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New Climate Report Warns of Imminent Climate Tipping Point As Emissions Soar (earth.org)
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A growing body of scientific evidence now suggests that, due to rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emission levels in the atmosphere, the world is on track to overshoot the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C target within the next three years, pushing the planet beyond a critical threshold faster than previously feared.

The dire warning comes from the most up-to-date assessment of the state of global warming, led by a group of international researchers and published in Earth System Science Data earlier this month. The report was signed by over 60 scientists across 17 countries.

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[-] atro_city@fedia.io 10 points 4 days ago

People won't care until they are directly impacted. It won't be enough if their nan dies of a heatstroke. They have to have a heatstroke, have an inundated house, lose their belongings in a forest fire, or switch careers because there aren't any more bees in their area. And even then, once they solve their own problem (if they can), they will forget about everybody else.

[-] EldenLord@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

At this point there could be car tires melting in the heat and storm floods burying whole cities. People would still be bleating about "leftist ecoterrorists" and "gubermint takes away muh freedumbs"

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