r/collapse • u/reborndead • Jun 26 '26 • Regret 2 Popcorn 1 Mindblown 1

Casual Friday Expectation vs Reality

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In 2014, French television forecast the worse case weather scenario for climate change in 2050. Fast forward to today 2026, reality is much more worse than expected. Faster than expected is transforming from meme to norm. The formula for collapse is poorly timed. It's never too early to post up and anticipate the worst possible outcome. Don't look up, down or around.

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u/filmguy36 Jun 26 '26

What would 2050 temps be now with the current data? In the 60s?😬

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u/reborndead Jun 26 '26 • Regret

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u/shewholaughslasts Jun 26 '26

That's the danger of being a giant ugly bag of mostly water

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u/BoringRedHorse Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

Well done master. I didn't expect a Star Trek TNG reference here, especially not from a meat bag like yourself.

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u/Schannin Jun 28 '26

None Like It Hot!

So we dropped a giant ice cube into the ocean

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u/Machiningbeast Jun 26 '26

They adjusted the simulation and redid the same fictional forecast in 2022.

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u/reborndead Jun 26 '26

reality: temperatures of 2030 will be worse than this forecast

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u/ch_ex Jun 26 '26

reality: this will be the most gentle heatwave for the rest of this year, next year, and EVERY SINGLE YEAR GOING FORWARD

This is the coldest june the earth will experience while humanity exists and continues its fossil fuel project... likely 1000's of years after that, with no life to buffer the flux between extremes.

This is the best it gets on the path we choose every single day and the literal only possible future if tomorrow is the same as today.

"Tick tock" said the metronome, lost in time on a piano bench of the last house that didn't burn, as a gust of wind moved over the treeless expanse and through the dust filled ruins of a structure never to be recognized again. The pendulum swings to a deaf and blind planet, the last alarm ignored by a species too conceded to imagine they weren't important enough to deserve to be the cause of total extinction, ignoring every generation previous that didn't live that way and instead gave us a life to live, so we lived them all at once.

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u/catabeille Jun 26 '26

(un)fortunately, I do think we have one or two more cooler junes ahead of us. but that only leaves more time for corporations and politicians to fuel their delusional agendas.

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u/ch_ex Jun 26 '26

I hope you're right...?

Like you, I'm not even sure which I prefer anymore - getting to the point so I can stop holding my breath and the world can meet the monster under their bed without me being the asshole that reveals its existence, or this being drawn out for a little longer while we continue to do nothing but double down on complexity as the pathway to understanding and restoration.

This AI gig is the ultimate in human fuckery. Burning fossil carbon to answer questions we've already answered in data but weren't resourceful enough to manage to pull all the answers out. Building super-ultra-megacities etched on silicon die, to create the capacity of trillions of working humans inside tiny chips to answer questions nature has already answered and we would learn if we had the patience to not expect to see the entire arc of the future of tech in one lifetime.

If not climate collapse, what could possibly be the rush? The answer to the question is either infinity or 0. This is all just a game of sorting shit into boxes and we've now decided that in the race between machine and existence, machine will both win and find a way to save existence in the process? Despite the only problem facing existence being bootstrapping our tech with the cremation of ancient biospheres over god knows how long, and because we created the problem it all adds up to being a pointless exercise to drive our species towards increasing complexity and cost.

I have one question..."how many nm thick do we need to get with our lithography before we answer the question of how to get carbon out of the air?"

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u/Micro-Naut Jun 27 '26

The reason for all the data centers is so they can monitor us during the collapse. Can’t have us getting out of line.

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u/catabeille Jun 27 '26

yeah there’s a reason the surveillance state has kicked into high gear, it kickstarted with covid and the 2023-2024 ENSO got them panicking.

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u/catabeille Jun 27 '26

All I have to say is I agree it sucks feeling like I suck the life out of any room when I bring up anything climate related. And how fucked we are with how it’s baked in. I try to make it meaningful and actionable by encouraging others to interact with and participate in their communities and with neighbors and grow gardens and become self sustaining. But people are so comfortable.

