Ok so apparently it is an article, not a bulletpoint of the other article as the ui would suggest. According to the article, some model made a while ago predicts we should only be at 1.3% warming this year and not 1.5%. That missing 0.2% is whats the mistery, so kind of misleading headline, especially if you put it in a place that doesn’t make it look like an article at all. I only found out because I accidentally clicked on it.

The article (npr.org)

53 points

Who wrote this headline, an AI? It being hotter than models predicted does not mean we didn’t expect it to be hotter. A better title could’ve been: “2024 was mysteriously hotter than climate science predicted” or “global heating smashes scientists’ expectations”

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Maybe the models didn’t place it as the hottest. Even with an upward trend, not every year has to be hotter than the previous and other factors (or even model inaccuracies) can yield unexplained results.

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36 points

“Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can’t explain that.” - Bill O’Reilly

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25 points

“Money goes in, lies go out. You’re not allowed to explain that” - first page of the Faux News employee handbook

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21 points

I just assumed it was sarcasm :D

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I shared this before. The war on NPR for reporting facts in the past years has forced it’s editorial team to “soften” some of these facts so conservatives don’t get triggered. They receive public money from the gov and all.

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18 points

We’re at +1.5c this year rather than +1.3c because of normal weather cycles exhasutbating the effects of man made climate change. It’s expected that 2025 will be back to +1.3c (or so). If it is you can expect climate deniers to be out in force, if it isn’t you can expect climate doomers to be out in force.

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Just because we are stuck in the worst timeline, it will split the difference at 1.4 and both sides will be raging.

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5 points

Exacerbating? 😄

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4 points

Masturbating to the point of exhaustion

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2 points

Yes. I couldn’t get close enough for predictive text to pick it up.

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12 points

Yes. The corporate oligarchy owns everything now. We let the most narcissistic prosper with capitalism until they seized the means of democracy. Now the planet will be destroyed. Turns out greed is the great filter.

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