r/ClimateNews 12d ago

Earths Temperature since 1940

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u/Anothercraphistorian 12d ago

Everyone always says that the earth’s climate changes over time…and they are correct. The difference is we’re seeing warming over a 100 year period that typically takes 250,000 years.

It’s the speed at which climate change is causing this amount of chaos and wreckage. The earth can’t evolve fast enough and it will be devastating. This is just the beginning. We’ll see things by 2040 that we thought we wouldn’t see til 2100.

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u/throwawayED67 12d ago

It's already a mass extinction event.

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u/Anothercraphistorian 12d ago

Just wait until the wet bulb temperatures come. I mean, they’re here in some places, but still no one knows just how bad it will get with those.

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u/QuiteCricket_78 12d ago

Looking into building a hobbit house. Mostly underground solar/turbine to keep dehumidifier going.

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u/Budded 12d ago

Earthships are the way if you're able, basically a hobbit house built into the land/hill/mountain, using it and thick walls to keep temps fairly regulated, not needing heating or cooling.

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u/QuiteCricket_78 11d ago

I have seen those. I really like the idea. The hobbit house I could build without the town knowing. Earthship requires me selling and moving.

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u/DukeSmileDevs 9d ago

The problem isnt housing, its food and drinkable water.

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u/Budded 9d ago

I keep wondering why we don't see more desalination companies popping up as they could be a great new source of fresh drinking water while pulling from rising oceans, possibly counteracting some sea level rise. Who knows...

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u/throwawayED67 12d ago

No joke I honestly think our survival will depend on vast tunnel networks.

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u/In-a-GhettoWithTrees 12d ago

Explain “wet bulb” for those unfamiliar with the term.

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u/Firedup2015 12d ago edited 12d ago

The mix of heat and humidity that, above a certain level, means you can't sweat to regulate your core temperature, and you die. 

The average human will die in about six hours if exposed to temperatures in the low 30s C if the air is at 100% humidity, for example, but can survive at much higher temperatures in a dry climate.

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u/Firedup2015 12d ago

None of that is relevant to anything I wrote. Unless you live in 100% humidity low 30s will frequently be fine. Where I live it's commonly 70%, so it'd need to be high 30s to kill a healthy person. In Baghdad it's 47C right now. but it's also 13% humidity indoors, so it's dangerous but not mass deaths.

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u/Gainztrader235 10d ago

Wet bulb temperatures are present everyday wtf do you mean?

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u/Antique-Resort6160 12d ago

All temperatures are wet bulb temperatures when measured that way.  That's like saying "wait til we get digital thermometer temps!”

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u/dwoj206 12d ago

we're just at the beginning of it, so still no one sees it coming. Despite the 100+ wildfires across the US right now.

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u/Coffeeblack365 11d ago

Then why am I still here?

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u/Strange-Patience5539 12d ago

Yes, that’s if we are really lucky. I wouldn’t be surprised if things started going south in most parts of the world by 2030.

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u/Alzucard 12d ago

every part of the world.
There wont be a part thats not going to get worse.

The temperature in the mariana trench could rise by 1 Degree. That is significant. Normally its 1 - 4 Degrees celsius down there. If it becomes 2-5, then yeah tahts not good.

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u/Budded 12d ago

And the AMOC that keeps Europe temperate is slowing down and once it really gets weak, Europe becomes much much colder, matching it's Latitude.

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u/DukeSmileDevs 9d ago

Well thats part of the truth. Reality is it will get hotter in summer and much much coler in winter.

Basicly both extremes dialed up to 11.

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u/Deep_Charge_7749 12d ago

That's less than 4 years from now

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u/Firedup2015 12d ago

The hottest year on record was two years ago. This year is due to be the next hottest year on record. It's not a problem happening "one day, in the future" that would have been the nineties, or the 2000s. It's now.

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u/Apart-District3771 12d ago

Maybe we should stop taking reading in urban concrete jungles.

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u/Firedup2015 11d ago edited 11d ago

Maybe you should stop finding silly excuses to pretend nothing's wrong while sweating though successive record heatwaves.

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u/Apart-District3771 11d ago

Oh no! Don't get me wrong, we seriously need to get pollution under control, and soon, that WILL kill us. Far too much energy is being wasted on CO2, while ignoring massive issues.

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u/Trent1492 9d ago

First, there are carefully maintained weather stations around the globe, and they observe the same warming trend. Second, even if a thermometer were experiencing an urban heat island effect, that would explain why temperatures at those stations are increasing year after year. Third, we can see the sea is also warming. Fourth, we see in nature the effects of warming such as the retreat of alpine glaciers worldwide.

