All Aboard The Long Term Snow Train

squonk

According to Eamonn Ryan we’ll be getting coder and wetter. I thought the projection was warmer and wetter but to be fair what Eamonn is saying sounds more realistic.

https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2024/08/30/ireland-faces-a-bloody-cold-bloody-wet-future-unless-action-on-climate-speeds-up-warns-ryan/

wazzzledazzle

That article is an absolute load of bollox.

I'm very much the opinion that climate is changing (It's always changing, and always has) but the vagueness and scaremongering in that article is just ridiculous. The below being the highlight

Temperatures in Europe will plummet if that happens, up to 15 degree for some northern European states, while Amazonian wet seasons will cease and sea levels threatening coastal cities would rise even faster than currently expected, by tens of centimetres.

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122580812#Comment_122580812

Technically I am a climate change denier, which in modern times practically makes me a flat earther(which Im not by the way).

My skepticism is around a lot of the projections and how the long term forcasts are achieved and how that affects global policy change.

I do believe the earth is warming. I do not believe we can stop it, much less reverse it. I'm very confused how sea levels will rise in our part of the world, as it seems to contradict basic physics.

For Ireland wetter and warmer does seem like the obvious outcome, with more serious storms. Not warmer as in more beach days, but more summers like we just had.

Billcarson

If the current stopped we would likely end up with a more continental type of climate. Dryer overall, warmer in summer but much colder winters.

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122581023#Comment_122581023

If the drift stops we will start getting winters like Canada. Dublin is on the same latitude as Newfoundland, Hamburg and Minsk.

squonk

Yeah I’m hugely sceptical myself as while I agree the climate is changing, if anything temperatures are rising. I’ve written in threads here before that mornings with white hoar frost are becoming somewhat of a novelty here in the west of Ireland where I’m based. Almost 40 years ago when I was walking to school a lot of winter mornings there certainly was more frost about. That being said, if the jetstream does shut off then yes it will get colder but I just can’t see how it will get wetter. The Jetstream is the conveyor belt for a lot of the wet mock that we get already. Turning that off can only mean dryer conditions.

Climate change is making our weather even more boring than what it was in Ireland. The warmer summers that were promised haven’t really materialized apart from night time temperatures rising. Then we have the news reports of the warmest June etc on record when it’s really only night time temperatures rising the average. There is no evidence windstorm speeds are rising in Ireland either, if anything they are declining. They don’t make storms like they used to. The only evidence is the number of totally calm days with wind below 2mph has dropped in the last 25 year. We don’t get as many calm days as we used to but that’s another negligible boring stat that the masses won’t notice. Needless to say snowy outbreaks seem to be even more rare than they were in Ireland and there will probably come a time when snow will be unheard of here, except on high ground in the North. The effects of climate change couldn’t be more boring as far as Ireland is concerned. Isn’t it the truth. We are getting less and less of anything of note now.

pauldry

Ya November and December are generally dull and mild now and January has an odd bit of variation. So maybe some snow by then for a few hours.

piplip87

Its grand climate change won't have a y impact in Ireland because we lay carbon tax.

wazzzledazzle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122781541#Comment_122781541

Make sure you return the cans anyway and get a few quid back……………