Innocuous Looking Gardening Zone App Reflects Earth’s Incredibly Fast Warming
Our species is not equipped to understand this, but let’s try with some examples
NPR has an innocuous looking article with a little app whereby you discover the USDA’s gardening zone changes for where you live. I discovered that the garden zone for my little town in Texas has been changed from an 8a to an 8b. This is to reflect the changes in average temperature from 2012 to 2023, which is now 3.3 degrees Fahrenheit warmer.
This does not just surpass the 1.5 degree Centigrade (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) self-imposed limits for climate change: It makes a mockery of it.
See, that’s not so bad, is it? Here we are in Texas above the much talked about limit for climate change of 1.5 degrees Centigrade, and most of us are still alive. Never mind that if it increases at this rate for the next fifty years it will add another sixteen degrees (F) to the tally. Which is ridiculous. Preposterous. It’s just an outlier incident. It is only applicable to a small geographic area (which, hopefully, may be true). Someone made a math (or “maths” depending on your age) error somewhere. Except …
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