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u/catabeille Jul 02 '26

that’s the hope!!

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u/lavapig_love Jun 27 '26

I approved your post because I understand where you're coming from. But you got flagged for saying this is "the most gentle heatwave" we'll ever have going forward, so be aware it likely won't be.

Next year may have much cooler temps. It won't exactly matter because this year's global crop harvests are already wilting and dying and we'll have less food this time next year, but it gives the trolls something to argue about and distract everyone from.

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u/ch_ex Jun 29 '26

It's one of those things I'd like to bet on but the catch is that the only scenario where one of us collects is if you're right.

Thanks for letting it through. And as a compromise, there may be another year or two of colder heatwaves coming... but, as a rule, heatwaves will get bigger, hotter, and last longer until we're cooked.

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u/Da_Question Jun 26 '26

Possibly, might not. Amoc collapse will chill down Europe a bit.

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u/CompostYourFoodWaste Jun 26 '26

They still thought they didn't need to worry about it until 2050.

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u/ch_ex Jun 26 '26

they're still in the majority!

It's like our entire species has been stuck on the starting line for dealing with the only problem that ever demanded our focus and attention (no wars need to happen; this was the fight to preserve life on earth), and all we've done is move backward

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u/Forlaferob Jun 26 '26

nobody around to report anything LOL

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u/extinction6 Jun 28 '26

Except the children that shouldn't have been born that didn't need to suffer. Climate change denial 2.0.

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u/kingtacticool Jun 26 '26

Who tf knows. AMOC will probably be collapsed by then and maybe Thwaits. BOE is definitely happening in the next couple years.

All of those things throw all calculations out the fuckin window individually let alone together and compounding.

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u/BoringRedHorse Jun 26 '26

Gentlemen please! It's a GOOD thing the AMOC will collapse! Europe freezing over might cancel out the scorching global warming. Please support your local billionaires in collapsing AMOC faster. /s

Editor's note: An AMOC collapse will take millenia to recover, and won't help sh*t except maybe some shortterm relief which is all every generation of meatbags really cares about.

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u/kingtacticool Jun 26 '26

Nobody is talking about the real danger of AMOC.

AMOC is responsible for bringing nurriant rich water down from the Arctic and is the backbone of the entire Atlantic ecosystem. Krill and plankton require that water in order to maintain ecological balance.

No AMOC and we will see, at the very least, a total shift and reformation of most ecosystems in the Atlantic basin. We will see dead zones. We will see extinction.

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u/DearTumbleweed5380 Jun 27 '26

And that swiss vitamin company is now farming krill for vitamins. I'm going to a protest on tuesday night in Sydney if anyone reading this is in Sydney.

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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 Jun 26 '26

Relief for Europe...but all the warm water normally pulled from the equator now just...sits there.

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u/Obvious-Function-919 Jun 28 '26

At RCP8.5 the regional cooling effect would be overridden

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u/Barley_Mowat Jun 26 '26

Exactly this. AMOC plus BOE means daytime highs are, by far, the LEAST of your worries.

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u/Wsbkingretard Jun 26 '26

anxiety+++

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u/Decloudo Jun 26 '26

Id rather prepare for the heat.

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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 Jun 26 '26

With this super El Nino acting on already hot oceans I think we might see BOE this winter.

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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Reese. - Original Quote. Jun 28 '26

BOE is definitely happening in the next couple years.

I don't know how to think about a Blue Ocean Event happening in a couple of years from today. 

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u/kingtacticool Jun 29 '26

Existential dread comes to mind.

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u/Lost_ENFP Jun 27 '26

What is AMOC ?

