▲ 2030 ▼ For the fourth day in a row, Earth has broken or equalled its hottest average temperature record (www.abc.net.au) submitted 3 years ago by sam_uk@lemmy.world [B] to c/world@lemmy.world 308 comments fedilink hide all child comments The planet's average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.
[–] KellyThomas@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child) Meh. It's doubling each step. If course it's at 1/(2^n) of the final volume at n steps before the final step. At half of its final volume one step before the end a quarter of its final volume two steps before the end an eighth of its final volume three steps before the end a sixteenth of it's final volume four steps before the end permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DABDA@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago Mathematically it's obvious and straightforward but the point is that it's not intuitive from a typical person's subjective perspective. It's easy to underestimate or dismiss the rate of change until a situation becomes unmanageable. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DABDA@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago Mathematically it's obvious and straightforward but the point is that it's not intuitive from a typical person's subjective perspective. It's easy to underestimate or dismiss the rate of change until a situation becomes unmanageable. permalink fedilink source parent