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The planet's average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

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[-] zombuey@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

right so considering we've been seeing alarming loss of ice mass over the last couple of years and we know that has an exponential effect on climate change. We already hit the tipping point just most people didn't realize it.

[-] CeeBee@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Ya probably. I'm still hoping that there's some global mechanism that we don't understand yet that will limit or reign in the effects. But that's just wishful thinking.

[-] joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago

Of course there is a limit. The question is how high it is. For instance, at high enough CO2 concentrations, the greenhouse effect doesn't get much stronger anymore. Also, the more CO2, the faster it dissapears by eroding rocks. That happens on a geological timescale, though.

If we did something to lower temperature, I'd be very worried about the CO2 concentration's other effect: feeling like suffocating all the time.

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