Earth’s temp could near danger point with return of El Niño

[pixy0stix]

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Adam Scaife, the head of long-range prediction at the U.K. Met Office, and Bill McGuire, an emeritus professor of geophysical and climate hazards at University College London, are among those suggesting that El Niño could send average temperatures close to or above 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming above preindustrial temperatures, a benchmark that has guided climate activism and portends perhaps irreversible damage.

Under El Niño, McGuire wrote in Wired, “the extreme weather that has rampaged across our planet in 2021 and 2022 will pale into insignificance.”

They're only 66% certain it will happen, but omg.wtf.bbq.

[agnes]

Fuck

[underwaterrhymes]

We are totally fucked. I really think we are beyond the point of being able to fix this. Iceberg, right ahead, but we cannot turn the ship around.

[sonrisa]

Jan 19, 2023 22:20:39 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

 Iceberg, right ahead

Not for long.

[formerlyak]

Thanks for sharing this. I live in So Cal, so my whole life “El Niño” meant it was going to get cold and wet. I never understood that the southwest US was really the only area that saw that part of El Niño.