This is a heat wave, which is probably related to climate change, and is worrying of course, but it's not the same as the winters in Antarctica somehow being 50 degrees higher than they used to.
Original title: ‘Astonishing’ Antarctica heat wave sends temperatures 50 degrees above normal
https://earthsky.org/sun/sun-news-activity-solar-flare-cme-a...
Is the Sun causing global warming?
https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/faq/is-the-sun-causi...
Why Variations in Earth’s Magnetic Field Aren’t Causing Today’s Climate Change
https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/flip...
Your comment appears to based on some kind of psuedo scientific misunderstanding.
I don't want to minimise this, but some people are becoming hysterical, leading to ideas like blocking the sun or taxing everyone to fund various greenwashing vanity projects.
Such click-baits don't help.
If continuous gradual increases aren't it, and larger outlier events aren't it - what's left? Frequent medium increases? Because we're seeing those too.
I ask genuinely, from your perspective, when is the time to become concerned about it?
As the article points out, this "blip" is less than another data point two years ago. At some point you have to stop pretending you don't see a pattern.
We don't need green washing vanity projects. We need a national and global plan to reduce fossil fuel use. Fast. Faster than it would have been if we'd started decades ago, when both theory and data were already evident, and people started dismissing everything as a "blip" rather than do something.
We can't get anything done while large numbers of people keep denying the basic reality of the data and the basic chemistry and physics that explains it.
> Such click-baits don't help
You don't help. Not at all.
We should probably start blocking the in and taxing everyone for actual green efforts. The traitors to the species telling us to disregard information & stay the course should probably be gagged & ostracized from society, so that the planet has a chance.
It is not that it could trigger a chain reaction resulting in a extinction event or something.
Oh wait, we are already in a extinction event, nevermind.
I think we need to try some form of renewable energy, like hydro power to fix this. First, we flood an area and turn all the biomass into methane... oh wait, that doesn't work either.
Maybe making every vehicle electric and then connecting them to an electric grid powered by natural gas and coal and driving them around for no reason so that tires produce millions of microplastic particles will surely remediate this.
I wonder what else can I do? Certainly working at an office, consuming a bunch of things I don't need, buying imported goods that use excessive packaging, throwing away food all the time, preferring refrigerated food over non-refrigerated food, preferring food that requires vast amounts of water and soil and traveling around the world in planes that have a carbon footprint equivalent to burning my trash for the entire year cannot possibly be good starting points to consider reducing my environmental impact. That would go against my positive self-reassuring mindset that I learned from TikTok.
Ah, but the economists say all those things are related to externalities so it's all good. We need to keep growing the economy and worry about those later. Helping humans become more prosper and multiply more will certainly mitigate the effects of humans becoming more prosper and multiplying. We are the most intelligent species for sure! Doubling our population at shortening intervals is a great idea and totally sustainable, there is nothing possibly wrong with that at all and our economic activities have no connection with what is happening to the environment!
The solution could be Terraforming other planets because we have been successful Marsforming Earth!