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Longer seasons will be good for a few years, until summer gets so hot that people start dying. Oh wait, they are dying, in the order of hundreds of thousands of climate deaths each year. But that’s okay, because we have hearty, heat resistant crops. Oh wait, we don’t. There are already reports of major crop failures in North Africa and minor crop failures in Europe.

Some years there will be massive flooding that obliterates yield, and other years it will be heat and drought. None of the reputable science sources I’ve read post anything positive about future crop yields regarding climate change, quite the opposite.

Current climate predictions place us at +3C by the end of the century, which means 100F+ wet bulb temps in previously moderate climates. Nothing we care about survives those temperatures. Not people or crops or cattle.

You’re not wrong on a micro scale, but this is global average temperature. There is significantly more energy trapped on the surface of the Earth, and it doesn’t have anywhere else to go. There are many many factors contributing to the reason why this year has been such a massive leap, primarily El Niño (behind GHG’s of course), but the consequences are dire.

There will be permanent damage to critical Earth systems that will further accelerate climate change, even if the temp backs down as El Niño retreats.

Oh, and by the way, El Niño is still ‘ramping up’ and won’t be at max energy for another 2-3 years. Expect more large temperature anomalies in the coming summers.

This is the logical endgame for the search engine form factor. Remember watching mom ask google questions using complete sentences and punctuation with a “please and thank you”?

The appeal of a conversational response was too great to wait for a solution to the problem of training data quality.

I think the sense of martyrdom comes from the fact that these changes directly affect how millions of users spend large chunks of their day, which is itself the location where these discussions are happening. Stack that with the very visible corporatization of many of their other favorite websites, and you see this emotional backlash. The internet is just different now.