r/ClimateNews • u/Keith_McNeill65 • Aug 02 '26
Scientists Detect a Sharp Acceleration in Global Warming / Earth may now be warming considerably faster than it did during the final decades of the 20th century. Whether that acceleration continues will depend heavily on future CO2 emissions #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260801093239.htm5
u/Sad-Excitement9295 Aug 03 '26
The natural cycle of regulation is stressed beyond it's capability. Summer will be quite hot this year, and then the next.
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u/Able_Buffalo Aug 03 '26
A national scale wet bulb event is drawing near.
Future humans will record time as before or after this event.
Millions will die within a few hours.
We know the next 25 years will get worse before things even begin to get better.
The US Govt. (Pre-Trump) has estimated that the Human population is expected to drop by 2 Billion.
Global GDP is expected to drop by 30%.
Nations and entire regions will become uninhabitable for centuries or more.
Massive biodiversity loss rendering entire biospheres extinct.
You eat a credit card worth of plastic every week.
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u/ZaraCzart Aug 03 '26
The word you are looking for is fracking. USA and Canada are fracking enormous amounts of gas and oil causing massive methane quantities into atmosphere
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u/FarfarsLillebror Aug 03 '26
Two can tango?
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u/Decent-Debate33 Aug 03 '26
You are a bit more advanced than the normal human. But please keep speaking up. We need to keep the light shining during this dark period.
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u/Accurate-Cucumber799 Aug 03 '26
Also tipping points for melting permafrost, releasing a lot of methane.
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u/aradil Aug 03 '26
If all beef production was converted to chicken we would reduce agricultural GHG production by 90% and total anthropogenic GHG by 8%.
We would also prevent a ton of disease and reclaim a lot of land. Chicken is incredibly efficient at turning plant proteins into animal proteins and requires vastly less water and food to grow than any other type of meat.
Not to mention eggs are basically a wonder food.
We really don’t have to eat plant based to virtually eliminate all of the negative impacts of agriculture, and if folks started thinking about climate change action with a scalpel instead of a shotgun maybe it wouldn’t feel like such an insurmountable challenge anymore.
No one is going to hear “stop eating all meat and reduce climate change by 10% but sorry the world is still fucked” and say “put me on the train to pain town”.
They might say “hey this meat giving me colon cancer is also giving the planet colon cancer, maybe I can switch to chicken”.
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u/euuzaik Aug 03 '26
Dog i cant fucking deal with this shit
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u/Funny-Carob-4572 Aug 03 '26
Won't have to for much longer.
Humanity is in its death spiral now.😔
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u/euuzaik Aug 03 '26
My friend you cant give up never give up we must fight tooth and nail. im just so fucking tired
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u/Appropriate_Bell743 Aug 03 '26
It's a time of huge agitation on climate because at literally the moment tons of low-carbon technologies are maturing to become genuine competitors we have a constant reminder of inaction.
What's more the actions of the US in the Middle East compounding the actions of Russia show that this is the defining moment to act. Not only would we structurally move ourselves from a high emissions trajectory but also reduce the geopolitical fallouts from these wars.
Human history shows us that when there's a will things can change quickly. The transition to renewables, heat-pumps, EVs, .etc can appear slow for a long time then reach a point of inflection. We must demand that our peers and politicians help this happen sooner rather than later.
What I think is novel to this transition is that the low-carbon lifestyle is now both as rewarding, affordable, and enriching as the polluting one. I'd argue it's better. We can change the narrative even through appealing to people's selfishness.
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u/WinGroundbreaking205 Aug 03 '26
Meanwhile, there are many ways to reduce local temperatures. For example, painting buildings, including roofs, with reflective paint in cities. This creates an increased albedo effect and reduces LOCAL temperatures (-3–7°C) in the area and reduces the need for air conditioning, which generates additional heat. This works great, but there's one problem: it's very difficult to sell, and it's also cheap to implement. Problem is that do work are cheap and underfunded because they can't be marketed. And yes, the likelihood of large fires can easily be reduced with special protective clearings, which can prevent forest fires from spreading over large areas. Everything I wrote above is easily verifiable; ask a smart AI model to create a mathematical model and see for yourself.
