National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change [pdf]
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This is predicting that we'll pass the 1.5c threshold by 2030, sooner than I thought.
All of this will lead to predictable outcomes: More war, more humanitarian crises, more mass-migration, strain on food supply, etc...
If only the "perception of insuficient contributions to reduce emissions" was at the highest possible level now, as opposed to after the effects of climate change get much worse.
How convenient to blame this all on climate change. Makes it easier for the incompetent, corrupt, and downright evil people running our governments, who created these disasters in the first place with their absurd policies, to "save us" with yet more absurd climate policies.
When these policies -- predictably -- make things even worse, they will surely claim we must pass even more onerous, confiscatory, job destroying "climate legislation". When this happens you can re-post your comment after incrementing a few numbers.
What absurd policies? I suspect you can blame the lack of policies , like those oil extraction where they buts soem excess gas just because it is not profitable enough to use it.
But I am waiting for you to please explain how an anarchy would have done better or some wild capitalist society with no legislation would have done better for the environment.
The economy on the other hand is in total ruins, largely because of policies related to COVID-19, which also had a marginal impact on emissions. Imagine policies that have significant impacts...
This is the reddest of herrings. The government's role is to strive for the security and safety of its citizens. "Policies related to COVID-19" are part and parcel of that.
The economy is "in ruins" not because of "policies related to COVID-19", but because in striving for squeezing every last drop of profitability out of things, a "just-in-time" model was adopted for everything under the sun, which fell apart at the first real obstacle.
It's a supply-side crunch from the bottom of the chain on up. Companies which are depleted of capital in order to line people's pockets are unable to jumpstart the process fiscally, and decades of mistreating workers is backfiring as a labor shortage which *should* drive increased wages is leading only to calls for bailouts and government intervention, or _anything_ other than paying market wages.
Don't blame governments for unfettered capitalism being an ouroboros.
None of this was happening before 2020, despite the constant economic/climate doom porn that this place and others had been engaging in.
It took explicit government action and massive propaganda to get us into the fuckery we are in today. It did not happen because of climate change or "unfettered capitalism".
False, a government could have stopped international travel and fix the problem at it's root, but capitalists wanted to travel aroudn the world and now you pay more. Same shit with anarchist that protested like retards (at least in my country) that they don't want to use masks and today they are waiting 3 hours for a vaccine because the giant number of deaths in their family finally opened their minds.
So you are fucking wrong, greed and anarchy caused lot of death and financial lose, but I am 100% sure your scenario where everyone traveled without masks around the world and in public places is much better feel free to ignore reality too.
Add no lockdowns, mandates, or constant fear mongering; then yes, much better.
You imply that fear is unjustified, unfortunately here in Romania we can see what happens when conspiracy and no restrictions get combined, do a search on your trusted media and compare real numbers (hopefully your trusted media has real numbers)
The only reason not to fear is if you have no family and maybe you already had COVID and feel invulnerable or if you are a retard ad think COVID is just like the flu.
Seems like you are a person prone to live in fear. Surely once you recover from your illness, you will continue to live in fear because of climate change, and if that was ever somehow resolved to your satisfaction, you'd find something else to provide your fear fix.
Hopefully your young son will grow above and beyond this negative influence, and maybe even teach you that there is more to life than constant anxiety and anger about the End Times. Good luck.
Weather has been temperate, rain plentiful, trees are (were) green and the birds are chirping. It did seem a bit hot last year but this year was much cooler in my area.
Take a walk outside, as far as you can away from human settlement. Nature is stunningly beautiful and does not care at all about human issues.
Not quite. When was the last time you weren't able to buy bread?
There is no big rich lobby for decarbonization yet. People in governments fight climate change mostly because they believe in it or because they think they can further their career with it (like everyone in top positions).
I'm confident that eventually we'll collectively respond but by that time the expense of the recovery will be huge and the devastation will already be here.
I'm starting to believe more and more in "the great filter"
For example, if IRV was more widely adopted, you might still find that only the two big parties ever win seats (although by removing the spoiler effect, third parties become a viable threat which could act to steer the big parties towards more representative policies rather than them relying on the "lesser of two evils" effect).
Conversely, it could be possible to have somewhat popular third parties without a proportional voting system, as is seen in Canada or the UK, but those countries still see the biggest party at the national level always being one of the two main parties.
China is the world's biggest C02 producer and has declared it has no more concessions to make. Yet the world is content to watch America fall further into debt & inflation as climate-focused regulations impact logistics, energy & manufacturing. In sum, the US is destabilizing, risking social disorder, for a goal its competitors will not meet.
For example, US coal supplies are the lowest they've been in decades at a time when domestic energy demands are requiring about 16% more coal than last year. Similarly, the backlog at California ports is largely due to environmental regulations enacted by the CA legislature (truck emissions primarily).
Putting this imbalance in national security context... Resources China & Russia could be allocating to climate change are instead directed to offensive hypersonic weapons, nuclear launch capabilities & forward deployed bases. The US is scrambling to match these investments and innovations in a more expensive labor/procurement environment & while facing all manner of distractions declared national priorities, yet having nothing to do with real security.
