Red alert in Antarctica: the year rapid, dramatic change hit climate scientists like a ‘punch in the guts’

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Red alert in Antarctica: the year rapid, dramatic change hit climate scientists like a ‘punch in the guts’
theguardian.com
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I’ll say it again,

The people that care, can’t do anything about it, and the people that can do something about it- don’t care.

The climate won’t even begin to be repaired until the old guard finally shakes the mortal coil.

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Let's just collectively pretend nothing of importance is going on... have you heard the new thing about the popular person? stop killing my vibe ny telling me that we are killing the planet, I have a lot of scrolling to catch.

Anybody taking bets on whether we're looking at the beginning of a "black swan" event here? I'm like 60% convinced that warming will be accelerating at a much faster pace than anticipated – we're currently at the upper limits of what models predicted – and that things will go to shit pretty spectacularly in just the next decade or so

The only thing the 1% care about is seeing their bank accounts increase.