top | item 46980166 (no title) bhickey | 18 days ago The _state_ isn't alarming, it's the rate of change. The transition is happening on a scale of human lifetimes instead of geological time. discuss order hn newest filoeleven|18 days ago Yeah. The XKCD "Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature" is, I'm pretty certain, the most frightening chart I have ever seen.https://xkcd.com/1732/ jacquesm|18 days ago Precisely. Humans can adapt to almost anything but we can not do it fast enough with 8 billion+ people.
filoeleven|18 days ago Yeah. The XKCD "Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature" is, I'm pretty certain, the most frightening chart I have ever seen.https://xkcd.com/1732/
jacquesm|18 days ago Precisely. Humans can adapt to almost anything but we can not do it fast enough with 8 billion+ people.
filoeleven|18 days ago
https://xkcd.com/1732/
jacquesm|18 days ago