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.
  • floofloof@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    22·
    12 hours ago

    Scientists were warning us of the impacts of global warming for at least a decade

    They’ve been warning us with some urgency since at least the 1970s. There were concerns published about it in the late 19th century. By the early 1990s the warnings were loud and clear for everyone to hear.

    • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      There were cartoons about it in the 1900s, people had an idea about it pretty early on when rivers stopped freezing suddenly.

    • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      7·
      3 hours ago

      COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE. The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.

      – Rodney & Otamatea Times (1912)

    • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      11 hours ago

      Yes, this makes us even more ignorant. At some point in the past I was kind of hopeful we as united humanity can overcome this problem, like with the ozone layer hole, but then these individualistic policies started to sweep over the world and people started to care about other problems more.