Humanity Heating Planet Faster Than Ever Before, Study Finds (theguardian.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/03/06/2210215/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds
- Source link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds
> Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found. Climate breakdown is [1]occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling , according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. It found global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over the past 10 years. The rate is higher than scientists have seen since they started systematically taking the Earth's temperature in 1880.
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> "If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5C (2.7F) limit of the Paris agreement before 2030," said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-author of the study. [...] The researchers applied a noise-reduction method to filter out the estimated effect of nonhuman factors in five major datasets that scientists have compiled to gauge the Earth's temperature. In each of them, they found an acceleration in global heating emerged in 2013 or 2014.
The findings have been [2]published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters .
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds
[2] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2025GL118804
We so needed ANOTHER study to confirm this... (Score:3)
Such a necessity. ANOTHER study. Really, fundamental. We don't have enough of those, right?
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> Such a necessity. ANOTHER study. Really, fundamental. We don't have enough of those, right?
Science (real science) does require additional studies (using different methodologies and underlying data) to confirm the conclusions.
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It is good to have model updates based on more data. All physics predictions are, by the nature of the science, necessarily limited in range - you approximate a solution around a point where you have valid initial and border conditions. Besides, because the models themselves are increasingly complex, they improve significantly with more work and through validation.
I know these words are long and hard to grasp, but to put it in Neanderthal man terms, while you know the principles (the sabertooth is stalking
The 1.5C target was missed a decade ago (Score:3)
Yelling to keep under the 1.5C limit is like campaigning to save the dodo bird and the Yangze river dolphin. You’re trying to save something that’s already dead, buddy.
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Lighten up, Francis, and read that quote once again. Or let me remove the words that confuse from that statement and re-state it in a simpler way:
Now, this piece that you interpret as someone "yelling to keep things under 1.5C limit"
> "If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5C (2.7F) limit of the Paris agreement before 2030,"
Actually says this:
"Shit's warming up so badly, that we'll go hotter than the magic 1.5C in 2030 already and this will only get worse later". Or, to use the "AI" for a more polite way of saying it:
> If the earth keeps getting hotter at the same speed it has for the last 10 years, we'll pass the temperature goal that countries agreed to in the Paris agreement before the year 2030.
See? You're actually arguing with the point you're making.
Who cares (Score:2)
I'm rich. I'm going to space. I'll see you guys roast from my telescope on Moonbase Alpha. Bye bye suckers.