Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planet

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9429920

Dr Henri Waisman, at the IDDRI policy research institute in France, said: “Climate change is not a black or white question and every tenth of a degree matters a lot, especially when you look at the socioeconomic impacts. This means it is still useful to continue the fight.”

and while I agree with the sentiment, we really aren’t “fighting” are we, quite the opposite. Every thing we’re doing is wrong, how do we know this ? CO2ppm is still increasing, fossil fuel use increased in 2023, planes are still droning overhead, cars still driving, more roads being built and winded, the Antarctic is being stripped of krill to make pet food etc

    • BurningRiver@beehaw.org
      5·
      6 months ago

      I hear you. The other side of me worries about the other couple billion living near a sea who would just perish.

      • pezhore@lemmy.ml
        3·
        6 months ago

        I’m not a scientist, but wouldn’t the rise be generally slow enough for people to evacuate, causing more of a concern for refugees from Florida spilling into Georgia, Tennessee, etc? It’s still bad but I don’t think you’d suddenly have a few million people drown one day.

        • poVoq@slrpnk.net
          4·
          6 months ago

          Maybe once the US sees significant number of climate IDPs, they will get a bit more empethatic to other climate migrants, but sadly the opposite will probably happen.

        • BurningRiver@beehaw.org
          1·
          6 months ago

          Mobility is a thing that mostly exists for the wealthy, as far as I can tell. And with the policies that generally exist down south? Fuck em, they’ll sort it out themselves. I live a thousand feet above sea level, they can figure it out themselves.

          So again, my empathy goes to the people who can’t move, not the people who won’t move.

  • TheFriar@lemm.ee
    14·
    6 months ago

    It’s sad how articles—literally just a few years ago—were saying, “okay, so with 1.5C warming, what does the world look like?” Then it was “here’s how the world will look at 2C warming,” and now just a handful of years later, “okay…3 degrees C…what exactly are we in for?” These articles are accelerating at alarming rates because it used to be “our children’s children will be struggling.” Then it was “when our children are grown up, they will have some decisions to make.” Now we’re at the point where “HOLY FUCK THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW WE ARE SO FUCKED WHAT IS THE WORLD GOING TO LOOK LIKE WHEN ITS ALMOST ALL ON FIRE.”

    This society failed us. It sold our future annd the entire world for profit projections. And it’s still doing it, just with green glasses on. And this is us somehow trying to cope with what the billionaires and capitalism have done to us.

    I say before we all boil alive, we drag them through the streets. It’s no mercy time. Dragged to death.