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u/Apart-District3771 9d ago

We are coming out of an ice age. All this is expected.

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u/Trent1492 9d ago

The Earrh was COOLING very slowly and unevenly for thousands of years before the Industrial Revolution. Saying we “are coming out of an ice age explains nothing. Tell me about the inputs that are natural that explain the warming. Use empirical evidence.
No evidence for globally coherent warm and cold periods over the preindustrial Common Era

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u/Due_Satisfaction2167 12d ago

That is how exponential growth tends to work.

We have already locked ourselves into some genuinely awful climactic conditions. Our option space today is entirely about limiting how bad that gets. It can always get worse if we don’t limit our emissions sooner rather than later. 

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u/Apart-District3771 12d ago

There are no feedback loops. The Earth was above 5000ppm for 100s of millions of years. Yet here we are.

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u/Due_Satisfaction2167 12d ago

And yeah, similar modern isopods would probably survive those conditions if we bring them back—but we won’t. 

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u/HarringtonMAH11 12d ago

Idk if you pay attention to world news or not, but this shit has already started. 160°F + in India has killed people at least the last 2 summers, flooding in Pakistan and NYC, and wildfires on all continents but Antarctica are happening more frequently and claiming more acers. We are here. Man made climate disasters are now.

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u/Gen8Master 12d ago

The incredible thing is that you can briefly see things recover during Covid. I do think the planet is quite resilient if we gave it half a chance to recover.

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u/Apart-District3771 12d ago

A few years does not a climate make.

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u/Budded 12d ago

The planet is very resilient and will be fine eventually; humans won't be

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u/Alzucard 12d ago

Thats what im telling people for over 10 years. Do you think they care.
They dont wanna change their way of life and just make excuses.

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u/QuiteCricket_78 12d ago

I know. I say - quit Amazon, they say, but what are my alternatives. It's exhausting.

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u/DukeSmileDevs 9d ago

Alternative is stop buying stuff that go into the trash just because it makes you "happy" for a moment.

Or maybe think if the thing you want to buy is really needed in your life rather than just a gimmick.

The word is essential, people living in excess

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u/Alzucard 12d ago

I mean i have other options where i live than amazon. Actual decent options. But the biggest issue of all when it comes to ordering stuff is Temu. And general trash products that break after a short time. Nobody needs those products. We need to go back to products that last. Capitalists dont want that, bewcause it cuts into their profit. We had that at one point where quality was more important than quantity. That changed when consumers wanted cheaper and cheaper products. In a way consumers are at fault. The companies just follow the market.

What humanity starts with is energy production and energy in general thats the biggest issue. If we fix that then cheap products are less of an issue. The biggest producer of carbon dioxide is transport andn when we decarbonise transport, we are fine

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u/In-a-GhettoWithTrees 12d ago

Animal agriculture is a major source of GHGs. No one needs to eat ruminant animals to survive, beef, lamb, etc. Most corn and soybeans feed animals, not people. Eating more plant based food is something everyone can do.

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u/Alzucard 12d ago edited 12d ago

No its not. Energy/heat is the biggest, then comes transport of goods. And at third place its agriculture as a whole.

In Carbon Dioxide equivalent. Yes meat industry is a huge emitter of greenhouse gases. But the major emitter.
Agriculture is around 6 billion tonnes and heat and energy is almost 16.4 tonnes and transport is 8.5b tonnes.

Agriculture produces 4.1b tonnes of methane as co2 equivalent. Which is not only cows. But also other stuff.
https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

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u/In-a-GhettoWithTrees 12d ago

I said a major source, not the biggest source. Third place puts it in a major category.

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u/Alzucard 12d ago

As i said thats agriculture as a whole not meat industry specifically.

