Greta Thunberg
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Soldato
No it wasn't. Idiots who don't know how the Mayan calendar works were saying that.
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Could always book a holiday in La Palma?
Half a degree makes a big difference in a warming world (msn.com)
"Half a degree Celsius may not seem like much, but climate experts say a world that has warmed 1.5 degrees Celsius above 19th-century levels compared to 2C could be the difference between life and death.
A 2C Earth would see the number of people facing extreme heat waves more than double. A quarter of a billion more people would face water shortages.
The Arctic Ocean will be ice-free not once in a century but once every 10 years.
Countries that signed the Paris Agreement vowed to cap the rise in global temperatures -- already 1.1C above the pre-industrial benchmark -- at well below 2C, and preferably at 1.5C.
Humanity is still far off the mark: even if fulfilled, current pledges to reduce emissions would still set the planet on course to warm by a "catastrophic" 2.7C, according to the UN.
Here's what the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says we can expect in a world that warms by 1.5C, 2C and beyond.
Maximum temperatures in some areas will increase by three degrees if the climate warms 1.5C, four if global heating reaches the 2C mark.
Heat waves that occur once-a-decade today will become four times more likely at 1.5C, and nearly six times more likely at 2C.
The odds of extreme hot spells currently seen once every 50 year increase by nearly nine fold at 1.5C, and 40 fold in a 4C world.
More people will be affected as well: the percentage of humanity exposed to extreme heatwaves at least once every five years jumps from 14 percent at 1.5C to 37 percent with an extra half-a-degree.
Global warming will cause more rain at higher latitudes, north and south of the equator, as well as in the tropics and some monsoon zones.
Precipitation in sub-tropical zones will likely become rarer, raising the spectre of drought.
Extreme precipitation events today are 1.3 times more likely and seven percent more intense than before global warming kicked in.
At 1.5 degrees of warming, extreme rain, snowfall or other precipitation events will be 10 percent heavier and 1.5 times more likely.
In drought-prone regions dry spells are twice as likely in a 1.5C world, and four times more likely if temperatures climb 4C.
Capping the rise in average global temperatures to 1.5C rather than 2C would prevent an additional 200-250 million people from facing severe water shortages.
Limiting drought would also reduce the risk of related disasters such as wildfires.
In a world that is two degrees warmer than pre-industrial levels, seven-10 percent of agricultural land will no longer be farmable.
Yields are also predicted to decrease, with corn harvests in tropical zones estimated to drop by three percent in a 1.5C warmer world and seven percent with a rise of 2C.
If global warming is capped at 2C, the ocean watermark will go up about half a metre over the 21st century. It will continue rising to nearly two metres by 2300 -
twice the amount predicted by the IPCC in 2019.
Because of uncertainty over ice sheets, scientists cannot rule out a total rise of two metres by 2100 in a worst-case emissions scenario.
Limiting warming to 1.5C would reduce rising sea levels by 10 about centimetres.
All these impacts affect the survival of plants and animals across the planet.
Global warming capped at 1.5C negatively affects seven percent of ecosystems. At 2C, that figure nearly doubles.
An increase of 4C would endanger half of the species on Earth."
"Half a degree Celsius may not seem like much, but climate experts say a world that has warmed 1.5 degrees Celsius above 19th-century levels compared to 2C could be the difference between life and death.
A 2C Earth would see the number of people facing extreme heat waves more than double. A quarter of a billion more people would face water shortages.
The Arctic Ocean will be ice-free not once in a century but once every 10 years.
Countries that signed the Paris Agreement vowed to cap the rise in global temperatures -- already 1.1C above the pre-industrial benchmark -- at well below 2C, and preferably at 1.5C.
Humanity is still far off the mark: even if fulfilled, current pledges to reduce emissions would still set the planet on course to warm by a "catastrophic" 2.7C, according to the UN.
Here's what the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says we can expect in a world that warms by 1.5C, 2C and beyond.
Maximum temperatures in some areas will increase by three degrees if the climate warms 1.5C, four if global heating reaches the 2C mark.
Heat waves that occur once-a-decade today will become four times more likely at 1.5C, and nearly six times more likely at 2C.
The odds of extreme hot spells currently seen once every 50 year increase by nearly nine fold at 1.5C, and 40 fold in a 4C world.
More people will be affected as well: the percentage of humanity exposed to extreme heatwaves at least once every five years jumps from 14 percent at 1.5C to 37 percent with an extra half-a-degree.
Global warming will cause more rain at higher latitudes, north and south of the equator, as well as in the tropics and some monsoon zones.
Precipitation in sub-tropical zones will likely become rarer, raising the spectre of drought.
Extreme precipitation events today are 1.3 times more likely and seven percent more intense than before global warming kicked in.
