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Yeah... Gets pretty old pretty quick hearing my older relatives scepticism around climate change while our seasons get visibly more extreme year over year.
Heatwaves of >30C were literally unheard in my area when I was younger, yet now they occur multiple times in a single summer.
And same with the cold snaps in the winter. It was rare when I was younger, and now it also happens multiple times a winter.
Its like people see all this and yet still can't put two and two together that maybe this is the climate change scientists have been crazily screaming into the apathetic void about for the last half a century.
And worse still, some will say "its natural for the climate to change over time". Which is true... OVER CENTURIES of geological time!! These extreme climate changes over the matter of a couple of decades are not the same as the natural shifts in climate over time!
My well-educated dad used to deny climate change as late as maybe 10 years ago. Recently he always goes real quiet whenever the topic comes up, and doesn't raise it himself anymore. I wish it would feel good as a late win.
Same here. I used to talk politics with my family, but over the past two years it's slowly brought up less and less and they're not nearly as enthusiastic as they were before. It's hard to feel good about that when everything is objectively worse.
A relative of mine lives in the north. He was so excited for winter, he was gonna finally compete in a dog sled race (well, assist another competitor, which he knew was a gateway for him). He had this whole roadtrip planned to Idaho for it and based his entire winter around making it happen.
Now, if you don't follow the weather in Idaho (I know I didn't), you might not know they canceled several dog sled races this year due to lack of snow. All across the country apparently a bunch got cancelled.
Guy is still repping his Maga pride, even after pointing out Trump's coal fetish is directly responsible for his winter being ruined, it doesn't click.
A 30C heatwave happened once per century before the year 2000. There was one in 1976 and they talked about that one for decades. Then after 2000 it became normal and now we just had one in spring.
Of course many folks jump up you just have to adapt to the changing weather. Yes, we're adapting. Events get canceled because of heat or thunder storms. Schools and public instances are holding out their hands for more tax money for cooling. Turns out, that was not the adapting they had in mind.
If I hear a boomer tell me about how now they're taking this all seriously, and scared?
I'm going to laugh in their face and tell them the truth, which is that they are in fact probably going to die horribly.
Oh and also, its their fault, personally.
... ideally, all while eating an avocado, whole.
In the 80s while growing up, 30°C in Vienna, Austria was a real heatwave.
We've hit 40°C before summer even officially started this year.