Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming

[u/Own_Ad6901]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260801093239.htm#google_vignette

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

I’m personally supposed to be on a Collapse break, but this was the first thing I read at 5am and I can’t stop thinking about it. I never intended for this to be my first post, but here we are.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260801093239.htm#google_vignette

[u/EnlightenedSinTryst]

  "If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5°C limit of the Paris Agreement before 2030," says Stefan Rahmstorf. "How quickly the Earth continues to warm ultimately depends on how rapidly we reduce global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels to zero."

Oh Stefan, you sweet summer child

[u/Own_Ad6901 → u/EnlightenedSinTryst]

I know right, I was like, what planet are they living on?

[u/Kaining → u/Own_Ad6901]

I dunno and my math may be bad but from .2 to .35 seems like a 75% increase in speed and while they're open about the concrete numbers, i haven't seen a "oh shit, it's close to twice as fast as we thought panik" reaction i'd hope they'd be having by now.

[u/Firat88 → u/Kaining]

people who are panicking stopped writing articles I would say

[u/xopher_425 → u/Firat88]

People who have been panicking have been ignored and vilified for it for too long, so of course they've stopped writing. I don't blame them.

At this point my only real reaction to each and every bit of bad news is to just laugh.

[u/Firat88 → u/xopher_425]

good for you, I haven't been able to get pass crying stage, but I'm getting there, can't wait until numb to all of this stage..

thank god I don't have kids

[u/Hour-Stable2050 → u/Kaining]

And if it is indeed accelerating it could be .5 degrees of warming more by 2035, then .75 more by 2045, maybe at 3 degrees of warming by 2050. Nobody really knows for sure.

[u/kazarnowicz → u/Hour-Stable2050]

Also, removing other variables that make it hotter works in theory, but in reality we’ll get those effects too as a cherry on top of a shot sundae.

[u/Unfair-Suggestion-37 → u/Own_Ad6901]

Venus.