After an exhausting analysis, I am prepared to declare: *We be fucked.*
dmigowski on
Good you got rid of that pesky wind farm and invest in Gas energy now. Hail Trump!
Upbeat_Engineering98 on
AbueloOdin on
I feel like this is bad.
Like… Really bad.
Like… We’re gonna need a poet levels of how to describe the badness of this.
ConsciousReason7709 on
I grew up in a big ski town in Colorado and the pictures I’ve seen there recently are really bad. Barely any snow and probably a lot of man-made snow. Not good.
Hot_Astronaut_4551 on
My area is at 59% of the median. It was as low as 42%, so I’ll take this late snow as a win. It’s going to be a dry summer.
Jimmy_Beam27 on
And a state like Arizona relies on other states snowpacks. Bootstraps Az….use em
Sunkitteh on
Surprising the government is still measuring it.
samgam74 on
Most of the conversation I’ve heard here in CO regarding the snowpack is about it’s impact on the ski industry. I’m more concerned about its impact on agriculture.
highpl4insdrftr on
I went to Grand Lake this winter for snowmobiling and the trails were muddy all the way to the top. I’ve never seen that before. We’re absolutely fucked this summer.
GenericPCUser on
Anyone who doesn’t think this is a catastrophe should really consider just who is benefitting from the complete and utter destruction of our planet.
The earth is finite and our ecosystem does not and will not repair itself and our modern way of life is fundamentally incompatible with continued human prosperity on this planet.
And if you think whatever comfort you get or have is somehow immune or “worth” the global devastation because it somehow won’t affect you… like where does that belief come from? We’ll all be affected, but the ones who want us to continue destroying our future are just hoping they can be richer than God before they pass and don’t give a fuck about you or your children’s or *their* children’s future.
They would rather be rich on a ruined planet than comfortable on a sustainable planet and that degree of self-destructive behavior needs to be excised out of human society.
NoHandleUser on
We’re really gonna die in the climate wars, aren’t we
TarbenXsi on
Good thing climate change is a hoax or we’d be in real trouble!
/s
80sbabyftw on
And wouldn’t you know it, according to the Epstein files all of these mega corporations know that global warming is real but it serves as a system of population control so they’re okay denying it. Keep in mind it’s the same population they claim are being replaced that’s actually being impacted the most in the more rural areas
Welder_Subject on
No lie, we hardly got any snow in Northern New Mexico last year. Hoping super El Niño will help remedy the situation.
davidmlewisjr on
You know, it is a world-wide phenomena. The Himalayan mountains and Swiss Alps ice supplies are failing too.
Dexbova on
They’ve only have been warning you about this for the last 50 years. I mean who could have seen it coming? Drill baby drill…
Armthedillos5 on
Soo…half the US gonna be on fire this summer and people are going to be like, we don’t understand it!!!
mrblacklabel71 on
What area of the west is this?
ihave2orangecats on
Is there a link anyone can share for that graph? Not the tweet.
BeMyBrutus on
This IS the climate catastrophe.
Particular-Jello-401 on
vegetables in the USA are gonna get very expensiv, very soon.
I can’t get over the fact that we are building all of this compute infrastructure, which needs more power and consumes more water, and that power will be dirty power.
We could take that same amount of money and instead invest it in creating sustainable power and infrastructure. We could build nuclear power plants that power water desalination plants and give California access to fresh water without exhausting the Colorado River (if that even exists this year with zero snowpack).
We could invest in regenerative agriculture that uses less water and creates healthier, more drought tolerant soil.
We could build up our solar and wind infrastructure and transition more and more of our grid to clean sources.
But no, the rich are all in on making this problem worse. Gotta line their pockets, I guess.
RevNeutron on
Oops. If only someone told us this might happen!!!
biorod on
Yeah but Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe brought a snowball into the Capitol and showed it off on the Senate floor during a speech in 2015, proving that climate change isn’t real, so there’s that.
RebuiltGearbox on
I’m right next to the Montana Rocky Mountains and there’s almost no white up there. It’s only March and we’re already getting fire condition warnings, we might be in for an interesting summer.
chucklesses86 on
It’s going to be 90 degrees here in Colorado today, this should be our snowiest month, but this entire Winter season we’ve had two full days of snow, and they weren’t consecutive. It is beyond dry here. And fires are already starting.
Blitzking11 on
Ah, what wonderful news to wake up to!
Sure glad we voted in someone who wants to “drill baby drill!”
What’s yet another four years of delay of meaningful change (and utter and complete destruction of any intiatives started that would counteract this pattern by the previous administration)!!!
Qu1ckShake on
Friendly reminder that conservatives did this because they’re disgustingly selfish.
Same reason for pretty much everything that’s fucked today: Conservatives being too selfish to put their pathetic feelings aside and face reality, making them perfect tools for the ruling class.
Right-wing people are literally so stupid that they’re evil.
___buttrdish on
fire season is going to be awful this year
Mommy444444 on
Feb 1, 1985 in Craig it was minus 51 F. (Minus 62 in Hayden.) It was cold but it was welcomed to kill the pine beetles. Three days of minus 20/30 degrees was normal.
Prior to that, I lived in Aspen, Kremmling, Steamboat in the 70s. Routinely we had minus 20 temps. Killed the pine beetles.
During the late 80s and 90s the temps did not do those continual days of minus 20, 30. Locals stated the beetle kill is getting so much worse.
