Top climate scientist declares 2C climate goal 'dead'
www.rfi.fr
Holding long-term global warming to two degrees Celsius -- the fallback target of the Paris climate accord -- is now "impossible," according to a stark new analysis published by leading scientists.

Welp, it’s official. Been a good(?) run everyone. Here is the paper that is referred to.

Edit: So, reading the actual paper, the article is somewhat sensationalized (shocker, i know). It is still possible to prevent collapse, but it requires extensive and fairly quick reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

  • CaptnKarisma@lemmy.ml
    20·
    1 month ago

    F**k if I have any regrets its not voting green not that it would have mattered but I would have felt better

        • Fitzsimmons
          15·
          1 month ago

          they might crater the economy so badly that it wipes out a ton of carbon use and buys the rest of the world some more time (albeit probably along with millions of people starving to death, akin to Mao’s famine)

    • Norah (pup/it/she)English
      15·
      1 month ago

      Feels good to live in a country where my vote for the Greens party actually matters.

  • shani66@ani.social
    16·
    1 month ago

    Most of the other responsible will be dead by then. I’d much prefer they see their mistakes (⇀ ↼‶)

  • Alice@beehaw.org
    5·
    1 month ago

    At this point I just hope I die before it gets too much worse. Spring and summer make me horribly depressed because they’re so much different than they were when I was a kid.

  • gandalf_der_12te
    4·
    1 month ago

    well yeah if you look at it like that, then it might seem so. but they’re underestimating exponential growth

    sources for the pictures: the first two are from ourworldindata.org, the last one is a plot i made my self, based on the extrapolation in the third picture.