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And maybe record high atmospheric CO2 concentration every few years as well. We're still on an increasing trajectory.

The 2007 IPCC climate change synthesis report specified a deadline of 2015 for peak CO2 in order to meet the lowest mitigation scenario. Of course we've blown past that date and it's still full speed ahead with business as usual.

Alas, I try not to blather on about the severity of the climate situation in every thread.

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I'm hopeful that superconductors leading to practical fusion reactors can provide the energy to start pulling some carbon out of the air and ocean. I'm thinking this is the only way to reverse the damage on the human timeframe.

I admit it's a longshot, but I think it's the only chance we have. The superconductor news is welcome, we just need to see it get truly confirmed without a doubt.

Not to be a bummer but by far the most likely outcome here is that we don’t currently have a room temperature super-conductor, we never pull a consequential amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, and we don’t get significantly workable sustainable fusion in a timeframe that makes a difference.

You’d need a bunch of jackpots to come up, in a row, immediately, at this point for technology to provide a way out of the current debacle.

To paraphrase Paul Lieberstein’s character on the Newsroom:

If we stop drilling globally right this second

AND

Everyone stops driving their car and starts biking everywhere

AND

We invest immediately in clean renewable energy

THEN

I still don’t see a way out of this.

edit: found it on YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pNYp6oc37ds

(Shrug) Change is part of life. We'll live.

Lots of us won’t.

Darwin will have his due, all right. Sad but true.

What’s your thoughts on nuclear power?

What ever came about from the CRU hack [1]?

I was walking my dog there most days when that happened, and to my knowledge they never caught the spooky hackers did they?

For now, just call me spooky Patsy.

Anyway, whilst more and more cars and buildings with air conditioning expel heat without a considerable lag, thus amplifying the thermal heat island effect [2], and the reduction of aerosols that were contributing to global dimming [3] making it possible to warm up the sea and land to new record highs since records began [4], have the climate scientists adjusted their models yet, or are they still in full on fatalism and alarmism mode? I feel like Roy Castle [5] still lives on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_c...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming#Relationship_to...

[4] https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2023/06/16/sea-surface-tempera...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Castle

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