Japan's summers have lengthened by 3 weeks over 42 years, say resaerchers

https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/62626

by anigbrowl • 9 months ago

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Reminds me of one of the more conclusive pieces of evidence that global warming is occurring - the date cherry blossoms flower in Kyoto (https://i.imgur.com/sD4nZuh.png)

It's a cool piece of data because it's been tracked for over 1100 years. We don't have a ton of sources of information like that.

Lucasoato• 9 months ago

Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later.

Numerlor• 9 months ago

They tend to display it for blocked connections like vpns

bsimpson• 9 months ago

Looks like a regression line between April 1 and May 1. The line moves around between the 11th and the 16th from the year ~850 until ~1950, but never crosses it until ~1950. The current average is about 6 days earlier (April 5th).

Mistletoe• 9 months ago

After 1900, it starts nose diving.

cryptonector• 9 months ago

1,100 years is not much in geological terms. In the time we had the little ice age come and go.

bigiain2• 9 months ago

While that's true, it's pretty relevant if you're trying to detect or measure human-caused climate changes. And particularly with respect to changes in both population growth and the effects of the industrial revolution. The planet went from having around 350 million people in 1000AD, to over 8 billion people now. We went from powering things with human and animal muscles and heating things with effectively carbon-neutral woodfires with only decades or centuries of captured carbon, to burning coal and oil releasing millions or hundreds of millions of years worth of captured carbon into the atmosphere.

port11• 9 months ago

Okay, but have you looked at the chart? Because it's very clearly changing in the past century or so.

12345hn6789• 9 months ago

"climate change is a hoax."

"Climate change has no scientific evidence"

"Climate change is only peddled by quack researchers"

"Climate change isn't widely accepted yet"

"Climate change cannot happen as fast as research is predicting" <---- you are here

"Snow rarely happens around town anymore"

"I hope my children can vacation to Alaska to ski"

martinpw• 9 months ago

That graph looks quite old - here is a more current one showing the continued decline:

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/japans-cherry-trees...

Looks like the 20 year average is around 2 April.

xrd• 9 months ago

I believe I heard that Miami has added 40 days of summer weather.

jongjong• 9 months ago

We are quite literally baking the planet. First with Bitcoin mining now with AI data centers. I pray that at least the AI datacenters will be allowed to be put to good use instead of BS jobs.

Gigachad• 9 months ago

We are going to bake the planet for AI Stephen Hawking videos and Twitter politics bots.

ninetyninenine• 9 months ago

Ai will take over our jobs which makes it so we can’t afford ai which causes ai companies to go belly up which causes the economy to implode thereby saving the planet.

z3c0• 9 months ago

..."first with Bitcoin"? Is that the narrative we're buying now? That this problem starts at Bitcoin? Not the coal-fired electrical grid fueling it?

kibwen• 9 months ago

Any proof-of-work cryptocurrency is literally a system that incentivizes runaway, self-reinforcing energy consumption like no other product in human history. Bringing it into the world is the dumbest idea that any human has ever had. I hope Satoshi is ashamed of his mental lapse.

lozenge• 9 months ago

Don't worry about it, as one very famous and respected climate change economist once calculated, farming only comes to 3% of global GDP.

mensetmanusman• 9 months ago

Coal powered steel mills and aluminum refining are orders of magnitude more impactful.

shoobiedoo4• 9 months ago

The worst part about this is that the motorcyclists stay out longer and longer until it gets below 10 degrees. I live in the "quiet countryside" and all I hear on the weekends, holidays, and often Monday/Tuesday is over the top loud motorbikes racing past my house.

monster_truck• 9 months ago

lol

brendoelfrendo• 9 months ago

You should try riding, it's fun.

shoobiedoo4• 9 months ago

I'd love to to try a motorcycle that doesn't disturb people for at least a half kilometre around me while I wear comfy ear protection, sure. Unfortunately that isn't anywhere close to the norm in Japan

lyall• 9 months ago

I agree, the worst part about climate change is motorcyclists riding past this guy's house.

shoobiedoo4• 9 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole

evil-olive• 9 months ago

global warming is also causing an increase in the "wet-bulb temperature" [0]

Given the body's vital requirement to maintain a core temperature of approximately 37 °C (99 °F), a sustained wet-bulb temperature exceeding 35 °C (95 °F) — equivalent to a heat index of 71 °C (160 °F) — is likely to be fatal even to fit and healthy people, semi-nude in the shade and next to a fan; at this temperature human bodies switch from shedding heat to the environment, to gaining heat from it.

in those conditions, your body can no longer cool itself down by sweating and having the sweat evaporate. simply being outside, or inside without air-conditioning, will result in potentially fatal hyperthermia.

but I'm sorry to hear that there's motorcycles driving past your house.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_...

rester324• 9 months ago

I wouldn't say it's the worst part, but it's definitely a common disturbance in japan that these idiots called bousouzoku ride around in quiet neighborhoods with their mufflers modified that they are screaming as loud or exceeding 110 but sometimes even 110 db.

And they really look like idiots when for example I easily pass them on my road bike in the Shonan area on road 134 because the roads are too narrow there to pass any cars even on a motorbike (mostly just the roadbikes are able to pass there), and they are just inching forward in the traffic with 2 km/h while revving their engines. Absolute losers.

And the longer summer definitely encourages these idiots to be a nuisance longer

johnnienaked• 9 months ago

Shareholder value must increase, planet be damned.

Aeolun• 9 months ago

Can confirm. 12th Oct in Tokyo, is 23 degrees (celsius) out.

It’d be nice if it didn’t mean the rest of summer is hotter too.

yayo1• 9 months ago

I'm sorry, but it will obviously do, especially in Tokyo. Tokyo is experiencing a serious urban heat island effect, which is exacerbated by an increase in sources of exhaust heat.

thenthenthen• 9 months ago

I am in Shanghai and it is 33 c… on 12 OCTOBER. Very bizarre.

ggm• 9 months ago

Summer is an overloaded word. The solstice doesn't change. What changes, is the temperature and thus climate, out of sync with the longer baseline. Lunar calendars don't generally inform plant behaviour as strongly as temperature but day/night cycle time isn't changing while temperature is, and that may play havoc with wildlife and plants which depend on aspects of day/night cycle for best breeding outcomes.

tmtvl• 9 months ago

Typo in the submission that isn't in the original (or which has been fixed in the original): researchers instead of 'resaerchers'.

Japan's summers have lengthened by 3 weeks over 42 years, say resaerchers

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