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It’s 90 degrees Farenheit (32°C) in the Arctic right now | The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[-] pumpupthejam@piefed.social 1 points 12 minutes ago

We're fucked. Glad I'm on the older side, don't have kids, and got to experience this world before we utterly fucked it.

It's true - it was beautiful before The Great Burn.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

SciAm unable to call out Big Oil.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 57 points 4 hours ago

We did it ! We Terraformed a planet ! Earth, a planet that was exactly as perfect as it gets for us to live on it, we Terraformed it into a suffocating hell.

[-] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 hours ago

WOO! IN YOUR FACE, CYANOBACTERIA OF 2 BILLION YEARS AGO! WE DID IT IN RECORD TIME!

(2ish BYA cyanobacteria in the ocean produced oxygen, but nothing had yet developed protection from oxidation, thus killing almost everything living)

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

So that's how they get their religious thing.

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 hours ago

I sweat with minimal exertion - combination of a sedentary lifestyle plus SSRIs fucking with body temp regulation. Always thought I might be comfy in the arctic circle. So much for that, I guess.

[-] donald_von_shitsnpants@kopitalk.net 5 points 5 hours ago

Everyone concurs

[-] Rothe@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

Except our oligarch overlords and their shareholders.

[-] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago

Oh no, they concur. They decided their greed is worth everyon'e collective suffering.

Every day we do nothing is letting them continue it.

[-] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 hours ago

The rich decided to ignore clikmate change and sabotage climate research long before any of us were born.

They knew about this shit in the 1800s.

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