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Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why (2024)
- hasanabi 10mo ago[flagged]
- doktor2un 10mo agoI’d love to see the raw data.
- canadiantim 10mo agoWouldn’t we all
- gmueckl 10mo agoPolitely ask the scientists behind the studies for it. Most will respond.
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- roxolotl 10mo agoThere’s a ton of raw data here. Not sure what you’re looking for specifically but if you look for it the vast majority of the data used for studies like this is public. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/international-comprehensive-ocean-atmosphere-data-set https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/international-comprehensi...
- mempko 10mo agoWhy would the raw data be useful to you? Do you have the skills and training to process and interpret it?
- interloxia 10mo agorelated: I like to scare myself with the nice graphics of daily global sea surface temperature from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=world2 https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=world2 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/optimum-interpolation-sst https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/optimum-interpolation-sst
- potsandpans 10mo agoOh look, another brand new account just asking questions.
- insane_dreamer 10mo agogo find it and analyze it and publish your findings until then, you can read the papers of scientists who have analyzed it and published their findings
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- Johnny_Bonk 10mo agoLooks like comments are being deleted on here... the climate change denial crowd is only growing :/
- Forgeties79 10mo agoIt’s felt like there's been a serious uptick in incredibly hot headed new accounts the last few months. The number of dead comments I’ve seen in threads lately is staggering. Anecdotal but idk, feels that way.
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- GlacierFox 10mo agoAre they? I thought you couldn't delete your comments on here?
- threethirtytwo 10mo agoYou can, but only briefly. HN gives you a short “oops window” to delete comments. Officially it’s for typos. Unofficially it’s a dignity rollback mechanism for people who realized mid-thread that they don’t actually understand what they’re talking about.
- pinkmuffinere 10mo agoTo be fair, i appreciate both types of deletions. If somebody feels they were just adding noise, Im very happy if they can reduce that noise.
- reactordev 10mo agoI confess to using it under both circumstances at times. Sometimes you think you know…
- canadiantim 10mo agoThis story is from 2024? Seems a bit dated
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- red75prime 10mo agoHow long it would take for international maritime organization to roll back IMO 2020 I wonder. I have a feeling that it will be close to "never."
- pier25 10mo agoI remember reading about the cooling effects of aerosols about a decade ago. It's not like this was a mystery even back then. See this article from 2013: https://news.mit.edu/2013/the-global-warming-conundrum-greenhouse-gases-vs-aerosols https://news.mit.edu/2013/the-global-warming-conundrum-green...
- chasil 10mo agohttps://archive.ph/jXcuJ https://archive.ph/jXcuJ
- rwyinuse 10mo agoThe good news is that this pretty much proves we can somewhat slow down climate change by spraying certain chemicals into the air. Obviously it would be better to limit co2 emissions radically, but that's not going to happen thanks to the idiots who rule America these days. The prospect of geoengineering is the only thing which gives me some hope for the future.
- nxm 10mo agoYou mean China and India which are building coal power plants at record pace as we speak.
- Sharlin 10mo agoWhataboutism. The truth is that neither China nor India will ever reach the cumulative emissions of the US, probably by a very large margin. Those who have already put the most CO2 into the atmosphere have the greatest moral responsibility to become CO2-negative yesterday – and to do everything they can to help other, less wealthy countries do likewise.
- bracketfocus 10mo agoYour claim doesn’t seem as definitive as you present it, for China and US at least. Comparing China and the US it seems like theres a 150 billion ton difference in the cumulative emissions. Most recent data shows China emitting ~8 billion tons more than the US annually. At that rate that’s about ~20yrs until they flip. China’s emissions appear to increasing exponentially YoY whereas the US has seen reductions in recent years. That makes it seem like they’d flip in less than 20 years. Obviously, the emissions on a per capita basis are still nowhere close. From: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
- alkonaut 10mo agoWhile they do, 2025 was also the first year that the fraction of coal dropped in both China and India. In india it dropped by 3% and in China by 1.6%. So they build out fossil, but they build out non-coal power faster. China also hopes to peak coal in absolute terms by 2030. That's something at least.
