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Climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat per second

60 points · 84 comments · blondie9x

  1. blondie9x · · focus · HN ↗
    It feels like the Earth’s oceans are at a tipping point and can no longer continue to absorb this amount of heat and acidification from the carbonic acid levels increasing when CO2 breaks down.

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.noaa.gov&#x2F;education&#x2F;resource-collections&#x2F;ocean-coasts&#x2F;ocean-acidification" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.noaa.gov&#x2F;education&#x2F;resource-collections&#x2F;ocean-co...

    This year it feels like the ocean is losing its ability to breathe in a sense <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scienceblog.com&#x2F;the-ocean-stopped-breathing-off-panamas-shores&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scienceblog.com&#x2F;the-ocean-stopped-breathing-off-pana...

    When do we get to full stop on the combustion of fossil fuels to protect humanity’s future?

    1. boplicity · · focus · HN ↗
      Politically, fossil fuels are in vogue. New pipelines, new capacity, lower prices -- all of these are being accelerated right now. There&#x27;s no #$#$% hope that we&#x27;ll stop extracting carbon from the ground. It&#x27;s just not going to happen.
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