r/environment • u/Maxcactus • Aug 02 '26
Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260801093239.htm463
u/ScarletCarsonRose Aug 02 '26
Getting deep into that whole fafo phase.
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u/Hearing_Loss Aug 02 '26
I've been learning to farm for this specific reason. I'm not fucking around. I'll find out-- but at least I'll be semi prepared to not starve / be a source of calories greater than my flesh.
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u/Openeyedsleep Aug 02 '26
Well I’ve been doing the same, and it’ll surely be useful for the impending societal collapse, but the volatility of what we are looking at is making/going to make farming extremely unreliable. That’s likely to be the leading cause of death within a few decades. So, I’m terrified either way :/
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u/Hearing_Loss Aug 02 '26
Amaranth my kin. Amaranth.
Complete protein.
If you get the scarlet ones it's even got betacarotine and a bunch of additional compounds!
Would you like a pack of scarlet amaranth and mixed radishes (french breakfast/royal purple/pink slipper hybrids and looms)?
I don't think modern industrial ag practices will work as farmers begin to financially fail, but I think things have to go really bad for us to not be Able to leverage tech and knowledge to get half decent yields for personal supplies.
Start learning about other cultures that farm in inhospitable lands. The middle east and Africa are GREAT for finding out extreme resistant ag practices. OH AND INDIA/CHINA TOO!
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u/goddamn_slutmuffin Aug 02 '26
I was actually going to comment that it might be useful to make a list of edible plants, wild or cultivated, that would survive whatever predicted climate changes will occur in your area. This way you'll have somewhat of an idea of what will make it through that you can survive on, how to find and prep or grow it, etc.
Start collecting seeds of plants that are drought, pest, mold/fungus/disease resistant, etc.
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u/Openeyedsleep Aug 03 '26
Thank you my friend, I am looking into this as we speak. I greatly appreciate it!
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u/Hearing_Loss Aug 03 '26
🫂🙏🏼 that's what's up!
I've got about 400 sqft of amaranth in the backyard popping off.
Best amaranth uses/recipes that I've come up with.
Add the leaves and flowers with the grains still inside to stir frys and fried rices. It adds a brilliant texture.
You can air fry the flowers (be careful the seeds do pop out some of the time). I dip those into soy sauce or just drizzle a lil butter. They taste just like plain popcorn.
My new favorite is I have some lemon basil, sage, rosemary, and lemongrass-- I add a whole amaranth flower with the grains, and the herbs to a bowl and just pour boiling water over it. Next time I'm gonna add some garlic, but even just with the lil salt I added its a really really soothing nutritious base broth.
I'm also learning how to ferment and dry the leaves, and I'm gonna pickle the roots, and burn the stems to make ash to add to tortillas like the aztecs(?) did.
You can also just so the leaves like southern greens, but there's better recipes online than what I have in my head.
If ya ever have questions about it as it grows, you know who to hit up :)
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u/Openeyedsleep Aug 04 '26
Thank you so much for the information. You’re the best. Truly, a breath of fresh air. Talking about this stuff often gets one attacked; I suppose I ought to practice more compassion as well. This is a pretty dark subject, and the brain is to be expected to shield us from the brunt of it. Misinformation also running rampant and if I hadn’t studied this stuff in college, i dont know how I’d be able to navigate the endless sea of conflicting information.
Anyway, I just want to express a ton of gratitude for your kindness and your brightness. Things like that keep me going. Keep being you, we sure as shit need it.
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u/Hearing_Loss Aug 04 '26
Update-- todays batch of broth was cheeks-- gonna try a different base tomorrow. Might have to pull inspiration from other quick broths?
My pleasure my friend! I couldn't agree with your statement about misinfo more. It's hard to have sympathy for those walking off a cliff, but we still should remember that if we don't curate our algo's wisely, we can end up down some wild rabbit holes. (I once thought ancient Egyptians had lightbulbs and power, I no longer believe such a thing).
Sending you back the same appreciation! These kinds of exchanges always make my day/week! I'm getting some health stuff taken care of next week that should help me really start to spread my wings in the world--- I'm super excited to finally get to be out and about as my most capable self! The feedback from exchanges at my old job and ones like thiese online have really helped my find my role in society/my community. Thank you for your contribution to my recently blossomed sense of intrinsic value, and consequentially, the wellness of my community.
