Are We Teetering On the Edge of a Climate Change Apocalypse?

One single country is responsible for most of the damage to our planet caused by climate change. Will the authoritarian leaders listen to the people…? Or, could it be?? Is it… us?


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[Roger-rs]

If the methane that is presently bound up in the hydrate ice which is in the permafrost starts to melt and is released into the atmosphere, we are looking at thermal runaway and global catastrophe.

[khrfx]

Yes we are. I just did an essay on this and it's worse than I thought. The oceans have been absorbing approximately 90% of the excess atmospheric heat since the industrial age and it has been mitigating the effects of global warning, until now! We are currently at 1.1°C and will very likely reach 1.5°C at or before 2050 (𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟰𝟲 𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲) at which point 70-90% of all our worlds coral reefs are expected to be gone. I put it at closer to 90%. There are 16 tipping points that have been identified. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet has just recently been reported to have past its tipping point (𝗺𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲) and will now melt until it's gone. As each tipping point is past it may cause a domino effect and cause more tipping point to go.

That 1.1°C increase is an average .08°C increase per decade (since the industrial age), but since 1981 to 2021 we are now increasing at .18°C per decade (more than doubled) meaning the temperature increase is ACCELERATING. But that .18°C probably happened in 2001 so now the increase is probably at or greater than .2°C. Climate change is coming at us much faster than anyone imagined.

The three worst greenhouse emitters are China, US, and India. China is outputting 29.2% of worldwide emissions, India is doing great at reducing their emissions and are about 7.2%, the US is at 11.2% and we are improving, but slowly due to political resistance from Republicans. The US has been decreasing (slowly) since 2007. China is INCREASING. More than half of all power generation in China is from COAL. So which country is worse?

There is no way in hell we will reach the renewed Paris Agreement goal of 1.5°C by 2050. Even India, who is doing well, does not expect to be carbon neutral until 2070. The outlook is VERY, VERY GRIM.


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[Insideoutie]

USA Canada Australia Great Britain and Norway. All governments owned by big oil big coal.

[terencefield]

We teetered a while ago but now we are sliding fast downhill towards the midden.

[Lucy-pzft]

No we are not teetering on the brink, it's already to late we are screwed

[livondiramerian]

Evil has no limits even at the expense of killing people and destroying the environment, but evil is an illness that will destroy the evil person.

[DSAK]

Yes, but that threshold was passed when Ronnie Raygun was sElected

[michaelmackey]

There is one ray of hope… Even though it’s small in 2023 we will have sold more than 1 million EV’s in this country that sets a new record.. so things are slowly changing

[etep]

So when we're supposed to reducing fossil fuel dependence on a colossal scale, we're speeding in the opposite direction? I've already accepted our collective fate as a species. Glad I will never have kids.

[blondhairblackstrat]

Teetering? We're over the cliff, hanging on by our fingertips.

[derrickscott]

If we were going to do anything significant to abate climate change, we would've done so decades ago. Sadly, it seems that we've collectively decided to just let it happen and leave future generations holding the bag. This will result in widespread food/water insecurity, refugee crises, war over dwindling resources, increasingly fascists governments etc. And we'd rather just find some scapegoats to blame than actually solve the problem. I feel sorry for those left to inherit this catastrophe. We've failed them in stewardship of the planet.

[EmilyTienne]

The industrialized world’s attitude has been, “eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.”

[anthonycesario]

The plan has always been to kill half of humanity - the poor half.

[thexfile.]

Humans can adapt to anything and that isn't saying much. 😕

[StressRUs]

Great discussion here. Sadly, a rarity these days. Venus 2.0

[darlene]

Can we please get your list of Biden accomplishments? Can we post the picture of accomplishments far and wide. Please. Please. Please. 💙💙💙

[LucianTSkeptic]

You're not doing your math right.

[Halli]

The US, Canada, Australia, Norway and the UK will be solely responsible for half of mankinds "blowing through the World's dwindling carbon budget"? The middle east oil producers (Saudis et.al.) and Russia are now no factor regarding the carbon budget?
Thom, I am beginning to seriously doubt your credibility.

[terencefield]

In what way is Fartmann slightly relevant to this matter?

[adlucem]

Follow the science....like with COVID. That worked out great.