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    How long have they been recording? I assume there's no records from all that long ago. Being as how humans, and measurement especially are a fairly new thing.

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  • [–] 77 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Per NASA, accurate global readings go back to 1880 and historical localized temperatures go back to the 1650s

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  • [+] -144 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Not much in the grand scheme of things. There was an ice age not that long ago. Nature does some funny shit.

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  • [–] 67 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    My brother in Christ. We're supposed to be in an Ice Age now.

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    Not even Lemmy is safe from climate change deniers.

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  • [+] -19 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    But he doesn't deny climate change, he denies that man has such a big influence on him. Or maybe he denies the theory that nature itself is not able to regulate temperature. After all, uncomfortable for a human does not mean uncomfortable for nature as a whole.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    Right - we humans are generally most concerned with what’s “comfortable”. That’s a fun spin on “being able to live”. The earth will be fine with or without us, we’re just doing a good job of shooting for “without”.

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)
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    I live in a region with an annual temperature difference of 70 degrees Celsius in not goodanouth year . if they tell me that the summer will be hotter by 5 degrees Celsius and the winter will be 10 degrees colder I will not even feel most likely. still if you spit to the ground only ice will reach the ground. And whether or not you deny heating has nothing to do with it. Of course maybe mankind is warming the earth enough, or maybe the Little Ice Age is ending. If you care about that, ok. I don't.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago*

    So we basically understand "weather" for roughly 8ppm of earth's life. That said, we can infer much amount about climate (not weather, climate) from much older archeological and even paleontological evidence.

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  • [–] 68 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Here is a graphic to help visualize the unprecedented rate of temp change. Data source for temperature is cited and likely errors are explained. https://xkcd.com/1732/

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    It's actually worse than that. We are not in the predicted path, we are in one of the worst estimated predicted paths. Understandable as that comic was made in 2012.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Yeah, you're right. It would be even more obvious now if it were redone. I specifically like that one because it invites people to scroll through the time axis slowly and on a linear scale. It makes the recent changes more real than the same graph fitted to a screen and seen all at once.

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  • [+] -39 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Can't stand those comics. Thanks but no thanks.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    They cite their sources. I got paywalled by the Marcott paper, but that seems like it has data you're looking for. I think most of the referenced links are as follows:

    Shakun https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10915

    Marcott https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1228026

    Annan and Hargreaves https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/9/367/2013/cp-9-367-2013.html

    Hadcrut4 https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.hadcru4.html

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