#global climate change

[221bshrlocked]

The sheer amount of unbotheredness Californians are displaying right now, including myself, is kinda hilarious and terrifying.

[biocheminpics]

I'm gonna say this with my whole chest and without hesitation:

If, in the face of current events, you continue to deny the reality of climate change, you are a deeply flawed, amoral person. You are an existential threat to our future, our present civilization, and our entire species. You are literally and demonstrably, a member of the worst group of humans who have ever existed on this planet.

The last 5 years are the hottest 5 on record, record breaking hurricanes in unprecedented hurricane seasons, a destabilized polar vortex, warming oceans, mass extinction, the list goes on and on. It's time to pull your head from your rear. It's time to fix this. It's never too late for us to start.

[defleftist]

Anybody else completely unable to enjoy warm fall weather because it’s just a reminder of the progress of climate change? Because yeah, when I was little, our autumn weather was much cooler.

[bouncinghedgehog]

[firnen-the-teragram-teabag]

[solarbird]

It’s a dang good thing that the pro-democracy party also fights climate change.

We got lucky there, I suppose. The pro-authoritarian pro-fascism carbon-fuels companies are all on the fascist side. Despite their fetid ocean of dirty money, if this had to happen, we're better off this way.

See, they aren't in this for "the economy." They’re on the side of the fascists solely to extend the lives of their dead-end money machine companies, the entire world be damned.

And as people realise that solar and wind are now cheaper - well. This puts them on the wrong side of manufacturing interests, too - and pretty damn soon.

They are on the wrong side of history in more ways than one.

This is another pretty long one, so have a [continue reading] for your dash.

[affairsmastery]

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has unveiled its 20th Global Risks Report 2025, spotlighting India's top challenges: water shortages, misinformation, erosion of rights, pollution, and talent gaps. Amid rising US-China tensions, India and Gulf nations are emerging as vital geopolitical bridges, fostering East-West cooperation.

However, policies like the US Inflation Reduction Act, 2022, and India’s Make in India initiative reflect growing trade protectionism. The report underscores the need for multilateral solutions to address geopolitical fractures, global mistrust, and the climate crisis. Founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab, WEF is a Geneva-based organization fostering public-private collaboration for long-term global progress.

[thebigdeepcheatsy]

Throwaway Theory (BUT IT HAS CHAPTER 1113 SPOILERS)

Imu's Devil Fruit is not the Water Water Fruit, it's not the Ink Ink Fruit, it's not the Human Human Fruit: Model Umibozu, it's not the Devil Devil Fruit...

It's the Oil Oil Fruit!

Imu's an ancient being that refuses to die, eliminates anyone standing in their way with zero remorse, is power hungry and controls virtually the entire world via the government, exploits scientists for more malicious and selfish goals, is protected by a bunch of old people, is pitch black, cannot be near water, surrounded by excess wealth and the rich, and most importantly, is causing the world to sink into the ocean.

What else is like that?

Crude oil and the Oil Industry!

[boreal-sea]

"We can just send robots to the poles to make new ice! This is a reasonable solution!"

No it's not.

Can we send boats to the poles to make more ice? Yes.

But tell me, tell me: why are they melting in the first place?

Because the ice caps do not, on their own, keep Earth cool. They help, because of albedo (which is not a word I think anyone on the post I'm vagueing about even knows). And personally, if you don't actually know why and how the ice caps help keep Earth cool and why them melting is bad, if you don't understand positive feedback cycles... then stop talking about ice robots.

Because making more ice using solar-powered robot boats isn't like... harmful, theoretically. But it's not fixing the problem.

Example:

Imagine you have a bathtub. You want to keep the water in the bathtub cool. In the past this was easy to do because the thermostat in the house was set to a cool-warm cycle and it maintained itself just fine. Part of the bathtub was permanently frozen, and some ice froze and melted regularly throughout the year. You didn't have to do anything! Life was great.

Now imagine someone has gone down to the basement and cranked the house's heat onto high. The ice in the bathtub has started to melt, and even when the house goes through its cool cycle, not all of the ice comes back. Over and over, more and more ice is melting.

