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• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  i’m mid 40s in central europe and can clearly remember that summers were around 32°C max in my childhood, last 2 years we had 40°C. I can remember winter being a lot colder, regulary freezing the Danube river for extended periods, allowing skating - these times it’s a bad idea stepping on the thin ice that never freezes over completely. And i can clearly remember huge amounts of insects, making a mess of the windshield when driving - nowadays the windshield nearly stays clean. The boomers are lying to themselves, because the truth is too hard to acknowledge.

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  • Emi@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m assuming the hotter temperatures are also increased by how much concrete there is compared to back then. Also the floods. They build warehouses on fields and then be surprised all the water goes into rivers. I’m in my late 20s and remember ice skating on local river in the city and there being more snow that lasted longer. Now if it even snows it’s gone in few days.

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    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m living in Vienna, having grown up in this city. I can assure you that while the city has grown, it actually put a lot of effort into primarily increasing population density instead of growing into the countryside (well, they have expanded too, but not by much in comparison to the population growth). The extra heat does not come from more concrete here - Vienna is one of the greenest large cities in Europe, and with lots of forest surrounding the west and the river going through it is a pretty privileged situation overall. Also, this year for example i can count the amount of days below 0°C on one hand - i haven’t seen ice in any meaningful amount. All together i’d say our temperature window has shifted by around 10°C upwards since the late 80.

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Also, this year for example i can count the amount of days below 0°C on one hand

        I can count the number of days this year on one hand…

        For real though, I knew what you meant. I just couldn’t resist the opportunity (after all, there’s only five days a year when this joke might apply)

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  • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah.why acknowledge the scary when you can lie to yourself and hide in your castle until you die forever

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