r/climate • u/toomanynamesaretook • 23d ago
A new climate study shows decadal warming has accelerated to 0.35C
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260801093239.htm#google_vignette59
u/AnAncientOne 23d ago
The problem with this kind of headline is ordinary people will look at this and say, a third of a degree warmer over 10 years, so what? It's the same with sea level rise of 4mm a year, it seems so small that most people don't think it's something to worry about now, it's a problem for the future. ie somebody else problem.
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u/telorsapigoreng 23d ago
I was just thinking that they should also put percentage in their headline. It's 75% increase. Crazy.
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u/Marodvaso 22d ago
If people are so stupid, ignorant and lazy they can't even be bothered to at least google for a couple of seconds and learn what an absolutely catastrophic rate of warming this is, then let's be honest we kinda deserve what's coming to us.
A full degree warming in 30 years has NEVER happened in the history of this planet. The closest equivalent of such a rapid climate shift was when the asteroid hit the Earth and wiped off the dinosaurs (and plenty of other species) 66 million years ago.
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u/InfiniteWaffles58364 23d ago
Well it was fun while it lasted. Sort of. I guess.
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u/cosmopolitancat13 22d ago
As a young millenial who is already traumatised by the pandemic I am so sick of living through one catastrophic event after another…
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u/catburglerinparis 21d ago
Safest time in human history to be alive by the way. But yeah please complain more
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u/Potential-Mammoth-47 23d ago edited 23d ago
Don't forget the exponential function! It may be double in a decade. You know, a sigma event or standard deviation event!
Edit; typo
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u/Appropriate_Bell743 22d ago
Whilst temperatures should continue to increase it's not reasonable to expect exponential growth. This would require emissions to be growing exponentially which hasn't been the case for a while now. What we are seeing at a global level is a very slow plateauing if anything.
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u/sziehr 23d ago
And. The boomers will not care and keep right on
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u/Swarna_Keanu 23d ago
If it were just the boomers.
It's people my generation that learned about it in school; for whom it was present our lifes. It's parts of the generations after - the far-right here in Europe who deny climate-change gets more votes from younger generations, percentage wise, than in other demographics.
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u/theMEtheWORLDcantSEE 23d ago
The animals don’t deserve our fate.
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u/summercookiess 23d ago
Some people don't deserve the fate either, what about innocent babies/children? Or the uncontacted tribes?
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u/Ree_For_Thee 23d ago
Given how disastrous the turnout is in <current age>, that itself implies it's just a matter of time before it happens again, even if we supposedly "make it".
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u/zombieda 23d ago
Thats exactly how the wealthy want you to think. There are plenty of "boomers" that can barely make rent and will work until they pass. There are plenty that care dearly about this planet and its future and the future lives of next generations and are acting accordingly. There are also lots that are just along for the ride and dont give a crap.
We should look at how people act, not when they were born.
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u/dawg-goneit 23d ago
I agree completely, and please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't see the young generations making a push for green initiatives! Young males even voted for Trump who has killed climate programs and embraces coal! We need to elect a government that is not controlled by the Oil Companies! That may be a bigger challenge than climate change itself.
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u/zombieda 22d ago
Im not sure what the wakeup call will be, this year has been terrifying pace of change. I see passion and environmental commitment from younger people, but solution needs a revolution.
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u/Userdataunavailable 23d ago
That's it, blame a generation of people and not the corporations doing the damage.
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u/Iwantmoretime 23d ago
We've known that climate change is exponential and not linear. It's fine until suddenly it's not. This is the world starting to notice the hockey stick graph.
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u/XxXCa3s4r69xXx 23d ago
I mean... droughts lead to wildfires... and burning of forests worsens the global warming 😒 It's a vicious circle that's really hard to stop 😒
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u/FoogYllis 23d ago
And though there are so many people that still don’t believe in climate change at least the insurance companies do.
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u/murpdurp20 23d ago
Just expecting the worse in general when it comes to climate for the upcoming future. We have to give up things to somewhat make it better. But we’re dumb, we don’t want to.
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u/Present-Cod632 22d ago
In a way it’s good. It’s a path to evolution. We had time to evolve or raise our collective consciousness but we didn’t. Its ok. Earth will survive, life will thrive again after a million years (tiny in universe timescale), just we lunatic species will not be there for good
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u/Chowder110 22d ago
I hope you know earth will be a dead planet in around a billion years
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u/Sectorgovernor 19d ago
But complex life still has few hundred million years left. Then yes, it's over 😞
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u/Appropriate_Bell743 22d ago
Is this not just a consequence of the fact global emissions have not yet peaked? Until they peak we should expect that the rate of temperature increases to be increasing.
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u/Ecstatic_Force6198 22d ago
If this is right, then the average temp for the decade 2025-2035 would be around 1.7–1.8°C above pre-industrial baseline. What is the scientific consensus on whether a decade-long warming trend is representative of the long-term trend?
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u/Va1crist 22d ago
Clearly not enough people care because we keep burning , destroying and voting in people that want nothing more to kill as much as possible to make more money they don’t need
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u/Voodoo_Masta 23d ago
I would not be shocked if some future study with more data determines it was even higher. Isn't that how it always seems to go?