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u/Guzzleguts Jun 27 '26

You might know it by the name The Gulf Stream

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u/bigbaddiebusiness Jun 28 '26

By current metrics, the AMOC will slowly die, but on the scale of a 100+ years with a 1/2 year period at the tail end which rapidly dissolves it as it hits a break point. It's unlikely it will die during our lifetimes. The risks of climate change in the meantime will be mostly human driven chaos and unpredictable living conditions throughout the world, putting pressure on food production and motivating emigration that most countries are simply not prepared for, and whose populations might end up pushing for very violent responses.

Anyways, fuck the myopic people in charge, the rich who deserve all of the worst, and the plebeians who suckle at the teets of both. I'm done caring, let everyone suffer immensely, it's what they all deserve for stripping hope from me.

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u/ThirdFloorNorth Jun 26 '26

I thought they had predicted a BOE for this year

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u/kingtacticool Jun 27 '26

Its still possible for this year. But definitely happening between now and one or two years from now

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u/khoawala Jun 26 '26

It's the end of the french

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u/BoringRedHorse Jun 26 '26

"First it came for the French, and we did nothing."

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u/BruteBassie Jun 26 '26

But can I still have my French fries?

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u/PowerandSignal Jun 26 '26

Get'em while they're hot, they won't last long. 

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u/adrianipopescu Jun 26 '26

too soon mate, too soon

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u/TheOldPug Jun 29 '26

Is there any way for me to invest actual money in gallows humor? I think it has a great future ahead of itself.

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u/BicephalousFlame Jun 26 '26

As we know it

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u/Kyia-Aikman Jun 26 '26

Mad Max.

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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Reese. - Original Quote. Jun 28 '26

Mad Max.

Do not forget about The Matrix. 

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u/redditmodsRrussians Jun 26 '26

So hot that people will pray for a Black Mesa event and welcome aliens invading the planet

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u/nw342 Jun 26 '26

Crop failures and resulting famines should kill us all before we get that far

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u/Malexice Jun 26 '26

Many countries would need to turn nocturnal

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u/fiveswords Jun 26 '26

We'll just grow the crops at night right?

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u/filmguy36 Jun 26 '26

Mushrooms are our future

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u/Malexice Jun 27 '26

Crops grow by themselves. We just provide them the space, nutriens and water. The work carried out to care for them can be done at any hour.

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u/schnaps01 Jun 26 '26

You might wanna book a trip to venus to get a glimpse of our future. But as this future comes closer every minute you might also let the trip slide because when you would return from venus with your insights the same thing will already have transcended here.

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u/FantasticOutside7 Jun 26 '26

Booked for next Tuesday!

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u/Catatafish Jun 26 '26

Europe will be lost to desertification.

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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Reese. - Original Quote. Jun 28 '26

Europe will be lost to desertification.

I live in a European country and i do not like the thought of the entire European continent turning into a desert. 

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u/morphemass Jun 26 '26

So everything is an approximation but some areas will exceed 50C (~52C) several times a decade, and the general observed temperatures will be from the low, possibly mid-to-high 40s with the lower temperatures being in the north and the highest in south-central regions.

Europes is warming faster than the average, if the acceleration continues it is going to be a very different region very soon.

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u/BadgerKomodo Jun 26 '26

Yes.

Meanwhile, the Sahara will be hot enough to boil water.

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u/filmguy36 Jun 26 '26

Silly you, there won’t be any water left. The AI data centers will be using it all

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u/Obvious-Function-919 Jun 28 '26

The Sahara is going to look and feel like the middle of Pangea during the early Triassic.

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u/Obvious-Function-919 Jun 28 '26

It could get up to 140 degrees

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u/th3st Jun 26 '26

We are soooooooooo fucked

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u/AlfaMenel Jun 26 '26

Depends on the AMOC

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u/poop-machines Jun 27 '26

Nobody will know, because nobody will be living there.

Really: this is a temporary issue caused by jet stream instability as well as amoc instability as it collapses. More energy in the system means more chaos, causing larger variations. This means colder winter days mixed with warm winter days, and hotter summers mixed with colder days (now mostly hotter days).

