Global Boiling eh. I get the sentiment, but this is the type of naming that creates tweets rather than solutions.
Yes boiling in the sense that it is very hot:
Examples:
It’s boiling today. I don’t feel like doing anything when the temperature is really really hot.
It’s boiling in here. I’m falling asleep. Can we open the windows?
You shouldn’t leave dogs in cars when it’s boiling.
Frog, pot, water, people are starting to die metaphor I think
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You said something similar above. Are you usually bothered when politicians use colorful language to emphasize the problems they want to tackle?
Like the opioid epidemic? Or the border crisis? Or whatever? I find it pretty much ordinary. A good politician thinks up tweetworthy quotes to sell his cause.
In some cases, I think politicians point to a problem without having any solutions, but obviously the UN does have some solutions.
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The last 10 years have been 9 of the hottest on record with 2010 coming in 10th beating 2013.
2023 is on pace to be the hottest on record so the last 10 will be the 10 hottest.
Ocean surface temps of 100 Fahrenheit were recently recorded for the first time ever of tge coast of Florida.
Scientific predictions, which have actually been quite accurate for the past 30 years on predictions are saying the warming trend is likely to continue and even accelerate.
So what would you call it?
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IFYP
Not sure, with 2025 and maybe 2026 being La Nina years instead of El Nino years, they have a decent shot at being cooler. But man 2028 is gonna suck.
Disclaimer: Yes, I know that the ENSO period is irregular, so maybe it will be 2027 or 2029 that is gonna really suck.
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How is that going to be impacted by the Gulf Stream turning off next year?
(That’s probably not going to happen so soon, but it’s crazy that it’s plausible)
To me the people that need to come to the table for solutions are going to be turned off by this language. It’s preaching to the choir instead of evangelizing the non believers to use a church metaphor. To use another church metaphor stuff like this to a climate change denialist is like hearing someone yelling to you that you’re going to hell from a street corner. You may believe it is true and it may make you feel better about yourself to yell at them but it does not serve your ultimate interests if you want people to change their mind.
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Don’t live in Europe, don’t care. I technically live on an island, and have a US military base between me and the bridges, so I’m set for most apocalypses.
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Yes he should have been more precise and stated that if we don’t take immediate action the earth will warm 2 degrees Celius. That would surely get the attention of climate change deniers.
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I think that’s an optimistic thought.
There are people who think the increase in temperature is a natural phenomenon and nothing to do with human activity.
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That’s a fair thought. Of course, preachers do preach a lot more to believers than to non-believers, and for good reason. You’re unlikely to convince an atheist of anything. You might at least convince a believer to come back next week.
But yes I agree, if you are on a street corner surrounded by muslims and hindus and atheists, you might be better off with some cookies than yelling about hell, even if you do believe they’re all going to hell.
In this case, there’s no church walls to separate believers from non-believers, so whatever you say is heard by everyone.
Experts, including at the UN, have been doing the regular preaching for decades, and they will continue.
Sometimes you need some clickbait to attract a few extra eyes though.
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The climate change deniers will point to such a claim as yet another example of exaggeration and hype aimed to inconvenience them, impact their wallets, and generally infringe upon what they perceive as their rights…and therefore something to reject as “fake news”.
Like “Black Lives Matter”?
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It’s hard anyway, because millions watch Fox News (and similar), where they actively brainfuck their audience. I don’t know what there even is to say people who are in that frame of mind.
It’s a lot like the election fraud thing. Only there’s no voting machine company to sue. Maybe we need to privatize the climate, so that it can sue for libel.
Yeah I almost commented the running joke, don’t think of it as the hottest 10 years of of the last 100, think of it as the coolest of the next 100.
That’s not hyperbolic IMO
Some of them are climate scientists, too. 
Not sure what this has to do with anything. (Not being snarky, I just really don’t know what this has to do with anything.)