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Gives me some hope: https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/climate-change-impacts/
by wait_a_minute 5y ago
Gives me some hope:
https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/climate-change-impacts/predictions-future-global-climate https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/climate-change-impacts/...
None of these tipping points are considered very likely to occur over the next several decades.
- tootie 5y agoConvincing people to make sacrifices for the good of the world sadly feels like a lost cause. The only solution to this is going to be innovation that makes the climate cost of consumption decrease.
- wait_a_minute 5y agoI'm not sad that we can fix the problem without stunting people's quality of living tbh.
- tootie 5y agoWell, we can't yet. And it probably won't happen until we have already started to suffer serious consequences.
- clydethefrog 5y agoA recent report confirms that ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, whose mass-loss rates have been rapidly increasing, are matching the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's worst-case sea-level rise scenarios. https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Space_for_our_climate/Ice_sheet_melt_on_track_with_worst-case_climate_scenario https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Space_f... "For near-term time horizons, we think it's actually the best choice because it matches cumulative emissions. What happened over the last 15 years has been about exactly right compared to what was projected by RCP 8.5." That holds especially true for medium-term planning through 2050. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03082020/climate-change-scenarios-emissions/ https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03082020/climate-change-s...