Bad news, everyone! The climate is even more fucked than that recent "ten years until doom" prediction because it turns out the oceans have been sucking up way more heat than we'd thought.

[Jason]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/10/31/startling-new-research-finds-large-buildup-heat-oceans-suggesting-faster-rate-global-warming/

[Boyle5150]

Conjecture 

[Ricofoley]

Also, the fascist guy in Brazil is planning on basically bulldozing the Amazon rainforest. It's getting genuinely terrifying thinking about this stuff. We're continuing to move in the wrong direction.

[SilentWorld]

Exciting 

[Jason]

11 minutes ago, Ricofoley said:

Also, the fascist guy in Brazil is planning on basically bulldozing the Amazon rainforest. It's getting genuinely terrifying thinking about this stuff. We're continuing to move in the wrong direction.

 

Hope you like corn, like in Interstellar.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

But carbon is plant food

[SuperSpreader]

Smoke em if you got em

[CitizenVectron]

I'm glad that we decided not to have kids. 

[Bloodporne]

In your face, Prius. Stupid car.

[Remarkableriots]

 

[Remarkableriots]

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/sd-me-climate-study-error-20181113-story.html

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Co-author Ralph Keeling, climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, took full blame and thanked Lewis for alerting him to the mistake.

“When we were confronted with his insight it became immediately clear there was an issue there,” he said. “We’re grateful to have it be pointed out quickly so that we could correct it quickly.”

Keeling said they have since redone the calculations, finding the ocean is still likely warmer than the estimate used by the IPCC. However, that increase in heat has a larger range of probability than initially thought — between 10 percent and 70 percent, as other studies have already found.

“Our error margins are too big now to really weigh in on the precise amount of warming that’s going on in the ocean,” Keeling said. “We really muffed the error margins.”

A correction has been submitted to the journal Nature.

According to the most recent IPCC report, climate emissions need to be cut by 20 percent by 2030 and then zeroed out by 2075 to keep warming from exceeding 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels.

Authors of the recent study had previously claimed that emissions levels in coming decades would need to be 25 percent lower to keep warming under that 2-degree cap.

While papers are peer reviewed before they’re published, new findings must always be reproduced before gaining widespread acceptance throughout the scientific community, said Gerald Meehl, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

“This is how the process works,” he said. “Every paper that comes out is not bulletproof or infallible. If it doesn’t stand up under scrutiny, you review the findings.”

 

[SuperSpreader]

Lies!!!! Rolling coal!