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Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly

59 points by Noaidi 7mo ago

Noaidi 7mo ago
I am currently in North Carolina where the temperatures this week will be 25 degrees above normal. I am homeless and travel around the states in my minivan. I can tell you something switched this year and it is not good. I am closer and more exposed to the environment than probably 90% of you. I feel sorry for any of you under 40 years old. I do not know what more I can do for you, but I tried.
- lthi747 7mo ago
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  - ericd 7mo ago
    Did you seriously register an account to leave that little jab? A van dweller has a much smaller carbon footprint than the average American.
- roumenguha 7mo ago
  Thank you for trying. I appreciate your efforts.
WalterGR 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275088 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275088
- WalterGR 7mo ago
  ^—- Global warming has accelerated significantly (researchsquare.com) 1185 | 3 days ago | 1231 comments
Nevermark 7mo ago
At some point surely we hit a scenario with no known stopping point regardless of what we do? Controlled by however much carbon and methane a completely ice free Arctic and post-glacier territories release, until those emissions peak and drop far enough for some eventual stabilization of temperature. It isn’t clear to me why our scenarios are still largely defined by our own behavior, given we have clearly pushed ourselves out of our previous equilibrium.
- ksec 7mo ago
  Assuming we have entered a negative feedback loop, and so the acceleration will continue, at what point will we enter a stage of no return?
  - estimator7292 7mo ago
    Pretty much as soon as the feedback loop starts. We quite simply don't have the technology or resources for planet-scale climate engineering. Even if we did, it should be abundantly clear by now that those with power will do anything to prevent such planetwide measures.
    - blini-kot 7mo ago
      we absolutely do have a couple of such technologies - cloud forming via sulfur emissions and nuclear winter of course, those are as crude as early surgery, but it is there and oh boy I'm sure no one will refrain from using them once we reach an obviously critical point, as the subtle ones are already way behind
know-how 7mo ago
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59 points by Noaidi 7mo ago

I am currently in North Carolina where the temperatures this week will be 25 degrees above normal. I am homeless and travel around the states in my minivan. I can tell you something switched this year and it is not good. I am closer and more exposed to the environment than probably 90% of you. I feel sorry for any of you under 40 years old. I do not know what more I can do for you, but I tried.

lthi747 7mo ago
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- ericd 7mo ago
  Did you seriously register an account to leave that little jab? A van dweller has a much smaller carbon footprint than the average American.
roumenguha 7mo ago
Thank you for trying. I appreciate your efforts.

WalterGR 7mo ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275088 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275088

WalterGR 7mo ago
^—- Global warming has accelerated significantly (researchsquare.com) 1185 | 3 days ago | 1231 comments

Nevermark 7mo ago

At some point surely we hit a scenario with no known stopping point regardless of what we do? Controlled by however much carbon and methane a completely ice free Arctic and post-glacier territories release, until those emissions peak and drop far enough for some eventual stabilization of temperature. It isn’t clear to me why our scenarios are still largely defined by our own behavior, given we have clearly pushed ourselves out of our previous equilibrium.

ksec 7mo ago
Assuming we have entered a negative feedback loop, and so the acceleration will continue, at what point will we enter a stage of no return?
- estimator7292 7mo ago
  Pretty much as soon as the feedback loop starts. We quite simply don't have the technology or resources for planet-scale climate engineering. Even if we did, it should be abundantly clear by now that those with power will do anything to prevent such planetwide measures.
  - blini-kot 7mo ago
    we absolutely do have a couple of such technologies - cloud forming via sulfur emissions and nuclear winter of course, those are as crude as early surgery, but it is there and oh boy I'm sure no one will refrain from using them once we reach an obviously critical point, as the subtle ones are already way behind

know-how 7mo ago

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