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Re:World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of... by mirekrusin on Saturday October 07, 2023 @07:37PM (#37806473)
They say it's going to trigger point of no return with permafrost unfreezing relasing methane (80x more potent than CO2), melted icesheets that won't radiate out heat etc. all together entering self sustaining cycle that we won't be able to physically stop.
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Re:World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of... by idiotsecant on Saturday October 07, 2023 @10:34PM (#37807401)
Last one out turn off the lights.
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Re:World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of... by pier25 on Sunday October 08, 2023 @12:38AM (#37807912)
This is the real danger.

We can control human emissions but not these feedbacks.

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Re:World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of... by scotty79 on Sunday October 08, 2023 @04:43AM (#37808852)
> We can control human emissions

I'd say we can't even do that because human stupidity is fifth elemental force.

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Re:World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of... by ksec on Sunday October 08, 2023 @05:39AM (#37809105)
>I'd say we can't even do that because human stupidity is fifth elemental force.

I am definitely copying that. Very nice way of putting it.

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Re:World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of... by RHSman2 on Sunday October 08, 2023 @09:55AM (#37810458)
Which shall be eradicated in 100-200 years. The stupid think they are clever than they are…destroying the very elements that enable us to exist.
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Re:World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of... by scotty79 on Sunday October 08, 2023 @09:57AM (#37810477)
Even if we get eradicated in 200 years, some effects of our stupidity (global warming included) will outlast us by millenia.
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Re:World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of... by RHSman2 on Friday October 13, 2023 @05:46AM (#37868721)
Yup, but everything will reset. If a tree falls on earth and no humans exist, does it matter? Of course but entities that don’t have a sense of human importance and time aren’t attached like the virus we are.
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