20 Years and it all goes to s*. Climate Change. Hossenfelder.

[Stokely]

Absolutely. The younger generations will get the blame for doing nothing and the cycle will continue. I have faith in the younger generations though, they seem to be more idealistic and I think they’ll at least enact policies that look good, even if they don’t solve or lessen the problem.

Younger generations have always been idealistic. They also tend not to vote.

I'm not much on optimism either, after interacting with my sons and their various friends when it comes to anything political. Their views are driven by joe schmoe on youtube, usually some clickbait-mongering conspiracy troll. I get the feeling most of them would vote Trump--if they voted--just because they think he's a hilarious troll. And/or, they'll certainly consider supporting whoever has the biggest hard-on for crypto, they all LOVE crypto I do think it's great that there's less religion in young people's lives than ever before, but they are replacing that made-up crap with other made-up crap.

We'd better hope for that magic tech solution, or benevolent aliens to come along to help us along, though they'll probably decide to give us the equivalent of a lobotomy once they see how we are.

The Matrix is shallow silly fun but one part it got dead on, when Smith is talking about humanity:

You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.

 

[Jaskalas]

Lol just realized the heading of that video
"I pray these numbers are wrong"
- Sabine is an atheist.

As a fellow person who never set foot in a church, "I pray" is simply a phrase to denote the severity. No one expects you to actually be praying.

 

[cytg111]

Sabine bites back cause obviously some climate scientists got their feelings hurt.

 

[hal2kilo]

So it's all our fault for not fighting hard enough against your lies about climate change. This is what profit motive will do to your brain.

Exxon CEO to world: Climate crisis isn't our fault, now "pay the price" - Salon.com

Exxon CEO Darren Woods says Big Oil's not to blame for climate crisis, saying world "waited too long"

www.salon.com

 

[APU_Fusion]

So it's all our fault for not fighting hard enough against your lies about climate change. This is what profit motive will due to your brain.

Exxon CEO to world: Climate crisis isn't our fault, now "pay the price" - Salon.com

Exxon CEO Darren Woods says Big Oil's not to blame for climate crisis, saying world "waited too long"

www.salon.com

The hubris is incredible.

 

[fskimospy]

The hubris is incredible.

If you do a search on this board you will find plenty of people saying essentially the same thing.

Conservatives spent decades saying climate change wasn’t real, was a liberal plot, whatever, and as predicted once it’s beyond doubt they say it’s too late to do anything, as if they aren’t the cause.

Sad that only liberals are supposed to be adults.

 

[dank69]

If you do a search on this board you will find plenty of people saying essentially the same thing.

Conservatives spent decades saying climate change wasn’t real, was a liberal plot, whatever, and as predicted once it’s beyond doubt they say it’s too late to do anything, as if they aren’t the cause.

Sad that only liberals are supposed to be adults.

Hell, thousands of them roll coal to this day.

 

[Pens1566]

Hell, thousands of them roll coal to this day.

Welcome to WV!!!!!!!!!!

/s

 

[hal2kilo]

Some things are moving in the right direction. Go NY.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/14/americas-first-large-scale-offshore-wind-project-completed-off-long-island-00147028

 

[HomerJS]

Take a look

https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2024/09/11/austin-fall-temperatures-rise

 

[APU_Fusion]

Take a look

https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2024/09/11/austin-fall-temperatures-rise

That is fake news. Besides, even if it was true, The great State of Texas’s power grid could easily handle the extra load to cool down all the buildings

 

[brycejones]

So it's all our fault for not fighting hard enough against your lies about climate change. This is what profit motive will do to your brain.

Exxon CEO to world: Climate crisis isn't our fault, now "pay the price" - Salon.com

Exxon CEO Darren Woods says Big Oil's not to blame for climate crisis, saying world "waited too long"

www.salon.com

That sounds like an entry for the Fuck that guy thread.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

That sounds like an entry for the Fuck that guy thread.

Certainly is bring him over

 

[manly]

Earthquake Scientists Finally Explain 9-Day Global 'Unidentified Seismic Object' - Slashdot

It was one year ago that "an odd seismic signal appeared at scientific stations around the globe," reports the Washington Post. "A day passed, and the slow tremor still reverberated. When it continued for a third day, scientists worldwide began assembling..." Some initially thought the seismic...

science.slashdot.org

Fascinating research, and also ominous that humanity is sitting on the cusp of massive environmental changes in the decades to come.

 

[cytg111]

Earthquake Scientists Finally Explain 9-Day Global 'Unidentified Seismic Object' - Slashdot

It was one year ago that "an odd seismic signal appeared at scientific stations around the globe," reports the Washington Post. "A day passed, and the slow tremor still reverberated. When it continued for a third day, scientists worldwide began assembling..." Some initially thought the seismic...

science.slashdot.org

Fascinating research, and also ominous that humanity is sitting on the cusp of massive environmental changes in the decades to come.

Holy fuck.

