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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does anyone know the true source of this statistic?

Edit: found it. Source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's literally in the image of the graph.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If I'm not mistaken, before recording temps earth started as a molten volcano ridden planet billions of years ago, no?

Compared to that this is just a slightly warmer ice age. We good.

Checkmate Thunbergers!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Interesting that despite it still being summer and roasty toasty in the southern hemisphere in January, the world average temp is still lower than the northern hemisphere summer.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Averages mean almost nothing. They can't really be used to say anything meaningful.

1000 men vs 1000 women: 999 men earn $1 per hour. 1 man earns $1,000,000 per hour. 1,000 women earn $500 per hour. On average, men earn $1000 per hour, but women earn on average half that.

The reality is obviously very different to the average.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The average tells us quite a lot. It shows that overall, year on year temperatures across the entire planet are increasing, whether it's winter or summer. Like you say the impacts of that are higher spikes in more places every year and those spikes are lost from the data, but the average is valuable aswell. Because of the scale, and the fact that it's including winter for half the planet, 1 degree change in the average is pretty crazy.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My favorite was my aunt going straight from "climate change is a myth" to "well we can't do anything about it, so why bother doing anything at this point" like my sister in Christ WE MADE THE CHANGE

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