All we needed to do was stop burning fossil fuels we really are fucking dense.
Ah yes it could have been so easy: All we needed to do was convince everyone in the world to behave a certain way.
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#12People really don’t appreciate yet. How really bad this situation is and will be. They’re talking about 1.76°C higher temperatures next year because of this El Niño. Those are climate change temperatures that are not supposed to be around until 2035. So it’ll give us a sneak peek into our future. But the biggest effect and this is noted by many insurance companies now is going to be in places like India. But this is…
It was inevitable we'd get to the point where climate change began substantially disrupting ecology and human livelihoods. Looks like we're ahead of schedule.
People dying from extreme heatwaves, weather, and famines due to climate change has been predicted for decades at this point; and this is exactly the sort of climatic setup that will enable this to happen.
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#13Great write up but bummed to not see any info about the waves. It’s been a bonkers summer!
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#14All we needed to do was stop burning fossil fuels we really are fucking dense.
Ah yes it could have been so easy: All we needed to do was convince everyone in the world to behave a certain way.
Exactly, kinda like what we did with CFCs!
Granted fossil fuels are much more ubiquitous than CFCs and comparatively more difficult to replace, but we have prior art for changing industrial practices in the interest of improving climate conditions.
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#15All we needed to do was stop burning fossil fuels we really are fucking dense.
Ah yes it could have been so easy: All we needed to do was convince everyone in the world to behave a certain way.
Most people agree on basic values. It's really not that big a stretch to appeal to such common values, seeing as rapid global warming would cause mass relocation, suffering, adaptation costs for those who can stay put, etc.
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#16Meanwhile West Antarctic ice shelf barely clutching on.
No direct link, but click the "anomaly" map button just underneath the map. Hello all these similar 10+ °C anomalies that have sat around. Some colder spots too that have hung around! But yikes. https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=world
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#17All we needed to do was stop burning fossil fuels we really are fucking dense.
Ah yes it could have been so easy: All we needed to do was convince everyone in the world to behave a certain way.
It really was very achievable, the main reason we didn't was we had a bunch of people spreading lies about it for 100 years or so.
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#18The strongest El Niño ever caused a massive famine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877%E2%80%931878_El_Ni%C3%B1o...
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah yes it could have been so easy: All we needed to do was convince everyone in the world to behave a certain way.
It really was very achievable, the main reason we didn't was we had a bunch of people spreading lies about it for 100 years or so.
We couldn't have stopped using fossil fuels heavily until nuclear power was widespread and implemented, around the late 70s or 80s.
We could have traditioned our grids off of fossil fuels but we also depend on them for fertilizer to feed the world and for transportation which, until very recently, didn't have a viable alternative.