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Global heat in ‘uncharted territory’: 2023 could be the hottest year on record

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Re: Global heat in ‘uncharted territory’: 2023 could be the hottest year on record

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Not trying to deny anything but with the length of records and a random distribution you’d still expect “hottest year” to happen pretty often. (Somebody please do the statistics)

With a very slightly warming planet it would indeed happen quite often.

In other words… setting records means something, but less than one would expect by default.

The more valid statistic is something like n of the last 30 years have been the warmest on record, or something along those lines.

Re: Global heat in ‘uncharted territory’: 2023 could be the hottest year on record

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Rather than AC, which just deepens the problem by increasing our energy burn rate, we need more passive solar design. Plus more mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods.

Also: Reduce upholstered furniture, books and similar, take trash out more regularly, remove all cardboard from groceries as soon as you get them home.

Re: Global heat in ‘uncharted territory’: 2023 could be the hottest year on record

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More news at 11. Also get ready to start installing air conditioning in your home.

I saw an article the other day that we've got coal power stations on standby in the UK to power all the new air conditioning units

ooof

Re: Global heat in ‘uncharted territory’: 2023 could be the hottest year on record

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Not trying to deny anything but with the length of records and a random distribution you’d still expect “hottest year” to happen pretty often. (Somebody please do the statistics) With a very slightly warming planet it would indeed happen quite often. In other words… setting records means something, but less than one would expect by default. The more valid statistic is something like n of the last 30 years have been t…

If you look at the graph of the last 140 years of global average temperatures it definitely does not look random at all.... it just keeps going up https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ContentWOC/images/globalte...

Re: Global heat in ‘uncharted territory’: 2023 could be the hottest year on record

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After talking about it for thirty, forty years and not doing much more than feeling good about sorting our recycling, we're here at the tipping point.

We need to not be talking about "climate change" anymore.

We are here at "climate collapse".

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