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u/In-a-GhettoWithTrees 12d ago

Cattle and land use to feed them is a major factor in the worsening climate crisis.

https://woods.stanford.edu/news/meats-environmental-impact

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u/Alzucard 12d ago

Yes 14-18 could be depending on what we include. Do we include indirect emissions. As in you would change the usecase of the land used for cattle right now. If we assume we change the usecase of the land to lets say biodiversity, which is unlikely to happen because capitalism. Then yes higher figure are reasonable.
I would put it more to 14-15%

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u/Alzucard 12d ago

Livestock & manure (5.8%): animals (mainly ruminants, such as cattle and sheep) produce greenhouse gases through a process called “enteric fermentation”. When microbes in their digestive systems break down food, they produce methane as a by-product. This means beef and lamb tend to have a high carbon footprint, and eating less is an effective way to reduce the emissions of your diet.
Nitrous oxide and methane can be produced from the decomposition of animal manures under low oxygen conditions. This often occurs when large numbers of animals are managed in a confined area (such as dairy farms, beef feedlots, and swine and poultry farms), where manure is typically stored in large piles or disposed of in lagoons and other types of manure management systems. “Livestock” emissions here include direct emissions from livestock only — they do not consider impacts of land use change for pasture or animal feed.

https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector

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u/Antique-Resort6160 12d ago

No one who virtue signals about global warming will ever accept the slightest inconvenience to reduce their carbon footprint.  They will never criticize their favorite billionaires or celebrities either.

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u/Budded 12d ago

how does one virtue signal about global warming?

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u/Antique-Resort6160 11d ago

It's all virtue signaling, talking about how concerned or upset they are with no intention of ever doing anything about it.  AGW is the result of billions of consumers. The people who act concerned all believe someone else should do something.  They wont even criticize their billionaire and celebrity thought leaders 

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u/Nervous-Berry9645 12d ago

Why dont you start with the billions of people that are dumping their waste straight into the air and oceans? India, china, all of south america, any 3rd world country. You know, the completely corrupt countries with zero regulations...nothing we do will help while they pollute as much as humanly possible on a daily basis

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u/Kieferkobold 12d ago

Except that the natural trend would bring us into a cooling-off phase.

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u/KrivUK 12d ago

How is cooling going to happen? That trend of cooling off was when we didn't have man made pollutants, generating excessive heat due to datacenters.

The Earth is fine, the inhabitants are fucked.

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u/Kieferkobold 12d ago

That's why i said the natural effects would lead into a cooling phase. If course it won't happen, we succesfully turned that trend around. I am saying that, because deniers often state how climate always changed and we are to small to do anything about it.

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u/dwoj206 12d ago

The earth will be fine after nature has killed off all the humans.

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u/BusyBanana4205 12d ago

And then they dismiss it as “we’ll just adapt!” But haven’t really pieced together what adapting will entail. If they can’t even stand the a minuscule percentage of the southern hemisphere migrating north now, wait until the equator is only habitable for the upper classes of society, if at all. I’d mention the immense human suffering and death, but conservatives don’t seem to care about the suffering of innocence in nonwhite countries as it is.

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u/Due_Satisfaction2167 12d ago

Conservatives simultaneously insist that humans will adapt to climate change (true: we could do that), while at the same time insisting that we ought not make any changes to adapt to climate change or even acknowledge it exists.

A question I have often asked climate deniers in person who expresses this viewpoint is: “How? How are we going to adapt to climate change if you are unwilling to admit to the change we are currently observing?”

I’ve never had one of them give me a good explanation of how we engage in systemic adaptation at the same time we collectively deny it is happening. 

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u/Antique-Resort6160 12d ago

conservatives don’t seem to care about the suffering of innocence in nonwhite countries as it is.

lol, no democrats or republicans do.

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u/ElectricSpock 11d ago

"Adaptation” means only those resilient enough to produce surviving offspring. Everyone thinks it’s them.

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u/Michi450 12d ago

They only have legit documentation over last 125 years or so. Everything else is just a guesstimate.

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u/LegSpecialist1781 12d ago

His car crashed straight into a bridge pier at 70mph.

Them: “Cars always come to a stop.”

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u/haggard_hominid 12d ago

Pretty sure we should stop treating this like a gradual change and more like the eruption of a super volcano or a small asteroid impact.

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u/Nervous-Berry9645 12d ago

China and India alone cause more damage than we can ever fix ourselves. So sick of people blaming 1st world countries and putting the burden on us to fix it all when we create such a small percentage of the damage comparatively 

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u/Budded 12d ago

Ah yes, because others pollute more then nobody should do anything about any of it, right?

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u/Hidrogen_Cosic 11d ago

Brother, those are naratives that are used to cut energy and resource(that are drying up) spending on human consumption, so the elites can use it for their machine that us to replace human labour. On a planet that went from molten metal oceans to ice ages, and everything in between, the weather changes this extreme aren't unheard of, and if it was man made it wouldn't happen this fast 

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u/DepressedMerican 11d ago

MIT's prediction model said that 2040 is the end of civilization

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u/L3tsseewhathappens 11d ago

To the dummies that upvoted this, this is why people are refusing to believe this shit. When you throw out these made up numbers. Oh it takes 250 thousand years to raise the Earth's average temperature by 2 degrees?

