Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. After removing the effects of El Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar cycles, researchers found that the planet has warmed at roughly 0.35°C per decade over the past ten years, compared with just under 0.2°C per decade from 1970 to 2015. The acceleration, which becomes visible around 2013 to 2015, appeared across five major global temperature datasets with more than 98% statistical certainty.
  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    4 hours ago

    1.5°C Threshold Could Be Exceeded Before 2030

    Threshold is based on rolling 10 year average. Every year since 2023 has had at least one dataset report 1.5C threshold. 2026 will continue that trend.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    Hey! This is at least the tenth time I’ve seen this headline in the last twenty years!

  • Lka1988@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    24 hours ago

    Color me shocked.

    Utah, now, is where Arizona was 20 years ago. We barely had any snow this last winter. I did not need to shovel my driveway at all.

  • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 days ago

    Unfortunately the problem with global warming is that it happens very slowly over time. Scientists were warning us of the impacts of global warming for at least a decade but we have somehow prioritized the short term gains and now we and our children will bear the fruits of our negligence.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    2 days ago

    During the late 1970’s, ExxonMobil scientists predicted global warming would accelerate with use of fossil fuels. They were shockingly accurate and the f’ed up weather patterns are the result. Keep buying and driving gas guzzlers.

  • Batmorous@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 day ago

    Still never give up everyone!!! We got this!! The more of us doing together worldwide the better!!

  • RunawayFixer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    2 days ago

    Crypto farming, feeding the ai bubble, large scale wars of aggression, commuters replacing cars with trucks, buying throwaway junk has never been easier. That’s the relatively new completely unnecessary hubris that I can think off atm. These should be the low hanging fruits to just not do, but apparently we’re going to continue doing them anyways. If we can’t address the low hanging fruits, then tackling the harder challenges will remain a pipe dream until it’s too late. Climate stability is fucked, and we’re in for a rough ride.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    322·
    2 days ago

    We can’t even stop a rise in fascism, an incredibly stupid thing, across the globe. We don’t stand a chance against global warming. We’re cooked.

  • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.orgEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    so just to put this in context: we’re having a doubling of installed solar capacity around every 3 years. currently we have 3% of total energy supply from solar energy. so it will take maybe another 15 years to get close to 100% renewable energy (if we assume that exponential growth continues). source: ourworldindata (go to website and hover over solar energy to see numbers)

    so we’ll end up in 2040 with roughly … let me do the math … 1.6°C total temperature difference compared to 1970 in 2040?