Um, I think we all just won | Biden is halting the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth
Um, I think we all just won | Biden is halting the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth
Biden is halting the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth
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We'll win if we mitigate global warming to.1.5°C. I don't see Biden phasing out coal and fossil gas or setting lowered targets for oil. No, as it is, we will exceed 2.0°C.
He doesn't set targets for any of them. Full phase-out won't happen in his term, but Biden did set a policy of gradually ending them:
This can reasonably be said to be part of it.
Sure, so has almost every country in the world. Men are words, and words are wind.
He has gone through with a pile of policies which to try and achieve that though, and US emissions are falling.
Not falling fast enough, not falling for 1.5°C. Don’t do PR for presidents who don’t give two shits about reaching climate goals.
Definitely not enough for 1.5C; whether recent policy changes get it to fall fast enough for 2C is an open question. They might if we can keep them in place after the election and the rest of the world joins in.
Anything less than 1.5°C is defeatism and is literally the end of the world as we know it. It will literally mean mass death. I won’t settle for a 2°C target.
I'll be fighting for every fraction of a degree, but I don't seriously expect to pull off 1.5C seeing as we're likely to pass that point permanently within the next couple years
@silence7 @mambabasa east coast US & Europe better get ready for AMOC to be shutting down as early as 2025. Florida gonna turn blue despite the red MAGAhats.
"as early as" means it comes from a paper saying "between 2025 and 2095". Even then, what other scientists are saying is that the paper points out that it's a risk, it's still something like a 10% chance of happening in that time frame.