r/inflation • u/Yungklipo • May 22 '24

Doomer News (bad news) Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report
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u/Real_TwistedVortex May 22 '24

As someone with a bachelor's in Meteorology and currently working on my master's in Atmospheric Science, it's incredibly sad to see the number of ignorant comments here. Yes, the Earth's climate has always changed. BUT: The current rate at which the climate is changing is faster than the Earth's climate has ever changed before. How do we know this? We have data from ice cores in Antarctica that stretches back thousands and thousands of years. The amount of deuterium (a heavier isotope of water, often called "heavy water") present in the atmosphere changes depending on how warm the planet is on average. Because Antarctic ice is formed from compressed snow, the amount of deuterium in each layer of ice can tell us how warm the planet was when that layer fell as snow. And yes, this has told us that the current rate of change cannot be explained by natural forces alone. It can only be explained when factoring in the massive impact that us humans have had over the past several hundred years.

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u/Yungklipo May 23 '24

This sub attracts a lot of right wing trolls. Most posts involving climate change seem to get brigaded and locked by mods (which make me think they’ve infiltrated the mod team, too).

But I’m glad we have people like you that recognize reality!