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2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by 9rx »

networkadmin wrote: post #11
ejolto wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is alarmist about it? It’s just a fact.

Should I spend an hour explaining in detail, only to have my comment be auto-censored again just like the last one was?

What would you explain? Alarmism needs exaggerated alarm, which isn't found in the earlier comment. One could project their own worries about a warming globe onto the comment, perhaps, but that alarm would stem from within oneself, not the comment. Another might see a warming globe as the best thing that could ever happen and there is nothing in said comment that would dismiss that.

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by lkey »

networkadmin wrote: post #8
andsoitis wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Really? Can they send some of that hotness over to Germany, we're getting snowstorms over here. Yes, really. The warmest recent years (e.g., 2022, 2023, 2024) rank among the highest average temperatures on record for Germany. The rate of warming in recent decades is stronger than the global average, with Germany seeing about 0.38 °C per decade (1971–2022). .... and other similar statistics. Look up. https://de.wiki…

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I'm being censored!!!!

You scream with your brand new account that only talks in conspiratorial tones about how climate change isn't dangerous.

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by cryptoegorophy »

Is there a real practical solution to this? It seems like all proposed solutions in last 40 years are a drop in the ocean, or just a money grab scams. Only thing that really worked for such global scale is the ozone layer repair. Global warming/climate change I guess we should just accept it and adapt?

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by evolve2k »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #14
terespuwash wrote: post #10

A change in attitudes is not enough. Structural change is needed to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, the population is unable to achieve results.

Agreed. Our ecological goals are to make biosphere damage scarce, but our economic practices aim to make scarce things plentiful. We need something to balance out the effects of scarcity-based economics.

In the very fun board game ‘Evolution : Climate’ you “breed” animals designed to survive the climate conditions on the board. One strategy is to switch to breeding ‘carnivores’ that then can feast on the creations of other players. They downside tho is that once other players evolve their animals to have carnivore protections (fight back, scales, protective shells etc) the carnivores start to quickly starve and that player must quickly change out of this eat everything strategy back to a more sustainable strategy.

In a similar way I think what works is to push back against growth only and growth at all costs approaches and back practises and models and communities that are working in other ways.

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by stikit »

networkadmin wrote: post #8
andsoitis wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Really? Can they send some of that hotness over to Germany, we're getting snowstorms over here. Yes, really. The warmest recent years (e.g., 2022, 2023, 2024) rank among the highest average temperatures on record for Germany. The rate of warming in recent decades is stronger than the global average, with Germany seeing about 0.38 °C per decade (1971–2022). .... and other similar statistics. Look up. https://de.wiki…

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“Weather is not climate, silly. Well, unless it supports the claims of alarmists, of course”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660300

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by vaylian »

Whenever you hear a politician say "carbon neutral by 2050", interrupt them. The real goal is to avoid getting too far over 1.5 degrees warming. We need to avoid reaching tipping points that will cause non-recoverable damage to the earth system. The year 2050 is meaningless. Actual global average temperatures is what should be measured.

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by hasley »

cryptoegorophy wrote: post #23

Is there a real practical solution to this? It seems like all proposed solutions in last 40 years are a drop in the ocean, or just a money grab scams. Only thing that really worked for such global scale is the ozone layer repair. Global warming/climate change I guess we should just accept it and adapt?

What about poor people that live in areas in the world that will become completely uninhabitable?

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

evolve2k wrote: post #25
__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. Our ecological goals are to make biosphere damage scarce, but our economic practices aim to make scarce things plentiful. We need something to balance out the effects of scarcity-based economics.

In the very fun board game ‘Evolution : Climate’ you “breed” animals designed to survive the climate conditions on the board. One strategy is to switch to breeding ‘carnivores’ that then can feast on the creations of other players. They downside tho is that once other players evolve their animals to have carnivore protections (fight back, scales, protective shells etc) the carnivores start to quickly starve and that…

The trouble is, when I receive my paycheck, it just comes as "dollars". I don't know whether my employer got them by providing services to communities which are working in other ways, or whether they come from more nefarious behavior--and I have no way to refuse one sort but accept the other.

The kind of community action you're describing happens, but we need to find ways to help it scale.

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