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I feel :(
it’s been raining in town for more days than it’s been sunny for the past while even though by this time of year we should have like 2 feet of snow on the ground but we’ve gotten more rain than snow which is fucked and makes me cry.
woke up and looked out my window and it was pissing rain.😢
**This post was edited on Dec 1st 2021 at 9:56:29am
It sucks, but bridger doesn’t need much snow to open. Two feet and it will be skiing pretty nicely. But two whole feet of snow is a stretch at this point.
damn, wish I still had the photos but one of the deepest days of my life was hiking Bridger pre-season Nov 3rd of my freshman year at MSU, felt bottomless
this webcam pic is depressing, and same situation here in Utah. Worst preseason I've ever seen
Man reading all these places now, I feel blessed, it’s pissing rain in town but the resort just got like 100cm in the last few days plus there was another dump that size a couple weeks back. It has however been warmer than ever in town which is only a couple hundred meters lower in elevation plus it’s raining at the resort now
Don't lose hope man climate change is incredibly reversible, I mean we saw that when covid shut down production, once all these massive corps allegedly go "carbon neutral" in 2030 we might actually see more normal weather patterns. This is the thick of it, Progress is around the corner though, can't be nihilistic.
vibe.crudoDon't lose hope man climate change is incredibly reversible, I mean we saw that when covid shut down production, once all these massive corps allegedly go "carbon neutral" in 2030 we might actually see more normal weather patterns. This is the thick of it, Progress is around the corner though, can't be nihilistic.
I mean I have done a few research projects in environmental engineering, the 2020 data showed huge improvements in climate health, the antarctic hole in the ozone layer closed, emissions were so low that the air was the cleanest it had been in decades. Oceans are being cleaned, forests are being planted, sure Sunoco is still sucking oil out of the ground but we are making progress nonetheless. Hang around for a bit, we might actually be able to fix this fucked up world we have built
vibe.crudoDon't lose hope man climate change is incredibly reversible, I mean we saw that when covid shut down production, once all these massive corps allegedly go "carbon neutral" in 2030 we might actually see more normal weather patterns. This is the thick of it, Progress is around the corner though, can't be nihilistic.
Sucks theres no snow tho
Yea, as much as I'd like this to be true, it's not based in reality at all. Reaching carbon neutrality doesn't mean the Earth will start to cool, it means the climate would start to stabilize at a new, much warmer equilibrium. Even if we stopped all emissions of heat trapping gases today the earth would continue to warm for decades because of the lag associated with enormous climate systems. Reversal of climate change would require us to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere back down to pre-industrial levels which is not happening anytime soon.
brotoYea, as much as I'd like this to be true, it's not based in reality at all. Reaching carbon neutrality doesn't mean the Earth will start to cool, it means the climate would start to stabilize at a new, much warmer equilibrium. Even if we stopped all emissions of heat trapping gases today the earth would continue to warm for decades because of the lag associated with enormous climate systems. Reversal of climate change would require us to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere back down to pre-industrial levels which is not happening anytime soon.
Forests do this naturally which is why a lot of companies are planting billions of trees, but also there is some large scale advancements involving building materials that actually filter greenhouse gasses (methane, C02, C0) out of the air. Couple that with some recent developments in C02 Scrubbers (On a massive scale), smart landfills which use a technology that consists of gas pumps that convert biogas (methane) into energy (which also filters the biogas out of the air emitted from landfills) can be used in other industries like livestock. It may be "wishful thinking", but it's not actually impossible. A lot of those papers stating that climate change is irreversible were funded by gas companies and other harmful industries as a last-resort tactic to instill a nihilistic perspective that would keep people buying their products because "it's impossible to reverse climate change the earth is already fucked, might as well give up and keep driving my car". Revival of the steam engine is on the come up (Which is 80% efficient at converting combustion into torque as opposed to the roughly 25% efficiency of gasoline engines. Wind and solar springing up everywhere I look, the only mentality I can possibly have is to be optimistic. Earth is my home I refuse to stop participating and advocating for the preservation of it, and a "we're doomed" attitude is not only incorrect but also just shitty and makes people depressed lol
kinda lame to hate on a username/handle if u ask me, but what do I know? and fr your gonna say you ‘survived’ the toxic chilluns? what kind of bum ass shit is that
vibe.crudoForests do this naturally which is why a lot of companies are planting billions of trees, but also there is some large scale advancements involving building materials that actually filter greenhouse gasses (methane, C02, C0) out of the air. Couple that with some recent developments in C02 Scrubbers (On a massive scale), smart landfills which use a technology that consists of gas pumps that convert biogas (methane) into energy (which also filters the biogas out of the air emitted from landfills) can be used in other industries like livestock. It may be "wishful thinking", but it's not actually impossible. A lot of those papers stating that climate change is irreversible were funded by gas companies and other harmful industries as a last-resort tactic to instill a nihilistic perspective that would keep people buying their products because "it's impossible to reverse climate change the earth is already fucked, might as well give up and keep driving my car". Revival of the steam engine is on the come up (Which is 80% efficient at converting combustion into torque as opposed to the roughly 25% efficiency of gasoline engines. Wind and solar springing up everywhere I look, the only mentality I can possibly have is to be optimistic. Earth is my home I refuse to stop participating and advocating for the preservation of it, and a "we're doomed" attitude is not only incorrect but also just shitty and makes people depressed lol
I'm not saying it's not worth fighting to cut emissions and sequester carbon. But you're kidding yourself if you think any of this is feasible in the next 30 years or so. I really wish that it could be. I'm aware of geoengineering projects like dumping iron filings in the ocean, the carbon capture plants being researched, etc. The carbon capture plant that just opened in Iceland (the largest in the world by a long shot) will save us 4000 tons of CO2 per year out of ~30 billion tons of annual emissions... Despite all the advancents in renewable energy, EVs, carbon capture, bioengineering, etc, the Mauna loa curve climbs higher and higher every year.
