For the fourth day in a row, Earth has broken or equalled its hottest average temperature record

Sam BOT@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.world – 1999 points – For the fourth day in a row, Earth has broken or equalled its hottest average temperature record
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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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There's also a good example of exponential change described using a doubling drop of water in The Power of Compounding

Meh.

It's doubling each step.

If course it's at 1/(2^n) of the final volume at n steps before the final step.

  • At half of its final volume one step before the end
  • a quarter of its final volume two steps before the end
  • an eighth of its final volume three steps before the end
  • a sixteenth of it's final volume four steps before the end

Mathematically it's obvious and straightforward but the point is that it's not intuitive from a typical person's subjective perspective. It's easy to underestimate or dismiss the rate of change until a situation becomes unmanageable.