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Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by superxpro12 » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

Pxtl wrote: post #65

xyzelement wrote: post #5

As an observation, global warming has completely disappeared as social concern in the last few years. Great that someone is still publishing research, but it seems like being a climate scientist has gone from hottest field to nobody cares.

Because of first COVID-19 and the post-peak economic chaos distracting us, and then afterwards Trump and Putin and Netenyahu and the global rise of erratic mayhem as a political platform. https://xkcd.com/2275/ Eventually we'll have to deal with the Giant Spider Downtown, it's just that the to-do list is growing from the top.

It's foolish to assume this is not a calculated effort. It's make us feel good that there isn't people who are actually evil enough to coordinate these full-blown authoritarian campaigns.

Consider for a moment that there ARE people this straight-up evil....

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by mitthrowaway2 » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

leetharris wrote: post #16

ck2 wrote: post #6

Basically the oceans are way way way too hot which is melting even the most ancient ice and that can never be undone in our lifetimes (well maybe from a nuclear winter) USA is about to have another El Nino summer which will be scorching from overheating oceans But don't worry, USA is solving the problem by Biden banning cheap electric cars and Trump ending electric subsidies entirely, forcing coal plants to restart

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Orders of magnitude more? Do you have a citation for that tremendous claim?

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by azan_ » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

leetharris wrote: post #16

ck2 wrote: post #6

Basically the oceans are way way way too hot which is melting even the most ancient ice and that can never be undone in our lifetimes (well maybe from a nuclear winter) USA is about to have another El Nino summer which will be scorching from overheating oceans But don't worry, USA is solving the problem by Biden banning cheap electric cars and Trump ending electric subsidies entirely, forcing coal plants to restart

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USA burns orders of magnitude more per capita. And if you take historical emission (and you should!) then the disproportion is absolutely absurd.

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by WorldMaker » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

leetharris wrote: post #16

ck2 wrote: post #6

Basically the oceans are way way way too hot which is melting even the most ancient ice and that can never be undone in our lifetimes (well maybe from a nuclear winter) USA is about to have another El Nino summer which will be scorching from overheating oceans But don't worry, USA is solving the problem by Biden banning cheap electric cars and Trump ending electric subsidies entirely, forcing coal plants to restart

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That's a bit defeatist, and kind of a whataboutism. Sure, it is the greatest tragedy of the commons in history playing out as a slow motion trainwreck, but you don't solve the tragedy of the commons by continuing to make it tragic "because everyone else is doing it". You focus on your own impact and you also focus on diplomacy with your neighbors. You don't just stop, you put in twice the work.

It's also somewhat easy to shift that viewpoint a little, too, right now: China's emissions numbers have started a rapid deceleration downward. They are doing more about their emissions faster than the US. Does the US want to lose to China that badly that we shouldn't even try to align US policy to more of the emissions reductions that China is already succeeding at today? (Much less their robust plans for future emissions reductions?)

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by fragmede » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:25 PM UTC

afh1 wrote: post #15

xyzelement wrote: post #5

As an observation, global warming has completely disappeared as social concern in the last few years. Great that someone is still publishing research, but it seems like being a climate scientist has gone from hottest field to nobody cares.

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Rich people with no real concerns is one way to put it. The idea that my children, or my children's children, won't have food to eat or water to drink? I don't know that it is a concern reserved for the rich. That is certainly one viewpoint, and you gotta be some level of rich to have kids in the first place.

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by inciampati » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:25 PM UTC

FrustratedMonky wrote: post #49

captainbland wrote: post #9

Today: this Tomorrow: trillions invested in new technology for simulating human torture accurately at the molecular level, requiring twice the level of all consumer electricity use on the planet. Advocates claim "all use is valid".

Is this a reference to "Torment Nexus"?

I prefer to think of it as a reference in the Torment Nexus.

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by FrustratedMonky » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:26 PM UTC

mrlonglong wrote: post #26

ck2 wrote: post #6

Basically the oceans are way way way too hot which is melting even the most ancient ice and that can never be undone in our lifetimes (well maybe from a nuclear winter) USA is about to have another El Nino summer which will be scorching from overheating oceans But don't worry, USA is solving the problem by Biden banning cheap electric cars and Trump ending electric subsidies entirely, forcing coal plants to restart

Biden?!

Remember when Republicans blamed 9/11 on Obama, not remembering that it happened when Bush was president?

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by miroljub » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:26 PM UTC

eykanal wrote: post #3

For those (like me) who don't know the authors, apparently they are well-published authors in the field of climate science whose work is very highly cited: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=gra... Not a perfect measure of whether this is a reputable article but at least readers should know this isn't from some randos in a basement somewhere.

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Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by pjmlp » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:26 PM UTC

What a surprise with all the wars going on, and AI depleting Earth resources, what a change from about the pandemic era when everyone was into paper straws and cups and promising to be a better person, because that is what was going to change anything.

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by boudin » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:26 PM UTC

leetharris wrote: post #16

ck2 wrote: post #6

Basically the oceans are way way way too hot which is melting even the most ancient ice and that can never be undone in our lifetimes (well maybe from a nuclear winter) USA is about to have another El Nino summer which will be scorching from overheating oceans But don't worry, USA is solving the problem by Biden banning cheap electric cars and Trump ending electric subsidies entirely, forcing coal plants to restart

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Our behaviour is also responsible for China's and India emissions. We've exported lot of our production to those countries and are importing it back. If we were to measure emissions not by the country of the producer but the country of the consumer, our numbers (USA and Europe) would look dramatically different.

As consummer we are responsible for the whole world emissions in the end. Changing those habbits, can impact things far beyond borders. But that's a political choice which goes against a constant growth based economy and it seems that not many people in our countries are ready to accept this. We want to buy and travel as much as we always did but bear no reponsibilities for the impact it has.