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Earth's clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming

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157 points Helmut10001 | 1 comments | 05 Apr 25 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hintymad ◴[05 Apr 25 17:07 UTC] No.43594928[source]▶
A naive question: why is global warming bad for the earth, especially for the environmentalists? I mean I get it that it will be bad for human, but the biosphere thrived in much warmer pre-historical ages, right? Or rain forests still have the highest biodiversity nowadays, right? For people who hate human activities to preserve a thriving earth, wouldn't they welcome global warming?
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1. spott ◴[05 Apr 25 17:13 UTC] No.43594966[source]▶
On an ecological scale, it isn’t the heat that is a problem, it is the speed it is increasing.

In the past, temperature changes have been slow enough for evolution and ecological systems to adapt, but now it is happening fast enough that these systems can’t adapt fast enough.