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.
  • AmyAye@nord.pubEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I just wish people would stop acting like I am a “Doomer” over this shit.

    Every year its record high summers and winters, tnado alley is moving, rain patterns are all fucked up, I am not even a professional and I can tell the extreme weather shifts from climate change are happening.

  • kinther@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    The thing that doesn’t get called out enough is that many greenhouse gasses have a lag time before they actually start causing heat. CO2 for example takes about 20 years if I recall correctly. So we are seeing the results of what was emitted years ago… not necessarily the current emissions.

        • naught101@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          15 days ago

          My intuitive answer is that the collapse of globalised industrial society seems fairly likely (as a result of the end of cheap liquid fuel if nothing else). What that looks like is highly dependent on how we respond - it’s not a climate problem, it’s a social problem.

          I don’t think humans are going to go extinct, but a population crash seems likely. And we’re taking out a tonne of other species.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycrisis