A twitter thread about an article in Business Insider.
Originally tweeted by Insider (@thisisinsider) on July 28, 2022.
Earlier this month, a monster Midwestern thunderstorm called a derecho turned the skies over South Dakota a sickly green.
The new colors of the sky are so terrifying, they will spur us to action, @jetjocko says.
Here's why. 👇
Images from the storm went viral and hit the news.
It all moved even faster than the storm itself — just as it did two years ago, when massive wildfires turned the skies over San Francisco a shade of Golden Gate orange.
Derechos, wildfires, and sandstorms have happened before, but not like this.
The difference: climate change, @jetjocko says.
Unseasonable, bigger, and more dangerous are hallmarks of the new world, where city skies are the color of a dead planet.
Climate change has been going on for a century and a half.
For most of that time, it has been so subtle that people couldn't see it, or could ignore it.
But our color vision is tailored for survival.
When the sky turns green, we notice.
The colors we pay the most attention to were the ones that mattered most to our survival, @jetjocko say.
Not the ordinary colors that make up most of our world, like blue (sky, water) or green (plants).
Which means that, in a way, we stop noticing it.
We're going to owe a kind of thank-you to the Earth's scary new colorways — and to the evolutionary quirks of our eyes and brains that let us see color in the first place, @jetjocko writes.
We might not be built to attend to every incremental climate-change blip, but we're built to notice (finally!) when the planet we evolved to see doesn't exist anymore.
That's probably what it will take, if anything is going to change, @jetjocko says.
Around the world, people living in countries on the front lines of the climate crisis and its effects — poorer countries in the global south, primarily — report more anxiety about climate overall.
They're seeing the evidence more clearly.
If a single recalcitrant Democratic senator (and all the Republican ones) can stymie even the most basic policy changes to avert a planetary disaster of our own making, it'll take pressure from all of us to change course, @jetjocko writes.
.@jetjocko's hope is that the new colors of the sky are so terrifying, they will spur us to action.
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Originally tweeted by Insider (@thisisinsider) on July 28, 2022.
Just another marketing ploy by climate profiteers. They know most people won’t simply Google “green sky.”
This is like the green flash seen at sunset out at sea under the right weather conditions. Same meteorological phenomena. Nothing new.
It’s clear many proponents of the global warming green sky evidence spent more time inside as a child playing video games than outside. As children in Indiana we learned quickly from our parents that if the sky turned green it was time to head to the basement. A few hours later we’d be riding our bikes along the street in the bright sunshine splashing rain water on each other.
The New Richmond Wisconsin Tornado of 1899 wiped out the entire town and a circus that was performing there. It was one of the deadliest Tornados ever recorded in America. Half of my grandfathers siblings were killed at the circus. My grandfather had to stay home because he was being punished. The accounts of the day included a green sky before the tornado hit and was told and retold in the family and by historians for many years. So it is not a new phenomena and has nothing to do with climate change.
You know it’s not green skies that has my attention right now. This Hoosier is shopping for a fireplace insert to install for the coming winter. The teleconnections and analogs are pointing towards us having a more severe winter than we here have seen for several years.
With gas and electricity prices bound to skyrocket, time to give up the ambiance of an open fireplace and make it into a more efficient source of heat for the home. I have a plentiful source of cured hardwoods to burn. More than we could burn in the time we have left on this earth.
Tell us something new, including Griff.
Pilots long ago said: “Beware of the green thunderstorm”.
I’m 60 years old. When I was a child in the 1960s I learned from adults to beware green skies as it meant hail storms and severe thunderstorms.
Of course many things must be new to him in his pitifully short ignorant existence. Shamefully, the educational system foisted upon him has quite obviously failed.
I facetiously wish he would find a shyster willing to sue his past schools and teachers.
There is one new thing that I never saw before in 70 years–that white sun. It used to be deep yellow. Once in a while, a whitish disk could be seen through cloud cover, but a couple years ago, the sun became a lighter yellow and now lighter still. I don’t think this has anything whatever to do with the carbon dioxide narrative.
It’s cos the sun got hotter))
We’re all gonna fry!
I remember green skies during thunderstorms in the 70s
It’s actually quite common on the prairies and wildly beautiful.
But not as cool as thunder blizzards
The effects of WEATHER MODIFICATION are literally right before our eyes.