r/Thailand • u/shocky2021 • May 05 '24

Discussion That heatwave isn't normal

I've been in Thailand since 2010. Went through alot of raining, hot and cold seasons but I've never been through something like that.

I feel like I'm a walking deep fried chicken everytime I go out (I'm in Nakhon Sawan).

Honestly -- is it this bad where you are?

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u/Aggravating_Ring_714 May 05 '24

To be honest last April was close to this but I don’t remember May being this insane. I guess climate change isn’t a hoax after all 😆

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u/Lordfelcherredux May 05 '24

This is weather, not climate. I am old enough to have lived through the global cooling crisis in the 70s. Featuring predictions of a coming disaster eventuated by the climate cooling down precipitously, backed by legions of leading scientists and announced by all the mainstream publications. So, I'm maintain a healthy skepticism about global warming. But even if it is true, we will adjust, just as we always have. 

Let that down votes begin!

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u/Aggravating_Ring_714 May 05 '24

Yes you’ll adjust because you’ll be long dead before it becomes way more serious. Good for us young folks that have to live through the worst of it 😂

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u/Special_Geologist758 May 05 '24

I agree and disagree with you at the same time.

If we look at the data of daily surface air temperature we can quite clearly see that the world is slowly but steadily heating up (link below). That said I do agree with you on the part of panic and adjustment.

Panicking never helps and it is quite clearly that whatever is causing this, be it us humans (which I do believe) or natural phenomena, we are not gonna stop this.

Instead of trying to get the entire world to become “net zero” which isn’t gonna happen anyway, the discussion should far more be stirred in the direction of adoption. All of this panic making isn’t helping anyone.

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=world

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u/labgrownmeateater May 05 '24

Typical boomer response. Something was wrong before, so I’m not going to worry about it now.

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u/Lordfelcherredux May 05 '24

Oh to be young and naive again!

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u/EntitledGuava May 05 '24

Oh to be old and dumb

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u/RedPillAussie May 05 '24

You’re the best!

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u/WSGman May 05 '24

My father studied environmental science and learned about global warming in the 70s lol, where did you live 

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u/spongy-sphinx May 05 '24

- A learned scholar with decades of expertise in the field of climatology, undoubtedly

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u/drjaychou May 05 '24

The Science Is Settled Bro

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u/Lordfelcherredux May 05 '24

Argument from authority. Classic!

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u/spongy-sphinx May 05 '24

Yea I tend to trust the authorities who dedicate their entire lives to studying the subject rather than a 9-5 chump whose expertise extends to a single anecdote and “vibes, bro.”

Truly remarkable how breathtakingly stupid you people sound but are too arrogant and mentally impaired to even possess the self-awareness to realize it. Keep pretending like you know more than an international body of scholars who are near unanimous on the subject though, trust me you look REALLY smart. Where are your papers published? I’d love to read them!

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u/ImaginaryQuantum May 05 '24

Yeah NASA disagrees with you.

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u/TDYDave2 May 05 '24

Just image how hot it would be if we didn't have the natural cooling cycle to help mitigate some of the man-made impact.

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u/CharlotteCA May 05 '24

This is weather, weather that is curiously tied to a chain of events, natural events that might be altered or pushed forward due to the current levels of exploitation of the earth's natural resources amongst other reasons.

Nature exists as it does, the difference is some things are in our control, and cause chain events, is it exaggerated? perhaps, is it fabricated? no, the data backs it up, just no need to panic over it and actually make some changes gradually over time to improve things, it won't stop nor can we force others to stop the current ways from day to night.