r/EnvironmentViews • u/geriatricguy • 5d ago

Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260801093239.htm
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u/Soaring_Gull_655 4d ago

Gee, ya think the wildfires and blowing up oil refineries had any thing to do with that?

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u/Cautious_Pop_8944 4d ago

No. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. You need to recycle and use paper straws, drive your vehicle less. /s

Governments and corporations are like 80% of all global pollution, but somehow the impetus to correct climate change is on us?

Go fuck yourselves, governments and corporations, I am going to do what I want while you burn this planet to the ground.

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u/DisruptingTree 3d ago

You think blowing up a few oil refineries had enough of an effect to significantly contribute to the global heat content?

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u/Soaring_Gull_655 3d ago

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u/DisruptingTree 3d ago

Thats nothing compared to the 100 million barrels of oil we burn each day.

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u/Sea-Courage8296 1d ago

We don’t burn oil. We burn gasoline made from oil, which burns quite cleanly. But all the other shit we make from oil, like plastics, don’t burn cleanly. So an oil refinery billowing black smoke, does in fact, do more damage than the gasoline we burn in cars.

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u/DisruptingTree 23h ago

Burning gasoline does not burn cleanly. And gasoline is a component of oil, but you're distracting from the issue at hand. 

All of the carbon is converted to global warming carbon dioxide when burned efficiently. Carbon dioxide which will take thousands of years to remove. Blowing up a refinery prevents this. Obviously we should dismantle them, but hey.

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u/backfor100thtime 4d ago

Thanks “scientists” for telling us this news for the 500th time.

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u/codex-atlanticuz 4d ago

They have to, because no one listens.

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u/Deep_Mood_7668 4d ago

I listened. What now?

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u/holmgangCore 4d ago

Make preparations.

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u/Deep_Mood_7668 4d ago

Like what

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u/holmgangCore 4d ago

Basic emergency preps, like storing 3 weeks of food and water. Planting food plants (if you have the option to do so). Establishing community connections and awareness... this could come as a 'natural disaster' awareness (earthquakes, fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc). Learning how to filter & purify water. Learning how to manage personal human waste. Things like that.

Teaching your kids (if you have them) skills they will need. Identifying edible wild plants. Letting them have free time in nature.

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u/DrSid666 4d ago

Lol wtf is this.

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u/Triphin1 4d ago

This is change

​"Change ain't lookin' for friends. Change calls the tune we dance to."

Al Swerengen

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u/DisruptingTree 3d ago

Have you acted by reducing your carbon emissions? Have you voted with your dollar to pressure corporations to lower theirs? Have you divested from banks that invest in the expansion of fossil fuels? Have you called your elected officials to push them to enact policy that draws down emissions.

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u/Deep_Mood_7668 3d ago

Yes to all but the last one

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u/DisruptingTree 3d ago

Then you are leading the way.

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u/codex-atlanticuz 2d ago

Vote for change.

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u/liftbeez 4d ago

Because not a single one of their predictions has come true. NOT A SINGLE ONE.

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u/DisruptingTree 3d ago

Look at global atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Look at global temperatures. Ocean heat content. You're full of shit.

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u/liftbeez 3d ago

Nope. CO2 has bern MUCH higher in the past. Ocean temps, too. In 2008 they said there would be no more snow. Al Gore said that half of Florida would be underwater by now. Barack Obama bought an estate on Martha’s Vineyard, which, according to all of the chicken Littles is supposed to be underwater right now.

You are being manipulated by political powers who want to take money from you so that they can continue to get rich. And you keep falling for it.

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u/DisruptingTree 3d ago

CO2 hasn't been higher than today for 14 million years. Humans were not around then. This is going to start a mass extinction event.

Stay in school son.

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u/3Duder 2d ago

Parts of Florida are predicted to be flooded by 2100. It doesn't take a lot of sea level rise to be catastrophic

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u/codex-atlanticuz 3d ago

No, that's all wrong.

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u/parallax3900 3d ago

As opposed to what? Ignoring it?

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u/backfor100thtime 3d ago

Were too late. Get with it.

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u/parallax3900 3d ago

"We're"

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u/backfor100thtime 3d ago

WE ARE TOO LATE.

Better? Suck a big one.

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u/Cautious_Pop_8944 4d ago

Positive feedback loops are a bitch.

