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In my own lifetime, the summer highs have increased 20⁰F (mid 70's -> mid 90's) in 20 years. When I point this out to people and extrapolate a linear trend, another 20⁰ in 20 years, I get told I'm an insane doomer conspiracy theorist. Especially when I point out that another 10 degrees for a few weeks is all it takes to flash fry crops.

Yet these same people have been bitching nonstop about how hot it is this year. Yet apparently, I'm the crazy one. 🤪

Funny thing is that in my mind, I'm still presenting these people with a weenie hut jr vision of the future. As we all know, this heating trend is actually exponential, not linear.

They have been using the minimum estimate for CO2 impact on heating since the 1970s. The level of pollution in the air has been hiding the true impact and as the various causes of pollution are removed the earth energy balance is changing such that it turns out that the highest end of the CO2 impact is actually correct, which doubles the heating effect. There has been about a third of climate scientists who have been warning about this but they have consistently been called the extremists or the doomers and they have been right all along. They were always right, the evidence was based on actual experiments of the impact of CO2 and not by measuring the planet.

It's been 100 degrees for days on end here. When do we start living underground? I don't want to live in hot miserable world for the rest of my life... HELP!!!!

It feels like sometimes we fail to comnunicate that while climate models are extremely rigorous and meticulously put together, there's always the possibility of unknown factors.

I appreciate scientists aversion to alarmism, and the difficulty of balancing effective communication on the topic. But if we're honest our species has been dicking around with the most complex system we know of. Even if we start doing everything right there are certainly any number of surprises lurking that we will need to deal with. And to some degree guessing at the scope of the unknown is impossible.

Can someone tell me I'm wrong and somehow we know where all the environmental landmines are? Cause I want to believe that the "this much inventment and change equals this much less warming" can be relied upon, but I worry it's tempering the apparent scale of the crisis.

Man... I remember a few decades back when global warming seemed like some big scary possible thing. After living through living and events and news and happenings since then the cleansing, purifying flames are starting to sound more peaceful and serene than scary.

Earth become Mars when?

Needs more clean coal

/s

Exponential change is exponential....

shocking..

Oops.

Don’t they do this every week at this point?