"For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it's five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years.
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She fears a further change in the balance could trigger a tipping point from where it's difficult to reverse the trajectory. "We might end up in a new state," she said. "That would be quite concerning to the sustainability of human conditions on Earth, I suspect.
At this point I feel like either every post about the worsening of climate change on the internet - whether it's here, or on twitter, or on reddit, needs to be automatically converted into a warcry to detonate pipelines and murder billionaires, or else I don't really wanna see it because it's just making everyone feel worse without any actual action being taken. How many more times do I need to hear "AAAAAAA WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE"? Like, I'm ready to guillotine some oil barons guys. I'm already there. I just need everyone else to do it with me.
at this point i feel like the analogy of monkeys accidentally starting a forest fire is accurate
the monkeys are technically capable of putting it out, it's just statistically unlikely and would require many coincidences and the monkeys have no idea how it happened in the first place so it would probably just happen again given enough time
The problem is that a lot of developed countries that could do more have an army of right-wingers ready to fight anyone that dare tells them to put the treats down and do something.