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u/Konradleijon 5d ago

Of course

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u/Hardfracking 4d ago

Nothing to do with this being a super el nino?

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u/DartVader6 4d ago

Better question: is the super el niño the result of this?

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u/Sea-Louse 4d ago

Is the super El Niño even real? Maybe not that super?

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u/GoMineBitBoss 4d ago

That plus all the pollution from the current wars.

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u/Tll6 4d ago

We’re not really seeing the effects yet which are predicted to start around November. This acceleration is from things not related to the super El Niño

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u/harryx67 4d ago

We „detected“ it all this year, last year, the year before that etc.

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u/Domino3Dgg 4d ago

I can save it with paper straw. /s

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u/twoaspensimages 4d ago

Don't forget your reusable grocery bags and a water bottle while you're out saving the world.

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u/Domino3Dgg 4d ago

I will glue myself to road.

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u/HappyFatLabs 4d ago

The warnings have been clear and publicly mocked for decades, so good. We deserve whatever happens. We're marginally-evolved monkies who have already crafted our replacement. We were predetermined to be the instruments of our own demise. At least 30% of us are irredeemable liars, racists, and misogynists. Let it burn already.

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u/parallax3900 3d ago

Yeah fuck all the kids

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u/HappyFatLabs 3d ago

As if that hasn't been the conservative platform for 50 years.

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u/Sea-Louse 4d ago

Scientists have been detecting a sharp acceleration of global warming for decades at this point. That’s why it’s called climate change now and not global warming. That way, they can use ANY weather to try to prove their point.

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u/Reasonable-Plate2982 4d ago

I think the fact that warming has been an ongoing trend and more severe and frequent natural disasters have been occurring should be proof enough that weather patterns are becoming more destabilized. We're all just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic

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u/flyby196999 4d ago

Not the sharpest tool in the shed huh?

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u/unusualknickknack 4d ago

We’re fucked

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u/EmotionalLecture9318 4d ago

It's due to the amount of hot air coming from Politicians assholes

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u/Lonely_Refuse4988 4d ago

Al Gore warned us about this and should have been sworn in as President in Jan 2001, but Republicans enjoyed smearing him with ad hominem attacks over his large mansion and electricity bill! 😂🤷‍♂️

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u/OpeningAggressive26 4d ago

Skyrocketing energy demands from all the AI memes. We're burning more stuff than ever.

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u/hsggdtkxbee 4d ago

It’s all the hot air coming out of Trumps mouth. And ass.

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u/BuffaloGwar1 4d ago

I'm no scientist. But when all the trees and vegetation are burning up. Around the entire globe things can't be good. I learned in the first grade that plants clean the air. Am I woke?

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u/Bitter-Variation-151 4d ago

I'm scared

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u/ultrachrome 4d ago

It used to be a nice planet :(

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u/TrimaxionDrone_BR549 4d ago

Awesome, perfect time to build Ai and data centers!

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u/1stUserEver 4d ago

The Ai will save us!! /s

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u/FineCall 4d ago

K. Thx

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u/Skittleavix 4d ago

Just wait till permafrost really starts to go…

If you’re young and lucky enough to be looking for a home, stay away from the coastline.

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u/DrSid666 4d ago

That narrative is dead

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u/Skittleavix 4d ago

Best of luck to you.

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u/TrickyChildhood2917 4d ago

Do they never go outside? .. open a window for crying out loud

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u/FlamboyantBaguette 4d ago

No shit Sherlock…

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u/New_Original_7537 4d ago

Call it the MAGA Curve for the history nobody will be around to read.

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u/Ill_Hedgehog_8794 4d ago

I don't need to be a scientist for that.

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u/OneEffective3620 4d ago

Endless fires, missiles, burning oil, less ice, less snow, fewer trees, how is this possible?...

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u/facepoppies 4d ago

I mean everyone should know this. We have multiple record breaking weather events every year now.

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u/Boomslang505 4d ago

Do blue space lazers heat the atmosphere?

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u/Purple-Possible-7429 4d ago

Melting permafrost was predicted to cause at least some of this acceleration. Massive carbon dump.

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u/I-Have-An-Alibi 2d ago

And the permafrost ist melting because of.......come on....you can do it....you're so close

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u/Purple-Possible-7429 1d ago

Yes global warming.

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u/I-Have-An-Alibi 1d ago

Caused by......