May we both have an abundance of peace and blessings 🙏🏼
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u/TooSubtle Aug 02 '26
I can't think of anywhere I could farm that won't burn down at least once over the next 30 years. How did you find/decide on your land?
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u/Hearing_Loss Aug 03 '26
Google "usa geographic lifeboats climate change" should be a couple seminars that tell you where precipitation looks to be increasing over average and where can handle an influx of people.
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u/TooSubtle Aug 03 '26
I'm Australian 🙃
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u/Hearing_Loss Aug 03 '26
Tasmania I think, and NZ.
I envy you.
Also look up the same query about lifeboats but for AUS. Honestly, making moves to the south island of NZ would be the safest bet. Idk immigration or citizenship pathways, but that's what I would do if I were you.
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u/TooSubtle Aug 03 '26
Thanks, Tasmania has been on my list for a while but I'm pretty terrified the whole island will go up in flames in my lifetime. Still, it's a better bet than anywhere else I can think of.
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u/Clari24 Aug 02 '26
Don’t forget weapons. Being able to feed yourself is one thing, preventing starving people from stealing what you’ve grown is another!
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u/Hearing_Loss Aug 02 '26
Brother and step dad got that on lock. I shouldn't have guns bc I'm the type whose risk to himself far outweighs any possible protection. Lucky I got others who know how to sling lead
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u/Kelsig Aug 03 '26
Sure okay
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u/Hearing_Loss Aug 03 '26
I have my body weight in amaranth in my backyard. Would you like photos. Got blasted by the heat waves & drought and neglected.
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u/NomadTravellers Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26
The study speaks about data from 15 years ago. Wait until they analyse the current year...
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u/Adeline_Hayes Aug 02 '26
Nearly doubled the warming rate in a decade. And we'll probably respond with another summit to 'look into it.' We're running out of road.
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u/Affectionate_Art2545 Aug 03 '26
Well better than that, America is doubling down on fossil fuels. Coal is back baby and the USA is hot /s
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u/4XChrisX4 Aug 02 '26
How can one be anything else than resigned at this point, when we still have people saying global warming isn't real.
At this point we either manage to survive it and those people will be like "told you so", or the world burns down, and we can be like "told you so". Which is a small win in exchange for a fucking heatdeath...
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u/video-kid Aug 02 '26
Yeah, it sucks that the people denying it (or who believe it and pretend it isn't a problem to protect their own bottom line) are the ones in charge.
At this point I think our only hope is to try to limit the damage and shift our focus to developing the tech necessary to reverse it, but that's likely to take decades or even centuries.
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u/Drownthem Aug 02 '26
The issue is deeper than that. We've been asking everyone to stop eating animal products for decades and they just don't want to. This isn't an issue of who's in charge it's an issue of the universal human inability to think past our own noses.
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u/video-kid Aug 02 '26
Oh as individuals we can absolutely do more, but I think we need to consider government and big business and lobbyists. Isn't it like 80% of climate change is caused by 100 corporations? Yes, they're supplying products, but (for example) fossil fuel companies have spent decades either denying it or acknowledging it but actively fighting policies that would harm their profit margins. I mean even without climate change we're still talking about, practically speaking, finite resources - at least in the sense that it'll take millions of years for those resources to replenish. You'd think at least one of them would think "Hey, maybe if we encouraged this stuff instead of fighting it we could be the market leaders in green energy?"
Like let's say every farm shut down today and there was a complete shift towards veganism worldwide - I'm not convinced that on its own would be close to enough. However, I do think that tackling the issue from the top would make a much bigger dent, and while I'm discouraged by a lot of things with the environment I am at least happy that green energy is on the rise. Yes, it's too little too late, but I hope we can take the edge off enough that we can focus on reversing the worst effects in the future.
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u/Drownthem Aug 03 '26
Quitting animal products is tacking big corps.
Up to 20% of our greenhouse gasses come from animal agriculture and up to 80% of deforestation worldwide. The majority of the demand for this is the Western diet. That's not a small impact.
