• Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 hours ago

    Big fucked if true.

    I looked it up the other day. We crossed 1c in 2015/2016. News stories at the time talked about how 1.5 might happen as early as 2035 if we don’t get our climate act together.
    Yikes.

  • conicalscientist@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Grim milestone and barely a peep about it in popular discourse. Everyone needs to prepare personally for the consequences.

    For one thing I’m not expecting food prices to level off for the rest of my life. Everything’s just going to get more scarce and expensive. Is it possible common foods we enjoy now we may never have again at some point?

    On a lighter note. I got a new winter jacket in 2019. Between covid and the rapid decline of cold winters I’ve barely worn it.

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    7 hours ago

    I see so many people thinking that this isn’t going to be a problem for them because they are thinking of heaters and AC and also that they’ll probably die while it’s still livable.

    But meanwhile they put kids on this world, who will call our generations the worst people to have ever existed.

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      7 hours ago

      We at least didn’t have kids, and I’ll probably accidentally drink myself to death anyway.

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    9 hours ago

    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.

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      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.