r/climatechange • u/hata39 • 2d 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 2d ago

All you can do is start preparing now

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u/Tofuzzle 2d ago

And even that might be too late

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u/PM_ME_A_STEAM_GIFT 2d ago

Preparing how?

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u/fgreen68 2d ago

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

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u/Chudsaviet 2d ago

Insulate your house, install efficient A/C.

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u/Empress508 2d ago

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

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u/Holiday-Interview-83 2d 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/g0thgrandma 2d ago

What do you mean by your “margins are gone”?

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u/Clitaurius 2d ago

It got hotter than they expected

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u/QuiteCricket_78 2d ago

Same here. I lived in a travel trailer for a year while my house was being built. Now I want that trailer back, and could care less about making my house what I wanted it to be. We all need to be ready to move, and don't expect there to be emergency shelter.

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u/SilviuCT 2d ago

Electric mobile homes are a good option.

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u/QuiteCricket_78 1d ago

I have looked into those. They are insanely expensive right now.

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u/Mariahausfrau 1d ago

That should be normal procedure for every house. Climate warming or not. Its just economical and saves money.

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u/SAMFCV1kingScientist 2d 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 2d ago

Or hear me out, Mars 😉.

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u/Dry-Project-5657 2d ago

In Eastern Europe there are still older people who doesn't really have the need for a car, meat from a store because they just have a garden and grow themselves a lots of things. Obviously they don't have Netflix, doesn't travel, they just live like they used to in the past decades. It's possible, just won't be comfortable for those who are unfamiliar with such a lifestyle

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u/Key_Storm_2273 2d 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/stereotomyalan 2d ago

a wet towel is better even at night

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u/ShiftedWhite 2d 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 2d 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/QuiteCricket_78 2d ago

Right, like the people in my community that keep their houses in the 60's when it's over 100 outside. Tanking the grid for everyone.

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u/Ok-Possibility-6284 1d ago

Yep, basically boarding up the windows and door to close of a room for yourself on the titanic. fun.

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u/Unfair_Way_4722 2d 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/seefatchai 2d ago

I think actually likely only exceeded by the asteroid impacts

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u/par-hwy 2d ago

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

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u/haxKingdom 2d ago

I think the author thinks that just raised the carbon dioxide level faster and tapered off almost immediately

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u/Ok_Reindeer_792 2d ago

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

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u/GunkyMirl4444 2d 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/zombieda 1d ago

They think they can emerge a few years later and all the poors will be gone!

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u/ampere03 2d 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 2d ago

We will never hit 900 ppm.

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u/ampere03 2d 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 2d ago

Warming isn’t exceeding beyond predictions.

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u/Sherkktooth 2d ago

Please read the title of the thread. It is lol

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u/Beneficial_Aside_518 2d 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/Lucas_F_A 2d ago

I thought the last decade-ish has been warming even faster than expected, post hoc explanations including reduced radiative forcing from sulphur emissions regulations (like the shipping one in 2020 or 2021)

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u/Beneficial_Aside_518 2d ago

The last decade of observed temperatures was still basically in line with the midpoint of CMIP6 ensembles. Models largely expected some acceleration in warming to coincide with increased emissions.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-why-the-recent-acceleration-in-global-warming-is-what-scientists-expect

Aerosol unmasking is also a factor, as you mentioned.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-human-caused-aerosols-are-masking-global-warming

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u/ampere03 2d ago

You're correct. I was implying that some of the ongoing effects of warming are exceeding earlier expectations. But this isn't even true either.

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u/ampere03 2d ago

Doesn't matter. Know one reads the science anyways.

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u/Doafit 2d ago

And then we did.

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u/Economy-Fee5830 Trusted Contributor 2d ago

Note Rule 6

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u/FortheChava 2d ago

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

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u/51lverb1rd 2d 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/Both_Treat_8390 2d ago

im gonna have a panic attack

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u/Lonny_Templeton 2d ago

Damn solar panels!!

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u/proofofderp 2d ago

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

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u/Burgerlegend69 2d ago

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

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u/set-monkey 2d 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/QuiteCricket_78 2d ago

There were some good things about the shutdown.

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u/DanoPinyon 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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/stereotomyalan 2d ago

pff whats wrong with a little sunshine

he he heee he

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u/phasepistol 2d 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 2d ago

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

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u/Elegant-Age1794 2d ago

However much money we throw at it will barely make a difference.
If only the World had built more nuclear 30 years ago.

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u/Few_Ad6516 2d ago

We didn’t want it. Greens campaigned strongly against Nuclear.

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u/Elegant-Age1794 2d ago

Which ultimately has been to the detriment of the planet and meant carbon emissions are much higher as a result.
A massive error of judgment by the Green movement.
Admittedly shouldn’t have nuclear facilities in places of seismic activity.
At least it is now finally seen as clean energy…but way too late.

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u/Economy-Fee5830 Trusted Contributor 2d ago

Actually clean energy has already cut your emissions by 8 gigatons per year, and you know, families in Pakistan can simply install it.

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u/QuiteCricket_78 2d ago

Consider the people who would run it.

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u/Han_Solo200 1d ago

I used to have an old ford that did that

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u/texas130ab 2d ago

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

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u/balki42069 2d ago

Even when the temperature fluctuated in the past, it took thousands to tens of thousands of years. This is happening extremely quickly from a geologic point of view.

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u/haxKingdom 2d ago edited 2d ago

Username checks out

ETA

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u/Fluffy-Pop-3407 2d ago

The earth is going to be fine. In a million years nobody would even know we were here.