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If this doesn't mean that we've failed the 1.5 C target, then what are the criteria for failure there?
It's gotta be 1.5C hotter on average for a decade, not just a year
One down, nine more to go!
Five down. Five more to go. We are at the midpoint of the decade that counts.
We’re number one!
We’re number one!
Please stop. This is sobering news.
The political blockading 5 years ago was sobering news.
This is watching a really, really, really big train crash, after knowing for minutes that the driver was accelerating on purpose.
This was predicted and expected.
Oh yay! So we can have weeks where it's 5C hotter but as long as we have enough devastating cold snaps in the winter we can say it's not that bad yet!
We beat the deadline by 6 years, guys! Good work!
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We did it everyone!
god this made me cackle
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One of the problems with these metrics is a lot of different authorities use different estimates of what the pre-industrial average is. One thing we can all agree on, though, is that temperatures are hitting record highs and global temperatures have far exceeded natural changes for anything ever recorded, and it's not going to stop.
Oh but let’s raise the birth rate to save the economy
I mean, it depends. Sub-replacement birthrate means gerontocracy and you're currently seeing where that is leading. Pensioners by and large aren't great at changing things.
World-wide population growth is going to stop naturally in the next couple of decades as the last big countries finish their demographic transition, after that there's going to be at least a slight decrease and then stabilisation as industrialised countries figure out how to have replacement-level birthrates again. The earth certainly can sustain that many people indefinitely, with plenty of room to spare. Also at our living standards (minus cars plus public transit), and even with fewer working hours.
If you don't want to have kids fine don't have kids but the climate argument is BS. Don't think of it as producing a consumer, but producing a voter interested in the state of the earth 100 years from now.
Kurzgesagt had a good video about that recently that hit on those same points. Like you said, you don't want a society of old people with few young people. Then they vote for short term solutions and don't care about long term problems.
I mean, that already happens now, but even more so.
Or maybe tell Nigeria and India and China to get their populations under control?
The chinese population peaked in 2021, they're now shrinking and have a fertility rate of roughly 1.1 despite the abolition of the one-child policy.
We are more than ever emitting CO~2~ and temperature will increase until a major drop in population.
Still i am quite sure humanity will survive it.
Humanity will likely survive. The earth will definitely survive. But in both cases, the question will be: What will it look like?
Probably something like the Bronze Era collapse, but with a lot more people and likely a rebound that leads to a slower industrial revolution involving renewable materials. I think the actual collapse will take a lot longer than people seem to think, on the order of the next 75 to 100 years. I think for some, it could happen rather quickly over the next 10-20 years, but for most, it'll be a slow and meandering quality of life decline over several generations that is already under way. Recovery will take much longer on the order of 100 to 250 years. I am basing this guesstimate on absolutely zero scientific information whatsoever.
I'm not the gambling type.
And yet it is fuckin cold and rainy in the UK.
Europe in general could end up very cold if the gulf stream collapses, which might happen due to climate change.
I don't know about the rest of Europe, it is quite warm in the central Europe now. It seems to be something very unique to the UK. Summer here starts Wed afternoon in June and is usually gone by Sunday evening.
At the moment, but where I live we had temperatures of around 15°C last week to a 30°C peak this week.
Weather getting ever odder you say? Hmmm
"Shittier" is the word I would use. It is 12 degrees outside now. And I wonder what idiots are downvoting my comment for simply stating facts.
Because you're confusing weather and climate. It's not that "the globe is warming yet it's cold here", it's cold and shitty exactly because of climate change.
I never said it wasn't?
Just saying what I feel it reads like, since you said you were wondering why the downvotes.