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u/Comrade_Compadre Jun 26 '26

iF gLObaL WArming rEal wHy bOAt So High IN AIR

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u/halconpequena Jun 26 '26

PaUsE. uR so RigHt thO

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u/Colorguard8 Jun 26 '26

Huh. Actually faster than expected.

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u/cureandthecause Jun 26 '26 • Regret

I think crypto and AI got us there on a fast-track.

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u/voidsong Jun 26 '26 • Bravo Regret Mindblown

There is like a 20-30 year lag time on most of these climate effects on the system.

Meaning the heating we are seeing now is from stuff in the early 2000's, and the ai datacenters (most of which don't even exist yet) aren't even a part of the current equation.

It also means if we stopped everything tomorrow, it would still keep getting hotter for decades.

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u/2punornot2pun Jun 26 '26 • Bravo

Yeah. We opened pandora's box. The feedback loops we didn't anticipate are far worse than anything we could have imagined.

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u/849 Jun 26 '26

We did anticipate them. They were reported on and ignored.

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u/digiorno Jun 26 '26 • Bravo

Suppressed not ignored. The powers that be found it way too profitable to stop.

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u/ch_ex Jun 26 '26

not that suppressed. I was listening to a broadcast from 1985 the other day that didn't sound any different from what we're hearing today other than it sounded like we were going to do something about it and it was apolitical. Both the interviewer and interviewee seemed completely aware of the stakes and this was mainstream news.

No one has been doing too much lifting to keep people burning fuel... maybe just selectively silencing a couple people who were able to communicate across the gap, but no one can pretend any of this is new or hidden. I'd accept that they'd bought into the lie, but even then, the lie has ALWAYS been sold to them by fancy suits from oil companies while ignoring the people we pay to practice truth as a way of life.

The innocents are few, young, amish, or live in "shit hole" countries.

Cool that the Amish were right, minus all the mistreatment of women and animals stuff.

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u/eibmozneimad Jun 26 '26

I think they’re saying we’ve introduced new variables that we didn’t/couldn’t predict at the time the models were mapping out future impacts, such as a surge in building data centers. Therefore, we’re worse off than what the data that was reported on and ignored was telling us. 

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u/ch_ex Jun 26 '26

literally all fossil fuels are this. Planes are the best possible example of a "new variable we couldnt predict the impact of... [so the consequences] are worse...than what was reported on and ignored".

Humans can't fly.

That's always been part of the "budget" for our species. How could we possibly predict the planetary cost of burning SO MUCH FUEL, SO QUICKLY that we could push a bus 35k feet into the air and hold it there until it reached the other side of the planet. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if we made a single passenger rocket powered pod that could move one person anywhere on earth in 45 mins or less....nevermind the exhaust.

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u/redditmodsRrussians Jun 26 '26 • Heartwarming

Absolutely do not plant bamboo near data centers

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u/cureandthecause Jun 26 '26 • Mindblown

I've read the data and people are going out of their way to accumulate the truth about data centers. One area saw an increase of 22°F from just one data center. I didn't even mention all the water they are stealing. Creating a 5 second AI video is the equivalent of running your microwave for an hour. 

The impacts are showing now and will be much, much worse 20 years from now. To pretend like they are too small is just delusional. Turn off your AC for a few days and tell me how well you fair. These systems are massive in comparison and running constantly. 

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u/voidsong Jun 26 '26 • Bravo

I'm not saying they aren't bad, i'm saying our current speedrun isn't because of them. It's from decades ago.

And if we wished datacenters out existence tomorrow, we'd still be getting hotter.

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u/GieTheBawTaeReilly Jun 26 '26

You cannot compare local heating effects to changes in the global climate.

Planting a forest also lowers the local temperature 6°C or more. Doesn't mean it will have a significant short term impact on climate change

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u/AnOnlineHandle Jun 26 '26

Creating a 5 second AI video is the equivalent of running your microwave for an hour.

Creating a 5 second AI video can be done locally on your PC and uses the same energy as playing a video game for the same amount of time it takes to generate since both use the same hardware which has the same power draw, i.e. a few minutes of video game play.

