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2024: Hottest year to date, and first year over 1.5ºC
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The shape of that curve scares me. I just hope it's a sigmoid curve, not an exponential.
Every collapse seems to trigger 12 others, further compounding things at an insane rate
True exponentials are rare in nature. Things can look exponential in the short term but are really logistic.
Look at it this way: if the atmosphere gets hot enough it’ll boil off into space and then the earth will cool back down again due to the loss of greenhouse effect.
Unless we’re the next Venus
We don’t have the atmospheric pressure to be Venus (92 times the pressure of earth’s atmosphere). There’s simply far more gas there than here!