Climate in the 21st Century

Will Humankind see the 22nd Century?

  • Not a fucking chance

    Votes: 44 27.5%

  • Maybe. if we get our act together

    Votes: 42 26.3%

  • Yes, we will survive

    Votes: 74 46.3%
  • Total voters
    160
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Three Berries said:
Anyone who thinks fossil fuels are going away or a 100% electric fleet is a fool. A new gasoline powered car has a lower carbon foot print than an electric. But as coal is phased out the cost will sky rocket. And that is the real goal so people reduce their energy usage. This is not a good thing especially with the added Mega load of replacing fossil fuels.
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Not getting people to reduce consumption is a bad thing? You are totally baked.
 
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mooray

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Three Berries said:
Anyone who thinks fossil fuels are going away or a 100% electric fleet is a fool. A new gasoline powered car has a lower carbon foot print than an electric. But as coal is phased out the cost will sky rocket. And that is the real goal so people reduce their energy usage. This is not a good thing especially with the added Mega load of replacing fossil fuels.
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All of the planet's resources, be it fossil fuels, or battery minerals, or coal, or even water, are very finite. You can add an asterisk of *within my lifetime, but your first sentence is super foolish as it is. In the long run, recycling methods will be a top priority.
 
Mad878

Mad878

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Jimdamick said:
Well, boys & girls or whatever, the End of Humankind seems to be approaching relatively rapidly & it seems we/they can't/won't do fucking anything substantial to stop it.

In other words we're fucked as a species/organism & it appears that it's inevitable.

A new United Nations report shows the world is on a “catastrophic pathway” toward a hotter future unless governments make more ambitious pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the head of the UN said last week.

That’s the latest blunt assessment by the United Nations in its 42 page report. The report says that most countries have failed to uphold promises to make deep cuts to greenhouse gas pollution, in order to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change.

According to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, meeting the more ambitious target of a 2.7 degree Fahrenheit temperature rise would require eliminating fossil fuels almost entirely by 2050.

A review of all the national commitments submitted by signatories of the Paris climate accord until July 30, found that based on detailed information from signatories, this would result in emissions rising nearly 16 percent by 2030, compared with 2010 levels.

“The 16 percent increase is a huge cause for concern,” according to Patricia Espinosa, the UN’s chief climate negotiator, reports the BBC.

“It is in sharp contrast with the calls by science for rapid, sustained and large-scale emission reductions to prevent the most severe climate consequences and suffering, especially of the most vulnerable, throughout the world.”

This shows the world is heading in the wrong direction. Scientists recently confirmed that to avoid the worst impacts of hotter conditions, global carbon emissions needed to be cut by 45 percent by 2030.

That is only 14 years away folks, to curtail at the minimum & reduce simultaneously carbon emissions, or it's fucking game over.

Hah, Ha & Ha :)

What are the odds of that occuring?

None?

The COP26 climate conference is scheduled to take place in Glasgow in just over six weeks’ time. The main focus of the event is to keep alive hopes of limiting the rise in global temperatures by persuading nations to cut their emissions.

Yet, out of the 191 countries taking part in the agreement, only 113 have so far come up with improved pledges. Alok Sharma, the British minister who will chair the COP26 conference, said nations that had ambitious climate plans were “already bending the curve of emissions downwards.”

“But without action from all countries, especially the biggest economies, these efforts risk being in vain,” Sharma added. A recent study by Climate Action Tracker found that of the G20 group of leading industrial nations, only a handful including the UK and the US have strengthened their targets to cut emissions.


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Based on the data from the Climate Action Tracker, it is apparent that many countries are trying to fall in line with their targets, but the UN is still waiting for updated plans from many asshole countries. “There are some real laggard nations that we hope to hear from,” says the policy director for the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. They include China, which is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, as well as Japan, Australia, South Korea, and Brazil.

Another analysis shows that China, India, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey – together responsible for 33 percent of greenhouse gases – have yet to submit updated plans, like not even a fucking word

None/nada/zip

Additionally, the study finds that Brazil, Mexico, and Russia all expect their emissions to grow rather than shrink.

Yup, we're on the right track alright.

Excellent!!!

Humankind will abandon all tribal instincts & greed & come together and save the Planet!!!

I doubt it

This ain't fucking Hollywood, you dumb fucks, & I don't see a happy ending here.

None whatsoever.

Reality is a bitch, ain't it.

Wear a mask/get a jab :)
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That’s why space travel make a lot of sense :blsmoke:
 
Jimdamick

Jimdamick

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HGCC said:
Go back where you came from!
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Yup
Energy crisis? What experts are saying as world faces historic energy-price crunch (msn.com)
Back unto the primordial swamps, right?
It seems to be where we are heading.
No, actually we are there.
Facing Extinction?
Well, sadly to say, all, like FUCKING ALL, of the science data collected for the last 40 years that has/had fucking SCREAMED that what we are witnessing now/today would happen/occur.
But to change would cost too much, right?
It's all fake science, right?
We're fucking dead
Yea, that's right :(
 
Three Berries

Three Berries

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It's been raining here almost every day this month. A couple of days not. But I've been doing dirt work and planting grass. They don't call it Speedy Green for nothing. It's coming up all over in about 4-5 days.
 
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