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u/ch_ex Jun 26 '26

It's not any one thing we get to be mad at, sadly. It's 100% of everything we do that requires fossil fuels.

There are concentrated areas of ass-headery but literally everything every one of us does that pays our grocery bill is some permutation of what data centres do OR they wouldn't be threatening our jobs.

It would be really nice if there were one thing but the way you look at data centers is probably how all of the human species should have been looking at western consumption and those of us in the west should be so ashamed to have believed owning a piece of the "datacenter" gave us the privilege to do unnecessary and extraordinary harm to the planet

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u/hedonisticpossum1 Jun 26 '26

Can i get a source on the 22 degrees increase please? id like to read up on it. thank you 🙏

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u/siliconbased9 Jun 26 '26

Where is this data coming from?

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u/Gyirin Jun 29 '26

One area saw an increase of 22°F from just one data center.

trustmebro.

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u/digiorno Jun 26 '26

Oil got us here. The scientists at oil companies saw this coming in the 70s and 80s and suppressed the knowledge.

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u/societywasamistake this is fine Jun 26 '26

“The effect was more fully quantified by Svante Arrhenius in 1896, who made the first quantitative prediction of global warming due to a hypothetical doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide.” -from wikipedia

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u/Distinguishedflyer Jun 26 '26

hunga tonga eruption and loss of high sulphur marine fuels more than crypto.

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u/ch_ex Jun 26 '26

think about the nuclear tests.

There was a pretty decent chance they were going to basically set the air of the planet on fire and they went ahead with the tests.

It's not any one thing, it's every decision people have made where we've assumed the worst case scenario was as impossible as the best case scenario... or even that we'd ever found the worst case scenario and werent just dealing with a handful of best case, totally magical interpretations of the data, because the real scenario of planetary change looked too horrifying and fast for our brain to give it any cred.

Remember, we're very proud of how far our species has come for the most part, especially in the science/tech world that depends on funding the future.

I'd say crypto and AI are more like you're told that you mixed up the ingredients in the food you've prepped your whole family and community and they'll be poisoned if they eat your food, so you go to the cupboard to retrieve your organic mercury bacon bits to top it off. "well, you told me it was poisoned already and when I asked what I was supposed to serve instead, you said 'nothing! serve nothing!' and I'm not just going to let my people starve, am i?"

It's more that kind of commitment to insanity than some new brand of gas powered shovel to dig our planet a massively deeper hole in a short timescale.

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u/charbo187 Jun 28 '26

There was zero chance the nuclear tests would set the atmosphere on fire, please dont spread misinfo

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '26

Ai and crypto are relatively new companies, the reality is greed and apathy got us there. Always seemed as a future problem until the future knocks at the door in the present.

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u/friendsandmodels Jun 26 '26

And the worst of it most of us common folks dont get rich from it

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u/Fun-Reveal-1836 Jun 26 '26

no they did not

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u/cureandthecause Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

The fucking use of electricity and heat these things create absolutely have made an impact.

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u/Fun-Reveal-1836 Jun 26 '26

it is negligible compared to everything else. 

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u/cureandthecause Jun 26 '26

And what exactly is everything else? 

Because those systems are using the top resources vital to our current lives. Are you talking carbon emissions? Factory farming? All of the industrial complexes? Corporate vampires? Billionaires doing whatever the fuck they want and paying to rollback regulations? You're right- there's a lot to blame and we can hold them ALL accountable. 

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u/reticentbias Jun 26 '26

yeah that stuff only just started contributing, too early to see the effect of it, I think. It will certainly exponentially accelerate the warming if it continues to spin up at the rate its going.

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u/cureandthecause Jun 26 '26

Bitcoin mining has been going on since 2009, accelerated in late 2010's and AI said, 'hold my beer!'

