World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Years

Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by chasd00 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @03:42PM (#27307295)

> Chaos does this. The wildest outliers are tied to how much energy is in the system. They may be no more common than before, but the increased energy and increased chaos can produce wilder variances from the norm.

if we're talking about a chaotic system then wouldn't the probability of extreme weather being better for humanity be the same as worse for humanity? Maybe an exceptionally long growing season allowing more crops to be harvested for example.

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Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by Bishizel on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:15PM (#27307774)

Two things; Adding more energy to a system doesn’t tend to produce (calm, sunny, scattered showers). I believe mild weather is a low energy outcome. Also, humans like predictable weather. Weather becoming less so, good or bad, will make things harder.

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Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by Applejinx on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:03PM (#27309696)

This. The chances of a nice stable peaceful growing season… nope. Things will become more volatile, which means the chances of the opposite, ruined crops, increase.

Stability and predictability are low energy things.

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