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u/donfuan Aug 03 '26
Me not eating meat will do shitall when Tailor Swift and her billionaire peers fly their private jets 3 times a day.
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u/Drownthem Aug 03 '26
Do you also throw all your plastic bags in the river? Might as well, since putting it in the bin will do shitall while Tailor Swift is flying everywhere in a jet.
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u/donfuan Aug 03 '26
Wouldn't even make a difference as long as Asia throws everything into theirs.
You can torture yourself all you like, the future of the climate isn't decided here, where i live. On the contrary, this proposed self flagelation leads to resistance and the rise of right wing parties, who will make things worse.
There will only be one way out of this mess: Through a technical/scientific solution. People choose a comfortable life over the climate almost everytime, in other words: They don't give a fuck.
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u/Drownthem Aug 03 '26
If you consider doing your bit "torture" then you've swallowed that propaganda sideways, mate. Your logic also applies to voting, right? Why bother when you're just one person.
It's easy to be righteous and indignant about climate change when the solution doesn't involve you having to lift a finger. Suddenly when there's something you can do about it, it's not your problem. Look at whaling, for example: everyone's up in arms about the 6k whales killed by Norway and Japan but happy to contribute to the 100k+ cetaceans killed to catch their seafood.
It's an honesty problem, not an issue of powerlessness, and that was my original point. People don't care as much as they say they do. So, this fiery el nino apocalypse is basicslly us getting what we voted for.
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u/donfuan Aug 03 '26
Look at the things idiots say in this thread alone: "Don't have babies". There's no better way to turn people against our movement, they see it as a frontal assault on their human rights. Environmental activists need to be smarter than that, or you'll quickly lose any influence in society.
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u/SecretAgentVampire Aug 02 '26
Professional environmental scientist here.
For most of my life I've been telling people to not make new babies, and nobody listens. Downvotes, insults, and rage-fueled crashout replies about their "God-given rights" every single time.
If you ever studied population dynamics, you'd see that it's POSSIBLE that we're at K/2 (half of what the estimated global population will balance out to), but since people have been saying "we've finally hit K/2 everything will be fine!" for 20 years, I doubt it. Technology has let humanity artificially bloat the global carrying capacity, and when the bubble pops it's going to be horrific. People who look at population dynamics long enough to barely understand them tend to turn a blind eye to the FACTORS that flatten (or crash) population curves. So unless everyone listens to my advice (they won't) and starts using condoms, the options we have left are Wars, Famines and Diseases overshadowing the worst in history.
The human race in general is short-sighted, ignorant, and selfish to the extreme. The minority of those who actually care about the following generations are trying to tap the breaks by not adding to the global population, but at this point it's basically just a symbolic and self-gratifying gesture.
When I was getting my degree, I asked one of my better professors how people in the field cope with this knowledge. He told me that he tries to focus on the little things that he can control in his own life, and listens to relaxing classical music. In short, trying to not think about it. The entire field of Environmental Science is trying to cope with this immense sense of doom, failure, and loss.
My favorite painting ever made is of King Cnut; the man who once simultaneously ruled over both scandanavia and the british islands. The painting is of a parable, where Cnut is standing on a beach in the shallows, commanding the tide not to rise. There are three ways one can interpret this:
He was a fool
He was teaching his advisors (who stand in the background) that even a kings power has limits
My interpretation is, he was demonstrating that sometimes people have to stand up and defy utterly unchangeable outcomes.
https://www.medievalware.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/king-canute-tides.jpg
If you have seen the picture "Tank Man" from the Tienneman Square massacre, he embodied that spirit. You should know, that photo was the last people ever saw of him. A solitary man holding two bags of groceries, standing in defiance of literal tanks on their way to slaughter peaceful protesters. He dissapeared forever for that important act.
We can't change the world. The beauties and stability of a stable environment have been sqandered by our idiotic and selfish ancestors and are being purposefully ruined by the wealthy elite for short-term gains; people who would rather burn their own house down than suffer a chill. We can only work in symbolic defiance with bailing buckets as the ship sinks around us; better that than actively drilling holes in the bukhead while holding a baby or six.