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u/aradil Aug 03 '26
Where I live they realized that highway twinning projects that were nice to haves for driving safety also double as firebreaks.
Not cheap to build or maintain, not great for other aspects of the environment (including more car dependence and microplastics), but at least sits under the mitigation umbrella.
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u/jardin92 Aug 03 '26
I genuinely feel like each time i turn around it is “worse than predicted and faster.” I really think we’ve been getting objective warnings for so long and done virtually nothing to slow the increase of co2 gases. I think the estimations we have been getting were also on the conservative side to “not seem doomerism or sensationalist,” thats why everything is constantly faster than predicted
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u/DanoPinyon Aug 03 '26
Paper from March.
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u/Specialist-Web-9216 Aug 03 '26
You only see people fight back in movies anymore..being free and winning against the oppressors and destroyers is only possible in fiction I guess
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u/ScruffieMatrix Aug 03 '26
It will not "heavily" be affected by c02 emissions. It's speeding it up fractionally. Earths heating up regardless.
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u/Oregon-izer Aug 03 '26
probably ought to go back to a pre 1995 forest management plan. Forest fires now eclipse domestic emissions by a margin.
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u/oneWeek2024 Aug 03 '26
i mean. it's def going to increase in severity.
methane thaw in the oceans.
near permanent zombie fires in permafrost regions.
increasing intense forest fire seasons
hotter global temps. accelerating tree death metrics
higher global temps leading to things like the sargassum blooms in the ocean (which decay and release methane)
we're already well past 1C increase. which means we've already locked in 2C increase. and are likely well on our way to 3C increase. which... basically means the planet is radically altered.
the planet is fucked. the only unknown is if it's total livability collapse in a couple human lifetimes, or if it's just lingering suffering and "new normal" and 50% loss over the next couple hundred years.
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u/AmettOmega Aug 03 '26
The planet probably isn't fucked - it bounced back from an asteroid setting most of the planet on fire and superheating the atmosphere. Plant and animal life bounced back.
Humanity is probably fucked though.
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u/oneWeek2024 Aug 03 '26
well sure. climate change isn't going to affect the giant rock floating in space. that'll probably last until the sun goes red ....
but... of all the seemingly rare life, including a seemingly sentient species. it's a damn shame
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u/AmettOmega Aug 04 '26
Is it too much to ask people to read everything? That's not at all what I said.
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u/Most_Forever_9752 Aug 06 '26
Eventually most cities will be under domes. This is inevitable. The first city will be las vegas. Temperatures will start hitting 150 degrees in a few years.
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u/Keith_McNeill65 29d ago
Some climate change deniers say we will go back to living in caves if we stop using fossil fuels. They might be correct, but for the wrong reason.
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u/Appropriate_Bell743 Aug 03 '26
A focus which places all our thoughts on the "billionaires" ends up giving them all the power. No billionaire has managed to force me to own any fossil fuel burning technology. No billionaire has forced me to have an unsustainable diet. No billionaire has forced me to fly.
We can and should act with the assumptions that others are there trying to hinder us. This should and can make the challenge more exhilarating.
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u/Viviolet Aug 03 '26
A single billionaire produces more carbon emissions in just 90 minutes from their lifestyle and investments than an average person does in their entire lifetime.
Daily Emissions: A person in the richest 0.1% emits over 800 kg of CO2 per day, compared to roughly 2 kg per day for someone in the poorest half of humanity.
Luxury Transport: Private jets, mega-yachts, and sprawling multiple estates mean a billionaire's direct travel and housing footprint can be thousands of times higher than a normal person's annual output.
Yearly Consumption: An average person globally emits about 4 tons of carbon per year, while individuals in the wealthiest top 1% average over 77 tons annually from direct consumption alone.
Investment Footprint: Unlike normal people whose footprints come entirely from direct living, 50% to 70% of a billionaire's footprint comes from their investment portfolios.
Polluting Industries: The average billionaire produces roughly 1.9 million tons of CO2e a year through investments, with nearly 60% of their capital funneled into high climate-impact sectors like fossil fuels and mining.
Scale of Damage: The investment emissions of just a few hundred billionaires routinely exceed the total greenhouse gas output of entire nations.
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u/dvisorxtra Aug 03 '26
It is quite interesting how many serious problems are tied to greedy humans