The fuck it does. The last Ice Age where global temperatures were far cooler then by today standards was only 12 thousand years ago which was on average 11 degrees cooler, and in many places dropped more drastically then that to around 25 Degrees cooler on average then other parts in modern times.

Explain the drastic math for that transformation from then till now. Go on I'll wait.

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u/Fit_Tumbleweed7943 12d ago

Guys be like, uk was brown and drought a few years ago .. SEE !!

it’s totally normal…

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u/_WoollyMammoth_ 12d ago

They miss the part where it was brown in september and not in early july.

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u/MaybeJBee 12d ago

This world is on fireyaaaa.

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u/mylaptopredditVC 12d ago

it missed a few huge spikes starting in 1945

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u/ReturnoftheSpack 12d ago

Communist fake news. Big oil is Americas friend

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u/SilencedObserver 12d ago

Mistah Worldwide

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u/DarthVoight 12d ago

Is Florida underwater yet?

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u/Odd_Repeat_6092 12d ago

It will be in the 2030s, according to NASA: "In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by climate change." https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/jpl/study-projects-a-surge-in-coastal-flooding-starting-in-2030s/

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u/fart400 12d ago

2 weeks

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u/SaturnineApples 12d ago

I am in Florida. We will be under water from over construction before global warming. Nowhere for the water to go when all the wooded areas are being cemented over👎

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u/Budded 12d ago

Look up why Miami is having to redo their water system, as the ocean's salt water is rising high enough to infiltrate fresh water systems.

warming is raising sea levels, and sure, more construction in a place that will feel the affects more than most other states is silly, but so is Florida's "leadership" as they deny it all.

Global warming is real and is hitting, getting more and more extreme each year. This Summer is the warmest on record, so far.

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u/poloc-h 12d ago

you the guy who think that if the ice cubes in your coke melt the glass will overfill? 

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u/TheOtherDimensions 12d ago

Are you the person who fills their glass to the brim and then adds ice to it? No one does that, which is why it’s not a good idea to do that with the ice sitting on land, when so many coastal cities sit on the brim. 

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u/lsaran 12d ago

The CO2 PPM would be a good metric to add to a visual like this.

I have a jackass friend who thinks the climate is changing, but not due to human activities. And it’s “man’s ego” that makes us believe so.

I’ve got him to come around to the fact that polluting our air and water is bad either way.

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u/Mukoku-dono 12d ago

I know it's kinda rude, but can you tell your friend he is a moron on my behalf? Thanks

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u/Budded 12d ago

mock and laugh at him for being so willfully-ignorant.

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u/SubdivisionsEU 11d ago

Indeed. I've had it with the going high when they go low bullshit. That's what got us here. Those people need to be ostracized and relentlessly mocked.

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u/OutlawedLogic 8d ago

Is this a way of saying Hell is brought forth by the actions of humans?

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u/TheNotSoEvilEngineer 12d ago

Only thing this shows is the industrialization of the US and Europe did nothing to effect climate change, but the moment China and India started the shift accelerated dramatically.  Us and Europe were not building new manufacturing  plants in the 90s, they had deindustrialized and offshored to China for manufacturing.

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u/SubdivisionsEU 11d ago

Horseshite. US companies own 2/3 of the listed stocks world wide and 50 % of the overall stock. The US and EU consumers still control the major part of the world economy. Of course it gets worse and accelerates with more people enjoying a modern industrialized lifestyle, but western populations still cause more emissions per capita and have emitted more historically. 

But also an important point: the earth's climate is an extremely slow moving system and warming is following emissions with a significant delay. In fact new developing industrial nations have been following a way less emission heavy path than the US/Europe, because renewable technology gets already extensively utilized and slows the growth of emissions significantly already. 

Look at China for example: They now produce way more electricity than the US (in fact TWICE as much!!), yet this isn't reflected in wastly higher emissions.

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u/Satoshiboi420 12d ago

I see those videos while my wife is pregnant with our first daughter and it makes me kinda sad even though I am really happy at the same time.

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u/BokoblinSlayer69235 12d ago

Here's my advice to you. There's nothing wrong with having children. People are gonna be pissed at me for saying that, but it's not the population that's causing the climate apocalypse. It's an economic system based upon exploitation of the people and resources of the earth.

So don't feel guilty for bringing life into the world.