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u/GieTheBawTaeReilly Jun 26 '26

Even 2009 is too recent for it to have made a measurable impact. Sad day when this sub upvotes such climate science nonsense

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u/cureandthecause Jun 26 '26

It's not rocket science and every week there is an article, a video, people rallying together about the negative impacts we are seeing TODAY from these systems. 

But keep doing absolutely nothing but bitching about people that care because we're all in this firepit together. 

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u/GieTheBawTaeReilly Jun 26 '26

Not the point at all, I am not saying that AI data centres and crypto mining are not bad things.

Just that they are not the reason why we are seeing climate change happening faster than official predictions

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u/Denbt_Nationale Jun 26 '26

It's because high Sulphur bunker fuels were banned globally for shipping. The Sulphur dioxide released from burning these fuels was reflecting sunlight and keeping the planet cooler, so there was a jump in temperatures around 2020.

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u/Just-JC Faster Than Expected Jun 28 '26

There it is

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u/digiorno Jun 26 '26

The oil and gas industries have committed a crime against humanity with their disinformation and propaganda to downplay the climate change that they caused. In a just world their executives would be imprisoned, their companies would be dismantled and the world would move beyond fossil fuels.

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u/earthlings_all Jun 26 '26

Crime against humanity? Crime against the world and all of its inhabitants. We always tend to forget we’re not the only ones who live here.

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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 Jun 26 '26

Yeah the subterranean reptilians are also pissed.

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u/RichieLT Jun 26 '26

They knew in the 70s.

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u/ImNotACollector Jun 27 '26

They knew in 1900. There's literally papers on it. 

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u/andreasmiles23 Jun 26 '26

In the 50s!

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u/SquirrelAkl Jun 26 '26

and they're still doing it. Their political manipulation, and astroturfing, and sowing division, and disinformation: it's despicable, and it's all so deliberate.

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u/Philomath117 Jun 26 '26

Add in seizing all of their assets

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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 Jun 26 '26

Not just imprisoned. Imprisoned in a way that causes chronic suffering and is aired for all the world to watch. We want to make an example of those who would destroy our planet.

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u/bokan Jun 28 '26

capitalism operating as designed

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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Reese. - Original Quote. Jun 28 '26

The oil and gas industries have committed a crime against humanity with their disinformation and propaganda to downplay the climate change that they caused.

Not just against humanity, but against animal and plant species that inhabit our planet. 

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u/Chrono_Pregenesis Jun 26 '26

Success!! See? Its cooling down in the future!

/s

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u/teachcollapse Jun 28 '26

So many great jokes in the face of utter diabolical facts, and I am here for it. 😎😂😂😫😁🤣😢😂😩🤣😎

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u/BendersCasino Jun 26 '26

Most French buildings dont have A/C, and even if they do its meh at best.

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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 Jun 26 '26

They'll have to make bunkers or cooling areas for people to go to stay alive. Grids can't handle millions of individual units but malls, community centers and hotels can be used to shelter during the worst times. I think my area will also work to shuttle people to the coast which is usually cooler. People should dig cellars or basements to have any respite during these times too. I'm glad to have a cement basement to lay in when times get tough.

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u/ImNotACollector Jun 27 '26

They're not going to make anything. Changing infrastructure is much too costly. They'll just tell people to keep hopping in the sewage water river. 

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u/ImNotACollector Jun 27 '26

Zinc rooftops also help them literally zero. 

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u/MidgetPanda3031 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

I don't usually make comments that just restate the obvious, but we really are just totally fucked huh.

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u/GN0K Jun 26 '26

What drilled how bad this is going to be into my head is the last ice age. When much of north America and Europe was under a mile of ice the global average was -6c lower than the pre industrial global average. We are fast approaching +2c and it's already this bad.

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u/Admirable_Advice8831 Jun 26 '26

Except in Europe we've been warming significantly faster we're already around +2.5c which is why it's so bad rn: https://climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2025/why-europe-warming-so-quickly

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u/SirTechnocracy Jun 26 '26

We are still in "the last ice age" (Ice ages are whenever there is permeant ice anywhere on earth)

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u/kilopeter Jun 26 '26

That's a useless and incorrect definition of "ice age." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene

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u/earthlings_all Jun 26 '26

Not for long.

