• @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    As we suffer over the next three years, it would pay to remember that this is the warmup round. It’s not over when the nex La Nina offers a brief reprieve.

    Perhaps it’s time to prioritise survival over the profits of the shareholders?

  • @[email protected]
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    01 year ago

    I have to head out to Houston next week for work and I am not looking forward to how hot it is down there. I can’t even handle the heat up in here in the northeast.

    • DagonPie
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      01 year ago

      Yeah but its been so disgustingly humid up here. At least in Houston it will feel like youre being baked to death and not smothered with a hot wet blanket…to death.

  • @[email protected]
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    01 year ago

    I’m confused, the article says

    average global temperature reached 17.18 degrees Celsius, or 62.92 degrees Fahrenheit

    I must not be understanding something cause to me that’s not very hot.

    • PlatinumPangolin
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      11 year ago

      Here’s the best graphic I’ve seen for putting the numbers in context: https://xkcd.com/1732/

      It’s slightly out of date so we’re actually at roughly +2 degrees C.

      Basically, from year 0 CE to 1000 CE there was basically no change in average temperature. Then from 1000 CE to 1900 CE temperature actually went down about .5 degrees. Since then, we’ve gone up 2.5 degrees. So the past two thousand years temperature changed a total of .5 degrees down. We’ve increased about 5 times that in the past 100 years.

    • iAmTheTot
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      01 year ago

      Not very hot for a chill autumn day. Very hot for the Arctic circle. That’s how averages work.

  • bioemerl
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    01 year ago

    Thanks for that regulation that killed sulfur emissions from ships and made our problems worse guys.

    • @[email protected]
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      01 year ago

      Made our problems visible now.

      They were already this bad, SO2 just masks them for a couple of years.

      • bioemerl
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        -11 year ago

        Made our problems worse by creating a massive spike in temperature that should have been slowly eased at worst, and risks catastrophic results as that spike takes it’s toll.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Which is far fewer people that will suffer and die than if we hadn’t had a wakeup call of the damage that was already done finally effecting the global north instead of just the developing world.

  • Koordinator O
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    -11 year ago

    And how does that stand compaired to calculated temperatures from arctic and antarctic ice probes. I dont now the numbers there. Is it higher or lower? Does anyone now a source where you can read those calculations?

    • @[email protected]
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      01 year ago

      They don’t have daily resolution. The daily records only go back a century or so.

      But we’re well into hottest temperatures homo sapiens have ever seen and flirting with the hottest homo has ever seen for long term trends.