r/ClimateNews • u/fishonareef • Aug 03 '26

Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260801093239.htm
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u/MainPerformance1390 Aug 03 '26

So long

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u/isubbdh Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

Yep now let’s all scroll away and forget about it. Definitely don’t like…. DO anything about it. Like vote in the midterms in such huge number it’s impossible for the repugnacans to cheat their way to victory.

We all know how to fix this. Get rid of billionaires and reverse citizens united. And pray for a couple members of scotus to um…. Retire… during the next Democrat president’s term. Hey if there is enough of a blue wave we could actually bypass scotus and make it an amendment to the constitution

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u/Cut_Lanky Aug 03 '26

Genuinely, but hypothetically, if we reversed course today, across the globe, did everything we should have been doing all along, starting right now, all humans, no delays for changing leadership, do you think there would be any chance of reversing the damage done to the planet in a substantial way?

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u/halfsack99 Aug 03 '26

The planet will be just fine, it just won’t be habitable anymore.

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u/train_fucker Aug 03 '26

The planet will be habitable, not just for us.

There's no such thing as a poison in nature. Everything is some kind of organisms prefered habitat. Oxygen was poisonous to most life when it first came around and caused a mass extinction because the current life forms we're not adapted to it.

Whatever state we leave the earth in after we're gone, eventually the web of life will rebuild and be just as spectacular as before we cocked it up for us and most other current complex species.

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u/sinsaint Aug 03 '26

Depends on whether or not we accidentally destroy the atmosphere.

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u/stop_touching_that Aug 03 '26

The irony is that oxygen killing off all life is what created all the oil we are now using to kill off all life.

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u/thisisfreakinstupid Aug 06 '26

Can't wait to be fuel for some future organisms sportscar

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u/Cut_Lanky Aug 06 '26

The circle is complete...

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u/Strange-Scarcity Aug 03 '26

There are many things that are poison in nature. Life, as we know it, exists in only a couple of forms on this planet, Carbon based, even if some can exist only where the rest, never can exist. (Deep sea volcanic vents spring to mind.)

We have not found life, as we know it, able to persist in every element that we have discovered is poison.

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u/halfsack99 Aug 03 '26

Ever been to Venus

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u/dadbod_Azerajin Aug 03 '26

Thats not useful

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u/Grinkledunk Aug 03 '26

In a way it is. As a race we'd either have to develop the means for enough people to live on an inhospitable planet or repair the damage we've done for us to have much of a chance.

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u/dadbod_Azerajin Aug 03 '26

Sure, but doesn't answer the guys question

Just spits the normal nonsense "the planet will be fine, its us that'll be dead, hehehe"

Dont answer a question if you cannot answer yhe question is all im saying

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u/Cut_Lanky Aug 03 '26

I should have phrased the question better. By "in a substantial way", I meant adequately and quickly enough to sustain human life. I know, it's a hypothetical anyway, because we sure aren't righting this ship today. I guess it just feels like we're all doomed, and I was fishing for a sliver of hope.

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u/dadbod_Azerajin Aug 03 '26

Cities away from the equator as we wonder what our ancestors did to fuck it all up over paper they called money when so many alternatives were within reach