+3c aggregate since Industrial Revolution, or from now? Is this like you predicting Hurricane Beryl would hit Texas as a Cat3?
From Industrial Revolution. We're at +1.5c and accelerating.
Actually I suggested Beryl would land as a cat5:
Earliest cat4 ever recorded, and only cat4 ever recorded in June.
I won't be surprised if it hits cat5 before it hits whatever it's going to hit in the Gulf.
It actually made landfall on Grenada as a high cat4, hit cat5 after that, before finally weakening prior to hitting Texas. I'll note that I never said it was going to hit
TX as a cat5, though that has more to do with the path the thing took than anything else. If it had veered north to LA/MI it would have absolutely fucked that coast up.
My point still stands, it was the earliest cat5 on record, the strongest we've seen before JUL, and multiple-record-breaking. We
should be grateful that southern wind shears weakened it so that it only killed 73 people, instead of a few thousand.
en.wikipedia.org
Don't get me wrong, climate change's effects look to be disastrous for much of the world. However, I think eventually technology will come along and at least partially save us from ourselves. It's obvious we're not solving carbon emissions behaviorally; so the only thing left is to do a fuckton of carbon capture, handle mass migrations from low-lying areas, and mitigate the worst of the damage. Future generations are gonna be left holding the bag.
Bad take man, relying on someone else to fix the problem but totes sure they will, will leave
you and yours holding the bag, because you aren't planning to face any actual consequences.
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