1. What matters is absolute emissions, period.
2. The US has invested in pollution control for decades, so on an inflation-adjusted basis the aggregate investment by the US would be far greater.
3. As the largest polluter & the largest manufacturer it makes sense China's investment would be greater, but see #1.
As they say, necessity is the mother of invention. Who gives what China is failing at: we need a technological evolution that works with the planet.
Folks who say, “well they’re not doing it so why should we?” Are abdicating all responsibility and are probably lazy citizens to begin with.
Furthermore, China is now a world leader in both solar and nuclear, and they're actively exporting this technology. The reality of the situation is that investing into clean energy is very profitable, and China has now secured its position as the world leader. When other countries start getting their act together, they'll be buying this technology from China.
Got a source for this?
1. CA truck emission standards preclude about 40% of chassis from entering CA ports until they meet standards.
2. CA regs, until this week, prevented stacking containers more than 2 high.
3. Ports not short labor, in fact they just added a night shift - well underutilized b/c 1 & 2 above.
RE: Coal
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-26/coal-pile...
2. No, that wasn't 'CA regs'. It was a local Long Beach ordinance. And it was for empties. And it was never a problem before but as soon as Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen brought it up, Long Beach issued an emergency variance [1], like within a day. FWIW, the Seattle Fire Department has the same two high regulation.
3. There are a lot more points in the supply chain that use labor and that have been affected by COVID than container crane operators. It is a complex issue [4].
[1] https://longbeach.gov/press-releases/city-of-long-beach-stat...
Yes, the United States exports coal, quite a bit [2], 4th in the world [3].
[2] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/coal/imports-and-exports...
[3] https://www.worldstopexports.com/coal-exports-country/
[4] https://www.logisticsmgmt.com/article/cargo_congestion_on_we...
We seem to be incapable of making wise long term decisions that require sacrifice. I am resigned to simply enjoying what we have, while we have it.
We can't even solve our water use, and that is going to cause collapse much sooner than the climate. And it's obvious looking at the oncoming water crisis that those who are most vulnerable will also be least protected, while the supply chains oligarchical institutions are going to be nearly completely enshrined.
We are 20 years away, as a conglomeration of democracies, from even being capable of appropriately addressing climate change.
Try telling someone in Ohio there's a water shortage; they'll glance at the river and look at you like you have three heads.
For years there have been dire warnings about sea level rise, we have seen the same warnings in the last week in the Dutch press again. Apparently lots of ice is melting for years/decades.
Yet, there is no acceleration in the sea level rise on our shores, which has been at a relatively stable ~2mm a year for over a century. Furthermore, sea level has risen since we exitted the ice age, our North Sea used to be land.
It certainly seems that way (that "that humans are incapable of conceptualizing...", or even better, replace "conceptualizing" with "<X>"), but is it really so? It is surely presently "true" (if one ignores potentiality), but is it absolutely true (across time and all potential paths)?
As a thought experiment, if you rewind 30 or so years, would this statement be an absolute Truth: "Humans are incapable of writing an operating system that <does all the things that Linux does in 2021>"?
Also consider: if Richard Stallman, Andrew Tanenbaum, and Linus Torvalds had done something other than what they actually did[1], where would we (and the internet, etc) be today?
If you then consider humanity's ~paralysis on climate change (or any of our many problems) in this context, doesn't the situation we find ourselves in (on all fronts) seem more than a little absurd? I mean, if we never actually try[2] to achieve something, should we be surprised when we do not achieve it?
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
"Linus Torvalds has stated on separate occasions that if the GNU kernel or 386BSD had been available at the time (1991), he probably would not have created Linux."
[2] Is it not reasonably true that not only do we not try, but we don't even think about trying, or think about desiring (a plausible pre-requisite for trying) to try to think about trying , etc etc etc, recurse to infinity.
Possibly related: https://youtu.be/LIIz82ZUCQY
For example, this report mentions that by 2040 developing countries are going to struggle, so I wouldn't want to retire to a developing country.
Is the weather in Alaska likely to get much warmer and reach temperatures like in California?
There's going to be strain on energy and food systems, so I suppose I'll have to be able to grow my own food, at least to some degree, so I would need a decent garden and good weather to grow the food. And so on..
Are there any resources to start planning this semi-seriously, without getting sucked into a whole "world is going to end" doomsday prepper narrative with guns, zombies and bunkers?
I imagine that land and housing prices in such future areas is only going to increase, so it would be nice to get ahead of the curve.
In the long term, if nothing meaningful is done, no place would be safe, at least in the open. But I don't know how things will develop in the 20 years timeframe, both in the climate and in the human side.
Climate change is going to make the world hotter and drier, on average. You want a place that is currently cool and rainy. Think oceanic climate zones. In the US, that's the PNW, and the Alaskan Peninsula. The only problem is that area is extremely vulnerable to major earthquakes. Second best bet is the Great lakes region. Third is northern new england, around lake champlain.
When it comes to other areas of the world, NZ comes up a lot. There's also places like Portugal, Galacia (sp), Ireland, the UK, and much of the Scandi countries.