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We've been told this since the 70s. It's always been that the emergency is 12 years out. It's never come to pass. Aren't we still in The Pause, too?

anonymouskimmer 3y ago
We literally had people dying of third degree burns from falls onto asphalt this, and past years. https://weather.com/safety/heat/news/2021-06-15-heat-wave-high-temperatures-hot-pavement-causes-burns https://weather.com/safety/heat/news/2021-06-15-heat-wave-hi... A few years back a heatwave-induced mass die-off of snow crabs killed an estimated 10 billion crabs. People eat snow crabs. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/10-billion-snow-crabs-disappeared-alaska https://www.sciencenews.org/article/10-billion-snow-crabs-di... Heatwaves are longer duration. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/21/us-heatwaves-longer-south-west https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/21/us-heatwaves... This is already impacting us.
ulrashida 3y ago
Kyoto was in 1995 and predicted 1.5-4.5 degrees of change in the mid-21st century. Hardly "12 years out" mate. What has become more serious is that the incoming data and predictive models are starting to line up with greater accuracy and those forecasts are very worthy of concern. In the face of warnings that drawing down our bank account is going to leave us broke, is the answer "oh, I've been hearing that for a long time now, what's the worst that can happen"?
anonymouskimmer 3y ago
Climate.gov says "The Pause" was just a slowdown, and the pace returned in 2013: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/why-did-earths-surface-temperature-stop-rising-past-decade https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/why-did-ear... > Since this article was last updated, the slowdown in the rate of average global surface warming that took place from 1998–2012 (relative to the preceding 30 years) has unequivocally ended. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/did-global-warming-stop-1998 https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/did-global-...

anonymouskimmer 3y ago

We literally had people dying of third degree burns from falls onto asphalt this, and past years. https://weather.com/safety/heat/news/2021-06-15-heat-wave-high-temperatures-hot-pavement-causes-burns https://weather.com/safety/heat/news/2021-06-15-heat-wave-hi... A few years back a heatwave-induced mass die-off of snow crabs killed an estimated 10 billion crabs. People eat snow crabs. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/10-billion-snow-crabs-disappeared-alaska https://www.sciencenews.org/article/10-billion-snow-crabs-di... Heatwaves are longer duration. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/21/us-heatwaves-longer-south-west https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/21/us-heatwaves... This is already impacting us.

ulrashida 3y ago

Kyoto was in 1995 and predicted 1.5-4.5 degrees of change in the mid-21st century. Hardly "12 years out" mate. What has become more serious is that the incoming data and predictive models are starting to line up with greater accuracy and those forecasts are very worthy of concern. In the face of warnings that drawing down our bank account is going to leave us broke, is the answer "oh, I've been hearing that for a long time now, what's the worst that can happen"?

anonymouskimmer 3y ago

Climate.gov says "The Pause" was just a slowdown, and the pace returned in 2013: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/why-did-earths-surface-temperature-stop-rising-past-decade https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/why-did-ear... > Since this article was last updated, the slowdown in the rate of average global surface warming that took place from 1998–2012 (relative to the preceding 30 years) has unequivocally ended. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/did-global-warming-stop-1998 https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/did-global-...