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2023-05-18 at 3:20 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-05-18 at 2:58 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It was global cooling for decades.
About That 1970s Global Cooling...Today, climate scientists tell us the Earth is warming. Some people deny that, and point out that in the 1970s, climate scientists said the Earth was cooling, perhaps headed into another ice age. Today's scientists counter that it wasn't climate scientists who said that, it was the media.
… the fundamental observation that dominates today's climate science — that global warming is happening and is driven by manmade carbon dioxide emissions — was as real then as it is today.
Originally posted by Obbe
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2023-05-17 at 10:50 PM UTC in What strain are you smoking right nowTolerance break this week.
Cleaned my bong, but again I can't get all the residue off the bottom. Might try another soak tonight. -
2023-05-17 at 10:31 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
Originally posted by Fox Every single one of those statements are out of context and not representative of the original statement's meaning. I'll just pick one at random, 1989 "nations will be wiped off the map by 2000"
This is referencing a statement made by Noel Brown, regional director of the UN Environmental Programme at the time (not a climate scientist himself), in 1989. The statement attributed in the cartoon is not accurate, what was said was "entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000."
Not that it would happen BY 2000. Whenever climate change deniers reference statements like this to debunk the science of climate change, they're failing to understand that these dates and time frames they're talking about aren't some kind of doomsday clock where the apocalypse happens when they expire. Carbon that gets trapped in the atmosphere can linger there for decades or centuries and migrate to different parts of the atmosphere over time so the effects are cumulative and it may take many years before the actual impacts are felt. But modeling those impacts is just simple chemistry and physics. You take the known thermal properties of carbon, the known amount of carbon we are putting out, and plug in the known qualities of our atmosphere and the energy input from the sun, and you get a model of climate change. Climate is complicated and these models aren't perfect but even when you look at a range from the most optimistic outcomes to the most alarmist possibilities, even the milder scenarios will be devastating for the world.
I don't believe even in the worst case that this is an existential threat to humanity but it will certainly cause trillions of dollars of damage to the economy and likely a very significant loss of life around the world. Prove me wrong using any kind of logic or evidence, not cartoons and memes. You can't.
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2023-05-17 at 5:43 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastWildfire smoke is transforming clouds, making rainfall less likely
A new study finds smoke could be making it harder for clouds to drop rain and alleviate drought, potentially kicking of a “very scary” feedback loop.
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2023-05-17 at 3:12 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast98% chance 2023-27 will be hottest 5-yr period ever
The United Nations (UN) warned on Wednesday (May 17) that it is 98% likely 2023-2027 will be the warmest five-year period ever recorded and one of those years will the hottest ever as greenhouse gases and El Nino together push up temperatures globally.
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2023-05-17 at 3:06 PM UTC in I'm having a hell of a time trying to sew my oats
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2023-05-17 at 2:47 PM UTC in I'm having a hell of a time trying to sew my oats
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2023-05-17 at 2:28 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-05-17 at 2:21 PM UTC in I'm having a hell of a time trying to sew my oats
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson If I was running a fashion business and knitting 10s of thousands of mittens then yes, I'd invest in my own sheep farm. Clearly you are not business minded.
You can own the farm without having to do the farming…
Why would someone asking you how to knit mittens want to start a fashion business or invest in a farm? -
2023-05-17 at 12:57 PM UTC in I'm having a hell of a time trying to sew my oats
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2023-05-17 at 12:29 PM UTC in I'm having a hell of a time trying to sew my oats
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2023-05-17 at 12:27 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastGlobal warming set to break key 1.5C limit for first time
It's now believed that between now and the year 2027 that there's a 66% chance the world will pass the 1.5C warming mark. It's said to be due to a combination of the general warming trend, as well as the El Nino event which is likely to happen this year.
There had been mainstream predictions by climate scientists that we might reach this point by 2030, but this certainly counts as a "faster than expected" estimate. This accelerated climate change will almost certainly make any possible adaptation much more difficult. -
2023-05-16 at 10:40 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastBy subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, Trudeau is fuelling a national emergency
An interesting perspective on what's happened in the past year in Canada and their complete ignoring of the climate. They've recently given another $20 billion to fund the trans mountain pipeline which will allow Albertan oil to be exported to China, India and Asia indefinitely. Canada has the highest or second highest cumulative carbon emissions per capita in the world, in large part because of their massive oil industry in Alberta. Canada has the forth largest proven oil reserves in the world ahead of Iraq.
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2023-05-16 at 12:48 PM UTC in I'm deeply unhappy with my life now that I quit drinking.
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2023-05-16 at 12:48 PM UTC in I'm deeply unhappy with my life now that I quit drinking.
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2023-05-16 at 12:24 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny blaming eggs for the chicken,
the prices of everything have increased because the prices of energies have increased.
Inflation rate drops to 5.2% — but grocery prices are still up 10.6%Meanwhile, energy prices were down 0.6 per cent year over year as gasoline prices fell 4.7 per cent compared with a year ago, when prices began to rise.
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2023-05-16 at 3:15 AM UTC in I'm having a hell of a time trying to sew my oats
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2023-05-16 at 3:03 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-05-16 at 1:40 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