At 1.5 degrees of warming, extreme rain, snowfall or other precipitation events will be 10 percent heavier and 1.5 times more likely.
In drought-prone regions dry spells are twice as likely in a 1.5C world, and four times more likely if temperatures climb 4C.
Capping the rise in average global temperatures to 1.5C rather than 2C would prevent an additional 200-250 million people from facing severe water shortages.
Limiting drought would also reduce the risk of related disasters such as wildfires.
In a world that is two degrees warmer than pre-industrial levels, seven-10 percent of agricultural land will no longer be farmable.
Yields are also predicted to decrease, with corn harvests in tropical zones estimated to drop by three percent in a 1.5C warmer world and seven percent with a rise of 2C.
If global warming is capped at 2C, the ocean watermark will go up about half a metre over the 21st century. It will continue rising to nearly two metres by 2300 -
twice the amount predicted by the IPCC in 2019.
Because of uncertainty over ice sheets, scientists cannot rule out a total rise of two metres by 2100 in a worst-case emissions scenario.
Limiting warming to 1.5C would reduce rising sea levels by 10 about centimetres.
All these impacts affect the survival of plants and animals across the planet.
Global warming capped at 1.5C negatively affects seven percent of ecosystems. At 2C, that figure nearly doubles.
An increase of 4C would endanger half of the species on Earth."
Fires, floods, flying insects: 10 recent climate-fuelled disasters (phys.org)
"From a summer of fire and record floods, to freak frosts and locusts invasions, experts say man-made climate change is wreaking havoc on the world's weather."
"From a summer of fire and record floods, to freak frosts and locusts invasions, experts say man-made climate change is wreaking havoc on the world's weather."
Soldato
Because it would change anything?
We have to stop producting coal, oil and natural gas.
We have to stop the operation of the coal power plants for generation of electricty.
Only then, we might see a difference.
Why on Earth these idiots had to build coal power plants which now they refuse to shut down?
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The narrative is presented in a way that implies those events are directly linked to man-made climate change, & if only we lived net-zero lives they wouldn't have happened.
This is the exact scaremongering messaging that Greta plays up to, which I see as the main risk to killing the climate movement stone dead.
It's BS - at best, climate change MAY have had some impact on the severity of SOME of those events, but the degree to which they are inter-related is completely up for debate.
In fact I see they literally have a plague of locusts listed - is that definitely not a parody article?
The narrative is presented in a way that implies those events are directly linked to man-made climate change, & if only we lived net-zero lives they wouldn't have happened.
This is the exact scaremongering messaging that Greta plays up to, which I see as the main risk to killing the climate movement stone dead.
It's BS - at best, climate change MAY have had some impact on the severity of SOME of those events, but the degree to which they are inter-related is completely up for debate.
In fact I see they literally have a plague of locusts listed - is that definitely not a parody article?
The narrative is pretty much spot on
The global warming acts as an accelerator for these cataclysms.
If we are not careful, we can reach a run away greenhouse effect, in which case the Planet will become uninhabitable just like Venus is.
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That's the spirit, if 4K8KW10 sells his car and never drives a petrol vehicle again for the rest of his entire life he will have saved about 1/1000th of the contribution to the climate change problem as a single Richard Branson private jet flight halfway across the world to take his dog to that one groomers he particularly likes
Permabanned
Has this young woman ever said we also need to get the global population level down? Or is that too radical and unpopular a concept?
Soldato
So you're posting about it, but not doing anything to help.
I am fully electric...greta would love me...but hate you....you earth warmer Grrrrrr
Man of Honour
Even though I love Greta for how she can wind up middle aged men by pulling a face, she would hate me.
I don't even know what our 3 bins are for, my wife keeps going to them to swap stuff over I've thrown in the wrong bin.
I have no intention of doing anything that Greta wants but I still love her.
I don't even know what our 3 bins are for, my wife keeps going to them to swap stuff over I've thrown in the wrong bin.
I have no intention of doing anything that Greta wants but I still love her.
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No idea, apparently there's a podcast you could listen to, to find out
Good morning.
Learn about the Venus Project The Venus Project
It is exactly about solving the world's problems.
The question of the questions is - Is the Human race ready and has it got the willingness to pursue a higher quality of existence in harmony and balance with the Planet.
I guess the greedy capitalists who exploit the poor humans labour would say no.
Billions must die to make this work......
They explicitly state:
The Venus Project is a non-profit organization that presents a new socio-economic model utilizing science and technology toward social betterment to achieve a sustainable civilization of abundance for all, without exception.
Maybe you meant that billions should live a more modest life, and the economy should get rid of the ideas of new smartphones models with 5% performance improvement annually, or a new car model every 3 to 5 years, and crazy high levels of the corresponding consumer consumption in those communities.