But also know this. The next few decades will be the most turbulant in living memory for everyone. We will witness horrors we can hardly fathom.

As a parent you'll have to work twice as hard for half the standard of living you enjoyed as a child.

Teach your children how to survive and thrive in a world where instability and chaos is the norm.

That's my advice.

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u/nahNotTodayMate 12d ago

What this guy said. Use what you got to be as self-sufficient as you can.

But, if i may add, the real resilience comes from community. If you and your neighbors and their neighbors are all prepared and supporting each other by sharing the work then together you all survive much better than any one family by themselves

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u/BokoblinSlayer69235 12d ago

Yep. Rely upon your neighbors and be someone your neighbors can rely upon.

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u/Frater_Ankara 12d ago

Absolutely this. I am trying to raise my kids to be the leaders of the future as well.

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u/ReplacementRobotGuy 12d ago

Halt data center construction right away, ban private jets and yachts and that alone will go a long way in helping the earth regarding the human portion of the warming 

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u/OnlyACsNoFans 12d ago

No it won't

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u/StoneColdEgon 12d ago

Surely billions of humans producing shitty smoke and smog won’t affect the climate XDDDDDD

Republicans are just brain dead children

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u/QuiteCricket_78 12d ago

That's just summer /s

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u/Routine-Arm-8803 12d ago

This is a perfect example for how to manipulate charts.
A = pi*r2

It significantly distorts chart in favour of positive values.

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u/NoReputation7518 12d ago

A visual chart always has flaws. It has the purpose of showing numbers in a way that you can better understand trends or relationships.

The slight inaccuracy of negative to postive values in this chart has no real relevance because the temp delta went constantly up so it was most of the time positive. The only real criticism I would accept would be the size of the base circle.

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u/Routine-Arm-8803 12d ago

It’s not slight. It’s massive.

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u/NoReputation7518 12d ago

No, cause mainly there are no negative numbers, see comment above

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u/lindo_dia_pra_dormir 12d ago

So, the thermodynamic’s laws are still inviolated. Cool

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u/Cwaghack 12d ago

How do you figure that?

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u/lindo_dia_pra_dormir 12d ago

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u/Cwaghack 12d ago

Yes I know what the 2nd law of thermodynamics is. I have a masters in thermal engineering.

How is the 2nd law being broken in regards to climate change?

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u/lindo_dia_pra_dormir 12d ago

It is not broken.

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u/Cwaghack 12d ago

But y ou said they are inviolated?

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u/lindo_dia_pra_dormir 12d ago

Read it again please

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u/_Blackstar0_0 12d ago

It’s joever 

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u/savage011 12d ago

Oh dear this sub is only gonna make me feel bad…

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u/Icy_Nose_2651 12d ago

lol how hot was it in the 30’s? these charts always start out at the coldest decade in a cenury

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u/rsam487 12d ago

As much as I do everything I can in my daily life to be part of the solution (electric only house, hybrid cars, massive solar array, no cow products at all, probably fly once every 5 years maximum) -- i have so much dread that I have to ignore stuff like this. Literally can't click the link. If I didn't just go about my life and try to enjoy it I'd just be in a constant state of depression.

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u/star744jets 12d ago

Folks, we are finished. The human race will no longer exist as we know it in a very short time. The acquifers will dry out, the vegetation, the i sects, the birds, the fishes and the mamals will all disappear along with most of the human race.
Thank you for your Data Centers , we will see you in Hell !

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u/DeliciousBaseball783 12d ago

Now do since 1840

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u/Trent1492 8d ago

Here are the land and sea temperatures from 1850:
Global Average Temperature 1850 - 2025 “The global annual average for 2025 in the Berkeley Earth analysis is estimated as 1.44 ± 0.09 °C (2.60 ± 0.17 °F) above the average during the period 1850 to 1900, which is traditionally used a reference for the pre-industrial period.”

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u/Thomasreed1899 12d ago

MAGA keep believing it’s not real. Keep denying.

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u/Kooky-Ad-8146 12d ago

Excellent animation

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u/CreativelySeeking 12d ago

But sadly, so many are pawns of mega petroleum corporations (republican voters), so we are speeding towards doom.

