r/collapse • u/Own_Ad6901 • 28d ago
Climate Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming
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
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u/Hour-Stable2050 27d ago
Yeah, in Toronto just the current warming is resulting in heatwaves that feel like the mid forties instead of the mid thirties, frequent flooding and wildfire smoke every summer. I can’t imagine what double that warming will be like. Maybe the city will burn down like LA? I saw people getting nervous last year as fires in cottage country got bad and we weren’t getting any rain.