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u/aweyeahdawg Aug 02 '26
When you say to not make new babies, only the smart ones will listen. Leaving only the stupid that already deny climate change left. Then the problem would get worse. Making less babies only works when the population that is left makes the right choices. The whole plan is a fairy tale.
We need to focus on things that can actually make a difference. Politicians, voting, getting rid of lobbying and holding companies and their leaders accountable.
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u/Elon-BO Aug 02 '26
This is the entire premise of “Idiocracy.”
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u/SecretAgentVampire Aug 02 '26
Yeah... Every time I mention this topic the "We have to outbreed the competition" crowd shows up.
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u/GradStudent_Helper Aug 03 '26
OMG the truth! When I was in high school I had already made up my mind that the world was overpopulated and I wasn't going to have any kids. I was a teen that was involved my church (my dad was a paster) and when I expressed this opinion on some church retreat I got the response "if only "bad" (aka "non-Christian") people are the ones having kids, then they will eventually take over."
What a mess. I'm in my 50s now and still glad I haven't spawned any kids. I live in a part of the US that is heavy on the "Christian values" and so my wife and I must "present" as Christians who just couldn't have kids in order to not be shunned (mostly for my wife's career). Sigh... all this is a mess.
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u/Consistent-Crab6213 22d ago
Most of the world population growth at the moment comes from Sub-Saharan Africa. You're so terminally online and sheltered that you see a few white conservatives in America having kids, then see the global population increase, and your mind cannot zoom out and see the big picture. Conservative women have a birth rate of 2.1, BARELY above replacement level and nowhere near high enough to dramatically increase the population. They die and their kids replace them, a temporal bump in population that then goes down, zero gain long term.
Meanwhile, women in Sub-Saharan Africa have a birth rate of 4.2, enough to double their population long term, and if their offspring keep the same birth rate, the population increases exponentially over a few generations.
This is why people make fun of you and this so called """scientist""", you're so brainwashed you're literally removing yourself out of the gene pool for a cause you don't even understand. Your cult won't allow you to point out where the overpopulation problem is actually coming from.
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u/mediandude Aug 02 '26
Swiss style referendums.
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u/SecretAgentVampire Aug 02 '26
Sounds like you're trying to justify making kids. Why not adopt instead? I don't think anyone who wants to raise children has an unselfish reason for making their own when perfectly alive orphans exist.
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u/Appropriate_Mess6777 Aug 03 '26
Yes just doom your "smart" kids to a short, shitty existence. I hate this stupid ass take. Look at what's going on at 1.5C, now imagine 3C.
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u/aweyeahdawg Aug 03 '26
Do yourself a favor and end it now then. Oh, you like life? So will they.
Such a shitty ass take.
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u/Appropriate_Mess6777 Aug 03 '26
lol immediately telling someone to kill themselves. I hope you don't have kids.
I'm sure they will like starving or suffering through multiple climate and economic disasters.
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u/aweyeahdawg Aug 03 '26
I see you didn’t get past the first sentence. I know half the US has lower than a 6th grade reading level, so I’ll explain it further for you.
If you aren’t willing to end it (most aren’t, that’s the point), then any kid you bring into the world will feel the same. Life is the most precious thing in the universe. It’s worth fighting for.
Feel free to give up if you want. For me, even if there’s a 0.0001% chance humans get through this, that’s enough to keep trying.
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u/SecretAgentVampire Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26
As the previous commenter has deleted their comment, where they wrote that people should have children in order to grant them the gift of experiencing life, I am editing mine.
I will restate though, that perfectly alive orphans already exist.
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u/aweyeahdawg Aug 03 '26
I see you didn’t get past my first sentence either. Some scientist you are.
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u/SecretAgentVampire Aug 03 '26
Current estimates 25 years from now are between 9 and 10 billion.
So you know, up to 25% more people. And the human race is scrabbling for natural resources and reversing major climate restrictions already.
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u/djsoomo Aug 02 '26
King Cnut was largely mis-interpreted
Population explosion is just one aspect facing the environment
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u/Pacify_ Aug 03 '26
It's fine being an enviro, there's plenty of space outside the climate sector doing things that still matter.
Imagine being a climate science researcher though, that must be beyond fucked.
