Haven't like 9 of the last 10 years been record hot years? Not really going out on a limb here, UN.
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Don't think of it as the hottest year of the last 200 years. Think of it as the coldest year of the next 200
No shit. I remember the messages from climate scientists in the 1980s about global warming (as it used to be called), and its almost as if the whole conversation didn't rear its head properly till mid 2010s. It isn't something I'm an expert on, but I feel like we are beyond the point of no return. In the UK we have just this week set the record high temp, a month sooner than the usual weather starts. It isn't that its getting hotter, it is that it is now on average far hotter earlier and longer. The absolute insane greed of the stock markets around the world putting their il gotten gains into AI data centres is just going to exacerbate the problem. As it gets hotter, people buy more air conditioning which then makes it worse! Its a vicious circle.
There is part of me that hopes that the current ruling generation will soon all pass and this age of greed will cease and the earth can breath a sigh of relief, but no. It appears there are a long list of cunts who will happily sacrifice their children's future and everybody else's for the next few billion dollars. The 1% simply do not give a shit at all. They literally think, "Well I wont be here when the world burns, why should I care now?"
The worst part is it wasn’t the 1980s, it was almost 100 years before when people first started understanding that humans could affect the climate.

global warming
I think the term is making a comeback, it was abandoned to not offend global warming deniers. And it was instead called climate change. Because some parts of the globe can still get colder, and that is apparently too confusing for American Christian and Republican morons to understand.
It is and always was global warming that is the actual issue, so we should all go back to calling it that again.
We had a US Senator bring a fucking snowball onto the floor of the Senate to disprove global warming.
I'm French and remember in the 70s/80s even 90s we never had 30+°C in fucking May. Now we have 35+ for days, multiple times a year, it's incredible.
"incredible" is not usually used to mean "not credible" (or "not believable") in English. It usually means "really good". I'd go with "unbelievable" or "insane", personally.
This might just be a North American thing though.
agree, “unbelievable” or “insane” are better, I am not an english native speaker :)
"incredible" works perfectly fine. Think of the phrase "He had incredible strength" meaning an unbelievably high measure of strength.
On the contrary, this meaning is a newer thing. As recently as the 70s incredible and fantastic were used in place of unbelievable but not always in a positive way.
Which makes it even harder, as the dictionary definitions may suggest that they're still used that way in popular usage. I haven't heard "incredible" used negatively or neutrally (except ironically) in my entire life, which did begin in the 20th century.
FYI in statistical language “almost certainly” means with probability 1.
100% probability.
The math of measure theory allows for such an outcome to happen, just with immeasurably small chance.
Meaningless title, we are already breaking records every year for over a decade
Eh, I'll just start running my AC lower and open the windows. Its fine guys.
there were 23 and 24 records set. 25 was 3rd warmest year. Every year since 2015 is in the top all time list. I get the point that el nino will break record this or next year. But progression has bigger consequences than this headline.
Global heating is already estimated to be taking one life every minute, with the toll likely to rise unless emissions fall rapidly.
I think it's going to be a while. We're still committed to the infinite growth paradigm and infinite growth requires infinite energy.
There's debate about the feasibility of green growth, but the fact is green energy is already helping to fuel growth. It's a relatively small percentage of the overall energy mix now, but green energy will grow, and so will fossil fuel energy. We'll have green growth and fossil fuel growth, and probably nuclear growth, too. As long as we keep growing, we'll need it all.
Will there be a solution ???
Well, we're about 60 to 80,000 years from the next ice age. If we haven't all died by then we could wait for that?
Or just about every developed nation on the planet needs to move to sustainable fuels now!
Nuclear fusion would be an absolute game changer. Clean, infinite energy, but it is too far away for it to make a difference let alone be able to reverse the damage that is being done. For future generations sake, as a leader of a nation, I'd be throwing all my money at it. Like, yesterday.
Just a friendly correction: we currently are in an ice age. You're thinking of the next glaciation. The confusion is understandable because you are using that term exactly how it's generally used by lay people, but I think the distinction is important, especially as we're thinking of long term natural history and understanding climate science.
At least theoretically yes. We can release particles into the atmosphere that has the opposite effect of the greenhouse gasses. That instead of keeping the heat within the atmosphere, would reflect heat back to the universe.
But since USA seems keen to continue to completely drop the ball on the issue, for such solutions we probably need to look to EU or China.
My suggestion would be to put particles in geostationary orbit above USA, because they are the main villain that has caused this problem, and has done the least to help solve it. So it might as well be them that get less sunlight.
Duh. 🤡
Are Americans really still denying global warming?
If they are, I don't see why that crowd should be considered worth informing, they are clearly immune to reason and evidence.
What's the last three record hot yeats
2024, 2023, and 2025
Bitch I don't see a single musing on the constructed experience of death as separate from real death or where the title of a lauded neo-western comes from like bro do u even slouch towards Bethlehem I ask about the hottest Yeats and you just give me numbers I can't even with this trash website full of fucking illiterates
Almost certain to HAVE one I'm sure. Whether we actually endure it is another question

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