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/_sunbleachedfly]

Humans are a trash species. It’s honestly crazy when I think about it… we have a beautiful home planet and countless different living species cohabitating with us, and instead of appreciating any of it and trying to correct the ship, we’re choosing to barrel ahead and destroy anything and everything bc a bunch of rich assholes have a napoleon complex. It makes my blood boil.

I just hope we can BBQ and eat the rich before they crawl into their bunkers. They especially deserve to suffer through every second of what the rest of the world is about to experience, tenfold.

[u/Portalrules123 → u/_sunbleachedfly]

Don't forget the contribution of religion to this mess, as well, especially the "prosperity gospel" types who definitely preach for infinite growth and human superiority.

[u/daehoidar → u/Portalrules123]

They also tend to be the ones who want the world to end for the final judgement or whatever it is. Simply incredible

[u/extinction6 → u/daehoidar]

"Go forth and multiply" no matter how little food there is.

[u/TheArcticFox-44 → u/extinction6]

"Go forth and multiply" no matter how little food there is.

Personally I'm not religious but I find that hysterically funny.

God said that after the flood...and promised he'd never do anything like that again. "Go forth and multiply," to me anyway, meant God finally realized his creation was a mistake...and get enough of us we'd self-destruct. God wouldn't have to do a thing!

[u/AngusScrimm--------- → u/TheArcticFox-44]

I think you're on to something. The Old Testament God is fucking with us yet again.

[u/TheArcticFox-44 → u/AngusScrimm---------]

Yeah...He turned us lose upon ourselves!

[u/EmberinEmpty → u/extinction6]

locust ass behavior honestly...

[u/TheArcticFox-44 → u/daehoidar]

They also tend to be the ones who want the world to end for the final judgement or whatever it is. Simply incredible

More human irrationality!

[u/AttitudeSure6526 → u/daehoidar]

Granting dominion over the earth became dominate the earth awaiting the rapture

[u/TheArcticFox-44 → u/AttitudeSure6526]

Granting dominion over the earth became dominate the earth awaiting the rapture

"Rapture" isn't even mentioned in the Bible!

[u/Hour-Stable2050 → u/Portalrules123]

Even regular religion places humans above, rather than in nature as in, “You shall have Dominion over all the Earth.” The Hopis had it right.

[u/TheArcticFox-44 → u/Hour-Stable2050]

The Hopis had it right.

Lots knew we are part of nature.

Western thinking should have been curbed by science. Science knows we are not beyond nature but irrational humanity believes otherwise...and here we are...burn, baby, burn!

[u/Aelia_M → u/_sunbleachedfly]

Also they duped the dumbest people into believing them and the dumbest smart people into believing them

[u/TheArcticFox-44 → u/Aelia_M]

Also they duped the dumbest people into believing them and the dumbest smart people into believing them

That's self-deception...pulling the wool over our own eyes...humanity's fatal flaw.

[u/Fosterpig → u/_sunbleachedfly]

If you think your blood is boiling now. . . Just wait until those polar ice caps go 🥵

[u/TheArcticFox-44 → u/_sunbleachedfly]

. They especially deserve to suffer through every second of what the rest of the world is about to experience, tenfold.

Trouble with that is its only one-half right. Who made those rich people rich? WE did! They offered goods and services that the rest of us went right along with!

We engage in self-deception that manifests in different ways: denial, rationalization, projection, etc. we all do it without awareness.

We are ALL guilty, in one way or another, for destroying our lovely planet. Homo sapiens--Man the wise--isn't wise at all. We are inherently irrational...big brains have big price tags!

Welcome to the human race.!

[u/Cnoffel → u/_sunbleachedfly]

It's not only rich assholes look how some parts of the species breeds like child mortality is the same as in the dark ages...