2025 was the third hottest year on record • Hacker News Board

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by Certhas » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:36 PM UTC

doktor2un wrote: post #26

I’d love to see the raw data.

There are tons of raw data available freely and publicly. In my estimation, there is no comparable scientific discipline with a better curated data environment.

What exact raw data would you want? I am sure ChatGPT can throw together some python that will download the relevant data.

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by tomrod » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

hasanabi wrote: post #15

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.

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What a strange thing to say.

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by mirekrusin » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:40 PM UTC

vlovich123 wrote: post #12

andsoitis wrote: post #3

Related: Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why ( https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/12/16/... )

I’m amused that the argument is that we are in a Mr Burns position where different kinds of pollution we were emitting was balancing out and somehow fighting pollution is the reason global warming is worse? While I’m sure it has some effect, the amount of co2 we pump out every year as a species is insane. The effect of ship pollution mitigating that is marginal at best

Are you sure? There is a lot of it https://www.shipmap.org

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by idiotsecant » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:41 PM UTC

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?

As with most difficult problems, this is a messy political problem, not a technical one. There is zero chance we avoid 1.5C gain. The best you can do is make life decisions for yourself to make your lifetime as comfortable for you as you can, assuming it will happen. I started doing that 5 years ago.

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by foltik » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:42 PM UTC

tonymet wrote: post #34

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Uh, no, it’s the 3rd hottest year since 1880. You can click “Download Data” and look the table yourself.

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/explore/earth-indicators/glob...

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by gwbrooks » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:43 PM UTC

I can't think of a single time in history that humanity responded to a threat in a fully coordinated manner. Maybe this is the first time, but the incentive stack from the individual voter all the way up to geopolitical grand strategy argues against it.

Trying to tell poor nations to remain poor -- or telling rich nations to consume less -- is a losing game. There's evidence that as societies get richer, their populations demand cleaner air, water, etc. And, as another commenter mentioned, a realistic hope is that the whole green-tech stack matures to the point where it can compete on price.

We'll either make lower-carbon/lower-warming solutions work at near-market rates, in a way that allows personal and national economies to grow, or it'll just be talk for the next 50 years as well.

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by idiotsecant » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:43 PM UTC

doktor2un wrote: post #26

I’d love to see the raw data.

You are capable of operating Google, right?

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by canadiantim » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:43 PM UTC

text0404 wrote: post #35

networkadmin wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It's probably the fact that you created two accounts in 30 mins to astroturf/troll a thread about climate change which is an actual, measurable phenomenon. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hasanabi Edit: this one too? https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=doktor2un

No he’s right that there’s mass censorship happening in this thread for some reason. Not a good look for ycombinator…

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by foltik » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:44 PM UTC

doktor2un wrote: post #26

I’d love to see the raw data.

Here's a raw table in .txt format from NASA

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/graph_data/Global_...

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by tantivy » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:45 PM UTC

ltbarcly3 wrote: post #36

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?

I'm not sure what we should do, it's very hard to determine what minimizes harm and maximizes benefits at a global scale. It's certainly not as simple as extremists would like to believe. Certainly it would be much (MUCH) less risky to slow warming as much as possible and maintain constant or slowly reducing CO2 levels. I think from the standpoint of predicting what will happen, my best guess is that people will use…

Electric cars are the savior of the auto industry, not of the climate. It needs to become viable for most people to get around without cars at all. The intensity of their resource consumption, both for manufacture and for infrastructure, independent of their fuel source, cannot scale up for the world population.