Bad news climate denying Kiwis – catastrophic climate change is happening faster!

Bad week to be a National, ACT, NZF redneck climate denier. Turns out the ‘socialist hoax’ is actually happening far faster…

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds

Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found.

Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures.

It found global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over the past 10 years. The rate is higher than scientists have seen since they started systematically taking the Earth’s temperature in 1880.

“If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5C (2.7F) limit of the Paris agreement before 2030,” said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-author of the study.

Extreme heat in recent years has been pushed higher by natural fluctuations – such as solar cycles, volcanic eruptions, and the weather pattern El Niño – that have led scientists to question whether startling temperature readings are outliers or the result of an increase in global heating.

The researchers applied a noise-reduction method to filter out the estimated effect of nonhuman factors in five major datasets that scientists have compiled to gauge the Earth’s temperature. In each of them, they found an acceleration in global heating emerged in 2013 or 2014.

“There is now pretty widespread – if not quite universal – agreement that there has been a detectable acceleration in warming in recent years,” said Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at Berkeley Earth, who was not involved in the study. “However, it remains unclear how much of the additional warming over the past decade in particular is a forced response versus unforced variability.”

The blanket of carbon pollution smothering the Earth has heated the planet by about 1.4C since preindustrial levels, compounded by a recent drop in cooling sulphur pollutants that had provided temporary relief. A studyHausfather co-authored last year also found climate breakdown has speeded up, but had the rate slightly slower than the new study, at 0.27C a decade.

The Guardian 

…that’s right, catastrophic climate change is getting faster and far more devastating!

We are now on track to breach 1.5degrees BEFORE 2030 and once breached, it will get hotter far, far quicker.

The impacts of this are existential.

The great news is that the Boomers who think they will die before climate change  impacts them will also drown and burn with us.

That’s the only silver lining.

Look.

Folks.

I appreciate you can’t swallow your pride and admit the environmentalists were right all along and that climate change caused by human pollution is real and is pushing the planet beyond biosphere tipping points, but it is real, it is caused by human pollution and it is pushing us beyond biosphere tipping points.

The issue now is adaptation and Fortress Aotearoa.

I’ve been banging this drum for over a decade now, globalisation is dead, hyper regional is here and our future is post-growth sustainability.

This is the age of consequences and revolution is coming whether we want it or not.

We need to remember those who have sided with the polluters and where they live.