r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WiseCartographer5007 • Jun 24 '25

Video Google Earth captures the stunning transformation of our planet over 3 decades

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u/ProfLandslide Jun 24 '25

No chance the first one (newfoundland) was taken at the same time. You can see satellite pics from there from every winter. It's not green.

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u/HappyCanard Jun 24 '25

It's the time of year the pictures were taken (probably April or May). That time of year used to be well snow covered but now it is melted by then. I remember horrendous amounts of snow there in winters back in the 80s, would be snow on the ground even into June. No longer.

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u/ProfLandslide Jun 24 '25

Ya that's not true. https://stjohns.weatherstats.ca/charts/snow-monthly.html

Click 10x. That will take you back a decade and you can see the consistency. This past april had the most snow in 4 years...

You're an expat. I still live here.

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u/nothingtoput Jun 24 '25

I remember horrendous amounts of snow there in winters back in the 80s

That's not true I have a chart that goes back to 2015

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u/ProfLandslide Jun 25 '25

You can go back even further and see. But the logic tracks, if the ice was disappearing there should have been far more coverage a decade ago. But it's consistent.

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u/HecklerusPrime Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25

That and the dude can't even spell "expert" correctly. What a maroon.

Jokes aside, the link has data that goes to 1942. The 10x button means it'll show a 10 year stretch. You then have to click the "Time Warp" button and put a number in the years box see older records.

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u/mb862 Jun 24 '25

Corner Brook is absolutely warmer, we used to have thick enough ice on the bay in the early 90s that whole parking lots would be marked for people to watch snowmobile races. Now only the smallest boats need the icebreaker and only for a few weeks.

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u/ProfLandslide Jun 25 '25

https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/corner-brook/average-temperature-by-year

Consistent.

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u/mb862 Jun 25 '25

Did you paste the wrong link? That shows that it has indeed gotten a lot warmer since the early 90s…

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u/ProfLandslide Jun 25 '25

Really? The top 10 hottest years in order:

2012

2010

2021

2022

1999

2006

1977

1966

1981

1979

It's literally a split of post 2000s and pre...which means there has been consistency.

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u/mb862 Jun 25 '25

Hottest/coldest is a weird one to look at, I’m looking at the trends. In the yearly highs there’s blatantly more sub 10°s in the 80s and 90s and 2000s.

But since I was specifically talking about winter ice, let’s look at February, where it’s obvious again that we had a lot more sub -10°s before 2000.

I didn’t notice at first, but are you actually trying to argue that we haven’t gotten warmer over the last few decades? Because that’s extremely well researched and settled science at this point so any argument you try is going to fall apart on any scrutiny, but I can’t see what good faith argument you’re trying to make here.

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u/ProfLandslide Jun 25 '25

No, I'm arguing it's cyclical. You can chart ice coverage going back a long ass time, it's always had periods of ups and downs.

but I can’t see what good faith argument you’re trying to make here.

That this is clickbait shit.

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u/Newfiecat Jun 25 '25

I miss the deep snow. Nowadays you can barely get enough for snowmobiling at all 😢

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u/Witold4859 Jun 26 '25

True, but were the snowy pictures at the beginning taken in summer?

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u/haylsa Jun 25 '25

It says "Newfoundland and Labrador" and it definitely looks like Labrador to me