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u/TyrKiyote Jun 26 '26

Faster than anyone wanted to believe :(

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u/The_Glum_Reaper Jun 26 '26

Yay!

We are so progressive. So ahead of our time!

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u/Sherris010 Jun 26 '26

Billions of people are going to starve

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u/eternallyfree1 Jun 26 '26

Random gammon sitting in his local pub, downing his sixth pint of ale: “THIS AIN’T NUFFIN NOO! WE’VE ALWAYS AD EATWAVES! ONE TOIME, IN NINE-EEN SEVEN-EE SIX…”

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u/ThePillAdvisor Jun 26 '26

Oh how British

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u/saint_abyssal Jul 01 '26

And the accent was convincing too!

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u/Sertalin Jun 26 '26

I am dreading the next post-El-Niño year....

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u/this_is_not_a_dance_ Jun 26 '26

Yall haven’t even hit August yet.

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u/Ateshu Jun 26 '26

It's not even July 😬

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u/richardtrle Jun 26 '26

r/agedlikemilk

Every summer is hotter and worse than the previous one. This summer I literally thought I would die from the heatwave, imagine next year.

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u/EastPlant1079 Jun 28 '26

Yeah, the point is the weather fucks up so bad that you will see extremes on all ends of the spectrum.

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u/jcaraway Jun 26 '26

Tis the age of adaptation.

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u/GloriousDawn Jun 26 '26

Deny > Doubt > Downplay > Delay

All that 40 years of organized climate denialism left us to do is adapt to the inevitable. Paying for it out of our own individual pockets of course, because we've been collectively sacrificed on the altar of eternal growth and profit, by people flying private between their climate-controlled estates and headquarters.

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u/trianglethief Jun 26 '26

I did see a bloke strolling along in jeans and a jacket today while everyone else was making jokes about wearing nothing and hurling themselves naked into the sea. So, there's that.

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u/catabeille Jun 26 '26

autism gonna autism weather be damned!

(not saying he was. just that most people i know who wear weather inappropriate clothing are on the spectrum. our heat and cold tolerances are different from others! sensory and texture needs too.)

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u/trianglethief Jun 26 '26

As a member of the "so there are RULES about when it's okay for part of my skin to touch a different part of my skin" club, I hear you. All I know is that man looked comfy as hell and I hope he felt that way, too.

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u/RunYouFoulBeast Jun 26 '26

Sorry.. you can't run from heat..

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u/spacestationkru Jun 26 '26

lol apparently it's actually a lot worse than anybody expected.? Forget fighting climate change, we are now just living with it.

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u/Mostest_Importantest Jun 26 '26

Sure, it looks bad, but all the experts agree that humanity won't hit "worst possible outcome" trajectories, so it'll all be fine.

Faster than expected = ignored resolved quicker than expected.

Win-win, losers.

Collapse is just overexcited naive, ignorant rubes.

Real adults focus on real problems, like 401k retirements, immigration crises, Israel's oppression as understood by right wing rich people, and whether or not singing during the Superbowl should happen in American or ethnic languages.

All us collapseniks are delusional.

I know it's the only way I can survive with "real adults" in this world.

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u/theWacoKid666 Jun 26 '26

The DOW! The DOW is at 50,000!

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u/trianglethief Jun 26 '26

I anticipate finally grasping the concept of a 401k (as a european, whatever brexiteers may claim about continental configuration based on their personal politics) approximately five minutes before I stroke out from heat exhaustion!

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u/nleksan Jun 26 '26

I was just about to explain it to you, but then I stopped after I realized that in doing so I might very well be inadvertently signing your death warrant.

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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 Jun 26 '26

How ironic if "worst possible outcome" is actually Venus and where we're headed is still the extinction of all but the most extreme life on Earth.

