The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.
      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 month ago

        Haven’t we blown past two different “this is the end” limits previously set? And we just keep making new ones?

        I dunno, it really sounds like we’re fucked.

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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          1 month ago

          We are past two important points:

          • we passed the point where you would not be able to tell the difference something like 30 years ago
          • we passed the point where we likely locked in 1.5°C of warming quite recently. That’s roughly where you walk into a minefield of risking major ecosystems with each additional bit of warming, and the stretch goal that small island nations wanted because it might have left them habitable.

          Importantly neither point is one where we expect civilization to suddenly end.

      • 96ToyotaCamry@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        I respect your optimism, I truly hope you’re right. I don’t think we’re locked in for human extinction just yet, but we have a lot of work to do as a society to avoid that.

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Yup we doomed.

      Without the US actively pursuing positive climate change policies there is very little chance this doesn’t get catastrophic soon. It’s already responsible for a massive amount of greenhouse gases and that will ramp up. They want this to happen, to open the NW Passage.

      We passed so many points of no return already. We need every single organization and nation trying to fix this and even that won’t cut it, it’ll just make things take longer. Not to mention the mass extinction already ongoing. Ecosystem collapse is coming.

      Let the mass starvation begin