The planet's average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

The planet’s average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

    • KellyThomas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      1 年前

      Meh.

      It’s doubling each step.

      If course it’s at 1/(2^n) of the final volume at n steps before the final step.

      • At half of its final volume one step before the end
      • a quarter of its final volume two steps before the end
      • an eighth of its final volume three steps before the end
      • a sixteenth of it’s final volume four steps before the end
      • DABDA@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 年前

        Mathematically it’s obvious and straightforward but the point is that it’s not intuitive from a typical person’s subjective perspective. It’s easy to underestimate or dismiss the rate of change until a situation becomes unmanageable.