NASA animation of temperature data from 1880-2011

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[animaonathens]

Planet Earth have billions (i repeat BILLIONS) years of history. Earth has done this things again and again. "The planet is fine... The people are fucked!" - George Carlin

[jrw97]

What? NO! The Earth HAS done this before, but over thousands or millions of years, not 100! Humans obviously ARE to blame for this, I don't see why that's so hard to believe.

[Sesarrbg]

Yes this has happened before. Yes this will happen again. The planet is fine. We are fucked. Humanity is not able to survive climate change so rapid. Simply because we will have nothing to eat as drought and desertification become issues that can not be ignored. All it takes is one great famine and the disease after it will be the end of humanity as we know it.

[victor79187]

this take around 30,000 years , not 127 years (NASA)

[Antuan2911]

These measurements are very bad news for all humanity!

Which is the reference year (zero Temperature Difference)?

[xNoNameNemox]

you are also right about the lack of predictability. If a negative feedback occurred that we haven't thought of or predicted, theoretically we could be suddenly thrown into an ice age!! (I am not saying this is gonna happen by the way, just giving an example).

[xNoNameNemox]

trends for climate if just natural suggest that temperatures would actually be decreasing if there was no anthropogenic output of polluting gases. However, it is true that the effect we are having is causing knock on effects in the natural environment. These radiative forcings within our own atmosphere are called feedbacks.

For example, small increase in temp due to humans = small melting of ice caps = decrease in planets albedo = small increase in temp. More CO2 release stops balance restoring

[Simon P]

We're accelerating it, certainly, but I don't think that 100% of the blame is on us at this point, and I think a lot of people try to make out that it is 100% us. We do need reduce emissions, but Earth isn't as predictable as some global warming representatives make out.

[Molten Id]

Humans are releasing more carbon dioxide than all the natural volcanic processes on earth combined by a factor of 135 times. Do you have any idea how much that is? Blaming natural variation is akin to blaming the natural variation in temperature for the inside of your oven being 400 degrees. Of course the ambient natural temperature fluctuates. But to suggest that the ovens temperature has nothing to do with the fact you have the burner running is beyond silly.

[Molten Id]

Your "facts" are radically incorrect. Human's have increased our entire atmosphere's CO2 content by over 35% from its natural base line. Do you have any idea how much CO2 that is? Human activity releases 135 times more CO2 than all the volcanic activity on earth combined each year.

[Molten Id]

George Carlin was a bright man and one of my favorite comedians, but he is just that, a comedian. Over 90% of the people who have devoted their life to the study of climatology are in agreement that the fact that we have radically increased the CO2 content of our atmosphere is part of what is causing the world's climate to change at a rate matching that leading to the world's greatest mass extinctions in the past.

[Molten Id]

You are implying that our nation's preeminent scientific agency decided to publish this data as some kind of April Fool's joke? Are you serious. -Face Palm-