It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area

Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area by Aeolun on Sunday August 16, 2020 @05:03PM (#24181288)

I think it’s weird that all articles by scientists seem to say we should be worried about an average increase of 0.5C, which seems fine.

But what is really happening is these ridiculous weather patterns becoming so much more common the last few years that it’s noticeable to pretty much anyone.

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Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area by FuckButtons on Sunday August 16, 2020 @07:19PM (#24182233)

0.5c only seems fine because they never contextualize that with the standard deviation. An average increase in temperature across the whole world, for a whole year can mean huge localized spikes in variation, or it can mean everywhere is a little warmer. Unfortunately for us, earths climate is ludicrously nonlinear, so we are in for the former, rather than the latter. Making global heating simple enough to communicate to everyone necessarily means lossy compression, but small numbers like that really don’t convey the risks at all.

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