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[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Slight inaccuracy, the data only goes back to 1979 and has not yet been verified by NOAA which has data going back to 1880.

It’s also worth noting that this is based on the Climate Reanalyzer which is intended for forecasting temperatures, not record keeping.

It would be more accurate to say it was the hottest day ever recorded by the Climate Reanalyzer.

Source: https://time.com/6292103/worlds-hottest-day-preliminary-record/

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

This. It's also not accurate to say it's the warmest we've been in the past 10,000 years, it was likely warmer during the roman warm period, and potentially a couple of other points. So we can only really say it's the warmest we've seen in the last couple hundred years.

That's not to say this isn't concerning, we're on track to smash the roman warm periods average temperatures within our lifetimes and make the earth the hottest it's been since the paleoscene, which would have massive ramifications. But we're not there yet, the problem is that we will likely get there in the next few decades.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

in the next few decades.

I appreciate your optimism.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If you want some more optimism, we actually have slowed the rate of warming from what was predicted 20 years ago. The reality we are living in would have been considered an "optimistic prediction" at one point. We are still warming, things are still going in the wrong direction, but the changes that people have been making to mitigate global warming are making an impact. We might still be going over the cliff, but at least we're doing it with our brakes on instead of full speed ahead. So yes, I do think it will be decades before we truly break temperature records that have been seen by humans, maybe even several decades. That doesn't downplay the significance of the need to stop it though

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

From what I've heard about our current climate warming situation I'd downgrade the metaphor from using breaks to taking the foot off the pedal a bit.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At least the "medieval warm period" which gets cited a lot, was a regional phenomenon and global temperatures are higher today. The Wikipedia page seems to suggest the same for the Roman warm period.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You act like you use the word Paleoscene like you know when it was.

I don't.

I did however hear on the BBC News Podcast that Nerds are saying we should change the name of the period we're in now to be the "Time of Man" and I realised that I have no idea what Epoch we are currently in.

So I thought I'd ask you. Then I'll memorise your answer and be less dumb.

Please help.

Edit: I know how to use Google but this way is more fun sometimes.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Paleocene was the time right around when the dinosaurs died, so about 65 million years ago. you've heard of Jurassic, and maybe you've even heard of cretaceous, this is the one that comes right after those two. Right now we're in the Holocene. The reason I mentioned it though is because (as far as we can tell) it was the hottest period in earth's history, with average temperatures 8 degrees Celsius higher than today (which is a ton, the fact that it's an average makes it seem less insane than it actually is). we're nowhere close to getting as warm as it was then, but even if we got half that hot in a relatively fast amount of time (like we are) it could still cause mass extinction.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If I were to pick one, I'd call it the Menocene. Seems apt.

I did Google it though, if you want the actual answer.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the coldest summer for the rest of your life :)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thats a nice way to put it. Thank you.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

And just a week ago I was talking to these boomers that were explaining me how "we should all stop being so attached to climate fear" and that "everything will just sort itself out and we'll live just fine".

Yea, no shit boomer

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

They meant that they'll live just fine. You see, they will be dead before climate change decimates our planet. 🤷‍♂️

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It won't decimate the planet, but it will make the planet a lot less habitable for humans.

So yes depending on where they live they will be just fine, but a lot of people will die. Because of this there will be huge migrations and struggels with having enough resources...

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

but it will make the planet a lot less habitable for humans.

And, unfortunately, for a wide range of other species.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And that is already happening in a small scale. All those natural disasters that are happening all over the world. And especially the poorer country's on the south half of the globe are struggling with stuff like wood fires, smaller harvests because of the heat. And it's all just going to get worse. I hate humanity.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Boomers: "We had hot days in the 60's and 70's as well and you didn't hear us complain"

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My parents' go-to is that everyone was freaking out about an incoming ice age in the 60s (they weren't), and thus climate experts are all completely clueless and have no clue what they're talking about.

And they wonder why I visit less than before.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I read this as olive oil and meat. LOL. Yum, steak!

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

So far.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So true it burns.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

...enjoy this summer; it's the coolest one you'll experience for the rest of your life...

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think, as individuals; we all need to pick up our game and do our part in polluting and destroying the planet more. We can't let the corporations do all the heavy lifting after all.

Edit: I don't think I came across properly here, given the replies. This was sarcasm saying we need to fuck up the planet more to keep pace with the rate the corporations do.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Curious: how do they know that? Recorded history is like 5k years right?

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Scientists use climate proxy records like coral skeletons, tree rings, glacial ice cores, and sediment layers. For example, the levels of oxygen 16 in a layer of ocean debris and fossils go up as temperatures rise. So a high level of oxygen 16 in sediment from one layer tells scientists that the planet was hot and watery when the sediment was laid down.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Don't forget steel. quick stats

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Global temps can't melt steel beams...

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Vermont just had flooding that was on par with Hurricane Irene.

They're calling it a 1000 year rarity. It happened 12 years ago. Only this time there was no hurricane.

There are ocean temperatures in the fucking 90s.

This hurricane season is gonna be batshit crazy, y'all.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks humanity, I'm sure that this will cause no long term issues and we can just keep using the same economic and political systems while not worrying about it at all.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Don't worry all of this will soon be over.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I guess this is supposed to be taken as a bleak joke but it won't be over soon. We all will likely experience a direct hit to our quality of life. If you're poor, your survival will get harder. If you have or want children they will have fundamentally worse lives, compared to what we experienced so far. This can go on for decades or centuries, depending on how much we can stsill fix and what tipping points occur.

So yeah, hope that is some motivation to change something. Or at least shout at some people. :)

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The company I work for makes power infrastructure for data centres and the like, 3 phase 400v conductors, the smallest we make is 1000 amp rated and we go up to 6000 amp rated, that is a hell of a lot of power and we run 24 hours a day 7 days a week pumping out miles of these to power the data centres that run the internet so we can be shitty to each other

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Gotta love them for giving us nice warm weather

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The oil, meat and shipping industries: "It's called a streak, baby"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If only we had deflation people would not overconsume so much

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

bu... buut economic growth > everything else ...?

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