Congrats, everyone! We finally did it! And way ahead of schedule! Take that, scientists! They said we couldn’t do it before 2050. They warned us! They scolded us! But look at us now! Eat it, nerds!
sigh
This is fucking ridiculous.
I just binged la Palma on Netflix. Here we go.
I’m just sad I’ll never have another snow filled winter living here
Don’t despair! If we keep at it for long enough, we might destroy the AMOC (Atlantic Current), which might mean much lower temperature in Europe and North America, and much higher temperatures in the equator.
So you might not see snow in winter, but you’ll probably get ice sheets in New York and Paris
Haven’t Paris and new york have it hard enough?
Grim milestone and barely a peep about it in popular discourse. Everyone needs to prepare personally for the consequences.
For one thing I’m not expecting food prices to level off for the rest of my life. Everything’s just going to get more scarce and expensive. Is it possible common foods we enjoy now we may never have again at some point?
On a lighter note. I got a new winter jacket in 2019. Between covid and the rapid decline of cold winters I’ve barely worn it.
Human migration is going to get crazy really soon.
Conservatives successfully turned it into a “politically sensitive” topic. A weatherman can’t even bring it up without getting angry calls, but I can feel them biting their tongue when discussing things like ocean heat content.
So about when can we expect the next ice age?
We’re in the ice age, it’s supposed to be cold right now. So… Around 100,000 years after humanity either dies out or becomes subterranean.
Bingo!!!
I had this on my 2024 bingo card.
God I hope I’m wrong about 2025 BOE.
And with it, another group of mitigation advocates become doomsday acceptors in the scientific community.
Sitting here in a beautiful sunny day, people can be forgiven for thinking its not a big deal.
Until you realise how much energy it takes to raise the temperature of the ocean and land by 1.5. And then that all that energy goes into every weather event forever until we reverse it.
55 degrees F in Massachusetts a week before Christmas. I was driving with my windows down. I got nuthin else. What the shit, man.
It’s been twenty degrees F (11C) above average in Arizona this week. Should be frigid with snow on the ground (in the mountains) yet I was riding my bike with a t-shirt this week.
OK, I looked it up. Average from 1979 to 1999 for me on December 17th was 29.1 degrees F.
Can we have it in non-freedom units, il even take a clothing layer comparison is the metric systemis spawn of Satan. Is this snow - t shirt weather?
29 is bundled up layered clothes, ice, and snow weather. 55 is a hoodie over your tshirt.
Snow storm v nice autumn afternoon?
Damn…
According to several other data sets, 2023 reached 1.5C too. Dramatic record low Arctic sea ice volume throughout the year, and current, including at north pole is ominous for north pole being ice free in next 2 summers.
Don’t worry, cheaper solar panels, electric cars and entrepreneurs will save humanity. And by humanity I mean a specific share of the world’s developed nations. Discourse on this frustrates me to an unhealthy degree.
If you promote techno-fetishism laden, borderline tech-bro driven or shitass bill gates financed media, please reply so I may wish upon your remaining bloodline an everlasting mildly inconvenient curse.
And if you like Kurzgesagt tech videos, please reply so I may respectfully call you a fucking donkey.
What’s that about kurzgesagt?
I often found good citations/ research evidence linked to their claims (on climate change)
They list their sources! Their content tends to be pretty well done, even if not perfect.
They repeat whatever their donors claim without any checking on their part. Sometimes this lines up with science, sometimes it’s just propaganda.
Any example videos that are propoganda?
I’d like to scrutinize one so I can fact check better in the future. I mainly check the citations in the links.
I’m frustrated by the discourse too but I’m not sure it’s for the same reasons as you.
What frustrates me is we never seem to discuss goals and why we have those goals.
Is the goal to keep the average temperature of earth as low as possible for as long as possible?
Is it to minimize the impact and costs for humans?
What exactly are we aiming for, and why?
What is your frustration with the discourse?
Is the goal to keep the average temperature of earth as low as possible for as long as possible?
Human sustainability requires having those goals. Protecting oligarch wealth is within oligarch corruption power, and human prosperity is a sacrifice they are willing to make. Genocide of the uppity disenfranchised as a final solution seems natural today., as the path forward.
We did it guys 🥳
And so far, what have we done?
Pretty much nothing. We’ve done a lot of pretending with “let’s recycle plastics”, which them just get dumped anyway because fuck you, that’s why.
We’re slowly slowly moving to electrical cars instead of pushing hard for bicycles and public transportation. Profits over anything else!
We’ve implemented.next day deliveries, because THAT is important. Fuck your winter
The US just choose a climate change denier who put a guy in charge of the EPA that can’t stop talk about pushing businesses and economy and oil.
The world is lead by narcissistic psychopaths and everyone just lets them.
I wanted to see that compared with global energy demand
Yeah, this graph shows it all. The previous looks impressive, this one looks depressing
May our descendants never forgive us.
If there are any.
Don’t blame me, I recycled! /s
Our mass cowardice, mine included, is our shame and culpability.
Like the German citizens who weren’t Nazis but stayed quiet and didn’t protest, only on a global scale. We should all be Greta, getting arrested doing the right thing, but again cowardice in the face of inhumanity is our sin.
Check out what they did with my recycling: https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/09/03/swedens-largest-environmental-crime-11-people-on-trial-accused-of-illegally-dumping-waste
Yep, even in the nations I often look up to from my gold plated shithole as the last models of humanity on Earth, all the while going back to the same question…
…and being left with the same sad answer, we as a species arent the cure, and we aren’t both, we’re just the disease.
Just smart enough to figure out how to blow ourselves up, and still stupid enough to do it.
It always provides context for me in life to remember that, with great difficulty, humanity managed to do something I would think any sapient life form would consider a massive technological threshold/achievement: we figured out how to split the atom, releasing practically limitless energy.
…And Why did we suddenly rush to do so? To make big boomie boom rival monkey tribe.
“Our technology has exceeded our humanity” - Albert Einstein
But what exactly do you want to change?
Lets say you had absolute power and could make whatever decisions for the human race you’d want.
I’m curious what you’d decide.
Im not saying there aren’t things we can do better, but it’s also not as easy as people make it out to be.
Yes, the line is going up. That’s good, right? Shareholders keep telling me that the line must go up, and it looks like we’re doing it! Good job, everyone.
Denmark has officially cancelled winter translated article. I don’t like this timeline.
