148
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2024
148 points (99.3% liked)
Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.
5181 readers
754 users here now
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
AI and crypto didn't help?
Plus the complete lack of effort on the part of any government anywhere... we are all so fucked.
US emissions have been decreasing since 2007. Not just on a per-capita basis, but on a total basis.
China's emissions may have peaked this year. If not this year, soon.
Just because you don't see effort, that doesn't mean there is no effort. It just means you haven't been looking.
The effort isn't enough, and that's the problem. U.S. emissions dropped 2.7% from 2023, that's great, but that still means we pumped 4.8 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere (I don't remember the exact phrasing your article used).
We're still pumping too much in, and not taking any out, and we're already hitting limits we needed to avoid. And based on that recent AMOC collapse report that came out, a lot of these climate models weren't even taking that into account, so I highly doubt we see a reverse of course on climate change as it continues to expound on itself year over year.
The WWF reported a 69% average decline in all animal species populations on the planet since 1970.
We missed the exit, everything until the cliff is grifters trying to set themselves up for the inevitable collapse at your expense.
The effort is not enough...yet. As long as we don't start backsliding, we're seeing an increase in effort year over year.
THIS is the grifter bullshit. "Don't bother acting, it's too late". Fossil fuel doomer propaganda.
That's not what I said, I said it's too late, we missed the exit. Fossil fuel companies hid the research for decades, and I've heard nothing my entire life except how we need to act and change the ways we live and interact with the world.
I'm almost 30, and our dependency on fossil fuels hasn't changed, I've yet to see a meaningful societal shift away from the consumerism that drives the majority of climate change.
And ok, we keep driving emissions down, what about biodiversity loss across the planet? How many plants and animals are currently on the brink of extinction?
Let's bring up developing countries, who are increasing their use of fossil fuels. Where is the international agreement to help modernize these countries with renewable energies? Who's going to pay for it? We can't get the countries of the world to agree we've overfished the oceans and they're on the brink of collapse, where's the international agreement to reverse that?
I would argue I'm giving people a pessimistic reality of the future, sure, but at least it's based in the current reality. Climate change extends far beyond the overall global temperature, and I'm sure climate and environmental scientists will be the first to say that there are a lot of pieces and variables we don't fully understand, or haven't even accounted for, because that's just how science works.
I blame NVIDIA 4090 gamers myself
Well when even the smaller cards require pallet delivery and a 4 man team to bring on site you know you fucked up