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2024: Hottest year to date, and first year over 1.5ºC
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Line go up so line can go up
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!
Sitting here in a beautiful sunny day, people can be forgiven for thinking its not a big deal.
Until you realise how much energy it takes to raise the temperature of the ocean and land by 1.5. And then that all that energy goes into every weather event forever until we reverse it.
55 degrees F in Massachusetts a week before Christmas. I was driving with my windows down. I got nuthin else. What the shit, man.
It’s been twenty degrees F (11C) above average in Arizona this week. Should be frigid with snow on the ground (in the mountains) yet I was riding my bike with a t-shirt this week.
OK, I looked it up. Average from 1979 to 1999 for me on December 17th was 29.1 degrees F.
Can we have it in non-freedom units, il even take a clothing layer comparison is the metric systemis spawn of Satan. Is this snow - t shirt weather?
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Yeah, sadly not a suprise
And with it, another group of mitigation advocates become doomsday acceptors in the scientific community.
I just binged la Palma on Netflix. Here we go.
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2024
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