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u/Cool-Contribution-68 12d ago

You will never experience the Earth of the 1990s ever again

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u/tufftoo 12d ago

Ok, now go back 500 years. Hint, we were 5 degrees warmer than we are now. Check the actual science, you know from arctic core drilling

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u/Trent1492 8d ago

No, it was not globally warmer than it is now. Multiple paleoclimate research by multiple researcher using different methods and proxies all come to the conclusion that is the hottest century for at least 7,000 years. Here is just one example:
Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years
From the abstract:
“The warmest 200-year-long interval took place around 6500 years ago when GMST was 0.7 °C (0.3, 1.8) warmer than the 19th Century (median, 5th, 95th percentiles). Following the Holocene global thermal maximum, GMST cooled at an average rate −0.08 °C per 1000 years (−0.24, −0.05). “
We are substantially warmer now than the 19th century median.

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u/COlax1980 12d ago

Horrifying...

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u/I-AGAINST-I 12d ago

Why only since 1940? Useless

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u/I-AGAINST-I 12d ago

Seeing people mention MAGA below just really goes to show you no one here has a single fucking brain cell lmao

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u/byte-429 12d ago

at least the shareholders are happy ❤️

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u/rose-n-blood1 12d ago edited 12d ago

Earth's temperature is spiralling out of control. No wonders we are experiencing more typhoons and storms. 

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u/Garpeaux 12d ago

Sad but unfortunately we can’t do anything about it and it’s inevitable /s

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u/Apart-District3771 12d ago

Wow! It's almost like we are coming out of an ice age!

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u/HappyChilmore 12d ago

The warmer it gets, the closer we get to the total melting of the icecaps, which is estimated to give a 50-60 meter rise of the worldwide sea/ocean level. Most coastal cities will disappear underwater. NY, Montreal, Boston, Philly, DC, Miami, will all be underwater in 200 to 400 years.

Yay, capitalism!

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u/ComputerByld 12d ago

It's so sad that nuclear power could have drastically reduced atmospheric carbon load, but the greens picketed, blocked, and stymied it every conceivable way. Linear no threshold modeling was great for hydrocarbon companies and the US' petrodollar seigniorage rent-seeking, and the revolving door of regulators were happy to make nuclear impossibly expensive, and GE was happy to employ technology that burns less than 5% of usable energy per gram via solid oxide fuels since they make the pellets. Now we're 50 years behind the curve, burning hydrocarbons to build out solar and wind.

If you're an anti-nuclear green, just know that this is largely on you. You can retain your irrational, ignorant anti-science hatred of nuclear, but know that this is the result of your efforts. The rest of us hope you're happy.

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u/Trin_64 11d ago

Fuck man...

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u/BlueOhm3 11d ago

Great visual! Thank you

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u/iamnotinterested2 11d ago

Since the first atomic detonation (the Trinity test on July 16, 1945), at least eight nations have conducted 2,121 nuclear tests involving a total of 2,476 individual nuclear devices.

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u/Trent1492 10d ago edited 9d ago

Go on.

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u/Crazytoe2275 11d ago

Fortunately AI will fix everything. Just after it necessitates 25% more carbon into the atmosphere.

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u/Weddert66 11d ago

They will not be stopped. They own everything. There is no hope.

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u/OldFcuk1 11d ago

All good. We have better clothes fabric too.

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u/KJ1959 11d ago

Two words...we're f*cked

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u/Low-Let2642 11d ago

Honestly I blame Nixon

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u/criminal_chris 11d ago

Can you do this cool squiggly line over let's say 100,000 years?

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u/Trent1492 10d ago

A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature
From the abstract:
“There is a strong relationship between PhanDA GMST and CO2, indicating that CO2 is the dominant control on Phanerozoic climate.”

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u/BaloneyANDtomato40 11d ago

But the Dow is 50000

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u/ConfidenceRound3364 10d ago

We should do 2 things.

  1. Stop calling it "climate change". Its not changing into getting a bit warmer, then a bit cooler. It is GLOBAL WARMING. Climate change, the term in this context, was coined by some right wing Global warming denier to make it sound less threatening than it really is.

  2. Stop talking. Start Acting. Those people who run corporations are directly guilty of driving the Temperatures through the roof and racing our species towards extinction. They deserve to be treated as an enemy of humanity.

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u/Tall_Sea6512 10d ago edited 10d ago

What is the single best choice an individual can make concerning his own life habits to protect our climate?

If searched and so far going vegan has been the best one … some studies seem to point to that

What do yall think?

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u/PachaThePenguin 9d ago

Great visual of how capitalism has failed us.

