The planet’s average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

      • @Boiglenoight@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        About 15 years ago I was going somewhere with my family. Stepmom and I were talking about Climate Change then, how if things didn’t change that massive starvation was likely, that crazed weather would be irreversible, etc. and she noticed that my 10 year old niece’s eyes were getting huge. She was genuinely disturbed by the conversation and began to say is this really going to happen? Before I could plainly reply my stepmom reassured her that no, things were going to be fine, and we changed the subject.

        Niece is in mid twenties now and subject to the reality of the situation as it slowly unfolds, like an asteroid headed toward the earth at 5 mph. The future is dreadful to her.

  • @nbailey@lemmy.ca
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    12 years ago

    “sooner than expected”, “tipping point”, “nonbinding resolution”, “climate scientists warn”

    Everything is fine…

  • @electriccars@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I used to worry about this a lot, I still do but I used to too.

    Joking aside, it’s a shit show that us plebians can’t really do anything about but I still try. I’ve driven a hybrid for the last 6 years, I have a smart thermostat to try to save energy, I try to eat less meat more often. I recycle a lot more than most. I even make my own bread and nut milks and many other things which is not only cheaper and healthier (and WAY more delicious) but requires less transport related greenhouse gas emissions than buying premade breads and nut milks. Nut milk is especially better than dairy milk in that matter.

    Oh yeah! And yesterday I picked up 10 large trash bags of litter: yesterday picked up 10 large kitchen trash bags

  • @Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    02 years ago

    I was planning on dying one day anyway. Whether it’s from cancer or needing to eat my own neighbor for survival, it’s all the same at this point.

    • @NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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      12 years ago

      Deep down, it’s wild to know that humanity’s peak was ultimately undone by less than 1% of the population convincing everyone else that greed is good.

  • PewPewDispenser
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    02 years ago

    Doesn’t matter, I’d be dead before the world ends. - some asshole probably.

  • TheSaneWriter
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    02 years ago

    This is going to be painful for us as a species. I don’t think it will render us extinct, but the weather will get significantly worse and we will probably see widespread coastal flooding in this century, which will lead to hundreds of millions of refugees. We still have plenty of time to prepare and to change course, but I fear that we will wait until a global crisis is on our doorstep before we make serious changes.

    • @kromem@lemmy.world
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      -12 years ago

      I don’t think it will render us extinct.

      Oh, it probably will, though the memory of us may live on after that.

      In fact, arguably it happened long ago, and we’re currently in an echo of the past in a very immersive history lesson simultaneously teaching the grandeur and folly of humanity.

    • @RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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      02 years ago

      according to data from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, a tool that uses satellite data and computer simulations to measure the world’s condition.

      You can read up on that study and on the climate reanalyzer.

      People who don’t even click on the article or do any research before dismissing something cannot be taken seriously.

      • @Kaleunt17@lemmy.world
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        -12 years ago

        Just reading such a headline and about some calculated average global temperature record is enough for me to categorize it as fearmongering. Same as with covid infection statistics in the last three years. Now with climate. Screw that. On this issue I am perfectly happy with my heuristics.