cross-posted from: https://lemmy.click/post/22128

The remarkable concurrence of three dramatic climate events:

  1. Antarctic sea ice extent now over 2 million kilometers below the 1991-2020 mean
  2. global 2-meter surface temperatures breached the 1.5°C barrier for the third consecutive day
  3. WTF is happening to the world’s oceans, and in particular the North Atlantic? Ocean temperatures have been setting unprecedented daily records, spiking to highs that are shocking climate scientists, as they look for possible reasons.

North Atlantic SST anomaly

  • quantum_mechanicEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The last humans will look back at us as insane people for seeing this coming for so long and doing very little. I’m guessing they are only a couple of generations away.

  • Nix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I am in awe. I have been seeing this graph posted and updated couple of times every year for at least a decade maybe. This is truly a SHTF moment.

    Some of the other graphs I keep a eye on are the arctic sea ice extent and the Mona Kea daily average CO2 ppm.

    Truly, we humans have taken over piloting this planet whether want to or not, whether we are aware of it or not, willfully blinded or not.

    • Phileosopher@programming.devBEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      That depends where you stand. CO2 means more flora, as any 5th-grade biology teacher will tell you.

      The real place to look for climate change is water movement: rainfall, sea levels, ocean temperature, river levels, humidity, etc.

      And, there are redundancies built into the system, such as radiation-consuming and hydrocarbon-consuming bacteria that thrive well and balance out our “destruction”.