“There’s no ambiguity about the data,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “So really, it’s a question of attribution.”

Understanding what specific physical processes are behind these temperature records will help scientists improve their climate models and better predict temperatures in the future.

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My wife told me I was a doomer gloomer for not wanting to have kids due to climate uncertainty. I wanted to adopt instead.

I’m terrified of how the world will look over the next century for my 6 month old son.

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You gave in, huh?

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Is his name Max Rockatansky? If so he’ll be fine.

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Assuming you’re asking in good faith, the difference would be helping someone through this hell-hole that’s already here, and was disadvantaged at the start. As opposed to bringing someone in.

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On top of that, having kids carries a massive carbon footprint. An adopted kid is already penciled in for that. I’d even wager a kid in the system would be more of a burden on carbon levels than one in a home.

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…can’t tell if serious

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Can’t be going and adopting kids all willy nilly, or else the adoption factories might ramp up production!

/s

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Obviously he should just kill his adopted kid

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The user is interpreting it as the OP wanted to not have kids because of climate uncertainty - did not want to raise a kid that would have to deal with the climate. So instead they adopted a kid to raise someone else’s kid in a world where they would have to deal with the climate.

I think OP is implying reduction of population but the comment kinda reads weird.

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Narrator: The world became uninhabitable. But for a short time, it created tremendous value for our shareholders.

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What you doin milking your house?

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His house has nipples?

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Well i’m not a scientist (actually I am, but not a climate scientist), but im gunna take a wild flailing stab in the dark and suggest it’s maybe due to unfettered fossil fuel emissions.

Call me crazy but i think this might be what’s happening here.

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we should really wait until we have more evidence before making such wild and unfounded statements

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Pretty much every damn scientist nowadays, no matter their subject, seems to be a climate alarmist. I wonder what that could mean!

The only reasonable conclusion is a conspiracy, of course.

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Nah, its the avacado toast.

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What makes you so sure? As I see it, it could be that or illegals… maybe there is a synergistic relationship beetween the two?

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Couldnt El Nino also be a contributing factor this year?

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I was watching a video about past extinctions and they had a line where the oceans warmed two degrees over two million years, which was just about enough time for the ecosystems to evolve and adapt.

Look at what we’ve done in two hundred.

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I went down a wiki rabbit hole a few weeks back, I found this graph very interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas

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I would love to watch that, do you have a link or know where I can view this?

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It was Kurzgesagt. Which was even more troubling since they are pretty reputable and they’ve done videos on the past trying to spur hopes on climate change. It seemed like a weird little factoid thrown into the mix rather than something directly related to current events.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

It was Kurzgesagt.

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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Humanity! Fuck yeah! Only in 200 years!

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we’re all the frogs in god’s slowly boiling kettle.

Fortunately Exxon et al made STELLAR profits for damn near a century, it only cost us the one viable ecosystem we have in the entire known universe.

Tsk. Well profits have to be made, it’s capitalism. Can’t argue with that.

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