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‘It’s a scary time’ as world shatters temperature record (www.politico.com)
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[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Even more ominously, those surging temperatures are quickly jeopardizing the most ambitious target that nations around the world agreed to in the Paris climate agreement more than eight years ago

Who would have thought that writing a bunch of good wishes on paper doesn’t make them come true.

[-] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago

So, we are roughly at 1.5C 😬

[-] CodingAndCoffee@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

We'll try on +2.0 this summer, just to give it a whirl. That shipping fuel sulfur was masking a lot

[-] ChemicalPilgrim@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

We were accidentally geoengineering this whole time and stopped abruptly, it seems.

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