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Originally Posted by wsopfinaltable
Stop being so scared
Here is an article written in Jan 2023 that will help you understand why people who actually give a sh*t are so scared.
Each of the nine years prior to 2023 has appeared in the top nine years in terms of average temperature around the globe. It has gotten crazy. The tenth year was 2010 so just outside of the last ten years.
It used to be that each year was in the top 20 or 25 years in the past, but the increase in global temperatures are now rising at a higher rate.
And then there is 2023.
Here is an article on 2023 and here is what it says:
"The WMO provisional State of the Global Climate report confirms that 2023 is set to be the warmest year on record. Data until the end of October shows that the year was about 1.40 degrees Celsius (with a margin of uncertainty of ±0.12°C )above the pre-industrial 1850-1900 baseline. The difference between 2023 and 2016 and 2020 - which were previously ranked as the warmest years - is such that the final two months are very unlikely to affect the ranking."
So you can show us a weather report on TV that is trying to change people's minds by being more radical as if that means anything in the big picture (kind of like Republican Senators bringing in snowballs during the winter to imply that it really isn't getting warmer because there's snow outside!).
The ultimate truth though is that temperatures are currently rising very fast.
Here is an article on the overall recent history of temperature change
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Past and future change in global temperature
Though warming has not been uniform across the planet, the upward trend in the globally averaged temperature shows that more areas are warming than cooling. According to NOAA's 2021 Annual Climate Report the combined land and ocean temperature has increased at an average rate of 0.14 degrees Fahrenheit ( 0.08 degrees Celsius) per decade since 1880; however, the average rate of increase since 1981 has been more than twice as fast: 0.32 °F (0.18 °C) per decade.
The amount of future warming Earth will experience depends on how much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases we emit in coming decades. Today, our activities—burning fossil fuels and clearing forests—add about 11 billion metric tons of carbon (equivalent to a little over 40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide) to the atmosphere each year. Because that is more carbon than natural processes can remove, atmospheric carbon dioxide increases each year.
According to the 2017 U.S. Climate Science Special Report, if yearly emissions continue to increase rapidly, as they have since 2000, models project that by the end of this century, global temperature will be at least 5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 1901-1960 average, and possibly as much as 10.2 degrees warmer. If annual emissions increase more slowly and begin to decline significantly by 2050, models project temperatures would still be at least 2.4 degrees warmer than the first half of the 20th century, and possibly up to 5.9 degrees warmer."