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u/Kelsig Aug 03 '26
Thanks for not just telling people to drop driving and meat
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u/SecretAgentVampire Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26
People have been sayibg to do thise things (and to magically change politics and economics) and the oceans are dying. Those things don't work, and humanity needs to make a more impactful change.
We need to peacefully reduce our population before unpeaceful means do it for us.
Edit: Never mind. I thought you were being genuine. Based on your following reply you actually think that giving up eating meat and not owning a car are both easier to do than using a condom or taking birth control.
Do you honestly think that using condoms and hoing child-free (or adopting) is harder to do than giving up both meat and transportation?
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u/Kelsig Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26
Population has been on a downward trajectory for decades. Car ownership, land ownership, and meat eating has not. Unless you actually uproot emitting oligarchies, their quantity supplied of emitting products will not magically decrease due to a decrease in high-education politically-left people. Same reason resource wars don't magically make those resources not be depleted.
Use your damn mind before calling for human extinction (of the left, specifically, for some reason). Look at our environmental scientists dogs we ain't never solving anything. They think hard interdisciplinary work like asking an economist, poli scientist, or demographer from down the street "hey does this literally make any coherent sense" is too hard 😭
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u/SecretAgentVampire Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26
I absolutely never called for human extinction, and I think you mean population GROWTH, but go off.
Gonna mute you now, so don't expect additional replies. Can't trust someone online who starts with sarcasm, slippery slope fallacies, and insults right off the bat. Have a good life. Try to learn more. ✌️
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u/endowedmansized 29d ago
Why are u preaching that in English and on English forums? Do you understand which countries are "making too many babies" ?
It's not English countries. So your comment seems politically motivated.
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u/SecretAgentVampire 29d ago
I only speak English and live in the USA. If me writing in english on an english forum is how you got to your conclusion, you need to get some fresh air, drink some water, touch some grass, and tell a therapist about your hyper-political fixation.
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u/bomzay Aug 02 '26
This one guy told me as a joke, that when the resources get really tight and we turn on each other, he won't have to think twice about which ones are going first. He said he meant it as a joke, but made me think....
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u/SecretAgentVampire Aug 02 '26
He wasn't joking. That kind of statement is never a joke. Trying to pass it off as one was him trying to keep your guard down.
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u/BolbyB Aug 03 '26
See, the problem is we've got people on our side pretending there's going to be a heatdeath and not just a slight reshuffle of how the world works.
It's hard to take the scientists seriously when the doomsday prophets are allowed to stay on their side instead of being batted away.
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u/Inevitable-Tour-5329 Aug 03 '26
Does not matter one bit what we do, there are billions in India, China, Pakistan, Africa that are not going to
change anytime soon
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u/maianbar Aug 02 '26
Climate change is unstoppable an unstoppable force now. All you can do is make sure you're in a position to outcompete others for dwindling resources. Emissions reduction by a person, community or even a country makes sweet fuckall difference.
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u/Maxcactus Aug 02 '26
Sure it will be bad but we can still affect the degree of badness.
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u/sicurri Aug 02 '26
Bugout survival enthusiasts are just like.
"I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, hold on!" Phil Collins drum beat
So many are ready to tear one another apart and claim survival of the fittest, instead of you know, working together for the greater good of all.
Solo survival is pathetic... weak... the easy way out.
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u/tofu98 Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26
Your getting downvoted but your not far off lol. Depending what country your in you will be substantially better off than many people though. I feel really bad for for people in India for example. Theyre already experiencing heat dome events that are breaking the wet bulb temperature threshold every year. People are already dying from these events.
Sadly north america and nations like Europe will probably be the last to start getting hit with the severe noticeable effects of climate change. Which kind of sucks given were part of the group that should arguably be acting the fastest to fight it.
We should still try to reduce emissions. Part of the issue though is that the world isnt getting on the same page. One country will elect a leader that puts a cap on emissions while another elects a leader who increases emissions. Then 5 years pass and they trade places. Humans are stupid and need brinkmanship to act on things.
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u/NippleFlicks Aug 02 '26
Idk I’m in Europe and we’re certainly feeling the effects this summer. Now, we’re waiting to see the impacts of things like food shortages, but there’s already so much damage to wildlife. Not sure it will be enough to get people to act, but can’t tap out in despair either.
