Found in this great toot
Wheres the scale for temperture change, yeah the colors indicate a trend from cold to warm but how warm isnt shown
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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What I’ve found as an average the change isn’t much.
What I’ve noticed watching daily trends there is a big difference.
Weird things like I can wear shorts in winter when before I needed a heavy coat.
If the earth isn’t warming than I am.
If the earth isn’t warming than I am.
Could you maybe stop? It's affecting all of us, too.
My work computer has that thing in the taskbar telling you about news and the weather. I swear it tells me about a record high temperature for this day several times a week.
I know many people who deny the climate is changing. They will use a freak snow storm to show the weather is the same.
When I was a kid it started to get cold in October, it would snow in December and be there till February in most cases. I have years of photos, so it's not just my memory.
Now, if it snows, it lasts a few days tops. In December, i can be out side grilling in shorts. I don't mind people having different opinions as to the cause or the way to fix it, but to deny it is even happening is mind-blowing.
so it’s not just my memory.
no, it is not just your memory...
The climate is really complex, and is the poster child for chaos theory. One of the weird things is that more snow storms and unseasonally cold weather is an expected result of global average temparature rises.
It's one of the reasons it's better to say "climate change" instead of "global warming", to help ease the confusion.
My favorite is all the predictions were wrong.
We can’t ever figure out the weather accurately in a local region. So yeah, figuring out the global weather is going to much harder.
I don’t deny climate change. I don’t know if it man, the sun or something else. I have opinions but I think the debate is still. We need to first all agree things are changing which to me is obvious but we can’t get agreement on that.
I was about to ask the same
Like I get it’s getting warmer but what’s the trend vs the PPM
We're doomed, and most of us don't even care. This world has become so hellish that a great many of us, conscious of it or not, just want to escape.
I think people care, we're just trained into patterns of learned helplessness and isolation over generations.
There were large swathes of people who resisted during the 19th and 20th centuries, they were systematically murdered en masse. I bet it has happened many times over the centuries.
Sometimes I wonder if we've bred ourselves into either loyal obedience or dispassionate compliance because everyone else was always killed by the first group while being ignored by the second.
Or maybe it's just me 🤷♂️
It's because most people just want to live their lives in peace, even if they're under a boot. That has always been true.
I do what I can in terms of voting and whatnot, otherwise I try not to think about it too much.
But we can't give up and keep emitting because we don't know how dire it will be. We shouldn't ensure the worst outcome.
Great Kurzgesagt vid on the subject https://youtu.be/LxgMdjyw8uw Especially at https://youtu.be/LxgMdjyw8uw?/t=11m11s
I read in a book written in the 90s that said in 60's the US DoD commissioned a study of threats to America, and the single biggest one was global warming. Not Russians, or Chinese, nope it was this. They knew then.
If only agreeing to do something was as effective as doing something.
I. DECLARE. BANKRUPTCY!
Depressing af
Somewhere in a few hundreds years time will be ....
Great Pan Global Accord To Restart Civilization ... and it will correspond with the extinction of the human race
looks like all these agreements are accelerating CO2 ppm
Just there to quell the public so the corporations can keep polluting
Whenever I see this, I always wonder - what effect does the change in atmospheric composition have on humans?
Directly, pollution is responsible for quite a surplus of deaths in densely populated areas.
Apart from that the CO2 isn't that much to have a significant effect on us.
Also microplastics, sadly.
People are dumber with higher CO2 concentrations. No joke bring a brilliant person and they will struggle. This is why we need good ventilation in classrooms because it can get stuffy(low O2 and high CO2)
How high of a ppm do you need to get that effect?
Making the atmosphere more akin to stuffy offices with bad air flow, mid-afternoon, but globally. Hmm.
What is the co2 ppm in a stuffy office I wonder.
Looked into this a while ago and I seem to recall 1000-2000ppm is “very stuffy office” territory.
(At one point I worked in a really terrible office and was considering trying to measure it somehow)
Looks like about 350 years till we get to 1000ppm at this rate. I'm guessing we'll die of being cooked before we get much dumber, but it's an interesting side effect.
Well here's the thing... There's a huge difference between levels where acute exposure causes something noticable, and living with exposure to something all the time
I teach at a secondary school in the UK, in a classroom with no external windows (but with air quality monitors). After 1 hour of 30 teenagers the co2 will be at around 2000-2500ppm which I can confirm is stuffy. Highest I've seen is in the next door classroom which made it up to 3800ppm back in the summer.
It really does make you (and the kids) feel really dopey, so not exactly ideal.
There is a certain atmospheric concentration of CO2 that accompanied giant dragonflies and shit. Maybe if we bring those back people will take things more seriously.