Bargearse<p>Every Tenth Matters </p><p><a href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/every-tenth-matters/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tamino.wordpress.com/2025/01/2</span><span class="invisible">8/every-tenth-matters/</span></a></p><p>> The world has already warmed enough that severe storms, extreme rainfall, wildfires, and heat waves are more frequent and more severe, while sea level rise is eating away at our coastlines.</p><p>>But there are a few things we can be very sure of, starting with the fact that more is worse.</p><p>>The second thing we can be sure of is that as temperature climbs, the rise in hazard is non-linear. The first half a degree, from 0 to 0.5 °C above pre-industrial, brought little risk if any at all; the environment hadn’t yet changed enough to meddle with life cycles seriously. But the next half a degree, from 0.5 to 1 °C, brought a commitment to more sea level rise and heat waves than we want. The next half a degree (from 1.0 to 1.5°C) is barely half over but has already broken heat-wave records and super-charged the hydrological cycle. It’s bad — anyone who tells you any different, is selling something.</p><p>>The last two tenths to reach 1.5 °C are going to be trouble, and above that, every tenth of a degree brings an ever-faster increase in the cost, both in financial (it’s already costing the USA tens of billions of dollars a year) and human terms.</p><p>-------</p><p>Not much to add, we elect politcans who allow the madness to contine and the madness continues.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/VoteGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoteGreen</span></a></p>