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

[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.

[kandoh@reddthat.com]

when i was a kid it was 6°C by 2100, but we have reduced this trajectory to 2.9–3.4°C

[v4ld1z@lemmy.zip]

Let's split the bill. I'll chime in 5

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Yeah... I dunno about that. The 2C was in An Inconvenient Truth, unless my memory has completely failed me.

[foenkyfjutschah@programming.dev]

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.

[truthfultemporarily@feddit.org]

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.

[preflight_tomato@lemm.ee]

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.