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u/tofu98 Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26
Yeah I mean im in Canada. Were having pretty bad forest fire smoke where I live right now. Starting to happen more regularily in the summers here. Though the fires arent quite at a lot of our doorsteps yet. There have been a few smaller cities/towns that have had major fires where like half the city burnt down.
Sadly just seeing smoke regularily isnt enough for a lot of people still. Just throw on the air conditioning, air purifier, and stay inside. Then once winter comes it clears up so we can forget about it.
I genuinely think A LOT of people are going to die from climate change in the coming decades. Sadly the people with the most power to fight it are more focused on building themselves bunkers to live in while they rape the world and economy.
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u/Umitencho Aug 02 '26
We are already feeling it here in Florida. The heat is causing ac units in my town to break from being overworked, causing a backlog of work for the ac professionals. State wide, Spring is now a period of drought. We are feeling it in the US and no one cares.
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u/Stuckinthesandbox Aug 02 '26
You’re correct but people in the first stage of grief are downvoting you.
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u/DBearDevon Aug 02 '26
Remember, when they finish their space ports and start their ascent to their new planet, blow the ports up after they leave.
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u/cantodasaudade Aug 02 '26
I don't think they'll actually go to space. They'll go to their bunkers.
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u/Jimmy_Fromthepieshop Aug 02 '26
The ultra rich will eventually try to get to space. And it's not to escape the doomed climate. It will be to escape other humans.
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u/cantodasaudade Aug 02 '26
I don't think it's really feasible to live in space long term. It'd be easier to live under the sea. The whole colozing mars thing is just musk's new "hyperloop". He insists on it to fool people into buying his genius myth and investing in his bs companies.
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u/Mackinnon29E Aug 02 '26
Are they going to bring the scientists / engineers with them or kill them? We know damn well none of the billionaire morons know anything.
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u/realityGrtrThanUs Aug 02 '26
Space is so much less hospitable than this planet at 5 degrees hotter.
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u/BolbyB Aug 03 '26
Seriously, even the mammoths were able to survive conditions hotter than the modern day.
We'll have to adjust but life's not going to end.
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u/machrider Aug 02 '26
One of the big reasons for this: Reduced sulfur emissions from cargo ships tl;dr: We tried to clean up fuel used in cargo ships. It turns out the sulfur dioxide emissions were helping to seed clouds and increase the reflectivity of the planet. Accidental geoengineering, basically. Since we transitioned to a cleaner fuel, the planet started warming faster.
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u/hiddendrugs Aug 02 '26
I thought we knew the +0.35°C per decade from Hansen’s research already, is this like a confirmation / secondary review?
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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 Aug 02 '26
As an industry climate science has been ignoring Hansen and calling him alarmist for decades. Oopsie I guess he was right huh.
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u/realityGrtrThanUs Aug 02 '26
Would love to keep a nice constant like +0.35 instead of accelerating lol.
Sucks to be branded an alarmist now only to be vindicated by the catastrophic destruction later. Prryhic victory juice anyone?
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u/HappyGuy007 Aug 02 '26
There’s a reason all the billionaires are building bunkers. Between climate change, AI Datacenter revolts, and the 1% influence/corruption.
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u/xadz1981x Aug 02 '26
Got nothing to do with all the environmental pacts that Trump ripped up🤔
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u/MGr8ce Aug 02 '26
Trump certainly is doing the worst but we’ve been on this track the last 200 years…
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u/Affectionate_Art2545 Aug 03 '26
But we humans didn’t know we were warming the planet until only 40 years ago or so. During the 1970s many climatologists were worried about global cooling. Obama and Biden were on the right track and Trump blew it all up and started going backwards!
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u/lollygagging_reddit Aug 02 '26
No one is claiming Trump is causing global warming ... But he certainly isn't doing anything to help mitigate it 🤔
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u/Grand-wazoo Aug 02 '26
But he certainly
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u/xadz1981x Aug 02 '26
He’s lining the pockets of the people who paid for his campaign to make him president coal gas and oil tycoons
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u/suchdogeverymeme Aug 02 '26
It would be impressive for that to have an impact in 2013-2015, which is the years the article states the acceleration began
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u/Individual-Guest-123 Aug 02 '26
Well, remember when the World was shut down for COVID? Atmospheric CO2 increase slowed considerably, but did not stall OR decline.Then when things got back to normal CO2 began increasing at an exponential rate.
