Current Events > It's official: Global Warming reached 1.6C in 2024 and may be warming 0.1C year

(+) Yeah! (+)

Cool, so it not only can't be stopped anymore but it's also projected to be vastly worse than what was predicted and most likely will be made illegal to even talk about as the world leaders get ready to sweep it under the rug at the behest of their corporate overlords.

I feel really bad for the teenagers, kids and babies of today, the planet's as good as dead and the world they'll inherit as adults will be pure dystopia

So is anyone gonna do anything or are we just gonna sit and complain until we die?

So is anyone gonna do anything or are we just gonna sit and complain until we die?

When the science guys told everyone what needed doing everyone told them to fuck off.

So is anyone gonna do anything or are we just gonna sit and complain until we die?

So is anyone gonna do anything or are we just gonna sit and complain until we die?

The people in charge only are about the billionaires of the world.

Nobody is brave enough to do what has to be done to save the world.

The elite and powerful will be busy funneling their money, while it's still worth anything, into building fortified safe havens.

We did it!

/s, just in case

So is anyone gonna do anything or are we just gonna sit and complain until we die?

So is anyone gonna do anything or are we just gonna sit and complain until we die?

I used to care, but after November I don't anymore. Humanity deserves whatever shit it gets. I only feel bad for the animals

Not saying it's not bad but here's an article arguing we're not strictly doomed and it was understood we'd pass this threshold by most scientists because the 2015 1.5c goal set in Paris was aspirational. If you don't have a good browser extension it might have a pay wall but there aren't many other articles about this when I googled.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/05/science/planet-passes-15-degrees-of-warming

There is something undeniable about this moment, although Harvard climate scientist Daniel Schrag saidthat doesnt mean the planet has passed a point of no return where its too late.

The reality: 1.5 C is bad, 2 C is worse, 2.5 C is much worse, and so on, he said. It always can get worse. And therefore, theres no point where you throw up your hands and you say, Oh, we failed, were done.

Many climate scientists have also long been clear-eyed that hitting 1.5 degrees of warming was inevitable. I could tell 20 years ago that we were going to pass this threshold, said Schrag, co-director of Harvards Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program.

What the goal signaled, more than anything, was an aspiration, a target that, though likely unachievable, provided a benchmark for global ambition. A 2016 report from the United Nations said it was set not as a scientific question of feasibility, but rather as a moral imperative of necessity.

What the goal signaled, more than anything, was an aspiration, a target that, though likely unachievable, provided a benchmark for global ambition.

Uh... So they're happy we hit 1.5? I don't understand.

So is anyone gonna do anything or are we just gonna sit and complain until we die?

1.5c goal set in Paris was aspirational.

I keep saying that we have to get off Earth, but nobody listens.

No matter how much we slice it or develop better green tech, our numbers keep increasing, so any gain is lost by the newborns growing up and consuming resources.

Moving off Earth allows us to consume the resources not from Earth (ie: Moon, Mars, asteroid belt, etc).

And thus we stop depleting Earth.

I keep saying that we have to get off Earth, but nobody listens.

No matter how much we slice it or develop better green tech, our numbers keep increasing, so any gain is lost by the newborns growing up and consuming resources.

Moving off Earth allows us to consume the resources not from Earth (ie: Moon, Mars, asteroid belt, etc).

And thus we stop depleting Earth.

there is no way to get everyone on board