Wildfires rage in the West. Hurricanes batter the East. Droughts and floods wreak damage throughout the nation. Life has become increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, but if the people…
Remember that NHTSA report from a couple of years ago? That shit was sobering. Yeah, the conclusion reached in the report was very much what you'd expect from rank capitalists, but the science behind it was largely on point.
Nothing short of a full blown revolution is going to change the course of 6-8° warming by the end of the century. 3-4° is drastic to begin with, and it seems guaranteed at this point, even if climate targets are met. Everything being proposed now is just about minimizing the damage, and not without handwringing about what taking the necessary steps will do to the economy in the short term.
NHTSA . The report states that curbing fuel emissions would have minimal effect on global temps reached by 2100. Of course the assumption was skewed by the fact that the study assumed that no action would be taken in other areas. The conclusion is that we're fucked, so we might as well keep the machine running until the planet decides to wipe humans out.
Action could be taken to keep warming at 3-4°F by 2100, as per the guidelines that the IPCC has set out, but the issue with that is, and it goes back to the earlier point, is that these measures needed to be drastic since years ago, and globally we're still not where we need to be. The types of changes required would cause a massive amount of economic upheaval, and the ghouls are not about to let their short term interests wither away due to some weather inconvenience. You can already see this with Joe Biden flip flopping on fracking, and having advisers that have their own self interests in natural gas and such. If I'm not mistaken, Biden's proposed plans aren't even up to par, and we aren't even taking into account how much those plans will be stripped to accommodate conservatives.
Remember that NHTSA report from a couple of years ago? That shit was sobering. Yeah, the conclusion reached in the report was very much what you'd expect from rank capitalists, but the science behind it was largely on point.
Nothing short of a full blown revolution is going to change the course of 6-8° warming by the end of the century. 3-4° is drastic to begin with, and it seems guaranteed at this point, even if climate targets are met. Everything being proposed now is just about minimizing the damage, and not without handwringing about what taking the necessary steps will do to the economy in the short term.
You mean IPCC?
NHTSA . The report states that curbing fuel emissions would have minimal effect on global temps reached by 2100. Of course the assumption was skewed by the fact that the study assumed that no action would be taken in other areas. The conclusion is that we're fucked, so we might as well keep the machine running until the planet decides to wipe humans out.
Action could be taken to keep warming at 3-4°F by 2100, as per the guidelines that the IPCC has set out, but the issue with that is, and it goes back to the earlier point, is that these measures needed to be drastic since years ago, and globally we're still not where we need to be. The types of changes required would cause a massive amount of economic upheaval, and the ghouls are not about to let their short term interests wither away due to some weather inconvenience. You can already see this with Joe Biden flip flopping on fracking, and having advisers that have their own self interests in natural gas and such. If I'm not mistaken, Biden's proposed plans aren't even up to par, and we aren't even taking into account how much those plans will be stripped to accommodate conservatives.
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