 

[balloonshark]

"Earth Will Exceed 1.5 Degrees Celsius of Warming This Year"

Earth Will Exceed 1.5 Degrees Celsius of Warming This Year

This year won’t just be the hottest on record—it could be the first to surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius. The Paris climate accord aims to keep warming below that level when looking over multiple years

www.scientificamerican.com

We are so screwed. I can't believe we're going to destroy our own life-sustaining planet. This is the ultimate FAFO and we are accelerating forward into the abyss.

 

[fskimospy]

"Earth Will Exceed 1.5 Degrees Celsius of Warming This Year"

Earth Will Exceed 1.5 Degrees Celsius of Warming This Year

This year won’t just be the hottest on record—it could be the first to surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius. The Paris climate accord aims to keep warming below that level when looking over multiple years

www.scientificamerican.com

We are so screwed. I can't believe we're going to destroy our own life-sustaining planet. This is the ultimate FAFO and we are accelerating forward into the abyss.

It’s darkly funny to search this board for conservatives claiming for years and years that global warming wasn’t real.

And to be clear they will never come back and admit they were wrong.

 

[balloonshark]

It’s darkly funny to search this board for conservatives claiming for years and years that global warming wasn’t real.

And to be clear they will never come back and admit they were wrong.

It makes me sad when I think about my 16-year-old nephew and my 3 grandnieces, who are 5 and under.

 

[brycejones]

"Earth Will Exceed 1.5 Degrees Celsius of Warming This Year"

Earth Will Exceed 1.5 Degrees Celsius of Warming This Year

This year won’t just be the hottest on record—it could be the first to surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius. The Paris climate accord aims to keep warming below that level when looking over multiple years

www.scientificamerican.com

We are so screwed. I can't believe we're going to destroy our own life-sustaining planet. This is the ultimate FAFO and we are accelerating forward into the abyss.

Profits baby, need them profits. Old fuckers who will be dead before it gets so bad not even their money will help them will be long gone and they DGAF.

Just look at the current GOP and their drill baby drill BS.

We'll just ignore that not even oil companies want to drill baby drill so gas is $1 something again. There is no profit in that for them. It only happened in a short window when oil had negative value in some cases because there was no place to store it.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

It’s darkly funny to search this board for conservatives claiming for years and years that global warming wasn’t real.

And to be clear they will never come back and admit they were wrong.

Probably because they died from COVID. The venn diagram between antivax and climate change denial is a circle.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Here's a clip from the video showing the predicted global temperature increase:

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By 2050, we could see an additional 2.5degC rise in temps compared to today; bringing the total to 4degC over the early industrial age. This is likely to coincide with the end of my life, assuming I don't die early of some terrible disease. My younger nieces and nephews will be in their 50s. Their kids (only two so far) in their 30s. The acceleration in effort to decarbonize our energy and transport infrastructure would need to be massive over the next twenty years in order to lower that number. Sadly, climate impacts aren't quite severe enough for most governments to go full WWII level of action in order to prevent this.

I'd be 71 in 2050. Honestly, hope I'm not alive by then with how dire things look in this near future. Who wants to endure the inevitable famines coming as an elderly person?

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Not quite.. at that point we'll stop putting co2 in the atmosphere in large quantities, which means 20 years later we'll see the final effects of our additions to the atmosphere resolved. Now at that point we'll also be tracking the aftereffects of our co2 release, including the melting of permafrost and subsequent release of methane pockets, the dying off of life in the oceans and subsequent algal and bacterial blooms, releasing sequestered carbon. Increasing wildfires reducing plant coverage, and potentially die-offs of the arboreal forests from encroachment of southern heat. Subsequent heating from those effects as well as melting of the ice caps/tundra, and follow-on effects from that warming and we'll probably be looking for stability around 50 years after the last coal and oil plants are shut down.

You're off by an order of magnitude on the time delay before global temperature will stabilize. I asked a climate scientist I know and he told me we could go carbon zero tomorrow and the earth would still heat for centuries from the CO2 already there just based on how long it'll take for the oceans to warm and hit a stable temperature. I have had a front row seat to global warming's advance living in South Texas since 2008 and it's horrifying how much we have heated here, but it is only the very tippy top of the iceberg.

 

[Muse]

What do you expect? Should I burst into tears and throw myself on the floor? Perhaps rail at everyone that uses energy?
We did this, all of us. No matter how much we bloviate in this forum, it's not going to get better because we're not going to give up our luxury lifestyle.

Speak for yourself, mutherfucker. I didn't do a single luxurious thing today. I haven't used my car since Oct. 27. I also didn't spend a penny.

 

[Muse]

So it's all our fault for not fighting hard enough against your lies about climate change. This is what profit motive will do to your brain.

Exxon CEO to world: Climate crisis isn't our fault, now "pay the price" - Salon.com

Exxon CEO Darren Woods says Big Oil's not to blame for climate crisis, saying world "waited too long"

www.salon.com

Announced today: Trump (who calls the global climate crisis a hoax) picks Fracking CEO for Secretary of Energy.

 

[Muse]

Not an end just yet, but we're definitely entering the 'find out' phase.

OK, a pertinent book I've read:

We'er Doomed, Now What?