Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist
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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..
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Yeah, or just dead people.
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I mean. We didn't kill them yet though.
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the bodega van music
hmmm... maybe "We Like To Party" by Vengaboys
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God... I actually want this.
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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.
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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.
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Agent Smith was right
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Let's split the bill. I'll chime in 5
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Yeah... I dunno about that. The 2C was in An Inconvenient Truth, unless my memory has completely failed me.
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may be, but with the feedback loops fully contributing then, the 6°C goal will be delayed a few decades.
and by the way, the political was to stop it at 1.5°C by 2050. nobody ever assumed 6°C an acceptable outcome.
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Its very unlikely for these reasons:
- limited lifetime
- we have already seen volcanic eruptions which put a lot of SO2 into the stratosphere, and thet did not cause an ice age, so it's clearly fine if we don't put too much
Anyway, that's what research is for.
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Some good news:
- emission rates have plateaued; we are still destroying the planet, but no longer accelerating the rate at which we do it
- Solar panels (unsubsidized) are the cheapest method of electricity generation as of 2022
- there is a fundamentally limited amount of fossil fuels, so as long as we don’t turn to Venus 2.0 by 2100 we will deplete most coal and oil and it will be possible for our ancestors to repair the planet over the following centuries.
Yeah I know even this “good news” is bleak, but it’s worth celebrating. There is some hope.
