Scientists find that major Earth systems are on the verge of total collapse.
Scientists find that major Earth systems are on the verge of total collapse.
Hidden in every tenth of a degree of extra warmth are hair-trigger switches built into Earth systems that are critical for all life.
Won't be long now.
But doing anything about it now might hurt shareholder profits in the next few quarters, so let's just wait until things get even worse – then we can start murdering scapegoats and pray for our neofeudalist techbro overlords to save us
As usual, we'll gauge the collapse by what the stock market is doing and ignore the millions of dead along the way.
Friendly reminder that the IPCC models have consistently been conservative in their approach, mainly because the reports are influenced by policymakers and a biased committee before they reach daylight.
You can look this up yourself, there is plenty of criticism from the scientific community.
IIRC the AR6 said it had high confidence that we would not reach 1.5c before 2030 and medium confidence we would reach it around 2035.
Because of this I want to say that the 1.5c limit is an arbitrary bullshit number for policymakers to appear as though they're aiming for a goal.
There is no safe level of warming, and a large amount of these feedback loops have and may happen because of factors other than ONE fucking number. (E.g Human influence on the Amazon)
We're looking at possibly hitting 2c warming by 2029 now.
Business as usual, Venus by Tueday. What a time to be alive, lmao.
Those risk projections actually look pretty rosy compared to what insurance actuaries are predicting: https://actuaries.org.uk/document-library/thought-leadership/thought-leadership-campaigns/climate-papers/planetary-solvency-finding-our-balance-with-nature/
Yeah, shit's getting bad. We're going to be out of fresh water and arable land soon too.
The political aptitude for change is very, very strange here in Australia.
I could talk a lot about this but the abridged version is that our farmers are experiencing severe drought or severe flooding, and the political party that claims to represent regional Australians (farmers) want's to discard our emissions targets all together.
As in, we've tried nothing and it's not working so best we just double down on doing nothing. Thankfully these particular idiots are not likely to form government any time soon but they still represent a significant portion of the nation.
Meanwhile, renewables everywhere are surging ahead, everyone is installing roof-top solar, turbines being erected on farms, we're building huge hydrogen production facilities, and it's largely just ignored or worse - people complaining about how it's unsightly or noisy or the grid doesn't like it or whatever.
Yeah, I really struggle to understand it. No-one in the energy industry supports nuclear as far as I can tell and yet people can't see that the Nationals are pushing it as a way to avoid actually doing anything about climate. It's like the Nationals want to make themselves irrelevant by intentionally (through stupidity, willful ignorance or sheer disingenuousness) harming their constituents.
Honestly I think it's simply that "nuclear" is a one-word solution to a complex problem that doesn't require anyone to interrupt their view of the rolling landscape with a noisy turbine. If you start there then you can build up a narrative around how nuclear is the only sensible solution but it's still just vibe-based reasoning.
Dawg why these bigass companies not put solar panels over their parking lots? Free energy and free shade. Cool those hot zones down
Won't be long now.
It'll take longer than you like.
This is the last year.
MAGA - TACO: “no they’re not!”
