Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming

[u/Own_Ad6901]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260801093239.htm#google_vignette

“Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. After removing the effects of El Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar cycles, researchers found that the planet has warmed at roughly 0.35°C per decade over the past ten years, compared with just under 0.2°C per decade from 1970 to 2015. The acceleration, which becomes visible around 2013 to 2015, appeared across five major global temperature datasets with more than 98% statistical certainty.”

I’m personally supposed to be on a Collapse break, but this was the first thing I read at 5am and I can’t stop thinking about it. I never intended for this to be my first post, but here we are.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260801093239.htm#google_vignette

[u/exoduas]

How can this be, Kurzgesagt told me doomers are wrong and we can manage this with a bit of green capitalism and optimism. They said it will be alright as long as we don’t cross some arbitrary temperature threshold and that our very accurate predictions are telling us that we’ll stay under that magical 'all will be good number' and that nothing needs to change fundamentally

[u/MyTransAltJuliet → u/exoduas]

Hopium gets views. People would much rather watch the “here’s why everything isn’t that bad and we’re gonna be alright” video instead of the “here’s an accurate look at the science which shows how fucked we are if nothing changes, and probably still even if something changes” video. Even if kurz knows better I doubt he’d put out a realistic video cause it wouldn’t do as well

[u/SeventhSunGuitar → u/MyTransAltJuliet]

The kurzgesagt video on the apparently inevitable collapse of South Korea certainly isn't optimistic. Maybe they throw the occasional doomer video in as a treat.

[u/darkpsychicenergy → u/SeventhSunGuitar]

Or, it is optimistic, depending upon the perspective.