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That 1.1°C is not your everyday weather temperature. Is the global average over a year. It’s not like the temperature at 13:58 on Monday will be 1.1°C higher th
by gmuslera 3y ago
That 1.1°C is not your everyday weather temperature. Is the global average over a year. It’s not like the temperature at 13:58 on Monday will be 1.1°C higher than what it was exactly 60 years before.
That kind of increase is making frequent enough 1 in a century extreme weather events, Canada got 2 years ago nearly 50°C in a town, floods in all continents, increased frequency and strength of hurricanes and so on.
And to make it worse, it is not the end of the change, and enough of the current warming is fueled by the warming itself, due to positive feedback loops, so it will keep going on even if we stop emissions. Things will keep getting worse, and will keep worsening probably for centuries. And things will stop being, let’s say, pleasant, closer to today than to the end of that process.