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Paris Agreement target won't protect polar ice sheets, scientists warn

12 points by rntn 1y ago

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melling 1y ago
We should be reaching peak coal real soon now: https://www.iea.org/news/global-coal-demand-is-set-to-plateau-through-2027 https://www.iea.org/news/global-coal-demand-is-set-to-platea...
- toomuchtodo 1y ago
  It’s really all up to China now, to build and sell as many EVs, batteries, and solar panels as they can. They have to crowd out fossil energy usage globally as a global clean energy manufacturing powerhouse.
  - aziaziazi 1y ago
    They might have/choose to create batterie big enough to retrofit their diesel-electric haul truck first, to start at the beginning of the batteries supply chain. Not wanting to sound defeatist but that's not the easiest part.
    - toomuchtodo 1y ago
      https://theicct.org/publication/ze-mhdv-market-china-2024-mar25/ https://theicct.org/publication/ze-mhdv-market-china-2024-ma... https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/half-chinas-heavy-truck-sales-could-be-evs-by-2028-catl-says-2025-05-18/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/half-chinas-heavy-tr... https://electrek.co/2025/05/18/autonomous-electric-haul-truck-fleet-set-to-revolutionize-mineral-mining-in-china/ https://electrek.co/2025/05/18/autonomous-electric-haul-truc... I cannot overstate how much battery manufacturing capacity China is building. https://about.bnef.com/blog/china-already-makes-as-many-batteries-as-the-entire-world-wants/ https://about.bnef.com/blog/china-already-makes-as-many-batt...
      - aziaziazi 1y ago
        Wow that’s interesting indeed. Thanks for the links.
metalman 1y ago
nothing can protect that which no longer exists, which we are most definitly on track in the case of the northern polar ice cover. https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today edit: the article linked in the title of this thread, mentions the effects of ocean warming causing equatorial ocean expansion effects, and as a first for me, that the reduced polar ice caps are reducing gravitaional pull that is changing ocean currents. it's bad when....right

12 points by rntn 1y ago

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We should be reaching peak coal real soon now: https://www.iea.org/news/global-coal-demand-is-set-to-plateau-through-2027 https://www.iea.org/news/global-coal-demand-is-set-to-platea...

toomuchtodo 1y ago
It’s really all up to China now, to build and sell as many EVs, batteries, and solar panels as they can. They have to crowd out fossil energy usage globally as a global clean energy manufacturing powerhouse.
- aziaziazi 1y ago
  They might have/choose to create batterie big enough to retrofit their diesel-electric haul truck first, to start at the beginning of the batteries supply chain. Not wanting to sound defeatist but that's not the easiest part.
  - toomuchtodo 1y ago
    https://theicct.org/publication/ze-mhdv-market-china-2024-mar25/ https://theicct.org/publication/ze-mhdv-market-china-2024-ma... https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/half-chinas-heavy-truck-sales-could-be-evs-by-2028-catl-says-2025-05-18/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/half-chinas-heavy-tr... https://electrek.co/2025/05/18/autonomous-electric-haul-truck-fleet-set-to-revolutionize-mineral-mining-in-china/ https://electrek.co/2025/05/18/autonomous-electric-haul-truc... I cannot overstate how much battery manufacturing capacity China is building. https://about.bnef.com/blog/china-already-makes-as-many-batteries-as-the-entire-world-wants/ https://about.bnef.com/blog/china-already-makes-as-many-batt...
    - aziaziazi 1y ago
      Wow that’s interesting indeed. Thanks for the links.

metalman 1y ago

nothing can protect that which no longer exists, which we are most definitly on track in the case of the northern polar ice cover. https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today edit: the article linked in the title of this thread, mentions the effects of ocean warming causing equatorial ocean expansion effects, and as a first for me, that the reduced polar ice caps are reducing gravitaional pull that is changing ocean currents. it's bad when....right