Can you run downstairs, go to the fridge, grab a cup of icecubes, run upstairs, and pour them into the tub? Yeah, sure. You could do that. Meanwhile, the average temperature in the house is getting warmer and warmer, so each trip you need to grab more ice, until you're carrying two buckets at a time. And you can keep doing that until your legs get tired and you can't possibly go on. But eventually, you're going to hit a point where you can't carry enough ice on each trip to keep the tub cool - all the ice melts in between your trips up and down the stairs. You spent all that time and all that effort on an activity that did not fix the actual problem, which is the fact that someone turned up the thermostat.

That is what "let's send ice robots to the poles!" will do. It will, temporarily, help maintain ice levels near the poles. But it will not remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. It will not stop countries from emitting more greenhouse gasses. It will not remove subsidies from the oil and gas industry worldwide. It'll probably make someone like Elon Musk a shit ton of money, and it'll make you ~feel good~.

But it won't fix the problem, which is global warming due to human-driven emissions of greenhouse gasses.

[rjzimmerman]

‘Fossil Fuels Are Still Winning’ as Carbon Emissions Reach Record Highs in 2024. (EcoWatch)

Carbon emissions caused by fossil fuels set a new record in 2023 and are expected to continue to increase by the end of 2024 according to the Global Carbon Budget project. NOAA provides about a quarter of all the atmospheric CO2 observations and about half of all the surface ocean CO2 observations used in the analysis. At current rates, the report estimates, there’s a 50% likelihood that global average air temperatures will regularly exceed the 1.5-degree Celsius target (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2031. The findings were announced today at COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Excerpt from this story from EcoWatch:

The most recent Global Carbon Budget report has found that the world’s carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels reached a record high in 2024, pushing the planet further off track from avoiding the most destructive impacts of global heating.

The 2024 Global Carbon Budget — produced by the Global Carbon Project team of 120-plus scientists from around the world — projects that emissions from fossil carbon dioxide will reach 37.4 billion tonnes in 2024, an increase of 0.8 percent over the previous year, according to a press release from the Global Carbon Project.

“The impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly dramatic, yet we still see no sign that burning of fossil fuels has peaked,” said lead author of the study Professor Pierre Friedlingstein of Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, in the press release. “Time is running out to meet the Paris Agreement goals – and world leaders meeting at COP29 must bring about rapid and deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions to give us a chance of staying well below 2°C warming above pre-industrial levels.”

Total carbon dioxide emissions for 2024 are projected to be 41.6 billion tonnes, with 4.2 billion tonnes coming from deforestation and other land-use changes. Last year’s total emissions were 40.6 billion tonnes.

Over the course of the past decade, fossil carbon emissions have increased while carbon dioxide emissions from land-use changes have gone down on average, leaving total emissions approximately level for that period. In the past 10 years, overall emissions from land-use changes have gone down 20 percent.

This year, however, global emissions from both land-use changes and fossil carbon dioxide are in a position to rise. Drought conditions exacerbated emissions from deforestation, fires and forest degradation during the 2023-2024 El Niño climate event.

[playingplayer2]

Where is the snow. It's raining. Fucking STILL I saw WORMS in my BARE GRASSY YARD TWO FUCKING NIGHTS AGO. WORMS. In DECEMBER. and it's RAINING.

(More swearing and whatnot below the line)

IT'S FUCKING DECEMBER- IT'S FUCKING CHRISTMAS IN THE FUCKING MIDWEST THERE IS NO SNOW AND IT'S IN THE FUCKING 40 DEGREES RANGE AND THERE IS NO SNOWWWWWW???!!!!!!?!??!??!?? AND IT'S RAINING???!!!???!?!?!?!@(#$;9@+*!#9@)

Never in my 21 years of Midwest weather bULLSHIT have I EVEr had this kind of fuckery occured WHERE IS THE SNOWWWWWWWWWWWW WHAT THE FFFFFUUUUCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKK?!?!

[deepbreakfast]

It’s too damn hot! Florida needs to fix their laws to grant more breaks for workers who work outside. I can’t believe this is something they have to ask for. It should be a no-brainer

[emperornorton47]

[woodsfae]

Wildfire Smoke Over Lookout Pass, Idaho. August 18, 2023.