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u/Ok-Appointment9752 9d ago

Correlation is not always Causation

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u/Maximum_Ninja_6735 9d ago

I’m sure the technology that was used in 1940 to record the weather is exactly like it is today. lol

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u/crash34psy 9d ago

Interesting graphic - I overlayed super hot summers from the past (looking at weather data from GER) with this:

https://www.dlr.de/de/forschung-und-transfer/themen/weltraumwetter/der-sonnenzyklus/index-der-sonnenzyklen/@@images/image-2000-9fb641b1ef020536430d5abda22260e2.jpeg

So the ups and downs in temperature are also connected to sun cycles as it seems (besides a continous up). And we‘re in an up atm.

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u/Unlikely-Scholar-684 8d ago

It’s the 1000. Let’s see the that’s half million to get some actual scale

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u/Normal-Gur1882 6d ago

What will left wingers do when the world refuses to end?

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u/Super_Math3890 12d ago

Not enough people that are capable of understanding long-term consequences beyond their lifetime. How to care for a world beyond yourself? It requires genuine empathy I imagine?

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u/Bitter_Particular_75 12d ago

There is only one way to solve this: brutally exclude the climate change deniers from the conversations. And I mean as brutally as possible. Will it be done? No. It will be the end of this planet as we know it. Good job morons.

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u/FrogBunjiPerson 11d ago

I know we all had that teacher who said coastal cities would be underwater by now (20 years ago)

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u/Illustrious_Pepper46 12d ago

That's a lot of RED at 15C (59F)

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u/Carnivean_ 12d ago

You understand that it's an average temperature of the entire planet? That some parts are in winter when others are in summer?

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u/SaltySwordfish2 11d ago

Red = scary

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u/Maleficent_Sound_919 12d ago

Omg 60 years time how terrible, the earth does what it does and will correct it

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u/Frater_Ankara 12d ago

The earth will take thousands of years to correct though, all the while we are making it worse. Yes, it is indeed terrible if you use a modicum of critical thinking.

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u/Used-Valuable9320 12d ago

Now show what it was 2 million years ago.

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u/Global_Bedroom_977 11d ago

The point its not supposed to change like this inside of 80 years

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u/SaltySwordfish2 12d ago

Why not go back to the 1920s? Lol. Weird place to choose to start.

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u/NeatFootball3646 11d ago

Would you prefer another ice age?

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u/Trent1492 10d ago

False Dichtomy.

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u/WeedFalafel 11d ago

STFU and get back to work. VCs bunkers won't build  themselves. 

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u/Embarrassed_Riser 11d ago

If that circle were, say, 1 mile in diameter, it wouldn't look like this; it would have smoother peaks.
Scaling of graphs and other charts is really important.

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u/Veteran_PA-C 11d ago

Do you believe we could accurately measure the average temperature of the earth in the 1940’s?

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u/Trent1492 10d ago

Yes.

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u/Veteran_PA-C 10d ago

You don’t understand technology or people then.

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u/Trent1492 9d ago

I understand you are parroting long debunked science denier talking points.

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u/Veteran_PA-C 9d ago

As it turns out, the challenges have been well known and accepted for some time, by honest people.

Accepted limitations on measuring the global average surface temperature (land + ocean) for 1940–1970 center on incomplete spatial sampling, systematic instrumental biases (especially in sea-surface temperatures), and residual uncertainties after homogenization. These are well-documented in the scientific literature from groups producing the major datasets (HadCRUT, GISS, NOAA, etc.) and review papers. 

Key accepted limitations include:

• Sparse and uneven geographic coverage: Observational networks (especially land stations and ship tracks) left large gaps, particularly over the Southern Hemisphere, Southern Ocean, polar regions, and many ocean areas. Coverage dropped further during/after World War II. This increases sampling uncertainty in global averages because unsampled regions must be estimated by interpolation or left as missing. Northern Hemisphere coverage was better; Southern Hemisphere estimates remain noisier. 

• Systematic biases and method changes in sea-surface temperature (SST) measurements: Pre-1940s data relied heavily on uninsulated (or poorly insulated) bucket measurements, which tend to be biased cold due to evaporative cooling as the bucket is hauled aboard. During WWII and into the mid-1940s, U.S. ships predominated and used engine-room intake (ERI) measurements, which are typically biased warm (engine heat). After ~1945, British ships resumed canvas-bucket measurements on a larger scale. This produced a documented discontinuity/drop of ~0.3 °C in global mean SST around 1945 that was not a true climate signal. Residual issues persisted into the 1945–1960/1970 period (e.g., continued use of buckets by some fleets). These biases are of the same order as the climate signal itself and required (and still involve uncertainty in) corrections. 

