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    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The Oregon State University ecologist had spent his career wandering through the hills and canyons of Yellowstone National Park, tracking the health of wolves and other large carnivores.

    After a few years of record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather events, Ripple’s experience is a sign of how climate scientists — who once refrained from entering the public fray — are now using strident language to describe the warming planet.

    “There are no technical scenarios globally available in the scientific literature that would support that that is actually possible, or can even describe how that would be possible,” Joeri Rogelj, a climate scientist at Imperial College London, told reporters in a call.

    Tim Lenton, one of the co-authors on Ripple’s most recent paper and a professor of earth system science at the University of Exeter, said that 2023 has been filled with temperatures so far beyond the norm that “they’re very hard to rationalize.” “This isn’t fitting a simple statistical model,” he said.

    She recalls a 2009 report called the Copenhagen Diagnosis, which analyzed climate science to date and made suggestions for how to reach net-zero carbon emissions.

    At the same time, many scientists realize that even the best communication in the world isn’t enough to overcome the inertia of a fossil-fuel based system — and the resistance of various oil and gas companies.


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      11 months ago

      even the best communication in the world isn’t enough to overcome the inertia of a fossil-fuel based system

      Wrong. People’s sense of the reality of the situation can overcome that inertia … and that sense was carefully tended to by the communications of the oil and gas companies … and an economic system that has widely communicated for decades the idea that growth - based in unending consumption of resources - is the end-all and be-all. Their communication was the best in the world … for them, and to the detriment of all the rest of us.

      Your mama.