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It is insane that the Paris agreement requires a centered 20-year running mean of global surface temperature to define global warming thresholds. That bureaucr
by unchocked 2y ago
It is insane that the Paris agreement requires a centered 20-year running mean of global surface temperature to define global warming thresholds.
That bureaucratic sleight of hand builds roughly a decade of delay into the system. Sclerotic by design.
- transcriptase 2y agoConsidering climate was generally defined as a 30 year window when I took earth sciences classes in the early 2000s I don’t think it’s a sleight of hand. Pretending that every minor outlier year in the span of 200 out of tens of thousands of years is an Armageddon-signalling catastrophe in order to secure more funding is far less genuine.