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[-] ClickToDisplay@lemmy.world 14 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/

[-] bric@lemm.ee 5 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.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

in the next few decades.

I appreciate your optimism.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 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

[-] Lifebandit666@feddit.uk 1 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.

[-] CMLVI@kbin.social 2 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.

[-] Entropywins@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Holocene is the current geological time it cover from now to a out 11,000 years ago from the last glacial period... The Paleoscene was about 66-56 million years ago.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 1 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.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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

There's a whole hot world outside of America who don't need to wait for its underfunded organizations to get around to validating the data.

But I get it. The news is dire. It's neat to cling to uncertainty in times like this unless you lived in Lytton

[-] mochi@lemdit.com 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Nonimouse@feddit.uk 2 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

[-] thisNotMyName@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Matt_Shatt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Why would you do that?

[-] ThoranTW@lemmy.world 1 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.

[-] Zippy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Honestly corporations are only producing what consume. We are using corporations as scapegoats. If we don't realize this soon and don't change it ways...

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Yes. Our 12% will really make a difference vs corporations' 80%. And we can get to that 12% if so 8 billion of us work together. I'm doing my 0.0000001% part!

[-] exi@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know corporations build shit people buy, right? It's not like they pollute for the fun of it. They pollute because we give them money to do it...

[-] Kneew@lemy.lol 1 points 5 months ago

Chat, is that true?!

[-] Metallibus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

OK, now point me to the place I can give money for the food that doesn't pollute/throw it all away.

[-] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Don't just single out meat. All of industrialized agriculture is massively carbon and energy intensive and built on gradual topsoil depletion.

[-] sjh@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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

[+] MonkRome@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Surprised by the casual climate change deniers in here. “Oh, but the data….”

[-] DeaDvey@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Gotta love them for giving us nice warm weather

[-] kenbw2@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Wait, is this true?

[-] hairinmybellybutt@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Have you been living under a rock?

What kind of news are you following to be so so surprised about this?

[-] liontigerwings@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

So you're saying it's a cycle /s

[-] SamB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, it will cool down in a few million years. We’ll be fine.

[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

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

[-] bad_alloc@feddit.de 2 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. :)

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

The solution is not to have children. Everything else is pissing in the wind.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children

[-] PeterPoopshit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Until we colonize other planets, downsizing is the only way humanity will survive. Every other person just can't be having tons of kids anymore.

[-] bad_alloc@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Fully agreed. But harder to sell unfortunately :(

[-] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

There are other fulfilling things to do with your life besides having kids. People need to realize this.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

One of the three is not like the other, in the way that it can never be eliminated. Let's play guess...

[-] uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Shipping can certainly be made much less impactful, if that's what you are thinking. A lot of shipping is overland trucking, and a lot of overland trucking can be replaced with trains, and a lot of trains can be replaced with electrified trains. That would make quite a bit of difference

[-] ahnesampo@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Shipping? Shipping is about 2 % of global CO~2~ emissions.

Large ships emit a lot of sulphur oxides (SO~x~). E.g. cruise ships emit more than all cars of Europe. SO~x~ is not a greenhouse gas, but it’s a nasty pollutant nonetheless.

[-] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 0 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.

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago

My fault. I like plastic straws in my scorpion bowls.

[-] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Damn, why'd you go and cause all of climate change? Not cool.

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago

Nope, not cool, def hot! Getting hotter.

[-] fietsbel@feddit.nl -1 points 1 year ago

bullshit, we should be ensure that the countries where a lot of childeren are being bourne, are being economicly lifted... you cannot tell people to have less childeren, if their future depends on it.

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Shout out to all of us who buy anything shipped, any petroleum or oil-based products and those of us who aren’t vegan

[+] Snipe_AT@lemmy.atay.dev -16 points 1 year ago

WAT

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