We need answers for why 2023 turned out to be the warmest year in possibly the past 100,000 years. And we need them quickly.
We’ve had answers for decades. What we need is action from the people in power.
This is fine.
I am starting to wonder if those tipping points everyone was talking about 10 years ago are starting to get hit.
All of them - ocean temp, ocean salinity, ocean’s ability to absorb CO2, air temp… and # of species disappearing, especially insect.
2009
The last 15 years have been defined by accelerationists who painted the whole thing red to match their team color
Awhile back I saw, or created a memory of a short, high energy video of … a cartoon character(?) singing “We’re fucked! We’re fucked! We’re super fucking fucked!” In a high pitched voice over a bombastic orchestra. There was more to the song, but that’s all I clearly remember. (Or all that I’ve crafted in the form of my false memory of it.)
I tried to search it out, but, you know, search engines. They just want me to go to YouTube or song lyrics sites that aren’t what I’m looking for because bad algorithms drive engagement.
Anyway, that’s basically my soundtrack whenever I read climate or political news these days. (And the way capitalism has destroyed the internet, now that I think about it!)
It was 90 freaking degrees in Dallas, Texas in February this year. Buckle up because it’s about to get ridiculously hot.
With this year, we have returned to “original prediction” territory. The original projections made by the gas company engineers who discovered that CO2 was a greenhouse gas in the first place and did the math, came up with predictions this year lines up with very well.
Which means that everything since has been a watered down lie, which we should all expect from all corporations in the first place at this point.
Teach me - are there any links you can share to the original prediction theory that can show me what you mean?
isn’t that because accepted models can’t predict the weather? and climate models that can say we are far beyond fucked if we can’t leave this rock?
No matter how much we fuck it up, this rock will always be more liveable than anything we can realistically find elsewhere. This planet is our spaceship, we better start treating it like one.
I don’t know, there’s lots of things I would risk doing at home that I wouldn’t try on a spaceship. It’s also a metaphore that can hopefully speak to the kind of people who think a fresh planet would be the solution.
The old model is based on historical data.
We’ve broken out of the trend on historical data.
New models… are guesses using the same historical data.
We really don’t know what is about to happen.
