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A Big Climate Goal Is Getting Farther Out of Reach | A new report forecasts global temperature increases well above the level that world leaders have pledged to avoid.
A new report forecasts global temperature increases well above the level that world leaders have pledged to avoid.
A Big Climate Goal Is Getting Farther Out of Reach | A new report forecasts global temperature increases well above the level that world leaders have pledged to avoid.
A new report forecasts global temperature increases well above the level that world leaders have pledged to avoid.
‘Minimal progress’ made this year on curbing global heating, report finds | Analysis by Climate Action Tracker puts median temperature rise by 2100 at 2.7C if current policies continue
Analysis by Climate Action Tracker puts median temperature rise by 2100 at 2.7C if current policies continue
Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk | The Senate can stop her.
I'll note that the Trump team has planned on skipping the usual security clearance process
One expert says climate targets can seem abstract but matter because they serve as an ‘investment signal’ to cashed up investors
He hasn't promised to be true to his oath of office.
A dive instructor found the well-preserved ring with a metal detector, and then used clues on the ring to try and track down its owner.
Trump said he’ll end offshore wind “on day one.” Experts say he can’t do that, but his administration could cause plenty of trouble for the nascent industry.
Trump said he’ll end offshore wind “on day one.” Experts say he can’t do that, but his administration could cause plenty of trouble for the nascent…
Climate Summit, in Early Days, Is Already on a ‘Knife Edge’ | Negotiators agree that trillions are needed to help lower-income countries adapt and cope, but not on who should pay.
Negotiators agree that trillions are needed to help lower-income countries adapt and cope, but not on who should pay.
Climate Summit, in Early Days, Is Already on a ‘Knife Edge’ | Negotiators agree that trillions are needed to help lower-income countries adapt and cope, but not on who should pay.
Negotiators agree that trillions are needed to help lower-income countries adapt and cope, but not on who should pay.
Yeah, it's roughly at a peak, with the first actual drop seeming more likely to happen next year, rather than this year.
Climate change is decimating the likelihood of survival for a large portion of the world's coral reefs, according to new research.
Coral reefs are probably the first major ecosystem that we're going to lose as temperatures rise.
The U.S. is getting less snowy. If this winter’s forecast proves accurate, most of the country can expect less snow this season than usual, continuing a decades-long trend of less snowfall
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We Study Climate Change. We Can’t Explain What We’re Seeing.
We need more timely updates in response to the rapid changes to the climate.
The point isn't to take advice; it's to push responsibility and blame onto somebody else.
The main problem with carbon removal is that it's expensive, and removing it doesn't produce a product you can sell. So in practice, doing something like what you describe within a generation requires a system of taxation which absorbs 40% or so of total economic output, and uses it to sequester carbon. That seems, to put it mildly, politically very difficult.
If we actually cut emissions to zero, we can expect to see the Impact within a lifetime to be substantially limited. It's not that far off if we actually succeed.
If you lived in a swing state, you probably got multiple texts and phone calls from Democrats and other left-leaning groups, and very likely somebody knocking at your door too. Shifted the outcome by something like 3 percentage points.
They were talking about it before the election. I even posted a link, but people didn't care as much.
The fuel becomes hot because the nuclear reaction in it is producing both light (eg: gamma rays) and fast-moving subatomic particles. These both interact with the rest of the fuel to heat it up.
In most places, at most times of day, a lot less.
Why? First, because a lot of electricity is generated using wind, water, solar, and nuclear. Those don't have that problem (ok, nuclear wastes a lot of heat, but really, who cares). The second reason is that power plants that burn stuff tend to be a lot more efficient than internal combustion engines; the best case is combined-cycle gas turbine power plants, which turn over 60% of the energy available into electricity, as compared with a gasoline engine which turns about 20% of the energy in the gas into motion.
Sure. Still means that a ton of Americans were trying to figure out what it meant the day after the election. Which is a day later than they needed to.
As others have mentioned, this doesn't actually change much. Something near 90% of Chinese emissions are to support Chinese consumption
They do...and they appear to have just started reducing their greenhouse gas emissions as their wind and solar buildout is happening fast enough to displace fossil fuel use. They're also the main exporter of those technologies, so a push for decarbonization will both cut their own emissions and those of the rest of the world.
It's a real indictment of the American Republicans that they chose to fight renewables every step of the way — the US could have been in an incredibly strong leadership position had they chosen to support them instead.
The benefit mostly accrues to the people using the electricity solar and wind generate. If you're making decisions for a society, instead of on behalf of rentiers who can donate, there are strong reasons to choose it.
If they actually worked, it would be payment to somebody who has taken an action to prevent emissions they otherwise would not have prevented. In practice, it's 90% middlemen who claim to have paid somebody to take such an action, but no such action actually occurred, or a completely ineffective action occurred.
Part of that might be a result of much of the population not being tuned in to factual media. The right-wing outlets do a cover-for-30-seconds approach to any bad thing Trump does.
Probably Putin, who vetoed any suggestion of other locations.
This one has a link to https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/08/climate-breakdown-will-hit-global-growth-by-a-third-say-central-banks
Maybe a client issue on your end?
Or are you subscribing via mastodon instead of lemmy?