Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. Each blue line represents a different year since 1982. The red line is this year. It doesn't just set a new record. It has departed entirely from the range of previous observations.If this graph represented stock market prices, a new Olympic record or a
  • reluctant_squidd@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    Yep. No worries about this being anywhere but lemmy.

    Controlling interests decided to bury their heads in the sand and build bunkers instead of actually trying to save the planet the way we humans have known it for thousands of years.

    Whatever comes next might not be what is predicted, but you can pretty much count on it being inconvenient, uncomfortable and expensive.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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      5 minutes ago

      And as it progresses, deniers will continue to point at mistakes in the predictions as some proof that it isn’t happening, even as it occurs around them. They don’t realize that the errors that will grow are because this is unprecedented in the geological history and so scientists are having to make best guesses rather than use the past for modeling. It’s a whole new world…