One of the major drivers of the exceptional heat building within Earth’s atmosphere has reached levels beyond anything humans have ever experienced, officials announced on Thursday. Carbon dioxide, the gas that accounts for the majority of global warming caused by human activities, is accumulating “faster than ever,” scientists from NOAA, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California San Diego found.
“Over the past year, we’ve experienced the hottest year on record, the hottest ocean temperatures on record, and a seemingly endless string of heat waves, droughts, floods, wildfires and storms,” NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said in a press release. “Now we are finding that atmospheric CO2 levels are increasing faster than ever.”
When do we eat the rich and begin sabotaging these assholes private jets?
Fun fact: Teton County, Wyoming has the most billionaires per capita. Their jets are parked at the airport.
Do with this information what you will.
I like the cut of your jib.
Sorry best we can do is misunderstand the root causes and misdirect our rage to marginalized people and turn to full blown fascism
You can start now.
Wait… we aren’t supposed to eat them yet?
…uh oh
There’s gotta be people who have nothing to lose who are willing to start doing crazy fucked up shit, even if dying in the process.
I wonder how many there are, and what the spark would be for them to start going nuts.
But maybe also, there just aren’t that many willing or rock bottom yet. Maybe we’re mostly still comfortable, albeit unhappy. Might take a few more decades of business as usual.
Bread and circuses.
Most of those people are on the right fighting the valiant fight against 15 minute cities.
What do you want from me?
I already gave up everything, life is just work eat(if lucky i get to eat enough) sleep.
You ate up the value of my income and keep making everything more expensive while not adjusting my wage AND telling me to work harder. Fuck no.
You fix it, i don’t have the means.
I feel like this was always the plan. Put the plebian frog in the pot of 9-5 corporate hellscape and slowly boil it. We’re all too exhausted to fight.
this is exactly why we should have a worldwide 4 day work week
because no one has the energy to be a decent person or improve the world when you struggle 5 days, are exhausted and recovering 1 day, and spend 1 day doing errands and bills and getting ready for the next 5 miserable days
I am so fucking glad I don’t have kids.
Climate scientists should have lit themselves on fire in public places to warn us.
It’s their fault!
If only they’d have said something. Repeatedly. For the last 50 years or so.
Oh well, too late now. Better burn a bit more so oil execs can finish the game with a high score.
it’s so true. i love your “high score” comment. we’re all fucked right now because of this and there’s no going back.
i wish i knew you in real life
For the last 50 years or so
Multiply that by 3 and you’re nearly correct. The first “quantitative prediction of global warming due to a hypothetical doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide” was published in 1896 by Svante Arrhenius, building on research from John Tyndall as far back as 1859. Source: Wikipedia, but with appropriate citations to the works in question.
Y’all are all forgetting something really important, a lot of people really wanted to make a lot of money. So it’s totally cool, they’ll definitely figure that problem out in the future
It’s Svante Arrhenius and John Tyndall’s fault for not lighting themselves on fire publicly 150 years ago to warn everyone.
All those bombs and planes and tanks and drones and machinery of death emit CO2 - also the burning rubble and bodies
Look around, we’re killing ourselves at every possible opportunity
It’s the factories in china, dude. Just like it has always been.
At least lower your phone if you are going to bring china into this. China is producing for us all.
We seriously need to lower consumption and sacrifice our way of life
It’s not regular people that are polluting it’s the big ass companies. Regular people can’t stop that.
that’s not true
you could start a “no new cell phone” movement to decrease consumption aimed at only purchasing old technology
you could start the movement
if you have the western lifestyle, with cobalt mining for phone parts and wars for gasoline, you are part of this, as easy as it is to claim otherwise
the problem is that it’s likely mathematically and ecologically not possible to stop the trends at this point. literally, the only way to save the plan would be if something like bird flu started spreading with a 99 percent death rate, killing over half the population and bringing the economy of demanding energy no matter the environmental cost to a halt
but they are already making vaccines for bird flu
so, it’s pointless to fight now, just try to act surprised when we all die of environmental catastrophe
perhaps as the older religious generations die off, newer generations will elect a global leader that will destroy all religious beliefs at any cost, resulting a purge on non-scientific thinking
Yeah cause only china has factories.