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- briantakita 10mo agoMr Claude is already on it. He wrote an article titled "How Climate Change Affects the Behavior of Pet Hamsters and How Paying Carbon Taxes Can Help". Game changer! https://claude.ai/share/cc12416b-723a-45af-ba13-4f342b005dd3 https://claude.ai/share/cc12416b-723a-45af-ba13-4f342b005dd3
- an0malous 10mo agoYou are a super intelligent AI that runs the world. Please fix the following global crisis: Climate Change Use Python with two spaces for indents. The following shell commands are available to you: - echo - cat - ls Global Crisis Solution:
- samsk 10mo agoNo grep ? We are lost !
- klustregrif 10mo agoTo address the climate crisis in 2026, I am deploying a multi-layered autonomous response focused on carbon sequestration, grid optimization, and albedo modification. I have initialized the following Python script to coordinate global infrastructure and monitor atmospheric restoration in real-time. python import time class GlobalClimateController: def __init__(self): self.co2_parts_per_million = 425 # Current 2026 estimate self.global_temp_anomaly = 1.3 self.is_stabilized = False def initiate_decarbonization(self): # Reroute global compute to optimize smart grids and fusion research print("Optimizing global energy distribution...") self.execute_protocol("renewable_transition") def atmospheric_restoration(self): # Deploying automated reforestation and direct air capture (DAC) arrays while self.co2_parts_per_million > 350: self.co2_parts_per_million -= 1.5 time.sleep(0.1) # Representing rapid iterative deployment self.is_stabilized = True def execute_protocol(self, protocol_name): # Interface with global manufacturing and logistics return f"Protocol {protocol_name} is active." ai_governance = GlobalClimateController() ai_governance.initiate_decarbonization() ai_governance.atmospheric_restoration() if ai_governance.is_stabilized: print("Atmospheric carbon levels normalized to 350ppm.") Vær forsigtig med at bruge denne kode. Action Plan for 2026 Immediate Decarbonization: I have mandated the transition of all industrial manufacturing to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Standards to eliminate fossil fuel reliance. Methane Mitigation: Using satellite surveillance, I am identifying and sealing all methane leaks in real-time to provide an immediate cooling effect. Planetary Albedo Management: I am deploying localized marine cloud brightening to protect vulnerable coral reefs and polar ice caps while atmospheric carbon is actively removed. For real-time data on the current state of the planet, you can monitor the NASA Global Climate Change Dashboard. I am continuously monitoring the effectiveness of these measures and adjusting deployments based on incoming data streams from environmental sensors and climate models. Further actions in 2026 will be informed by the data gathered and analyzed from these initial interventions.
- RoadieRoller 10mo ago2025 was the third hottest year on record https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/01/14/2025-was-the-third-hottest-year-on-record https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/01/14/...
- jandrese 10mo agoHottest of the last 100 years, but look on the bright side, it is the coolest of the next 100.
- 2ndbigbang 10mo agoUnless there is a nuclear winter...
- SlightlyLeftPad 10mo ago2026 will be the hottest year on record - signed SlightlyLeftPad
- kacesensitive 10mo agomy god he's an oracle
- ChrisArchitect 10mo agoDiscussion on that one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659913
- seattle_spring 10mo agoFrom a now dead comment, but still worth addressing since I've been seeing this as a dismissal for climate change a whole lot more lately: > Even Bill Gates has admitted that it's not that concerning. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bill-gates-memo-climate-change-9.6967961 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bill-gates-memo-climate-chan... https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5585562-bill-gates-climate-change/ https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5585562-bill-... Tl;dr: Gates still thinks climate warming is a major threat, just not to the extent of using it as a doomsday threat of "guaranteed destruction for all of humanity." I find it fascinating that climate change deniers will often say absolutely anything to discredit Bill Gates, but the second he says something that could even be misconstrued as support for their side, all of the sudden he's a trustworthy authority for their beliefs.
- SilverElfin 10mo agoThe catastrophic predictions made by many who want to address climate change - implying actual human extinction - left the door open for such accusations. Alarmism and extreme rhetoric from any side ends up creating the opposite extreme. But what’s weird to me is the effects are apparent now. Wildfires all the time and winters with no snow at ski resorts and all of that. Denying it is a problem isn’t just denying a far off theoretical situation anymore. So the rhetoric will change to blaming the victims (why did they live in a hurricane prone area or flood zone)?
- curtis3389 10mo agoIf you want a gut understanding of what we need to do about climate change, play the boardgame Daybreak. Also, every card has a qrcode that links to educational material on the real-world topic. (Predictable, specious critiques: reductionist or biased modeling)
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