Aielman15 45 points 3 years ago

I remember when they wanted to keep it within 1°C. Now it's 1.5°C. In a few years, people will all be surprise Pikachu'd that nobody has done anything, and the goalpost will move to 2°C.

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FireRetardant 24 points 3 years ago

In a few years the temperature rise will move to 2, not just the goal posts.

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AA5B 14 points 3 years ago

So I wonder which we’ll hit first:

1.5° ten year moving average?
2.0° one year average?

It’s a race toward doom!

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Ramenator 24 points 3 years ago

Global Warming Speedrun Any%

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5714 19 points 3 years ago

Curb your cynicism, folks. It can get a lot worse.

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PwnTra1n 31 points 3 years ago

Will*

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5714 3 points 3 years ago

The difference between will and could here is intention and cynicism somewhat acts as climate doomerism, the child of climate action denial. Cynicism is giving control to Shell and Aramco.

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Muehe 5 points 3 years ago

Not OP, but I don't think the reply can be interpreted as cynicism. Even if we were to stop GHG emissions entirely tomorrow things would continue to get worse for a while, since the cycles in nature that those gases go through are quite long. And we are not in fact stopping all GHG emissions tomorrow. Stating facts is not per se cynical.

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AA5B 1 point 3 years ago

I’d like to see that data - if we magically stopped emitting excess carbon tomorrow, what would global warming look like and when.

I’m sure it’s counter-productive though. Both those who don’t want to face reality and those giving up in the face of reality are likely to seize on it

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doom_and_gloom 3 points 3 years ago

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Scubus 2 points 3 years ago

I don't view it that way. The way I see it, every time we remind people of how fucked we are, we bring the public one step closer to codifying ecoterrorism into law.

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OurTragicUniverse 1 point 3 years ago

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Napain 15 points 3 years ago

its a mean avg for 10 years, so 1 year above that doesn't mean we hit it. rm we are at 1.1

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intelisense 16 points 3 years ago

Which is part of the problem... TEN YEARS after we've breached 1.5 degrees, we might be committed to do something.

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WaxedWookie 5 points 3 years ago

We haven't reached 1.5 degrees on the ten year average, so there's no need to act. When we get there, there will be no point in acting because it'll be too late. How could we possibly have seen this coming - it's not like scientists have been screaming it at us for the last half century...

Can't change it through advocacy or direct action, can't hold those responsible to account, but can't roll over and die - Guess I'll bitch about it online as I struggle to afford a house in the economy fucked by the same class interests that doomed the species.

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AA5B 2 points 3 years ago

Yep, let’s not worry about it. We have not hit the target so it must not be a problem. We can deal with it later if it happens. /s

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Nudding 2 points 3 years ago

If we take the average of the next 5 years, and the previous 5 years, we are almost guaranteed to be well over 1.5 lol.

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