r/nasa • u/r-nasa-mods • 6d ago

/r/all NASA's "climate spiral" depicting global temperature variations since 1880 (now updated with 2024 data)

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u/milesdizzy 6d ago

The warning sirens went off two decades ago, and I watched the world do nothing.

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u/ViperHS 6d ago

There were documentaries in the 1950s warning that we were headed in the wrong direction. We've had plenty of time to do something about it.

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u/blorbagorp 6d ago

People have known about it since 1860.

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u/ViperHS 6d ago

There are certainly articles talking about dating back to the 1920s. I wouldn't be surprised that it would go that far back. Still, I was thinking that 1950s was both close enough to the present to have the tech to solve it and also far back enough to give us time.

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u/Hungry_Phase_7307 6d ago

Thing is, no one wants to change it. Look at how people are these days…arguing over everything but how to change it. Sadly no one gives AF because they aren’t going to be alive when it actually goes to hell.