fat-lobyte
fat-lobyte t1_iuftm20 wrote
Reply to TIL, if all the DNA in your body was stretched out, it would reach from the Earth to the Sun. And back. 18 times. by substantial-freud
OK cool but now I want to know what kind of event would stretch out all the DNA in my body between the earth and the sun
fat-lobyte t1_iui7hdn wrote
Reply to ELI5 why is everybody saying that an 1.5°C increase in global temperature is catastrofic? by BloodyBite1
For many reasons.
First of all, 1.5°C spread out over the entire atmosphere means that there is significantly more energy inside the atmosphere. This manifests as extreme weather such as storms, floods and hurricanes.
Second, this increase in temperature increases the amount of polar ice that melts, which increases the sea levels, which can lead to more flooding or the disappearance of entire regions or island nations.
Third, some ecosystems are very very sensitive to temperature changes, because they have evolved under a certain temperature for a long time.