World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days
World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days
The BBC finds that there have been a record number of days in 2023 that breached the 1.5C temperature limit.
It's just too expensive to save the planet. I'm glad that our governments were making the tough Choices, to continue burning coal and other fossil fuels because the economy just couldn't handle the burden of not growing by another 5% every year.
133That's a fair complaint for developed countries, but I feel like it's less fair for developing countries where each point of GDP growth has a tangible effect on poverty rates, education, health, economic mobility, and overall wellbeing. Hell, an increase in economic resources will probably even offset the decrease in crop yield from climate change. For countries that are still developing, these things improve the lives of citizens more than the impact of climate change would hurt them.
Living in a developed country, we have a disproportionate responsibility for both reducing our own emissions and developing the technology and infrastructure to reduce emissions for everyone else. We should have led the charge towards ever cheaper solar and ever cheaper wind. We should have given the world clean and cheap technologies they can use to fuel their industrialization to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels. We haven't, but looking towards the future there's still a lot we can do.
Remember that you can influence global emissions far more than by bringing your personal emissions down to zero.
25None of the countries historically responsible for the most CO2 emissions is growing at anywhere near 5%. If anything, we're burning our only home for 1% year on year.
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I am so glad the shareholders got their money!
Just imagine some rich people didn't get more rich, just stayed as rich as they were, so we could "save the planet". Disgusting!
18Had the misfortune of listening to State Department and White House policy ghouls talk to a class recently. They don't believe moving to less fossil fuels quickly is viable because we'd become "dangerously dependent on Chinese minerals for batteries and solar cells" ignoring the fact that the entire globe is "dangerously dependent" on a liveable climate
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56Ok this is an idiot question but how does the global average temperature change so much over the course of a year. Is the northern hemisphere warmer overall during its summer compared to the southern hemisphere in its summer?
24I suppose there is more landmass on the northern hemisphere. Landmass is more prone to temperature changes because water dampen the change while land quickly absorb or radiate the heat.
10There is a theory based around how ocean tankers' exhaust historically included sulfates, which can actually seed cloud formation.
Recent emissions regulations reduced this effect, so fewer clouds are being seeded over the ocean, and the oceans are absorbing more sunlight and heating more.
So we were basically painting large swaths of reflective clouds over the oceans, masking the heating. And now we're seeing unencumbered heating effects.
5Could it be related to land mass? Temperature gets 1°C hotter on land.
3I think it's because the Northern hemisphere is a lot colder during winter compared to the southern hemispere in its winter, or at least one reason.
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45Scorching hot take, heard this week offline
"Climate change is actually a good thing because necessity is the mother of invention. If you have any faith in humans at all, climate change is just what we need to make humans an interplanetary species!"
27WW1 was good because it forced us to get better at war.
19Dark Logic. Can't be wrong, don't wanna be right. Fuck yeah did we ever get better at war!
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That take just increased global temps to the 2 degree mark.
8It's also a great way for mother Earth to teach us a hard lesson. How else are we to learn that we can't have whole species on one "basket". No, a good planet to start off on could mars. Now all we need is to invent, invest and grow the smart ones. It's just so hard to do so with so many yachts for sale.
1Our species and countless others have lived on one basket for millions of years.
Mars is a barren rock.
9Earth is the most hospitable planet to human life in the entire universe, and we seemingly can't even put in the meager effort to keep it habitable. What makes you think we'll be any better at making Mars habitable? Not just keeping it habitable as we've failed to do on Earth, but making it habitable in the first place.
3we can't have whole species on one "basket".
why not?
3get in the bazinga rocket — we're solving climate change by fucking off to a planet we've never even set foot on!
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can we please fucking kill oil and gas executives now? i know it's not gonna save us but we deserve something
23We ded
21We ded
Most likely outcome (high confidence)
still letting this here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba7357
7Oh yeah. We are definitely fucked
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14Earth
13That's capitalism efficiency for you right there, climate apocalypse is ahead of schedule.
13Hell yeah were so fucked
13Fuck yeaaahhhhhh!!
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Okay but that image goes hard. Literally looks like they're holding fire in their hand.
11Even without optical illusions, drip torches are pretty fun to work with.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
In 2016, influenced by a strong El Niño event - a natural climate shift that tends to increase global temperatures - the world saw around 75 days that went above that mark.
One theory - which is still uncertain - is that a fall in air pollution from shipping across the North Atlantic has reduced the number of small particles and increased warming.
Up until now, these "aerosols" had been partly offsetting the effect of greenhouse gas emissions by reflecting some of the sun's energy and keeping the Earth's surface cooler than it would have been otherwise.
While the northern hemisphere will naturally cool in autumn and winter, there is a view that the large temperature differences from the pre-industrial period may persist, especially as El Niño reaches a peak at the end of this year or early next.
Researchers believe that these ongoing high temperature anomalies should be a wake-up call for political leaders, who will gather in Dubai in November for the COP28 climate summit.
In March, the UN urged countries to accelerate climate action, stressing effective options to reduce emissions were available now, from renewables to electric vehicles.
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9Even shorter:
We fucked
2This is a terrible summary.
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is this fine?
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Look at this beauty! If we work together me can get to 3°C or may be more
5lol
lmao
😂 💀
4Uhh yeah it's not looking good ...
3Time for cool southern hemisphere countries to establish anti-immigration laws against hot northern hemisphere countries! Once again this proves why early human settlements started nearby rivers, oceans and coastal areas (water access was not the only reason).
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