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"The enormous, unprecedented pain and turmoil caused by the climate crisis is
often discussed alongside what can seem like surprisingly small temperature
increases – 1.5C or 2C hotter than it was in the era just before the car
replaced the horse and cart.
These temperature thresholds will again be the focus of upcoming UN climate
talks at the COP26 summit in Scotland as countries variously dawdle or scramble
to avert climate catastrophe. But the single digit numbers obscure huge
ramifications at stake. “We have built a civilization based on a world that
doesn’t exist anymore,” as Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech
University and chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy, puts it.
The world has already heated up by around 1.2C, on average, since the
preindustrial era, pushing humanity beyond almost all historical boundaries.
Cranking up the temperature of the entire globe this much within little more
than a century is, in fact, extraordinary, with the oceans alone absorbing the
heat equivalent of five Hiroshima atomic bombs dropping into the water every
second."
Via V. T. Eric Layton, who wrote "A disturbing and interesting article with
some really neat graphics."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