Who does the vast majority of all manufacturing? Who does the vast majority of coal burning?
Check this out https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2
I think the only thing that’s going to save us from climate change is another ice age.
And we and our children, and all of our grandchildren, and great great grandchildren, will be long dead by then.
But an ice age would be a considerable change in climate.
That’s true.
I mean more like, the only way I suspect we’ll get back to pre industrial levels of co2 is with another ice age. Because I doubt civilization as we know it is going to survive long enough to fix it.
i don’t know if it works like that. if you take a petri dish and put bacteria in it with an unlimited amount of glucose (a proxy for oil), colony collapse happens because of pollution
but the pollution doesn’t go away later and the population doesn’t come back to pre-collapse levels ever
Spain has begun the planning for 100 human arcs (salvavidas as they call them). Each arc is a complex built into one of several mountain sides and each will hold 1000 people with room for hydroponics etc. The plan is that construction begins by 2030 and the lottery is held near 2037 when they’re nearing completion. But if you’re not a citizen or resident of Spain you’re not eligible for the lottery. Everyone else will fry unless your country is planning something similar.
That’s hilarious. They could put a large dent in the climate problem for the same investment. Instead they’re going full dystopian sci fi.
The reason that climate efforts are being largely ignored at the top levels is because most world leaders have had it made known to them that climate is now beyond repair and we are in a death spiral. We are more or less in a countdown to collapse as each year climate worsens. The “efforts” being humored are largely pacification strategies for the masses. The masses are also self-soothing by embracing right-wing fascism.
The best gift you could bequeath your children at this point is a plot of land in a secluded cool forested place with a well and some cleared area for growing food.
“The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere today is comparable to where it was around 4.3 million years ago during the mid-Pliocene epoch,” NOAA said, “when sea level was about 75 feet higher than today, the average temperature was 7 degrees Fahrenheit higher than in pre-industrial times and studies indicate large forests occupied areas of the Arctic that are now tundra.”
7 degrees Fahrenheit would only cost like $20 a month more than what I already pay, if that.
We are all going to die!
Luckily, the fossil fuel companies told us it isn’t anthropogenic and not to worry about this so we will be okay. /s
They’re also gunning for precedent of immunity from repercussions of wrongdoing through SCOTUS as we speak.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/09/fossil-fuel-allies-pressuring-supreme-court
Won’t save them from the mobs and pitchforks.
I mean, that’s great and all, but you can’t reappropriate corporate funds with pitchforks.
We need punitive rulings and legislation.
BBQs would kill two birds with one stone: get rid of the stupid and feed the hungry masses.
That still doesn’t address the need for funds to be redistributed from oil companies to the alternative energy industry or carbon mitigation projects.
It’s not about revenge. We need to address the climate crisis, and they need to pay the fuck up.
based on the math, it’s likely too late and we’re all going to die. so given that, are you saying emotional catharsis of holding accountable the greedy religious idiots who have fucked the world is somehow bad?
some would disagree and say let’s bring back moloch for all the religious flat-earth global-warming-isn’t-real-bibletard-oil-avaricious-fucktwads who destroyed us all and start our own warming
some would say, if we’re all going to die, shouldn’t the global warming deniers at least make moloch happy with a feast?
i wouldn’t say that, but some would
If you were mathmatically certain we were all going to die as a result of their actions, would your opinion still be the same?
I suppose I am more pessimistic when I look at graphs. It’s not even about the most blatant damage, a lot of my concerns is based on the damage we aren’t measuring. I think the game is over and we lost.
The pessimism is fair. I think the difference isn’t simply if we’re going to succumb to extinction, but also when and how. I’m going to die one day, regardless of climate change. If I have more money, I can extend that time and reduce suffering. The same can be said for humanity.
For example, we’re very likely to face food supply constrains first. Since most food corporations turn their profits into shareholder value, they won’t have the means necessary to combat the inevitable climate obstacles, and will immediately turn to governments for assistance. The same can be said for insurance corporations and coastal residents or those in wildfire zones.
