• @[email protected]
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    51 month ago

    Governments and companies are probably going to spend a lot of money on weather manipulation.

  • AbuTahirOP
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    91 month ago

    correction 2023 may was first month to see +1.5 °C

  • danzania
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    141 month ago

    I’m curious about the scientific consensus continually undershooting. At a certain point, if you’re always updating in one direction, shouldn’t you overcorrect a bit?

    • Match!!
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      1230 days ago

      the scientists made their models taking human behavior into account, but they’ve mistakenly modeled hunan behavior off of rational, informed individuals

  • scytale
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    1 month ago

    The heat index in my city right now as I type this comment is 42C/107F. And summer is just starting. This is gonna suck.

    • LupusBlackfur
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      81 month ago

      You and me both…

      My weather station a few hours ago at today’s high point…

  • artifex
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    241 month ago

    As stupid as this sounds I think we (and really the media, but we know which side they’re on) should be doing this in F for US audiences. Saying “hey, it’s now 5°F hotter than it was in the 1970s” is more immediately meaningful — and the bigger number looks scarier too.

  • Mythra
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    341 month ago

    We’re gonna reach 6 degrees, aren’t we?

    • @[email protected]
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      26 days ago

      Just for the sake of clarity, there is a difference between jumping above 2C during a year and the long-term average being above 2C, which is what we’re usually talking about when it comes to global warming. This headline, and the 1.5C headlines from 2023, tend to muddy the waters. Shit is bad and getting worse, but it’s not quite as bad as you might think at first glance.

    • Shifty Eyes
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      131 month ago

      Instead of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, it’ll be 6 degrees and we’re all bakin’

      • @[email protected]
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        230 days ago

        Living in a boring country weather-wise, I am not looking forward to ecological, political etc effects of climate change…but it was our best May on record.