Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist

[darkfuture@lemmy.world]

Spoiler Alert: Look around you. Humanity is not going to address this issue. Enjoy your life and if you have kids, let them know their futures and their kid's futures etc are going to be progressively bleaker.

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

The scary part is that seems to make no difference (to people, corps, countries). Has anyone changed anything based on passing that target? Will the anyone change their minds or behavior with this new projection?

Maybe I’m just cynical with the disaster of the US elections - we were finally making a little progress, finally had reason to hope, but we just threw that away

[nalivai@lemmy.world]

Last year there was hope that the US will at least not get worse.

[alenalda@lemmy.world]

Let's fix the environment by fuckin it up more.

[msage@programming.dev]

That's what I'm missing - we knew decades ago what happens after we hit 2C...

This, just like the current US collapse, it is just maddening to look at. Watching the bus drive off the cliff without even stepping off the gas and nobody batting an eye... I don't know how much more I can take.

(not an american btw)

[parody@lemmings.world]

Will this affect Mark in his bunker? If not, not sure why I’d care!

[dukepontus@sh.itjust.works]

You dont know the future and you dont know what hope is left. Stop being such a defeatist. Either do something positive or go smoke some weed or something..

[salacious_coaster@infosec.pub]

Yeah, or just dead people.

[alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world]

I mean. We didn't kill them yet though.

[blandfordforever@lemm.ee]

I choose the second option. Can I borrow $20?

[saber_is_dead@lemmy.world]

the bodega van music

hmmm... maybe "We Like To Party" by Vengaboys

[greatalbatross@feddit.uk]

Let's just hope that it doesn't end up like Snowpiercer!

[darkfuture@lemmy.world]

You dont know the future

Nope. But I know humanity and I've picked up a history book.

Again, look around you. Look at world politics. We're moving in the opposite direction of addressing climate change. As long as money is our prime motivator, we will keep acting in direct opposition to the wellbeing of our planet. And, another spoiler alert, money is going to be our motivator for the foreseeable future. Probably forever. We will only address the issue when it seriously affects every man, woman, and child on this planet and by then it will be far too late.

Humanity was always going to destroy this planet on a long enough timeline. It was inevitable. I'm not a defeatist. I'm a realist.

[azal@pawb.social]

God... I actually want this.

[remavas@programming.dev]

We have been fucking it for centuries. And by the looks of things, that's not stopping any time soon. I'd rather we have something we can do besides hoping that certain people decide now's the time to seriously address climate change.

[kinglyweevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

It is currently the beginning of Feb and our normal weather here is a few days of snow, usually a few inches, usually at least one large to shut everything down (like 10+"). Overcast. In the 20s and 30s (F).

I went skiing on Saturday and have never seen so much literally bare ground outside of the very early or very very late season.

I went to a protest today. Parked a distance away and walked. It was 68°. It feels like the end of April. We got almost no snow - only like a foot unseasonably early in the middle of November. The wildfire season this year is going to be rough, and the summer will be brutal.

[inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world]

Look, the only way for this to end is for humanity to die. That's it.

[earphone843@sh.itjust.works]

Agent Smith was right

[redwattlebird@lemmings.world]

No, but it's easy to predict given that the trends of the last several decades can show where we'd be in the next and the trend is: global temperatures are fluctuating more violently than the year before and occurrences of extreme weather are increasing. Additionally, nothing has been done during that time to reduce the impacts globally.

It's scary but, let's face it: we're a virus that's killing our host.