Meanwhile, my workplace just announced RTO, starting next year. It’s a moderately large, 100% white collar office site.
Gotta drive those CO2 numbers up, baby!NGL, that article picture is one of the best cases of “exaggerating to an absurd degree to make a point” I’ve ever seen 😁
Nice knowing, y’all. Smoke em if you got em.
“Data centers fix this” -billionaires probably
Tja
Tranlation: Do you remember the level in Super Mario Bros. 3 where the Sun tries to kill you?
This is today.
1.5°C Threshold Could Be Exceeded Before 2030
Come to Europe one of these days. We’re at 2.3°C.. Come and see our cities getting closer to temperatures of Phoenix, or the many forest fires, the droughts, powerplants shutting down because of a lack of water, transportation issues. The idiots saying more CO2 being good for plants can ask the farmers how things are going. We’re not having a good summer.
Anecdotally, just the other day, I roamed around a little and realized that the large rapeseed fields around my city are all totally
burned. EDIT: meant to write: shriveled up. Dry as bone.
Just… gone.This is the forecast for the next 5 days in Vienna/Austria. Last week was the same. I am fucking exhausted.
Cant wait for Friday.
Ach du liebes Schnitzel, und ich dachte hier in Oberbayern isses übel.
We’re all trying to find who did this
“When after all, it was you and me”.
We have had the technology to completely switch to sustainable energy for at least 20 years, but we haven’t because it wouldn’t be profitable to the capitalist class. This problem isn’t caused by us, it’s caused by them.
Pleased to meet you, hope you’ve guessed my name!
… Capitalism. My name is capitalism.
Turns out, the real treasure is the global catastrophe we made along the way.
And by “we” I mean the ghouls running the world.
‘Sharp acceleration’ meaning 75% faster warming in the last decade compared to the 40 years previous, and blowing past the 1.5° target in 3-4 years. No speculation was given, but I think it’s likely we’re seeing the limits of oceanic absorption of co2 and heat. The ocean’s latent heat capacity has flattened the curve for more than a century, and it’s very hard to predict when that will run out, but sea surface temperatures spiking all over have been good evidence that we have passed a major tipping point in the last few years.
I’ve read that the models used to predict the rate of change were too optimistic or an assumption about them was too conservative and thus not very realistic. Now we have data showing the models under-predicted the rate of change, so one argument is that we were already on this path since decades ago, we just didn’t model it right.
In any case, we’re all fucked so who gives a shit anyway no?
Is there a name for when we know what the right thing to do is but we keep not doing it?
All of the climate models have adjustable parameters. We are still within the bounds of the worst case scenarios but scientists are always afraid to claim too much. An academic’s reputation is a lot less recoverable than a pop star or politician in the sense that they, and their colleagues, actually take their words and predictions seriously. I don’t want to completely dismiss the effect of lobbying and corruption toward the downplaying of global warming, but making smaller-than-necessary claims is a common sight in most academic fields.
Great Filter.
Is there a name for when we know what the right thing to do is but we keep not doing it?
Hubris.
They also banned sulphur oxide in ship fuel which would have had a cooling effect, that was hiding the full extent of the damage and is slowly dissipating
Won’t be long until we start doing that again on purpose
How great fixing pollution with more pollution.
Actually it’s kinda good news as it shows we can make direct impact to the climate. Just with a substance actually made for it.
🎵 The solution to pollution is…more pollution? 🎵
Good news is cloud seeding is viable? Bad news is we’re probably gonna need it.
I’m sure it has nothing to do with the billionaire pedophiles not giving a fuck.
Of course not. It’s not enough people recycling their grocery bags.
Not to say you shouldn’t recycle.
Of course not. But it does feel a little silly when there are town-sized data centres being built in every direction and billionaires are just “choosing” to break all laws. Meta’s got gas turbines running to power theirs and they just said they’re gonna do it for another year. Who’s gonna stop ‘em? Everyone is too busy working and trying to survive to stop them from pretty literally torching our futures and especially our children’s futures.
Things will need to get pretty bad before we see any kind of justice or change of direction, I fear ☹️
Any idea what could be causing this?
Ocean is too tired to hold in extra Co2, and far too blue and not white anymore where it matters either.
Nah, it was snowing last year where I live so I’m sure it’s just changing weather.
It’s a mystery, wrapped in an enigma and covered in secret sauce.
Sadly we’re now at the “I told you so” phase of global warming and much sooner than expected. Now it’s a case of how bad are things going to get.
We still haven’t even peaked in terms of global emissions per year, let alone meaningfully reduced them. Then even after reducing from the peak, we really need to get to net 0, which seems impossible right now.
I’ve been in spectator mode for a while now once I realized the trend. Act locally, know your neighbors, become as self-sufficient as you can. Not much else you can do that will have actual effect.
That won’t have any effect. That’s precisely what the billionaires will come up with. Sort of individual peasant responsibility. We’ll be the ones on a carbon allowance, collecting plastic bottles while they can just buy their carbon credits and burn even more private jet fuel. Congrats on playing right into it.
Like blaming the guy behind bars for not trying something to get out.
I get it - don’t give in, change the world, and hold those responsible accountable. All great goals. But without a plan to do so and leadership/infrastructure, you’re just as bad as me saying to help oneself first. Maybe worse, since at least I’m doing something instead of victim blaming. If you want to rally the peasants to storm the castle, go ahead, but you aren’t going to do that by blaming peasants who aren’t doing it solo.
I also get your point on shifting responsibility. I was there when recycling and the rest was marketed to us. That doesn’t make recycling or its forgotten sisters reusing and repairing useless. It just shouldn’t end there, and shouldn’t be an excuse for other things we do as if there’s some balancing of credits. So if being more self-sufficient is some playing into their scheme, well, at least it’s less that they can control.
100% with you mate, posting revolutionary hopium on Lemmy isn’t doing anything. We have to affect what we can reasonably touch. It starts with talking to friends and neighbours, and making sure you have some security and certainty first.
Don’t worry guys, AI is gonna save us!
Meanwhile AI:
As long as we set up a terminal with an LLM on our barren dead planet, future civilizations will be able to use it to learn about some completely stupid made up shit long after we are gone.
“no wonder this civilization died; they put glue on their pizza”
Me: AI, how do we fix global warming?
AI: You knew what I was before you picked me up
The oceans around the Florida coast have summer temperatures of ++100˚ F for at least a few years now. I’d call that pretty sharp.
Before this whole thing goes under, I vote we take it upon ourselves to punish those responsible for destroying this planet for their own greed. All billionaires and trillionaires must go, in a method befitting what they have done. Every member of the board of every oil company should join them. And all politicians who have allowed this should go first.
We’re all here for that. Just a matter of getting it started…