Fast forward to 2026. I am 71 and have never seen such a mild winter in Colorado. It is truly frightening.
hippo96 on
Whereas in Michigan we are setting records and pretty much everywhere is above average on snowfall.
PhilosophyOld6862 on
Excuse me, but the DOW is over 46000. How about you get your priorities straight.
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After an exhausting analysis, I am prepared to declare: *We be fucked.*
Good you got rid of that pesky wind farm and invest in Gas energy now. Hail Trump!
I feel like this is bad.
Like… Really bad.
Like… We’re gonna need a poet levels of how to describe the badness of this.
I grew up in a big ski town in Colorado and the pictures I’ve seen there recently are really bad. Barely any snow and probably a lot of man-made snow. Not good.
My area is at 59% of the median. It was as low as 42%, so I’ll take this late snow as a win. It’s going to be a dry summer.
And a state like Arizona relies on other states snowpacks. Bootstraps Az….use em
Surprising the government is still measuring it.
Most of the conversation I’ve heard here in CO regarding the snowpack is about it’s impact on the ski industry. I’m more concerned about its impact on agriculture.
I went to Grand Lake this winter for snowmobiling and the trails were muddy all the way to the top. I’ve never seen that before. We’re absolutely fucked this summer.
Anyone who doesn’t think this is a catastrophe should really consider just who is benefitting from the complete and utter destruction of our planet.
The earth is finite and our ecosystem does not and will not repair itself and our modern way of life is fundamentally incompatible with continued human prosperity on this planet.
And if you think whatever comfort you get or have is somehow immune or “worth” the global devastation because it somehow won’t affect you… like where does that belief come from? We’ll all be affected, but the ones who want us to continue destroying our future are just hoping they can be richer than God before they pass and don’t give a fuck about you or your children’s or *their* children’s future.
They would rather be rich on a ruined planet than comfortable on a sustainable planet and that degree of self-destructive behavior needs to be excised out of human society.
We’re really gonna die in the climate wars, aren’t we
Good thing climate change is a hoax or we’d be in real trouble!
/s
And wouldn’t you know it, according to the Epstein files all of these mega corporations know that global warming is real but it serves as a system of population control so they’re okay denying it. Keep in mind it’s the same population they claim are being replaced that’s actually being impacted the most in the more rural areas
No lie, we hardly got any snow in Northern New Mexico last year. Hoping super El Niño will help remedy the situation.
You know, it is a world-wide phenomena. The Himalayan mountains and Swiss Alps ice supplies are failing too.
They’ve only have been warning you about this for the last 50 years. I mean who could have seen it coming? Drill baby drill…
Soo…half the US gonna be on fire this summer and people are going to be like, we don’t understand it!!!
What area of the west is this?
Is there a link anyone can share for that graph? Not the tweet.
This IS the climate catastrophe.
vegetables in the USA are gonna get very expensiv, very soon.
https://preview.redd.it/larimecil7rg1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=b232fb40415de8970d7f70cf9f2da4a51ea5c7e6
I can’t get over the fact that we are building all of this compute infrastructure, which needs more power and consumes more water, and that power will be dirty power.
We could take that same amount of money and instead invest it in creating sustainable power and infrastructure. We could build nuclear power plants that power water desalination plants and give California access to fresh water without exhausting the Colorado River (if that even exists this year with zero snowpack).
We could invest in regenerative agriculture that uses less water and creates healthier, more drought tolerant soil.
We could build up our solar and wind infrastructure and transition more and more of our grid to clean sources.
But no, the rich are all in on making this problem worse. Gotta line their pockets, I guess.
Oops. If only someone told us this might happen!!!
Yeah but Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe brought a snowball into the Capitol and showed it off on the Senate floor during a speech in 2015, proving that climate change isn’t real, so there’s that.
I’m right next to the Montana Rocky Mountains and there’s almost no white up there. It’s only March and we’re already getting fire condition warnings, we might be in for an interesting summer.
It’s going to be 90 degrees here in Colorado today, this should be our snowiest month, but this entire Winter season we’ve had two full days of snow, and they weren’t consecutive. It is beyond dry here. And fires are already starting.
Ah, what wonderful news to wake up to!
Sure glad we voted in someone who wants to “drill baby drill!”
What’s yet another four years of delay of meaningful change (and utter and complete destruction of any intiatives started that would counteract this pattern by the previous administration)!!!
Friendly reminder that conservatives did this because they’re disgustingly selfish.
Same reason for pretty much everything that’s fucked today: Conservatives being too selfish to put their pathetic feelings aside and face reality, making them perfect tools for the ruling class.
Right-wing people are literally so stupid that they’re evil.
fire season is going to be awful this year
Feb 1, 1985 in Craig it was minus 51 F. (Minus 62 in Hayden.) It was cold but it was welcomed to kill the pine beetles. Three days of minus 20/30 degrees was normal.
Prior to that, I lived in Aspen, Kremmling, Steamboat in the 70s. Routinely we had minus 20 temps. Killed the pine beetles.
During the late 80s and 90s the temps did not do those continual days of minus 20, 30. Locals stated the beetle kill is getting so much worse.
Fast forward to 2026. I am 71 and have never seen such a mild winter in Colorado. It is truly frightening.
Whereas in Michigan we are setting records and pretty much everywhere is above average on snowfall.
Excuse me, but the DOW is over 46000. How about you get your priorities straight.