• ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com
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    11 months ago

    Hopefully mostly because of the El Nino, otherwise we’re looking at a pretty drastic increase in rate of temperature rise.

    Politically it’s good though and I hope we exceed+2 degrees this year so that we once and for all can conclude that humanity completely botched that goal and maybe, just maybe redouble our efforts to help change course.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      11 months ago

      It’s not about ‘fucked/not fucked’ but a matter of degree.

      We’re at the point where we go into what is essentially a minefield where we’ll see individual ecosystem components fail. We don’t know exactly when each of those will happen, but we do know that every 1/10 of a degree of warming we can avoid sharply lowers the risk from here on out.