• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world’s oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus.

    And February, as well the previous two winter months, soared well past the internationally set threshold for long-term warming, Copernicus reported Wednesday.

    “And we also see the ongoing ‘hot spot’ over the Arctic, where rates of warming are much faster than the globe as a whole, triggering a cascade of impacts on fisheries, ecosystems, ice melt, and altered ocean current patterns that have long-lasting and far-reaching effects,” Francis added.

    Record high ocean temperatures outside the Pacific, where El Niño is focused, show this is more than the natural effect, said Francesca Guglielmo, a Copernicus senior climate scientist.

    The North Atlantic sea surface temperature has been at record level — compared to the specific date — every day for a solid year since March 5, 2023, “often by seemingly-impossible margins,” according to University of Miami tropical scientist Brian McNoldy.

    Marine scientists with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric  Administration (NOAA) already warned this week that a fourth global mass coral bleaching event is likely unfolding in the Southern Hemisphere, driven by warming waters.


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    8 months ago

    Anyone who says “we can fix this” is just as deluded as those who say it’s not real. Go ahead, link me to articles you didn’t read and videos you never watched. You won’t find a single qualified scientist who is sure this will be corrected.

    The tipping point has been reached. It is a free fall. Humans need to start focusing on how we can survive, but since none of us will live forever, why would anyone care?

    Down with humanity. Long live Mother Earth.

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      8 months ago

      Any scientist who says they’re 100% sure about anything is either a liar or a fraud, so that’s not a useful position. You equally won’t find a single qualified scientist who is sure that it can’t be corrected.

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        8 months ago

        I suppose. But, it can’t.

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            8 months ago

            People forget that kind of change will wipe out a lot of crops. No food, no humans.

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      8 months ago

      Hopefully it’s a hard enough fall that it wipes us out for good and earth can have another shot at finding balance in a couple million years. Fingers crossed we don’t spread to other planets/solar systems.

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        8 months ago

        Agreed. We had a good run, but we are unsustainable.