UN says “No credible pathway” and “woefully inadequate” to stop global 1.5C
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Re: UN says “No credible pathway” and “woefully inadequate” to stop global 1.5C
#2An assessment of climate tipping points that are likely to be triggered at 1.5C degrees of warming: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn7950
The main threats would be near-term coral reef die-offs and ice sheet collapses.
Re: UN says “No credible pathway” and “woefully inadequate” to stop global 1.5C
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Re: UN says “No credible pathway” and “woefully inadequate” to stop global 1.5C
#4No comments because no one's shocked any more
Re: UN says “No credible pathway” and “woefully inadequate” to stop global 1.5C
#5No surprises here. We've known for years we're going to shoot beyond 2C with very high certainty.
Even if a miracle happened and we reached zero emissions today, the climate will keep warming at least for some more decades due to climate lag and feedbacks.
Re: UN says “No credible pathway” and “woefully inadequate” to stop global 1.5C
#6Maybe then we should consider not kneecapping our economy and driving people into poverty? The worst thing for the environment is poverty. I'm convinced most of the measures put in place to fight climate change have been a net negative to the environment, when you consider how much they are impoverishing people and thus driving more people to disregard environmental concerns for survival.
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#7The appropriately apocalyptic soundtrack to accompany this article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi0q0O4V5Qs
Re: UN says “No credible pathway” and “woefully inadequate” to stop global 1.5C
#8I wish humanity could discard narrow-minded nationalist/short-sighted capitalist tendencies and unite against this threat. Imagine a climate pact between the US, EU, China and India where each society placed a similar focus on pivoting to renewables and developing reliable fusion energy as the Allies devoted to winning ww2 and developing atomic weaponry. Amusingly, the end of our dependency would also resolve many geopolitical concerns. However, governments across the globe are run by people who lack the proper morals or intelligence to see what needs to be done.
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#9Not a surprise, since co2 is an oxide, and therefore very stable in the athmosphere. It would take a huge amount of energy to remove it, and we don't even stop putting it in there.
Janvici had a nice way to put it: the 1.5C are already signed for, which means we won't ever see the climate of today again in the next 5000 years.
Re: UN says “No credible pathway” and “woefully inadequate” to stop global 1.5C
#10Maybe then we should consider not kneecapping our economy and driving people into poverty? The worst thing for the environment is poverty. I'm convinced most of the measures put in place to fight climate change have been a net negative to the environment, when you consider how much they are impoverishing people and thus driving more people to disregard environmental concerns for survival.
This argument might be valid in Brazil but definitely isn't in Canada.