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    11 months ago

    As in accelerating. Not just continuously getting warmer, but doing so faster and faster.

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      11 months ago

      Which is what it’s been doing for decades

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        11 months ago

        I mean, yes, but if you view the bump in 2015 as some anomaly, then things were actually surprisingly linear, starting in the 70s:


        Source: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/global-temperatures

        2023 isn’t on that chart yet, but same organisation, same baseline period, puts it at 1.2°C (Source).
        So, not only does it confirm that the 2015 bump was not an anomaly, 2023 is actually an even bigger bump, which just makes it a lot clearer that we are accelerating.

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          11 months ago

          Yes. I could see either a line or a curve fitting there, but there’s a lot more bumps than I expected.

          Really interesting graph. Thank you.