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Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by pjc50 »

missedthecue wrote: post #56
latexr wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you based in the US? Seeing how the current regime is doing its best to gut climate protections I get how it could seem that way, but it’s definitely not the case in e.g. Europe where energy from renewables continues to grow.

Most countries including the US are deploying record amounts of renewables. But the climate conversation is definitely reduced, and that's global. Its been a good while since I saw angsty euro teens throwing tomato soup on paintings or gluing themselves to motorways. That used to be a monthly occurance.

That was .. last year?

There's a "top of stack" effect in that there can be only a certain number of issues which are most important in discourse, and the Israel/Iran situation has taken over the top of discourse as has the US President.

A vital part of good governance is caring about things which aren't in today's newspaper.

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by superxpro12 »

xyzelement wrote: post #30
Octoth0rpe wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because of how policies are grouped together in many countries (particularly the US), the fight against fascism is necessarily concurrent with the fight against climate change.

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ok so this has to be a bot or propaganda account.

The US is checking a new box every day in the quest to parallel Nazi Germany.

Immigrant Concentration camps? Check

Elimination of public education in favor of religious private school? Check

Remove all free press in the government? Check

Remove all free press in the military? Check

Embrace "Unitary Executive Theory"? (Sure sounds a lot like when Hitler removed the legislature to me) Check.

Create an army of brown-shirts? Sorry i mean ICE Agents... Check

Fuck literal children and suppress all evidence? Check

Like... what EXACTLY is normal about this??????

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by dboreham »

xyzelement wrote: post #5

As an observation, global warming has completely disappeared as social concern in the last few years. Great that someone is still publishing research, but it seems like being a climate scientist has gone from hottest field to nobody cares.

I'm in the US and even here this is absolutely not true. It has disappeared as a government concern, because the government has been subverted by vested interests.

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by mixdup »

xyzelement wrote: post #5

As an observation, global warming has completely disappeared as social concern in the last few years. Great that someone is still publishing research, but it seems like being a climate scientist has gone from hottest field to nobody cares.

This is the biggest headscratcher about AI. Before 2020 every big tech company had a net neutral, if not net negative, carbon goal. And many of them were talking about not just buying offsets but actual neutrality. And others were talking about even accounting for the emissions caused by their customers using their products

LLMs hit the market and you never hear anyone talk about carbon at all. At all. Maybe Apple will mention it a little bit but they're not in the big datacenter game

The costs of LLMs are just being completely paved over. We don't let manufacturers dump cadmium into the rivers in the US anymore, even if it would enable cheap or magic products, it's insane that we're just ignoring all the external impacts in this particular area

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by 4fterd4rk »

leetharris wrote: post #16
ck2 wrote: post #6

Basically the oceans are way way way too hot which is melting even the most ancient ice and that can never be undone in our lifetimes (well maybe from a nuclear winter) USA is about to have another El Nino summer which will be scorching from overheating oceans But don't worry, USA is solving the problem by Biden banning cheap electric cars and Trump ending electric subsidies entirely, forcing coal plants to restart

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Right on schedule folks, it's a climate topic and we will now have the traditional recitation of the lies.

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by giraffe_lady »

FrustratedMonky wrote: post #62
throwway120385 wrote: post #12

We might actually hit the jackpot from The Peripheral.

I don't buy it. I read the Peripheral, and through the whole thing I was always asking "who actually built all the stuff these guys were inheriting"??? Are we assuming robots got to a level where incredible magical worlds could be built to server just a few people?

We built it, before we were intentionally allowed to die of climate change and flu pandemics. If you sell your labor for money you are building it, there is no plan for you afterwards.

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by wat10000 »

_heimdall wrote: post #55
giwook wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

China has actually been leading the charge in terms of green energy lately, at least in terms of making solar power equipment more accessible by way of driving down cost. I have no idea however if they're just exporting this to other countries or if they're also pushing renewable energy domestically. From what little I've read on this topic in recent years though they seem to realize that all of that smog is coming f…

China has continued to rapidly increase their use of coal for power generation. Just a few days ago there was an article about them hitting an 18-year high of new coal power installations [1] [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/katharinabuchholz/2026/02/27/ch...

China's coal consumption has been pretty much flat for the past decade. That's certainly not ideal, but it's not a rapid increase.

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by [deleted] »

leetharris wrote: post #16
ck2 wrote: post #6

Basically the oceans are way way way too hot which is melting even the most ancient ice and that can never be undone in our lifetimes (well maybe from a nuclear winter) USA is about to have another El Nino summer which will be scorching from overheating oceans But don't worry, USA is solving the problem by Biden banning cheap electric cars and Trump ending electric subsidies entirely, forcing coal plants to restart

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Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by spwa4 »

Was anybody really expecting anything else? The only factor that would matter is if oil producing nations STOP producing oil entirely. Not reduce, not limit, stop. Same with coal and other small contributions. Note: limiting exports, CO2 limits in oil customer states, ... all of that just doesn't matter. And, obviously, this is just not on the table. There is no way these nations will make such a decision because what it would mean for their economy. Plus it wouldn't matter unless they all make that decision.
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