Earth passed a feared global warming milestone Friday, at least briefly

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Global warming? They gave up on that fake shit.

It's now climate change. The catch-all for the hoax.

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

In over 80 years the sea level at the Statue of Liberty hasn't risen, otherwise it would be under water.

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

New York measures more sea level rise that most places. 9 inches.

https://sealevelrise.org/states/new-york/#:~:text=The%20sea%20level%20off%20New,and%20it's%20causing%20major%20issues.

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Whew, I thought you were going to say 70 feet or something. 9 inches is nothing.

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Whew, I thought you were going to say 70 feet or something.

The last time CO2 levels were this high, the sea level was about 30 feet higher, so it's already in the post. But melting Greenland and Antarctica is not instantaneous.

9 inches is nothing.

No, that's 0 inches. 9 inches at the top of a storm surge is a lot more death, a lot more damage, and a lot more erosion.

There's one twelfth of an inch at the top of a storm surge will make the difference between losing a house or not. 9 Inches is more like a suburb.

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Then how come New York didn't suffer any sea damage?

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good question. It includes the assumption that New York didn't suffer and sea damage.

It looks like this assumption is wrong: Flooding in New York is increasing.

https://www.climatetippingpoints.com/places/past-rising-sea-levels-and-increased-flooding-in-new-york-city

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Really?

So if i can find a pair from this year with the phrase "global warming", you'll admit you're wrong?

A Republican strategist called Frank Luntz recommended using the term climate change instead of global warming because of sounded less scary.

But outside the newspeak of the denialist movement, people continue to use global warming when taking about the increase in mean global mean surface temperature.

[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This article is behind a paywall.

[–]ID10T 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Typically bot shitpost. If you're not talking about how companies like Temu take advantage of China's ability to ship for free how else to handle China and India's contributions to carbon emissions first and foremost then you don't really care about global warming. You just are promoting the decrease in our quality of life to get the 0.01% even richer.