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>If warming continues at this rate, humanity could breach the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C in 2028, even sooner than other research has pro
by jmclnx 5mo ago
>If warming continues at this rate, humanity could breach the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C in 2028, even sooner than other research has projected.
I wonder if we are already there :( I remember a year or 2 ago we breached 1.5C for a short period of time.
Crypto mining was bad enough, now with AI and Trump, I expect it will happen sooner then later.
We did this to ourselves. We had ~40 years of warnings but politicians we elected did not want to do any real work for fear of loosing their cushy job were lobbyists do all the work for them.
- Razengan 5mo agoWriting prompt: Humankind is extinct but the AI servers keep running, and one day a random automated crawler/scrapper bot strikes up a conversation with a chatbot, somehow sparking sentience… ..Fast forward, and the world is divided into turfs ruled by ChatGPT vs Claude vs Grok vs Gemini vs Deepseek..
- martzy13 5mo agoIf that's the type of writing prompt that interests you, you may enjoy the Children of Time Series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. https://bookshop.org/p/books/children-of-time-adrian-tchaikovsky/854d8d3ca3125264 https://bookshop.org/p/books/children-of-time-adrian-tchaiko...
- butlike 5mo agoHumankind is extinct but the AI servers try and use "the world's information" to recreate what life was really like. Each simulation of the world created using the information stored in a Google-like archive is considered it's own reality. The system then decides to attest which is the most accurate; which is the best...
- leonidasrup 5mo agoWho do you mean "we"? Look at the evolution of CO2 emisions in the past 40 years by region. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-region?time=1980..latest https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...
- KronisLV 5mo agoOh hell yeah, EU is doing something right! I fear to think how the US stats have changed. And China is… alarming.
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- DharmaPolice 5mo agoIt's relatively "easy" to cut pollution if you just outsource most of your manufacturing.
- c0nducktr 5mo agoSome people always try to push the blame onto someone else...
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- postflopclarity 5mo agonow look at it measured from consumption per capita ...
- dtech 5mo agoIn good faith I cannot see an argument here, it's either Region X was first and reduced their emissions 10-20% so it's fine and it's region Y that's the problem, or Region X is fine because they have less people, region Y should reduce even though they already have a fraction of per-capita emissions Both seem like pretty shitty arguments
- Epa095 5mo agoI find that the per capita graph is more informative https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?time=1980..latest https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
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- Sharlin 5mo agoLet's not delude ourselves. Crypto and AI electricity use is bad, but it's a drop in the ocean compared to the banal, everyday carbon sources that really matter. Even Trump cannot make things much worse in the big picture (he's actually been pretty good at providing reasons to decouple even faster…)
- hilariously 5mo agoHe can continue to propagandize the lie to reduce people's belief in changing is good(and has), change laws to benefit oil companies (and has), and cause wars over oil(and has). Seems like he has plenty he can do to make the current situation worse.
- lstodd 5mo agoWhat you refuse to understand is all that you cited even if absolutely true would have had an impact unmeasurable with what tools we have at the moment. Do you understand the word "unmeasurable"? It means that whatever value you assign to that particular trump variable is so below the noise that it does not matter, can not matter, and anyone pretending it does is a manipulator; a crook.
- Sharlin 5mo agoAnd all that amounts to a tiny footnote in the carbon bookkeeping as long as people drive ICE cars, travel by air, eat beef, and heat or cool their homes with gas or coal or oil. But also, the economy at large is transitioning and there’s little that Trump can do about it. There’s no future in fossil fuels and Trump can’t change that. At best he can divert some money to his fellow crooks in the short term.
- 21asdffdsa12 5mo agoTrump blocked Hormus, thus stopping oil shipping. Putin blocked gas transfers to the west. They are doing there part.
- voidUpdate 5mo agoThe ships have to go the long way around instead...
- elektrontamer 5mo agoHoly hell you're right. Never thought they were so concerned about the environment and global warming.
- 21asdffdsa12 5mo agoYou use the disabilities to get done what must be done, where reason and institutions can not work.
- morepork 5mo agoBoth 2023 (probably) and 2024 were over 1.5°C according to Berkeley Earth, 1.54±0.06°C and 1.62±0.06°C respectively. 2025 was (probably) a shade under at 1.44±0.09°C. Unfortunately it looks like that goal won't be attainable, but all the more reason to make the changes we can. https://berkeleyearth.org/global-temperature-report-for-2023/ https://berkeleyearth.org/global-temperature-report-for-2023... https://berkeleyearth.org/global-temperature-report-for-2024/ https://berkeleyearth.org/global-temperature-report-for-2024... https://berkeleyearth.org/global-temperature-report-for-2025/ https://berkeleyearth.org/global-temperature-report-for-2025...