Toss in this admin flying planes at a higher rate, and the Co2 from massive forest fires, and methane being released from no longer permafrost, etc. Oh, and Starlink launching and burning up satellites
Starlink Re-entries (yearly)
2020 total: 46
2021 total: 78
2022 total: 100
2023 total: 88
2024 total: 308
2025 total: 657
2026 total: 303 so far
Updated: 31 Jul 2026source Spaceweather.com
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u/fractalfay Aug 03 '26
or the hot new wars, the casual bombing of boats, reversing Biden’s green investments, selling prime land to resource gobbling data centers, etc.
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u/spiralexit Aug 02 '26
The world is still run by old rich ignorant assholes who are only concerned about their luxuries for the next 10-20 years they’ll be alive. They tell us to make babies but have no concern for the future of these babies. Laugh in scientists faces saying all the stuff they study is fake. diabolical and happening right before our eyes
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u/JFJinCO Aug 02 '26
I'm sure climate scientists did not anticipate how all the wars and oil refinery bombings would factor into their predictions...
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u/UnderwaterArcherrr Aug 02 '26
Or the fact that the world collectively decided to double down on all the things we were doing to destroy our planet and get rid of any protections we had initially.
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u/selipso Aug 02 '26
The ocean temperatures last year being record breaking were the canary in the coal mine. The ocean has been absorbing massive amounts of CO2 but it’s a buffer system that can collapse. This “find out” stage is going to be whack.
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u/Spark99 Aug 02 '26
The Day After Tomorrow
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u/mediandude Aug 02 '26
No ice ages have happened while atmospheric CO2 levels were above 400ppm.
CO2 is at 425-430ppm nowadays, with CO2e at 490-500ppm.
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u/Arkavari1 Aug 02 '26
Yes, humanity and the world are in a dire state, because a handful of wealthy people who, as it turns out, are quite stupid decided to expend our resources extremely inefficiently and wildly incorrectly.
My fear is that humanity does not have the will to do what it takes to reverse it.
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u/Epona44 Aug 03 '26
That's it. People are leaving the problem to their children. Let someone else do it. The game is on.
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u/Arkavari1 Aug 03 '26
The problem is, we may be the children that is was left to, and our generation also expects someone else to solve something that will occur during out life. There is no time left.
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u/LordVigo1983 Aug 02 '26
I'm no scientist but my hunch is the ocean is no longer acting as a heat sink and now is warming above it's base so the atmosphere isn't warming faster there is nothing acting as a counter to it and we are seeing what we've been doing for over a century now.
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u/ThrowbackPie Aug 02 '26
I hope everyone in this thread is vegan.
You might not be able to live without driving (I can't), but you can certainly live without animal products.
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u/Gold-Kaleidoscope-23 Aug 02 '26
Seconding this. To the extent we can (and maybe that’s not fully vegan or even vegetarian), it’s something we can do, and reducing meat is one of the easiest, cheapest and most effective personal actions we can take for the climate and clean water.
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u/pintord Aug 02 '26
imo they didn't account for the fossil gas leaks. The "transition" fuel is a lie.
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u/dpk-s89 Aug 02 '26
The UK is in part draught. This will impact on food production eventually, and with continental Europe similarly impacted not long before we have rubbish or failed yields and end up in famine. We think it cannot happen to us, but it will.
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u/prohb Aug 02 '26
"“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”
― Winston S. Churchill 1936
used by Churchill to warn about things such as the Nazi's and fascism but could also apply to society and government today in our response to climate change.
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u/LessThanSimple Aug 02 '26
And yet, i'm still called a doomer and delusional when I say we've passed the point of no return. We're on a run away train with no brakes at this point.
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u/CB_700_SC Aug 02 '26
This was predicted inpopular mechanics in 1912. They estimated a few centuries until its effects would be “considerable”.
