Current climate pledges have us heading for a world that is 2.4 to 2.6°C hotter

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"This report tells us in cold scientific terms what nature has been telling us, all year, through deadly floods, storms and raging fires: we have to stop filling our atmosphere with greenhouse gases, and stop doing it fast," said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP. "We had our chance to make incremental changes, but that time is over. Only a root-and-branch transformation of our economies and societies can save us from accelerating climate disaster."

It is getting worse. It appears mankind has more important endeavors than preserving life on earth.


https://phys.org/news/2022-10-current-climate-pledges-world-26c.html
 

We are already at, or very near, the "tipping point", beyond which there is very little that will reverse Climate Change. 150+ years of using coal and fossil fuels have added pollutants into the atmosphere that will be with us for decades.....even if all fossil fuel use was halted tomorrow. Present day life depends on fossil fuels for nearly everything we require. If FF use ceased, food production, processing and distribution would cease, quickly driving humanity into famine. It will take decades, and trillions of dollars investment in things like solar power to reverse the trend. Parking all cars, trucks, trains, airplanes, etc., would destroy society within days.

In coming years, large areas will become almost uninhabitable, due to heat, drought, and rising oceans. A mass migration to more tolerable areas will be likely....Greenland, Canada and Siberia may become major population centers. And then...there is Overpopulation.....
 
Don M. said:
We are already at, or very near, the "tipping point", beyond which there is very little that will reverse Climate Change. 150+ years of using coal and fossil fuels have added pollutants into the atmosphere that will be with us for decades.....even if all fossil fuel use was halted tomorrow. Present day life depends on fossil fuels for nearly everything we require. If FF use ceased, food production, processing and distribution would cease, quickly driving humanity into famine. It will take decades, and trillions of dollars investment in things like solar power to reverse the trend. Parking all cars, trucks, trains, airplanes, etc., would destroy society within days.

In coming years, large areas will become almost uninhabitable, due to heat, drought, and rising oceans. A mass migration to more tolerable areas will be likely....Greenland, Canada and Siberia may become major population centers. And then...there is Overpopulation.....
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I have to agree, the "foot dragging" and denial from the 2000-2008 and 2017-2020 administrations has given responsible government little to no latitude to mitigate a solution. The oligarchs and big corporations took their profits, future of humanity be damned.
 

When you look at the great empires of the past, one of the major components of their demise has been climate change. I doubt clicking the AC up a few degrees is going to help. I don't think governments will survive the chaos of mass migration due to crop failures. The past has proven that we will become fragmented waring entities. And if some have nuclear weapons, why wouldn't they use them-what do they have to lose.
 
I don't believe we are on the edge of doom as so many climate change enthusiasts would have us believe.
 
These forecasts may well be right. Problem is I don't think we will be able to do much about it.

Half of the world lives in relative poverty, the World Bank says: Nearly Half the World Lives on Less than $5.50 a Day ( https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/p...y-half-the-world-lives-on-less-than-550-a-day ). The process of these people gaining wealth and comfort will increase greenhouse emissions more than we could possibly reduce them in rich countries. I don't think we have either the right or the ability to stop this process. Those people want to live more like us, and will do what they have to to make it happen...

I think we should do what we practically can, but also need to accept reality and figure out how to live in a world with a changed climate. The real problem is over population, and I have no idea what to do about that...

If we had only a billion or so people on earth this and many of our other problems would go away.
 
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