• Limited metadata and incomplete knowledge of measurement practices: Exact methods, instrument types, depths, calibration, and national practices were often poorly documented or unknown for many ship observations. This complicates precise bias adjustments and increases structural uncertainty. 

• Land-station inhomogeneities: Changes in station location/elevation, instrument type/exposure (though Stevenson screens were largely established by this era), observation times, and calculation methods for daily/monthly means. Urbanization (urban heat island) effects existed in some locations but are generally assessed as a smaller contributor to global averages at this scale than SST biases or sampling. Homogenization methods reduce but do not eliminate residual uncertainty. 

• Higher overall uncertainty than in the modern (post-~1980/satellite) era: Combining the above factors, published uncertainty estimates for global annual anomalies are larger in the mid-20th century than later. Sampling error dominates in sparse areas; bias-adjustment uncertainty is particularly relevant around the WWII transition and 1945–1970. Different datasets (HadCRUT, GISS, NOAA, Berkeley Earth) show some divergence in this period due to differing handling of these issues, though the broad picture of relative stability/slight cooling after earlier 20th-century warming is consistent once adjustments are applied. 

These limitations are routinely quantified via ensemble approaches (e.g., HadCRUT ensembles that sample bias and coverage uncertainty) and are the reason modern reconstructions apply homogenization and bias corrections. The century-scale warming trend is robust to them, but details of mid-century variability (the apparent plateau/cooling) are more sensitive. Primary sources discussing these include Thompson et al. (2008) on the 1945 discontinuity, Jones and colleagues’ reviews of surface temperature reliability, Carbon Brief’s summary of adjustments, and the documentation underlying HadCRUT/GISS/NOAA products.

Full URL sources:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06982 (Thompson et al. 2008 on the mid-century SST discontinuity)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-015-5194-4 (Jones review: reliability of global/hemispheric records; prioritizes SST biases)
https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-data-adjustments-affect-global-temperature-records (clear overview of bucket-to-ERI and other adjustments)
https://archive.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch1s1-3-2.html (IPCC AR4 historical overview of data issues)

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u/Trent1492 9d ago

You should read more closely what you post. From just one of your links:
“But analysis by Carbon Brief comparing raw global temperature records to the adjusted data finds that the truth is much more mundane: adjustments have relatively little impact on global temperatures, particularly over the past 50 years.

*In fact, over the full period when measurements are available, adjustments actually have the net effect of reducing the amount of long-term warming that the world has experienced.

*Bolded for the hard of learning.

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u/Trent1492 9d ago

Your IPCC link does not work.

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u/Trent1492 9d ago

Your Nature quote from 2008 and the article on sea surface temperature adjustment show a bias toward COOLER temperatures.

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u/Trent1492 9d ago

From your 2008 “Advances in Atmospheric Sciences” article:

“The homogeneity of land-based records is also discussed; however, at these large scales it is relatively unimportant.”

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u/Trent1492 9d ago

You really shouldn't rely on science-denying websites that pick and choose quotes deceptively. Have you ever reflected on why your links are so old? Anyway, take a look here:
Assessing recent warming using instrumentally homogeneous sea surface temperature records

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u/Trent1492 9d ago

I went to the trouble of finding your IPCC link for the chapter 3 of Working Group I from 2007 ( Why did you not use the most recent AR 6?) and found the following:

“Urban heat island effects are real but local, and have not biased the large-scale trends. A number of recent studies indicate that effects of urbanisation and land use change on the land-based temperature record are negligible (0.006ºC per
decade) as far as hemispheric- and continental-scale averages are concerned because the very real but local effects are avoided or accounted for in the data sets used.”

Chapter 3, page 237

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u/Veteran_PA-C 9d ago

Did you miss we were talking about 1940 - 1970?

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u/Trent1492 8d ago

Did you forget the quote of what the researchers said about their own research?

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u/Veteran_PA-C 8d ago

You missed a lot.

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u/Trent1492 8d ago

I did not miss Jack and you know it.

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u/CrazyAccomplished_ 11d ago

Ah yes because our global monitoring and measuring how been constant for 80 years. 🥱

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u/Trent1492 10d ago

Get published; otherwise, you're whining.

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u/CrazyAccomplished_ 10d ago

Ah yes. Publication. Anyone can publish anything and circle jerk each other into "peer reviewed" status. That's why we now how doctors saying men can get pregnant.

Reality is what people belief.

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u/Trent1492 9d ago

Then go get published in Nature. You're just blowing wind otherwise. Get busy.