Why are so many climate records breaking all at once?
Why are so many climate records breaking all at once?
From the hottest global average day, to the highest average sea surface temperature and the lowest Antarctic sea ice extent - here’s why so many climate records are breaking, all at once.
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Sounds like a tipping point to me, but I am not smart.
“Gradually, then suddenly.”
Well tentative take I saw from a climate scientist (in the news I think) was that it might be a flickering of a tipping point. The idea being that complex systems can temporarily look like a new state that they're close to tipping into but not quite there yet. If true, it would mean that we're closer to some tipping point than we thought or would like and this is a kind of prelude.
I feel like this is effectively denialism at this point. We're looking at serious crop loss (80% by some estimates) across the US and Canada and it's only going to get worse without massive projects or geoengineering. Combine that with a Russia/Ukraine war and we're looking at 1,4,5,6 and 9 of the worlds top 10 wheat producers looking at a minimal crop. We're far closer to famine than we realize.