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 threethirtytwo » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:46 PM UTC

vaylian wrote: post #28

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.

A couple years back I saw articles about how we're basically less than a year from the tipping point.

Then nothing.

My guess is we passed the tipping point. It's inevitable by now.

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by doktor2un » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:46 PM UTC

rwmj wrote: post #32

doktor2un wrote: post #26

I’d love to see the raw data.

https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets

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Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by jl6 » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:47 PM UTC

hasley wrote: post #29

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?

Before areas become completely uninhabitable, we will see areas become increasingly stressed: heat waves, more extreme weather events, poorer crop yields, depleting aquifers.

Stress increases conflict risk. Fights for essential resources (land, water, food, shelter) will break out long before those essential resources are completely gone.

If we skip past the immense suffering and death part, we will probably end up on a planet where national borders have been redrawn by war and desperation, and a smaller population that lives in more northerly climes.

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by coryrc » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:47 PM UTC

hasley wrote: post #29

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?

It's going to happen, so that's exactly what we should be prepared for.

I'm sad all ocean megafauna are going to be extinct.

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by doktor2un » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:47 PM UTC

foltik wrote: post #49

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_...

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Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by tonymet » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:47 PM UTC

foltik wrote: post #45

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...

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Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by foltik » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:47 PM UTC

tonymet wrote: post #39

linohh wrote: post #33

Third hottest year on record, so far.

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This isn't some big conspiracy. "On record" is since recordkeeping began in 1880.

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

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by chickenimprint » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:48 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?

The real practical solutions are trivial, the politics are not. It's a collective action problem, where the US is one of the actors.

Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:48 PM UTC

hasley wrote: post #29

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?

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Re: 2025 was the third hottest year on record

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Post by pkdrollsover » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 6:50 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?

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