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IMHO its high time for a Global Warming temp scale (Dear Al Gore, I said it first !) People don't get it when the degree shift needed is so tiny for such catastrophic effects. We need to magnify it by 100 or maybe even a 1000! So 2 degrees temp change is like GW200. Maybe the message will hit home better ?

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A metric I've thought about is, how much extra energy is circulating in earths systems per degree of temp change? 2 degrees does not sound like a lot but when you think of how vast the earth is that's a lot of extra energy in the oceans and atmosphere. It would be an interesting metric to track.

One website tracked Hiroshima bombs worth of heat (4 per second). It was perhaps tasteless.

I would say it does. Research shows that people are better able to do statistical calculations with whole numbers. So instead of 10.453% it should be 10453 people (can't find the source unfortunately).

If that's a thing, then I think your comment is also a thing.

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