All Authors Working on Flagship U.S. Climate Report Are Dismissed
All Authors Working on Flagship U.S. Climate Report Are Dismissed
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National Climate Assessment Authors Are Dismissed by Trump Administration
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Spoiler alert, we’re fucked. That’s what the assessment would have said at least.
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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
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They want this to happen, to open the NW Passage.
"They" being Putin.
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It's more or less largely abandoned in general that is not the scientific community. Sabian made a video talking about that a while ago
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Probably not. We're still in a place where it's probably possible to end up with a civilization-supporting planet. But it requires phasing out fossil fuels. And starting now. And the oil executives who bribed Trump don't like that.
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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.
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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.
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We also haven't stopped emitting C02, not even close. Have emissions even peaked yet? Realistically, we're fucked
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What we do in the present and future is a human decision. How bad it gets is up to us still, not something locked in by physics
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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.
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