYasHFUExs5Qzor2bCo8mcnzzO8
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trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 24d
What I find most interesting about this, is that it undermines the whataboutism. It's just not a relevant argument anymore that the USA, China, India etc. are not doing their part (according to cherry-picked metrics), when we'll suffer the most.
Yeah, it would be great, if everyone could pull along, but we'll have to minimize damages here either way.
ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 24d
China is doing their part tho. Their coal usage is still mind bogging, but theh are by far the biggest investors in solar and wind, and the reason that solar is so cheap.
And the US, altho slower, js also moving in the renewable direction, not because they are better, bht because they are cheaper. Even during all of trumps presidencies renewables have outpaced fossil.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 24d
Only because of strategic reserves of oil are not in china, so it's not altruistic but hell, it's a win.
Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 24d
That is such a bad article or at least a bad title. No real information is given as to why Europe is heating up fast, only 'geography plays a role' and 'with more sulfur pollution it might be cooler'.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 24d
Weather forecast for today (underlined: felt temperature) :
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 24d
I expect to see that kind of image in Australia, not France
JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 23d
The article doesn't actually address it but it is likely because the gulf stream is breaking down.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 23d
A big part of it is just that it's land and in the northeen hemisphere. Land warms a lot faster than the sea surface, and the northern polar regions warm a lot faster than elsewhere due to ice-albedo feedback