Imagine finding that people your own age ignored it too, like they're doing right now.
Finally, this is the first time I saw this graph that DIDN'T use logarithmic scale for time - which makes this sharp spike look "natural".
Typical copes:
"It's ONLY 4 degrees... that's not very hot! Liberals are blowing this out of proportion."
"Since 100% of climate change can't be attributed to human activity, what's the point in trying to change our behavior?"
"The spring was unusually cool... so much for global warming!"
"I'll be dead by the time this matters, so who cares?"
"I don't live by the ocean, so a rise in sea levels is nothing to worry about."
"The ice caps are actually getting LARGER! Liberals are just making all this up."
"Do you REALLY think they kept weather data back 150 years ago? Certainly that's propaganda."
I don't know why people are so against trying to do something. I'd like to think if it was scientifically proven that people had 0% to do with changing climate that we STILL should try to do something. It always made no sense to me as just to dismiss it as some kind of "natural change" in the Earth that we shouldn't oppose.
The rich made the poor ignore it.
The oil industry has been pumping out disinformation propoganda since the 50s.
Americans in a few years: "Best I can do is ecofascism."
Is this what they meant with "the like must go up at any cost"? Because it doesn't feel right.
I was just thinking about the poor air quality today and yesterday here in the Midwest, and then I see this. I want to be hopeful we can change this in my lifetime, but I am also not optimistic.
Sam Altman (OpenAI) is a Millennial. So is Zuckerberg. LLMs are one of the big energy sinks right now, reaching 1,000 terawatt-hours by 2026 and the current rate of use is doubling every year. For comparison, total global commercial (excluding industrial and transportation, so, office buildings - lights, AC, computers) energy use is 50,000 TWh.
It's still being ignored. Boomers are out of the work force (if not politics), and Gen X is just starting to retire. Between Millenials and Gen Z, they hold 32% of the voting power in the US, the same as Boomers. And Gen Z is only just entering voting age, at 8%.
Half the voting population is under 50 and global temperatures keep increasing. There's every indication sticking your head in the sand is a cross-generational behavior.
Altman isn't sticking his head in the sand, he's delusional and selfish. He doesn't care what happens to the rest of the world after AGI.
He's also delusional if he thinks AGI is coming if you just keep pumping up LLMs.
We didn't invent the automobile by breeding faster, and faster, horses.
Economists are orgasming so fucking hard at this you wouldn't beliee
Some economist did his calculations and came to the conclusion that climate change up to 4°C would only cost 0.1% GDP (or something else ridiculously small). Somebody else remarked that his calculations showed the same 0.1% at -4°C. There was a a kilometer of ice on the spot he was now sitting when it was last -4°C, and you'd think the influence on the economy of that would be a bit more than 0.1%.
That line is going UP, boooiiii!!!
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