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Climate experts warn the slow-motion train crash is speeding up
Original: Climate change is often described as a train crash in slow motion. It's a train crash, but not in slow motion anymore. #
Climate commentators are reviving the familiar metaphor of global warming as a train crash in slow motion, but with an unsettling twist: they argue the crash is no longer slow. The framing reflects growing alarm over record heat, extreme weather and the sense that climate impacts are accelerating faster than predicted.
Why now: Rising extreme weather and record temperatures are making people feel climate impacts have shifted from a distant threat to a present crisis.
Evidence
- Climate change is often described as a train crash in slow motion. It's a train crash, but not in slow motion anymore. # ClimateChange · Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy · 16
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