World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year
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Re: World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year
#2So tell me how they actually measured global mean temp back in 1850?
Re: World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year
#3So tell me how they actually measured global mean temp back in 1850?
Re: World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year
#4So tell me how they actually measured global mean temp back in 1850?
There are things called 'proxies'. The same way you can assess the crime rate of a certain area by the amount of littering by the side of the road.
Re: World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year
#5So tell me how they actually measured global mean temp back in 1850?
With help from sea sponges as recently discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39268387
Re: World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year
#6I'm a technological accelerationist simply because I'm certain, with the 30 years of warming baked in from this point + the impossibility of carbon emissions lowering on average anytime soon, the only way to save the world's species, our state and growth of civilization and such is through technological advances, AI, terraforming, etc. There's no hope simply through austerity, things are too screwed already.
Re: World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year
#7I'm a technological accelerationist simply because I'm certain, with the 30 years of warming baked in from this point + the impossibility of carbon emissions lowering on average anytime soon, the only way to save the world's species, our state and growth of civilization and such is through technological advances, AI, terraforming, etc. There's no hope simply through austerity, things are too screwed already.
Can you connect the dots a bit more than that? To me this just sounds like self-serving hand-waving.
Re: World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year
#8I'm a technological accelerationist simply because I'm certain, with the 30 years of warming baked in from this point + the impossibility of carbon emissions lowering on average anytime soon, the only way to save the world's species, our state and growth of civilization and such is through technological advances, AI, terraforming, etc. There's no hope simply through austerity, things are too screwed already.
How on earth is AI going to help?
Re: World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year
#9> The findings do not represent a break of the landmark Paris Agreement, which aims to “limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels” over the long term.
It seems safe to say we are now locked in to a path that will break the Paris Agreement, unless "long term" includes space sunshades, scattering reflective particles in the upper atmosphere, or other similarly drastic geoengineering solutions.
Re: World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year
#10I'm a technological accelerationist simply because I'm certain, with the 30 years of warming baked in from this point + the impossibility of carbon emissions lowering on average anytime soon, the only way to save the world's species, our state and growth of civilization and such is through technological advances, AI, terraforming, etc. There's no hope simply through austerity, things are too screwed already.
this is how we got into this mess in the first place!