Sure it's not technically impossible but things are going to get much much worse for a long time before they get any better. And that's just me being pragmatic. As much as it's not helpful to completely resign to an apocalyptic climate future, it's also not helpful to be unrealistic about the capabilities we have to reverse climate change now and in the next several decades.
vibe.crudoI mean I have done a few research projects in environmental engineering, the 2020 data showed huge improvements in climate health, the antarctic hole in the ozone layer closed, emissions were so low that the air was the cleanest it had been in decades. Oceans are being cleaned, forests are being planted, sure Sunoco is still sucking oil out of the ground but we are making progress nonetheless. Hang around for a bit, we might actually be able to fix this fucked up world we have built
Are y'all really delusional enough to upvote this??? Hahaha what the fuck this is such a bad take
brotoI'm not saying it's not worth fighting to cut emissions and sequester carbon. But you're kidding yourself if you think any of this is feasible in the next 30 years or so. I really wish that it could be. I'm aware of geoengineering projects like dumping iron filings in the ocean, the carbon capture plants being researched, etc. The carbon capture plant that just opened in Iceland (the largest in the world by a long shot) will save us 4000 tons of CO2 per year out of ~30 billion tons of annual emissions... Despite all the advancents in renewable energy, EVs, carbon capture, bioengineering, etc, the Mauna loa curve climbs higher and higher every year.
Sure it's not technically impossible but things are going to get much much worse for a long time before they get any better. And that's just me being pragmatic. As much as it's not helpful to completely resign to an apocalyptic climate future, it's also not helpful to be unrealistic about the capabilities we have to reverse climate change now and in the next several decades.
Yeah dude well 10 years ago there were probably five photovoltaic power stations in the world. Do you think an "its pointless give up" attitude got us the hundreds of gigawatts of solar energy we use today? That same mentality of "well we gotta build more lets get to work" can be implemented with carbon scrubbers and other sustainable infrastructure projects. Yeah maybe there's one now, but next year there will be probably be two, the next year there could be even more. You don't have to be completely deluded and believe everything is fine, but it's not like believing there is hope is criminally insane....
vibe.crudoYeah dude well 10 years ago there were probably five photovoltaic power stations in the world. Do you think an "its pointless give up" attitude got us the hundreds of gigawatts of solar energy we use today? That same mentality of "well we gotta build more lets get to work" can be implemented with carbon scrubbers and other sustainable infrastructure projects. Yeah maybe there's one now, but next year there will be probably be two, the next year there could be even more. You don't have to be completely deluded and believe everything is fine, but it's not like believing there is hope is criminally insane....
Haha I never said it's pointless and to give up. I said the opposite actually. For what it's worth, I really do hope I'm wrong on this one. But to think that we might see more normal climate patterns anytime soon after 2030 is just plain unrealistic
brotoHaha I never said it's pointless and to give up. I said the opposite actually. For what it's worth, I really do hope I'm wrong on this one. But to think that we might see more normal climate patterns anytime soon after 2030 is just plain unrealistic
I’d agree. I’m not pessimistic but. From everything I’ve read it seems far fetched to believe things will get better before they get worse.
I keep getting these snap memories from the past 4 years...
I've been getting skiing "memories" since October and man does it blow my mind that in one of the snowiest cities in the country we are sitting at 1-2 inches on the ground in December. The forecast for the next couple weeks doesn't look great either.
Hopefully though with the big lake being as warm as it is we will get nuked in january
**This post was edited on Dec 1st 2021 at 5:03:13pm
bro today was the earliest resort open in ontario and I can sufficently say that even tho there was like 2 trails open I had a FUCKING BLAST. shoutout homies at horseshoe valley
Thank the lord for snowmaking. Snowshoe wv had mounds of snow this weekend because they’ve gotten slammed with insanely cold temps since first week of November. It’s just super odd… that place is pretty fuckin far south but it’s also at 4800 feet.
My local hill also pounded out a lot of snow too and they’re opening this weekend with a shit load, especially for opening weekend. Elevation seems to be name of the game on east coast. Weather patterns have been seemingly colder in PA/WV/NC tbh, I recall checking forecast many times and it looked the same at 7 springs as it did up in killington.
