The huge temperature anomaly — which climate change alone is unlikely to explain — could be a bad sign for hurricane season.
    • keepthepace@slrpnk.net
      81·
      8 months ago

      The big mystery is that this year it is not another story of breaking records like the year before. The rise has been intense and no climate change models, even the most pessimistic, account for this. Either this is due to another event (like the Hunga Tonga eruption, that sent a lot of steam in the upper atmosphere, for an effect that is not well understood) or the climate models are bad and we have no visibility over what will happen next.

        • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
          61·
          8 months ago

          Doomerism is an attitude that is being pushed by fossil fuel companies to foster apathy so they can keep turning a profit.

          Don’t help them please.

          Edit: If anyone wants to see the logical conclusion of this kind of thinking, just read this exchange. I couldn’t have known when I pulled this thread how much of their ass it would show. So far they’ve called themself a “human extinctionist” and said “death to humanity” and told me to “die childless, hopefully in a climate disaster”. They haven’t commented on how this really does make them a natural ally of the fossil fuel industry. They also seem to espouse socialism, which… I don’t think they know what that means. This is just giving up with extra steps.

            • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
              41·
              8 months ago

              You are helping them by spreading doomerism. I thought that was crystal fucking clear.

              • Nudding@lemmy.world
                14·
                8 months ago

                Being a realist isn’t doomerism. Recognizing that climate change is happening far faster than predicted isn’t doomerism. Wanting oil executives to hang definitely isn’t part of their plan.

                • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
                  51·
                  8 months ago

                  The planet is correcting an imbalance.

                  This is doomerism, and I don’t believe that you don’t understand that.