• cilantrofellow [any]
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    3 years ago

    If only we’d been told sooner. Perhaps by someone who’s job it is to report things as they unfold.

    • tetrachloride [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      That's what the headline says, which is not in the image.

      Also this tweet in that same thread:

      https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1424668961308909580?s=20

      • Kestrel [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Please don't. It presumes a false dichotomy of either immediate worldwide revolution or else mad max roving gangs. It also completely puts the onus on, and kind of fetishizes, the third world. Doomer v Bloomer did an episode on it recently that I think would be a better use of your time.

  • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This is manufacturing consent for doing nothing. Things are going to be bad, but they can still be even worse if no action is taken

  • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    OK, is this a real report, or just something that every politician will use to go into "oh well, if it is locked-in, then curbing CO2 emissions doesn't do anything and we should start thinking who will be sacrificed" mode?

    • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The IPCC is the international authority on climate change. They represent all climate scientists. It is a very serious report, but politicians haven't taken any of their previous reports seriously and they won't start now

      • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The Epstein-Gates Green Zone Shelter will be available to all climate refugees 12 and younger - NYT the day after.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It's based on the most recent IPCC report, but "at least some" warming has been locked in for while. But we're on the verge of staying under 1.5C, which was some goal from a decade or so ago, becoming an impossibility. There's definitely some hyperbole as a lot of the commentary on the most recent report has been kind of apocalyptic, when each of these reports are essentially the same as the last one but a little worse. Like still genuinely a scary potential future, just seems to be a major jump in reactions from the most recent report, which I think was essentially as scary.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    shucks, so the only hope for justice is violence on a wide scale? good to know

  • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Part of a follow up tweet...

    If the world managed to stop adding CO2 to the atmosphere by around 2050, warming could conceivably stabilize at about 1.5 degrees Celsius, the report says.

    Oh, well - we're fucked.

  • Quimby [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    "In response to the news that we're all going to die unless drastic action is taken, the Government lowered interest rates 2 basis points."

  • kristina [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    time to hope we get hyper efficient carbon scrubbing machines or plants before we all take a trip to hell

  • Tofu_Lewis [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Wow that's crazy dude, that's wack. Anyways. Have you heard about the funny thing that happened at the Olympics? A HORSE!

    • kristina [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      nb4 they blame cina for having high carbon production recently while the all time carbon production is dwarfed by the west while doing green tech embargoes on countries like cina

      • panopticon [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Also people like to blame China for commissioning all these new coal plants. But this is a matter of expanding installed capacity.

        The overall generation of coal power in China has been steadily declining, while renewable power generation has been steadily increasing to replace it. The transition can't happen overnight.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          also theyre looking to get 2-3x the number of reactors, theyre gonna dwarf the rest of the world in reactor output, and the new nuclear sites are gonna be shiny latest gen shit with all the safety bells and whistles :posadist-nuke:

          https://world-nuclear-news.org/BlankSiteASPX/media/WNNImported/mainimagelibrary/general%20and%20abstract/IEA-slide.jpg?ext=.jpg (note: this slide is a conservative estimate, some think china will hit 200gw by 2030-2035). and then they intend to get it going even higher from there. their current plan is around ~1400 GW by 2100 on top of what is already put in, which would be outputting about half the USA's current output in nuclear only.

          china has enough clean energy to power the US for half the year. but it needs to get higher, obviously.

  • discontinuuity [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    So like when should I max out all of my credit cards and buy a lot of drugs? Should I try to move to Canada or New Zealand or somewhere? Should I buy a gun and start practicing with it? Do I need to buy a leather jumpsuit with shoulder pads and style my hair into a green mohawk? Which will be more valuable in the wastelands: guzzoline, mothers' milk, water, or bullets?