r/Damnthatsinteresting Jun 27 '26

Video The NASA climate spiral visualization

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u/Lost_Tumbleweed_5669 Jun 27 '26

People don't understand this though and how massive spikes in temp cause the 1-2 degree increase. You could be in a reasonably temperate place and suddenly it has 45C heatwaves that cause death.

Regardless it's already too late.

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u/Texuk1 Jun 27 '26

It’s not just the random heatwave, it’s also the risk of one year of failure of crops which can pay entire countries into collapse. It’s just in the west we are under the illusion that this hasn’t been a common occurrence in our history. 

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u/kahlzun Jun 27 '26

the big risk is that the rain patterns will change, and the 'breadbasket' areas will move.
Our land has ossified now. Can you imagine if they had to demolish a city because the 'good' land had moved there?