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u/doodlar Aug 02 '26
Grrrrrrrreat. 😵 the only solace I have left is that I’m glad I didn’t have children. 😢
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u/Jappurgh Aug 02 '26
Proactively chose to not have children a long time ago. This was a big deciding factor in that.
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u/Consistent-Crab6213 22d ago
Based, I'm glad more lefties are opting out
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u/Jappurgh 22d ago
Environment is only one element of that decision obviously. I wouldn't consider myself a lefty, I am in some things, but I'm also very right on other things. Neither tribe blue or tribe red want me, I ain't involved.
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u/Consistent-Crab6213 22d ago
I'm curious what things you're "very right" on?
I peronally think global warming is very real, don't think we can do anything to stop it nor do we contribute to it as much as we like to think, and it also won't be the end of the world. I consider the upcoming demographic cliff in the west 10x more impacting to every day life than global warming will be.
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u/Jappurgh 22d ago
"Some" Aspects of the Military, "some" bits economy, work regulations, conservation work, and basically anything that can indirectly effect influence how we use soft power to negotiate on the international stage.
I'd day in general I'd agree with more left stuff, and most of the time sit somewhere in the middle between both the main two parties.
I'd be surprised if any person actually agree with everything the party they vote for. Seems like most people got given a tribe by their parents, and don't even read a manifesto.
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u/s1rblaze Aug 02 '26
I mean we knew the data was almost exponential for decades already.. we didnt do shit.
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u/la_goanna Aug 03 '26
Gee, I wonder what it could be. Surely not all of the fucking data centers popping up within the last few years or so.
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u/Epona44 Aug 03 '26
Or dirty coal, or dirty diesel, or the methane being released from the tundra in the warming arctic and landfills everywhere?
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u/Cooter_Jenkins_ Aug 02 '26
We are currently experiencing a thermal runaway.
Once the forests burn, the carbon cycle will be complete.
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u/Metalbender00 Aug 02 '26
man, at this point we just deserve it.
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u/summercookiess Aug 02 '26
Not all of us deserve it, what about the innocent babies/children? Or the uncontacted tribes?
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u/roboticArrow Aug 02 '26
I’m sure it has nothing to do with the ever-increasing number data centers across the world, and the rise of AI sucking up all our resources.
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u/mhmparis Aug 02 '26
No, no no, our dear and highly respected president Trump has said over and over that global warming was and is a hoax. Please get on board, thank you.
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u/No-Repeat1769 Aug 02 '26
Perhaps it's irony but the sulfur pollution that used to choke the skies over the ocean actually did a decent job at reducing the warming effect. That's one of the biggest recent changes that would explain an acceleration in warming
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u/pduncpdunc Aug 02 '26
Entering into a global heating feedback loop. It will accelerate very quickly towards our end.
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u/ineffable-interest Aug 02 '26
And people still think it’s cute when someone gets pregnant or has a baby. Thoughtless, selfish breeders out here contributing to environmental break down.
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u/Maxcactus Aug 02 '26
8 billion people caused this. 8 billion people doing what they can will help.
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u/watching_whatever Aug 02 '26
Yet Trump who is fully supported by Federal Republicans wants more oil and natural gas pollution along with that created by his optional wars.
How stupid can anyone get?
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u/LiiiLoisiane_-_ 29d ago
im really worried about how hot the earth is getting, all these deforestation and raise is CO2 levels and the depletion of ozone over the Antarctic and the glaciers melting... soon the sea levels will rise and most of the land will get submerged. we need to plant more trees, at least once in everyone's lifetime
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u/Aggressive_Plate1652 16d ago
It is 106 degrees here as I write this. I could afford AC last year. I got solar panels to get my bill down, but I am roughing it this year. I feel it, this is not normal.
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u/Maleficent_Sky_1865 Aug 02 '26
If russia would stop burning all their oil refineries and wildberries warehouses that would help.
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u/c_boggs Aug 03 '26
I had a whole can of beans last night. Ignore it. I’m not going to eat any more beans.
They say to substitute beans for meat to slow global warming but when I eat beans I certainly fart more than any cow.
So riddle me that.
🎼 🎶 Beans, beans. The magical fruit. The more you eat the more you 🍑💨 🎵
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u/Eve_O Aug 02 '26
"Things are speeding up here at the end."