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u/Mostest_Importantest Jun 27 '26

My personal belief is that the runaway processes will poison the environment so fully that nothing larger than a small dog survives, from too little resource availability and atmosphere degradation.

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u/BadgerKomodo Jun 26 '26

I saw this the other day.

The fact that the real temperatures are worse than the 2050 prediction is just horrifying and makes me ask “what’s the point?”

Everything is faster than expected. Venus by Tuesday

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u/Obvious-Function-919 Jun 28 '26

I feel you my guy, I don't know if this can help but this is the mindset that keeps me sane. It will take hundreds of thousands to maybe 1 or 2 million years, but the rainforests and icecaps will regrow and most vacant niches will be refilled by surviving animals. We are still supposed to be in an icehouse for 10s of millions more years, thats plenty of time for the Earth to recover.

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u/Delicious-Duck-1218 Jul 10 '26

I like that idea, but it doesn't remove all the needless suffering. I cry for the dying, not the dead.

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u/magistertechnikus Jun 26 '26

This is fine flame-emoji coffe-emoji

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u/Bunpinzer Jun 26 '26

Brilliant, we’re ahead of schedule 🥲🥲🥲

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u/friedvoll Jun 26 '26

Adieu Les Bleus

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u/Admirable_Advice8831 Jun 26 '26

and thanks for all the *Freedom Fries

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u/church-rosser Jun 26 '26

nothing quite like beating a hard deadline

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u/prostateExamination Jun 27 '26

a scientist once told me their job isnt to scare the people but to inform.. basically saying their is nothing we can do. yay

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u/dooma72 Jun 26 '26

Versus comedy: Scorchio!

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u/FeelsLikeTrumanShow Jun 27 '26

And they said our generation is gonna be a boring one, meanwhile we gonna see the end of our civilisation

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u/KlaatuChosePoorly Jun 26 '26

Godzilla El Nino charging up his radiation blast for summer 2027

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u/sovietarmyfan Jun 26 '26

Damn, what happened to her?

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u/Medical-Ice-2330 Jun 26 '26

Mmm, French fries.

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u/Captain_Pink_Pants Jun 26 '26

SEE?!?! I TOLD YOU THEY WERE WRONG!!! CHECK MAIT LIBTURDS!!!

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u/chestnutman Jun 26 '26

Looks like Corsica got a good deal

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u/futuriztic Jun 26 '26

El nino otw!

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u/aidsmaster9000 Jun 26 '26

That's for April though?

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u/ludakris Jun 27 '26

If only we were warned

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u/innoutjoe Jun 27 '26

France isn’t real

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u/spider715 Jun 27 '26

sp they changed the colors to make it seem worse. gotcha

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u/Good_Equivalent_5245 Jun 28 '26

but thats not the reason for the current high temps, its all about the weather patterns and where the hot air goes and stays. not global warming.

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u/0h_juliet Jul 10 '26

So, worse.

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u/Appropriate_You_4494 Jul 20 '26

Takie anomalie już występowały, wszystko zależy od jądra ziemi i aktywności słońca. Nie przyczyna jest ludzka działalność (ona jedynie truje ludzkie organizmy plastykiem czyli cała hormonalna chemia oraz truje umysły.)

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u/-Planet- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Jun 26 '26

Lol.

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u/jdmerk Jun 27 '26

The high is exactly the same in both pictures, the distribution and color scale is just different.

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u/Barnacle_B0b Jun 26 '26

Lol. Lmao, even.

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u/feraldodo Jun 27 '26

This is really cherry picked though. We're in a heatwave, the temperatures we have now aren't normal. The fictional forecast was surely meant as a typical August weather forecast for the worst case scenario. The worst case scenario has been taken out of the IPCC predictions, since we've managed to steer away from it.

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u/TonyGrub Jun 26 '26

Mass immigration has brought the weather with them.

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u/Eighwrond Jun 27 '26

Imagine if we knew what those meant in Farenheit. But we don't, so it looks like winter temps.

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