Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades

amelius

Well, at least the frogs won't notice it.

jmclnx

>If warming continues at this rate, humanity could breach the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C in 2028, even sooner than other research has projected. I wonder if we are already there :( I remember a year or 2 ago we breached 1.5C for a short period of time. Crypto mining was bad enough, now with AI and Trump, I expect it will happen sooner then later. We did this to ourselves. We had ~40 years of warnings but politicians we elected did not want to do any real work for fear of loosing their cushy job were lobbyists do all the work for them.

MSFT_Edging

We may lose stable seasons for growing crops, but at least the chat bot can embed an ad into your question while you wait for your burrito taxi. What is the point of this convenience when it really seems to just be making people miserable and isolated? We're driving off a cliff, and our elected government has a death drive.

chaostheory

Population decline from collapsing birthrates should help.

gmuslera

It is not just twice as fast, the pressure to keep rising the rate is still building up. CO2 emissions keeps piling up for centuries, more sea ice is permanently melting, permafrost is thawing at an increasing rate. Positive feedback loops are making that that heating twice as fast happen at shorter periods. And over that, there are jumps to new higher baselines like with happened in the previous El Niño, and will happen in the incoming monster one.

p0w3n3d

Oh, better to build more AI centres fast, as long as it's not forbidden

ptaffs

The Book "Don't think of an Elephant" by George Lakoff covers how the term "climate change" has been pushed by those with a status-quo agenda, to reduce the urgency and engagement with "global warming". The linked article uses both, but global warming more dominantly, including "heating" in the headline.

frankest

Imagine an alien with extreme tech capabilities is pointing a heater at the earth. Now react appropriately: - model and build temperature resistant crops. - harvest energy from the heat - create resilience in social governance to enable safer movement of people with education to enable quick adaptation. - build energy resilience everywhere - including in and especially in desert areas. - more constructive ideas. Don’t: - guilt your children into not having children to “protect the planet” from themselves. - use your megaphones to racketeer the people making your food into paying you “indulgences” for producing useful stuff for you and other humans (thus making stuff needed by humans more expensive) - use the problem to gather around with rich friends on fuel-hogging private jets while making others eat less to reduce emissions.

sometimelurker

wheres those people working on fusion? are they making progress?

ChrisArchitect

Article from March OP; Discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275088

anonymousiam

It's always the same story, but it's always incorrect. https://realclimatescience.com/2019/12/warming-twice-as-fast

tsoukase

The huge energy consumption of the past decades was pushing temperatures up, especially the fastest rise of the mightiest power in history, China (not to blame them though, cudos to them). We have not reached peak everything yet (CO2, energy, steel etc). We must and we will adapt, if that means renewables, migration or partial extinction. There is no other choice because this is the law of evolution.