Why is mother nature fucking us so hard?
Hurricanes Irma, Harvey, Katia, and Jose all of which have been category 4 or 5, the highest categories possible.
Mexico 8.1 earthquake yesterday
Past 29 days there has been over 10 earthquakes above 6.0
Wildfires sprouting everywhere in West America in the past week
Maybe it's just North America
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>Maybe it's just North America
Didn't India lose like 2,000 people to a monsoon two weeks ago? But that's probably an average Tuesday for them.
Don't forget the X-Class solar flares about to impact earth.
"Mother nature " not your mom
>Why
This word should be banned.
Massive amounts of fuel being used to safely evacuate doesn't help the climate either.
Science is inquisitive at its base.
You don't know me
>Why is mother nature fucking us so hard?
Because Americas been talking shit now it's getting hit. It's a friendly reminder by nature to stay humble like the fucking rats you are.
Anyway statistically speaking the hurricanes, earthquake and wildfires could be just bad timing...well that's the hope anyway right? That's it's all poor coincidence otherwise the alternative is you know climate change.
Either way I'm glad Veeky Forums is dominated by something science related for a change.
How exactly does the human factor in climate change make such a huge difference in catastrophe frequency from just a couple months ago?
By exacerbating natural processes involving said catastrophes in the first place.
People who take issue with climate change argue that humans are only playing a minor role relative to other factors. But even a minor role can be enough, the best example is the dust bowl.
Hundreds of farmers stripped the land bear to make it easier for planting their crops, unsuspectingly they allowed the aeolian process (wind erosion) to occur at greater strength than normal. Because of this these strong winds carried more loose dust particles (think something akin to dust on your table but by a factor of a million) in the air than usual to create dust storms that ruined crops, houses and people's lungs.
When this occurred the government eventually had to implement farming techniques that would avoid these events to save the local economies. No one expected simple farming tools and techniques could trigger the dust bowl but it did.
What matters is not the percentage of contribution to a system but the placement of said contribution to a system. Because placement is everything in nature, a woman having poor nutrition for example is bad but not disasterous. But a woman who's pregnant having poor nutrition is disasterous because that can actually cause mental handicaps and birth defects for the child.