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		bhickey 71 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory The _state_ isn't alarming, it's the rate of change. The transition is happening on a scale of human lifetimes instead of geological time.

filoeleven 71 days ago | [–]

Yeah. The XKCD "Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature" is, I'm pretty certain, the most frightening chart I have ever seen.

https://xkcd.com/1732/

jacquesm 71 days ago | [–]

Precisely. Humans can adapt to almost anything but we can not do it fast enough with 8 billion+ people.

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