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World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2021-10-15 at 4:03 PM UTC"This thing that happened in 1990 is why we're in the state we are today. No, I won't do anything to help, I'll just bitch on and on about this one thing that didn't make any difference that happened 30 years ago."
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2021-10-15 at 4:12 PM UTCUnderstanding the underlying causes and nature of our predicament is extremely challenging. Collapse is a concept against which our human brains are almost incapable of reacting to. It is complex, abstract, in the future, extremely scary, and we currently lack the ability to collectively agree how to solve it.
Assessing the myriad of perspectives is a significant investment and the time before we can confidently or effectively contribute to discussions on these subjects is immense. We’ve done our best to share the best introductory resources here and continually collaborate on building a basis for navigating these issues. -
2021-10-15 at 4:28 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe Understanding the underlying causes and nature of our predicament is extremely challenging. Collapse is a concept against which our human brains are almost incapable of reacting to. It is complex, abstract, in the future, extremely scary, and we currently lack the ability to collectively agree how to solve it.
Assessing the myriad of perspectives is a significant investment and the time before we can confidently or effectively contribute to discussions on these subjects is immense. We’ve done our best to share the best introductory resources here and continually collaborate on building a basis for navigating these issues.
Fuck off and die -
2021-10-15 at 4:32 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe Understanding the underlying causes and nature of our predicament is extremely challenging. Collapse is a concept against which our human brains are almost incapable of reacting to. It is complex, abstract, in the future, extremely scary, and we currently lack the ability to collectively agree how to solve it.
Assessing the myriad of perspectives is a significant investment and the time before we can confidently or effectively contribute to discussions on these subjects is immense. We’ve done our best to share the best introductory resources here and continually collaborate on building a basis for navigating these issues.
Wrong.
It's actually very simple, you stop burning fossil fuels.
This sort of horseshit is why nothing will ever get done.
We would need action, not woke, social justice crap, or climate justice, or refugees or any of the gay shit either.
Good luck getting action from people who sit around going on and on about how evil "the man" is. -
2021-10-15 at 4:34 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Fuck off and die
lol
Denial occurs after we have taken in information and consciously reject it to avoid an uncomfortable truth. William Catton termed this behavior ‘ostrichism’ or the strategy of sticking your head in the figurative sand and expecting an issue to go away or persistent belief nothing will change and refusal to face facts.
A recent theory of mind proposes it may have been central to our development as a species. Ajit Varki and Danny Brower’s “Mind Over Reality Transition” theory provides significant reasoning for our trajectory to date. They suggest we have succeeded as a species due in large part to an evolved denial of reality, but this behavior is now a disadvantage and preventing a majority of us from recognizing and acting on systemic issues such as climate change. -
2021-10-15 at 5 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe lol
Denial occurs after we have taken in information and consciously reject it to avoid an uncomfortable truth. William Catton termed this behavior ‘ostrichism’ or the strategy of sticking your head in the figurative sand and expecting an issue to go away or persistent belief nothing will change and refusal to face facts.
A recent theory of mind proposes it may have been central to our development as a species. Ajit Varki and Danny Brower’s “Mind Over Reality Transition” theory provides significant reasoning for our trajectory to date. They suggest we have succeeded as a species due in large part to an evolved denial of reality, but this behavior is now a disadvantage and preventing a majority of us from recognizing and acting on systemic issues such as climate change.
You remind me of a parrot. -
2021-10-15 at 5:17 PM UTC
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2021-10-15 at 9:09 PM UTCThe same people who polluted the planet now want to blame you for it and take all your money over the accusation.
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2021-10-15 at 11 PM UTCNewsweek
Climate Change Model Projection Predicts Earth Will Be Alien to Humans
Robert Lea
An international team of scientists has found that the Earth could be a radically different planet by the year 2500 unless greenhouse emissions are reduced significantly.
The researchers have also said that current projections used by governments and other scientists are too short-sighted, and urged policy-makers to consider the effects of global warming further into the future than the current benchmark of 2100.
"We need to envision the Earth our children and grandchildren may face, and what we can do now to make it just and liveable for them," McGill University postdoctoral researcher Christopher Lyon said. "If we fail to meet the Paris Agreement goals, and emissions keep rising, many places in the world will dramatically change."
The team arrived at the findings by running a global climate model projecting forward to the year 2500 with three different scenarios. In one greenhouse gas emissions remain high, in the other, they are reduced somewhat. In both of these models, warming is still above the Paris Agreement goal of less than a 2 C rise in global temperatures.
In the final scenario they are lowered significantly, meeting the Paris agreement target.
The team's modeling, detailed in a paper published in the journal Global Change Biology, revealed a very different Earth in the year 2500 if targets are not met.
The researchers found that concentrations of vegetation would move towards the poles, while the areas suitable for the growth of many crops would shrink significantly. This would result in areas that currently possess rich and varied ecosystems, like the Amazon Basin, potentially becoming barren.
The projections also hold bad news for humans beyond the loss of farmland and biodiversity. The team found that in highly populated tropical regions heat stress, exposure to extreme heat that can result in heatstroke, heat exhaustion, heat cramps, or heat rashes, could reach fatal levels.
Additionally, the research suggests that even if targets are met, in the scenario with significantly reduced emissions, sea levels still continued to rise as a result of the thermal expansion of water, and from run-off from the land mixing in ocean waters.
Under the most extreme emissions model run by the team, sea levels were predicted to rise by as much as 0.86 meters by 2050. Currently, around 40 percent of the U.S. population lives in high-density coastal areas where sea-level rise already causes flooding and shoreline erosion as well as hazards from storms.
New Orleans has been identified as one of the regions of the U.S. most at risk from sea-level rise. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sea-level rise tracking tool shows the devastating effect on the city and its surrounding region which would occur due to 0.86 meters of sea-level rise.
"These projections point to the potential magnitude of climate upheaval on longer time scales and fall within the range of assessments made by others," Lyon, the paper's lead author, said. "The long-term effects of 21st-century warming will be felt for centuries to come, even if emissions are limited in the future."
Lyon also pointed out that the Paris Agreement, the United Nations, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's scientific assessment reports all show us what we need to do before 2100 to meet our goals, and what could happen if we don't. He added: "But this benchmark, which has been used for over 30 years, is short-sighted because people born now will only be in their 70s by 2100."
The authors of the report concluded that the year 2100 is just one human lifespan away, and that this means the window to readily curb emissions in line with the Paris Agreement is rapidly closing
"Our projections past 2100 indicate that without rapid and significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, large areas of the Earth will change in ways that reduce their capacity to support large-scale human occupation," they said. "The long-term effects of 21st-century warming will be felt for centuries to come, even if emissions are limited in the future." -
2021-10-15 at 11:05 PM UTC
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2021-10-15 at 11:16 PM UTCIt's ALWAYS Trump's fault:
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2021-10-15 at 11:17 PM UTC
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2021-10-15 at 11:51 PM UTCAnyone who doesn't think humans negatively impact the environment is dumb as fuck and deserves to be eaten by a southern migrated polar bear. It's sad we live in the first world in 2021 and people are still so incredibly stupid.
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2021-10-15 at 11:54 PM UTC
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2021-10-15 at 11:58 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-10-16 at 6:25 AM UTCbecomes easy. corruption. do nothing and blame the boomers.
