Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. After removing the effects of El Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar cycles, researchers found that the planet has warmed at roughly 0.35°C per decade over the past ten years, compared with just under 0.2°C per decade from 1970 to 2015. The acceleration, which becomes visible around 2013 to 2015, appeared across five major global temperature datasets with more than 98% statistical certainty.
  • SinAdjetivos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    We can’t both maintain a consumer mindset and abdicate individual responsibility while also demanding sweeping societal changes.

    And you think it’s the “demanding sweeping societal changes” that has to go?

    Maybe we need to start with the individualism and “consumer mindset”?

    • ItsMeSpez@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      2 days ago

      And you think it’s the “demanding sweeping societal changes” that has to go?

      Not even slightly. I’m just trying to point out that neither of them “have to go;” shouting down someone advocating for either form of action helps no one.

      • bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        And this stance betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the relative scale of damage each causes.