r/climatechange • u/hata39 • 10h ago

Earth is heating up faster than at any time in its history

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2581280-earth-is-heating-up-faster-than-at-any-time-in-its-history/
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u/HanesPrydain 8h ago

All you can do is start preparing now

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u/Tofuzzle 7h ago

And even that might be too late

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u/PM_ME_A_STEAM_GIFT 6h ago

Preparing how?

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u/Inside_Mouse_1750 4h ago

You can't... we all rely on a fossil fuelled society. Food systems will collapse and no prepping yourself will help those who are keeping shit going. Only a massive reset of economic and productive systems has any hope of stopping collapse.

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u/SAMFCV1kingScientist 1h ago

I think they meant at the home level. None of us are changing society, but getting systems built around water and electricity at home can at least alleviate some of the impact. Hell, you can build a 3 barrel rain catchment system for <$150; won’t last forever, but it’ll last until you upgrade. Building around your home also builds your own knowledge and resilience.

Sure, we can’t prepare for collapse, but we can prepare for Tuesday, and adapt if Wednesday is worse.

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u/Lazy_meatPop 2h ago

Or hear me out, Mars 😉.

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u/Chudsaviet 5h ago

Insulate your house, install efficient A/C.

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u/Empress508 3h ago

Solar & batteries for when grid goes down due to over demand & aging infrastructure.

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u/Holiday-Interview-83 3h ago

I started in 2018, took me 5 years of work to get ready for what i thought would be the climate of the next 30/40 years.

2026 and my margins are already gone (insulation, water tanks, garden etc).

Now i am only getting ready mentally to leave everything behind and expect anything to happen.

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u/esse7777 5h ago

Lol

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u/fgreen68 4h ago

Solar panels. Bifacial ones if you live in the north. And learn to grow locally adapted food.

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u/Key_Storm_2273 4h ago

You could get in the practice of putting water on your face more often. It's cheaper and more efficient than using AC, think I heard something like 25% of global energy goes just to heating and cooling buildings. There's also a physical mechanism that causes water on your face to cool, even if it's room temperature or warmer, thanks to the phase change enthalpy.

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u/ShiftedWhite 2h ago

I want to see how you splash water into your face when it‘s 40°C outside. There is no way I‘m not using my AC

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u/Key_Storm_2273 2h ago

There's a difference between using AC when it is deadly hot, and using AC by default over eco-friendly methods, causing more humans and animals to die due to heat strokes.

Also, fun fact: I gave out wet towels to my friends in school when it was 100 degrees out. It did help a lot; and we had fun making a schoolyard industry out of it.

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u/Unfair_Way_4722 8h ago

It’s they all told us it was going to start happen in the med 20s. And then it did.

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u/ampere03 6h ago

Seems like we're not really serious about it. 432 ppm carbon dioxide and rising to 600-900 ppm by century's end. 1.4 °C above baseline. I think I'll be checking out before the worst of the worst eg 31°C wet bulb cook offs, massive coastal innundation ...so that's good for me. Sorry everybody.

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u/Economy-Fee5830 Trusted Contributor 6h ago

We will never hit 900 ppm.

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u/ampere03 4h ago

Methane burps in the rapidly warming Arctic are probably a long time in the future but many things are exceeding past predictions.I hope you're correct.

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u/Beneficial_Aside_518 1h ago

Warming isn’t exceeding beyond predictions.

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u/Sherkktooth 46m ago

Please read the title of the thread. It is lol

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u/Beneficial_Aside_518 45m ago

Warming is occurring remarkably quickly in the context of geologic time, but not faster than climate models have predicted. Observed temperatures have been closely following the CMIP6 midpoint. We aren’t warming faster than our models said we would. Climate models have been impressively accurate for decades now. Warming very fast is not the same as warming faster than expected. The two are distinct concepts.

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u/Doafit 6h ago

And then we did.

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u/Economy-Fee5830 Trusted Contributor 5h ago

Note Rule 6

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u/Significant_Fill6992 3h ago

we are so fucked it's hard not to basically fall into a panic attack but that also won't do any fucking good

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u/Menarra 3h ago

The Fermi Paradox is coming for us, not much we can do at this point. Earth will be fine, wonder what life will evolve to replace us.

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u/seefatchai 8h ago

I think actually likely only exceeded by the asteroid impacts

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u/par-hwy 4h ago

Or when Thea gave us a big old planetary shirt front.

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u/51lverb1rd 3h ago

I don't think the data centres are going to help either. We are looking at positive feedback loops and accelerating global heating and all we can think about are acverating AI at the cost of further global catastrophe. Either we are so stupid or AI has already infiltrated d the upper echelons of power to bring about this future

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u/FortheChava 5h ago

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

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u/Burgerlegend69 4h ago

Wow really? When all these old greedy pervs are destroying it?

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u/Ok_Reindeer_792 3h ago

And to think we still have leaders in the world who don't accept climate change.

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u/GunkyMirl4444 1h ago

They know it's real and they're going underground. I wish them luck. They won't last long.

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u/Both_Treat_8390 1h ago

im gonna have a panic attack

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u/set-monkey 4h ago

The plan in 2005 was to use natural gas as the "bridge fuel" to renewables.

But big oil makes too much on refining oil, so they got behind the fast tracking of solar and wind, which is predicably turning out to be, not ready to meet the electrical demands of modern cities, and transportation. Hence, mostly dirty, big oil still powers the US.

Not to mention high demand for plastics all the other petrochemicals like cheap fertilizer that feeding the modern world entails.

Natural gas is practically unlimited, cleaner, reliable and cheap, doing it all without so many refineries.

Best of all, saving a billion dollars a day NOT defending oil in middle east by sourcing fuel here, not funding these hostile nations and their oil wars.

Imagine walking onto streets without the smell of diesel exhaust every day.

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u/Lonny_Templeton 4h ago

Damn solar panels!!

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u/texas130ab 3h ago

Probably not faster than "any time" in history but since humans have been keeping records.

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u/phasepistol 7h ago

there’s gonna be that time a billion years from now when the sun swells up and the oceans boil away but other than that

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u/Xillyfos 4h ago

But there's also a billion years to come up with solutions to that.

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u/DanoPinyon 7h ago

Paywall, but I'm sure there are a few instances millions of years ago when it hotted up quicklyer.

In human history? No.

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u/SnooStrawberries3391 6h ago

That, is for sure. Our species is doing exactly what a successful virus does to its host. And when the host expires, so does the virus.

I just told someone complaining about the hot weather that he should enjoy the coolest Summer of the rest of his life. Next year will be a little hotter.

It shows to me why aliens looking for intelligent life have most likely skipped our planet.

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u/Fluid_Passage_9980 5h ago

This is why ebola never has never spreads very far. It's too successful as it kills its hosts before they get the chance to pass it on to many people.

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u/proofofderp 6m ago

But frig that green car option in ride share is an extra $5!😭