2024 was the first single year to surpass the 1.5°C global warming threshold – now scientists predict that a year above 2°C is possible in the near future
  • artifex@lemmy.zip
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    23 days ago

    As stupid as this sounds I think we (and really the media, but we know which side they’re on) should be doing this in F for US audiences. Saying “hey, it’s now 5°F hotter than it was in the 1970s” is more immediately meaningful — and the bigger number looks scarier too.

      • 7355608@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        Because Americans are stupid, some of them because they choose to be, others because the education system was designed to fail them. A significant portion of the population doesn’t understand what K° is, if they know it exists at all. Source: Am American

        • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          23 days ago

          Friendly reminder that 54% of Americans can’t even read above a 6th grade level. That’s right, a significant portion of the voting block for the most influential country on earth likely can’t understand the danger all of us are in.