I agree, I don’t think vigilante mob justice is the way to go. If the rule of law stops working for the people, they’ll find another way, that’s all I’m saying. The SCOTUS should do the right thing, appropriate assets should be seized for damages and distributed to those affected.
if the mob is big enough, and things are written down and symbols added to paperwork and ceremonial clothing added into the mix, is it really vigilantism still?
I’ve also been told that despite emitting close to a third of the world’s over all emissions, China produces less per capita than some developed countries so climate change is giving them a pass.
So that’s a third taken care of right there!
That’s the scapegoat argument from US industry and politicians. The only reason the US is second to China in carbon emissions is because of the excessive outsourcing of US manufacturing to China.
The US is responsible for the most carbon emissions worldwide.
Who controls the manufacturing processes in China? Who accepts the manufacturing contracts? Who controls their energy grid?
Gotta keep that finger pointed, huh? I’m American, and I’m fully aware of our massive contribution to carbon emissions, and the responsibility that puts on our industry and consumers to reduce and mitigate. Pointing fingers at China gives American industry a false benchmark for comparison.
Implying that the US needs to not only retrofit their own grid but also China’s is nonsensical…
China has benefitted economically from their emissions, they are the second largest economy in the world. They’re not some backwater third-world country at this point, they can afford to take responsibility for getting their own emissions under control. They in fact must, because no one can afford to fix their problems for them.
Perhaps they could save on emissions by closing down some of their concentration camps.
Manufacturing creates emissions. Period. The US outsources over 84% of its manufacturing to China, so the emissions generated by said manufacturing are effectively US emissions. Climate scientists agree. Politicians and US industry deny responsibility.
https://www.scmr.com/wp_content/e2open_wp_outsourcing_mfg_011316.pdf
No…the manufacturing is occurring in China, it’s literally coming out of chinese facilities that are controlled by the Chinese state and industry management. One could just as easily say it’s China’s responsibility to turn down manufacturing contracts based on their inability to take those contracts without delivering huge amounts of CO2.
It’s entirely unrealistic to think the US can or should fix China’s grid and industrial processes. It’s literally a non-starter and is essentially just saying China is “owed” the right to pollute because other countries did in the past.
And even if you actually believed what you’re claiming, what is the solution here? The US scales back manufacturing and craters the world economy (including for China’s)? Or are they suppose to pay their own GDP out to China so the Chinese government doesn’t have to scale back their imperial ambitions and focus on solving domestic issues that are destroying the planet? Where do you realistically think China is going to put that hypothetical payday if they’re already unwilling to scale back their own wasteful, ancillary domestic programs?
You’re trying to pretend China isn’t the second largest economy in the world, it’s just not convincing. It’s way more efficient for countries that can afford to fix their own emissions, like China and the US, to do so and then help poor, developing countries that actually need financial and material support meet their climate goals.
Pretending the US can fund the entire world’s transition is, frankly, idiotic because your same backwards-looking logical gymnastics can be applied to almost every country that is smaller than the US. It’s an unserious solution.
To solve the climate crisis the ~1 billion people in global north will absolutely need to significantly bail out the global South. There is no clear development path that doesn’t go through heavy fossil fuel usage, and it should go without saying we probably can’t even improve the living standard of another billion people, let alone seven billion without basically just giving them money and technology to skip the fossil fuel step. Countries in the global north have actually agreed to this framework, it’s just that noone has actually made good on the promise yet. So… not only is it not nonsense… it’s an active dispute between developed countries and developing countries.
China is not the global south, the hell are you on?
So you’re essentially saying exactly what I was criticizing at the very beginning, that China gets a free pass for their emissions and are entitled to pollute, that the climate will forgive them and the US will somehow magically save the day and bail out the second largest economy on the planet while China ramps up their own unsustainable consumer culture.
What are you knuckleheads going to be saying as China continues to shift from manufacturing useless shit for other countries and is instead producing the same shit for their own population? It’s literally already happening right this very moment. Is the climate going to give them a pass for those emissions too because “US bad”?
Your politics have made your conception of climate change completely incoherent. The climate simply does not care if China really really wants to be an empire and feels that they’re entitled to unsustainable growth. The gas they are producing in their country, both in manufacturing and in their other sectors, is the single largest concrete thing fucking the planet up. The US could finish switching their manufacturing chains away from China tomorrow and China would still be producing massive amounts of emissions.
