Too late for that. By the time this is effectively available, we will have breezed past the moment we could've avoided 1.5 degrees. — Benkei
So the solution to too much energy in the global climate is a source of abundant cheap energy? Place getting too hot? let's make some tiny little suns to power our air-conditioning. That'll work. — unenlightened
Nuclear energy doesn't trap heat in the atmosphere. It's no more of a concern for climate change than putting up a shit ton of solar panels. — Marchesk
We already have millions of climate refugees, and we are already set to lose a great many low-lying cities and a large portion of our arable land. This much is already unavoidable, and dreams of cheap energy are what brought us to this point. — unenlightened
carbon capture — Marchesk
If [...] would be [...]. — frank
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. — unenlightened
Onshore wind — unenlightened
fertilisers — unenlightened
invisible hand — unenlightened
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
It ain't going to happen. Not soon enough , if ever, and it doesn't address the huge environmental problems at all. I'm unsurprised, but disappointed that the same nonsense is being spouted here as we have been hearing for 40 years or so.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/climate-change-not-the-main-driver-of-madagascar-food-crisis-scientists-find But it is an additional, back-seat driver. Deforestation, overfishing, soil depletion, uncontrolled mining and logging, are all also driving in the same direction, and as people get more desperate, the over-exploitation of whatever resources remain gets worse. — unenlightened
These types of tests promise to lead to significant amounts of energy in a few decades since nuclear fusion is so vitally important. — Article
How many is a few? At a minimum 20 years then. Much too late. Climate action needs to happen today and considering the rich west is not willing to give up its way of life, they will continue to squabble about how to account for carbondioxide and make sure there are enough loopholes that on paper they reach their target but in reality don't do anything. — Benkei
My focus is more on how that will play out. The course of the next few centuries is already set. — frank
And people, groups, nations, world haggle with that.Let's get down to the brass tacks, shall we? We know we have a problem (climate change), a huge one as a matter of fact. We know the aetiology (CO2
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The way things are going and how the US and Europe are preparing for the next round of bipolar struggle everything might be moot. But Kudos for looking even further, I don't plan beyond my kids' expected death, somewhere around 2100. — Benkei
"Carbon dioxide is at levels our species has never experienced before—this is not new," said Pieter Tans, senior scientist with the Global Monitoring Laboratory - a research organization for international climate scientists providing data for policymakers attempting to address the causes and impacts of climate change. "We have known about this for half a century, and have failed to do anything meaningful about it. What's it going to take for us to wake up?"
mention these things just to call attention to the hidden dimension of CO² emissions: the wildly extravagant lives we lead, thinking all the while that this is just average. — Tate
Humans don't have to eat everyday — Tate
I'm probably not as ancient as your old woman, but when I was growing up (memories from the early 1950s) we did not have air conditioning or even window fans. We were not wretched from heat. Maybe it wasn't as hot back then. There were lots of shade trees in the small town.
We went swimming in a meandering stream which was shared by cattle. Not very clean. We didn't get sick. — Bitter Crank
Do older people have a harder time dealing with heat? Just wondering. — Tate
I see. Being less dependent on AC would require more social integration, or socialized medicine.Rather, the solution is to make sure vulnerable people have a way of getting to cooling centers so their core temperatures don't reach fatal levels. — Bitter Crank
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