Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found.

Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures.

It found global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over the past 10 years. The rate is higher than scientists have seen since they started systematically taking the Earth’s temperature in 1880.

“If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5C (2.7F) limit of the Paris agreement before 2030,” said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-author of the study.

  • bstix@feddit.dk
    2·
    5 days ago

    This right here:

    The effectiveness of boycotts relies on a mass demonstration of refusal, and that massive movement doesn’t currently exist."

    This is the problem.

    If one dumb ass CEO decides to destroy the environment, it requires millions of people to know about it and act upon it, just to make a dent in the quarterly income statement that might make the one CEO consider other options.

    We don’t actually have a choice as consumers.

    We can vote for more regulation of companies, but politics only work locally, while pollution works globally. We’ll basically need a world wide political concesus just to stop one single idiot from destroying the globe.

    The guillotine might be a brutal and unpleasant vigilant idea, but it sure as hell is faster, cheaper and causes fewer casualties than any other way.