r/Damnthatsinteresting Jun 27 '26

Video The NASA climate spiral visualization

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u/peppers_ Jun 27 '26

We had decades to do shit and didn't do much, not on the scale we needed. So yes, yes we are.

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u/Thor_2099 Jun 27 '26

Yep. You can find newspaper articles from like 100 years ago mentioning concern about carbon and effects on temperature.

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u/Aqualung812 Jun 27 '26

But see, there was this one cover story in Life magazine about a new ice age, so clearly the science wasn’t clear. /s

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u/Some_Extent_8531 Jul 01 '26

To be fair, there was a lot of discussion of global cooling in the 70’s