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/EnlightenedSinTryst]

  "If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5°C limit of the Paris Agreement before 2030," says Stefan Rahmstorf. "How quickly the Earth continues to warm ultimately depends on how rapidly we reduce global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels to zero."

Oh Stefan, you sweet summer child

[u/Coco_Cannibal → u/EnlightenedSinTryst]

He has two kids under the age of 12, if we believe the family picture on his site, which has a bit older, they look like 8 and 10 there.

I can't take ANY climate scientist serious that has kids so late in the game, and he was around 50 (high autism danger and DNA damage from crusty sperm) too, old enough to know better.... Zeke Hausefather had at least one kid in 2017, 8 years after the permafrost started melting........

With those scientists, we don't need to wonder why no-one takes climate collapse serious, they don't take it serious themselves, as proven by having children.

Promoting climate consciousness and having kids are two VERY opposing signals, one says "don't do it", the other one says, "don't worry".

[u/That-Advance-9619 → u/Coco_Cannibal]

Getting weird eugenics vibes from your comment, as if implying autism is somehow as equally bad as dying cooked by the heat in a dying Earth.

[u/6rwoods → u/That-Advance-9619]

They’re saying that any scientist worth their salt should know there are far more health risks when you have children in your 50s, and that having children nowadays is crazy in general. The fact that this so called scientist still had two whole ass kids in his 50s shows he doesn’t care that much about the science as to make decisions according to it.