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.
  • Addition@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    2 hours ago

    In my own lifetime, the summer highs have increased 20⁰F (mid 70’s -> mid 90’s) in 20 years. When I point this out to people and extrapolate a linear trend, another 20⁰ in 20 years, I get told I’m an insane doomer conspiracy theorist. Especially when I point out that another 10 degrees for a few weeks is all it takes to flash fry crops.

    Yet these same people have been bitching nonstop about how hot it is this year. Yet apparently, I’m the crazy one. 🤪

    Funny thing is that in my mind, I’m still presenting these people with a weenie hut jr vision of the future. As we all know, this heating trend is actually exponential, not linear.

  • Syndication@lemmy.todayEnglish
    16·
    4 hours ago

    It’s been 100 degrees for days on end here. When do we start living underground? I don’t want to live in hot miserable world for the rest of my life… HELP!!!

  • hash@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    It feels like sometimes we fail to comnunicate that while climate models are extremely rigorous and meticulously put together, there’s always the possibility of unknown factors.

    I appreciate scientists aversion to alarmism, and the difficulty of balancing effective communication on the topic. But if we’re honest our species has been dicking around with the most complex system we know of. Even if we start doing everything right there are certainly any number of surprises lurking that we will need to deal with. And to some degree guessing at the scope of the unknown is impossible.

    Can someone tell me I’m wrong and somehow we know where all the environmental landmines are? Cause I want to believe that the “this much inventment and change equals this much less warming” can be relied upon, but I worry it’s tempering the apparent scale of the crisis.

    • Krusty@quokk.auEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      It’s fossil fuels. Something like a 100 million barrels of oil a day.

      But people blame the cows. LMAO

  • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I remember the “micro ice age” in the 70’s. No one knows anything, core samples have shown the Earth has been way hotter. And somehow the glaciers melted w/ no human intervention. Its all BS