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“There’s no ambiguity about the data,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “So really, it’s a question of attribution.”
Understanding what specific physical processes are behind these temperature records will help scientists improve their climate models and better predict temperatures in the future.
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We will be a footnote in Earth’s history, a dead branch on the tree of evolution
Our species is like a nuclear reactor that went out of control.
I like that description
Get a vasectomy.
It’s 3D printing… All those people getting cancer giving resins at home for 3D figurines and other useless items. That must be a large blip in some toxic item polluting the environment right now.
I love 3d printing… It sucks that laws should probably regulate that toxic shit.
What’s… happening? What’s happening?? Bro…
Woohoo! The beginning of the end!!
It doesn’t have to be. That’s entirely a human decision.
And humans wont do anything till its too late. As we always do.
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This has not always been the case, nor does it have to be now. I’m not what has to be done to get government officials on board, but if that doesn’t change soon the future looks pretty bleak.
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Dont know why people are downvoting you. If it doesnt make money then it wont make change.
This isnt a fairytail. We arent promised a happy ending.
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The majority of fairy tales (as told throughout human history) do not have happy endings. They were typically told to teach or reinforce hard social truths to prepare young people for the world. The “fairy-tale ending” is really an anachronism of modern, capitalistic story telling. Happy fantasy sells, and reinforces myths that benefit the elite, such as upward social and financial mobility (see Jane Austin, or every Disney movie), and the opportunity to become part of the landed gentry. The belief that everything always works out is itself a major piece of the capitalists propaganda machine, and because we fall for this, we keep making decisions against out best interests - We are all just one fateful encounter away from becoming rich or famous after all.
fairy tale
That’s up to us. Get involved. Join an activist group, or a political campaign. Change policy. Show your neighbors how it’s possible to cut fossil fuels out of your life.
History is a big teacher, this issue is coming from the big boys of industry. Without major industry change it aint gonna happen, and worldwide as well. Even if the USA goes to 0 other countries can keep it going and offset any good we do.
Im not being a downer, im being real, its bad. Real bad.
If the USA goes to 0 (which is the most hilarious notion I’ve read all day) while other countries continue per the status quo, that still makes a difference. It helps to slow the increase, buying more time to actually solidify the numbers.
The thing is, while the consensus is that we need to do something, and that something needs to be done a lot, and fast, we don’t have any quantifiable numbers, just estimations that may be wildly underexaggerated.
Show your neighbors how it’s possible to cut fossil fuels out of your life
Corporations account for more than 80% of all emissions. Anything we do on a personal level is the proverbial drop in the ocean
Kinda sorta; they’re responsible for more than 80% of scope 3 emissions, which counts what happens when fossil fuels they extract and sell are subsequently burned. Individually, what you do is tiny, but as you show people around you that it’s possible to live without fossil fuels, it changes behavior in the aggregate.
When the vast majority of people are struggling just to survive on their ever weakening paychecks, where often even personal health becomes ignored, people dont have the economic, mental, or physical capability to do that. Or they may not even have the literally time available by working numerous jobs.
If it was going to happen, it would have already happened years/decades ago when scientists and environmentalists were already raising the alarms.
This is waiting until the entire kitchen in engulfed in flames before even considering turning off the oven. That option is long past. People are going to die. A lot of people. I cant stress how bad it is. A lot of fucking people are going to die, and many many more are going to suffer.
This is not true.
Sorry, but you’ll need to bring evidence for that kind of statement
you misspelled republiQans
It’s entirely a billionaire decision.
Most of us humans have no power over this.
“I alone can’t change anything” is a hastily spoken excuse to shift responsibility onto others. But you are responsible for your life and your actions.
8 billion people on the planet understanding our future and changing the way we live is possible. Be a good example, because you can.Have you tried eating the rich by yourself? It really helps to have others hold em down.
It does have to be. Because humans continue to make that decision, day in and day out, and ignore graphs like this. They ignore the blistering hot unprecedented Summer temps, the Arctic blasts, the hurricanes, the hailstorms, the increased insurance rates or even the unavailability of insurance altogether. They just keep driving their F150s to the office in rush hour traffic while heating hundreds of gallons of water in their pools that go unused 99.9% of the time.
we’re all the frogs in god’s slowly boiling kettle.
Fortunately Exxon et al made STELLAR profits for damn near a century, it only cost us the one viable ecosystem we have in the entire known universe.
Tsk. Well profits have to be made, it’s capitalism. Can’t argue with that.
Good thing that I don’t have children to experience the fucking Apokalypse
I wouldnt worry about that, you and I are likely to experience it ourselves
This is why I didn’t have children
The article says the tonga eruption is the biggest since Krakatoa. That’s nuts.
Narrator: The world became uninhabitable. But for a short time, it created tremendous value for our shareholders.
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What you doin milking your house?
His house has nipples?
Quick, push the glaciers into the sea to cool it down again!
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Climate change.
If you read the article, climate change + El Nino + reduced aerosols in the atmosphere + a volcano eruption + a yet unknown factor, which the article is about.
Fair, and bonus points for RTFA.
That said - we know what it’s about. That graph isn’t new. We did this last year too.
Yes but all of those other items are not new, and thus not really responsible.
Instead of the bathwater cooling off after the tubs been filled, its heating up. We don’t understand why.
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I have a lot of conservative family members in my extended family. You can tell them this all day long, present all the data in the world, and they wouldn’t care one single crap.
“Hoax, lies, fake news, liberal agenda, etc, etc.”
The messaging needs to come from somebody they trust.
I was watching a video about past extinctions and they had a line where the oceans warmed two degrees over two million years, which was just about enough time for the ecosystems to evolve and adapt.
Look at what we’ve done in two hundred.
Humanity! Fuck yeah! Only in 200 years!
I would love to watch that, do you have a link or know where I can view this?
It was Kurzgesagt. Which was even more troubling since they are pretty reputable and they’ve done videos on the past trying to spur hopes on climate change. It seemed like a weird little factoid thrown into the mix rather than something directly related to current events.
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I went down a wiki rabbit hole a few weeks back, I found this graph very interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas
My wife told me I was a doomer gloomer for not wanting to have kids due to climate uncertainty. I wanted to adopt instead.
I’m terrified of how the world will look over the next century for my 6 month old son.
Is his name Max Rockatansky? If so he’ll be fine.
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…can’t tell if serious
Obviously he should just kill his adopted kid
Can’t be going and adopting kids all willy nilly, or else the adoption factories might ramp up production!
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Assuming you’re asking in good faith, the difference would be helping someone through this hell-hole that’s already here, and was disadvantaged at the start. As opposed to bringing someone in.
On top of that, having kids carries a massive carbon footprint. An adopted kid is already penciled in for that. I’d even wager a kid in the system would be more of a burden on carbon levels than one in a home.
The user is interpreting it as the OP wanted to not have kids because of climate uncertainty - did not want to raise a kid that would have to deal with the climate. So instead they adopted a kid to raise someone else’s kid in a world where they would have to deal with the climate.
I think OP is implying reduction of population but the comment kinda reads weird.
You gave in, huh?
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It’s a little more complicated than that — El Niño, plus climate change, plus a cut in the amount of sulfur in the fuel burned by ships, plus something that’s not fully understood.
El Niño is Spanish for the Niño
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There was an international treaty to cut the amount of sulfur in the bunker oil that the big ships burn. This is because the particulates it produces when burned kill people. They also reflected a bunch of sunlight, preventing it from warming the water.
