Yes, Climate Change Is Probably Going To Kill You
Yes, Climate Change Is Probably Going To Kill You
A lot of people do not seem to understand the implications of climate change. The majority of people do not deny that climate change is happening (well, at least outside of the United States), and most of them also understand that it’s humans causing it through emissions of greenhouse gases and land...
Awesome blog post. This is the best part:
I’m not a climate scientist, but it seems rather obvious to me [...]
The IPCC AR6 WG2 does not agree with the non-climate scientist blogger.
They don't agree with a lot of what's being observed. Take your pick on who is being realistic.
I often encounter, especially on social media, individuals who are convinced that the latest extreme weather event is confirmation that the climate crisis is far worse than we thought, and scientists and climate communicators are intentionally “hiding” the scary truth from the public. It is the sort of conspiratorial thinking that we used to find among climate change deniers, but increasingly today we see it with climate doomists.
- Michael E Mann
https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2023/09/climate-doomism-disregards-science
Ah, yes. Let's not look at the data or what he is presenting. Let's dismiss it with a lazy blanked statement. Because this is how science work. You don't look at what is said. You look at who said it.
Felt like the title was hyperbole. Read it anyways. It's surprisingly data-backed. It doesn't exactly convince me I'm going to die from climate change, but it does make it very obvious we as a society are unable to stop what's coming.
unable? we aren't even willing to.
Overall premise is true. AMOC theory is weak, but the pure disinformation part:
The green energy attack is dated fossil fuel disinformation. Vanadium has always been BS. Cobalt and Nickel are no longer needed for best battery storage technology. Lithium can be replaced with Sodium that is already in commercial large scale battery production.
The only element in their list that is essential is copper. At 1B tonnes reserves, that would be enough to make 12B EV sized motors with battery connection wiring. Recycling is a source of copper.
One alternative to expanding electrical grid (which tends to use aluminum more than copper), and battery sizes, is H2 electrolysis and fuel cells. These typically use platinum group metals, but abundant magnesium and relatively abundant nickel catalysts have near commercial ready performance. H2 can also be cleanly synthesized from CH4 to produce graphite (also in OP scarce list) as a byproduct.
Disinformation about energy transition aside, very serious CO2 impacts from permafrost thaw and forest fires from existing locked in global warming can overwhelm the elimination of FFs.
The problem is that electricity is not substituting a large subset of total primary energy consumption. Like high-temperature industrial processes and reduction and synthetic equivalents for the materials and chemical industry. As they currently exist renewables are not autopoietic (self-building and self-sustainig) but merely extenders or multipliers of fossil energy sources. We currently lack the technology to change that and are unlikely to be able to as the time window to do that is closing. So that is the unhappy part.
In part, you are describing US policy to maximize oil dependence and rapid development expansion instigated by war and sanctions.
Like high-temperature industrial processes and reduction and synthetic equivalents for the materials and chemical industry.
It is true that this is slow, and slower in US, than China and EU plans. The catalyst for that is a carbon tax, and high renewables penetration such that green H2/electrochemistry is done from surpluses most days when every day renewables meet all electricity needs.
renewables are not autopoietic (self-building and self-sustainig) but merely extenders or multipliers of fossil energy sources. We currently lack the technology to change that and are unlikely to be able to as the time window to do that is closing.
The largest Chinese solar cell manufacturer has several 100% solar powered manufacturing facilities. Mining equipment is possible to electrify/H2 power. Medium heavy machinery is involved in solar and wind deployment projects, and I have seen "solar installing robots". It is unfair to put highly automated renewables production and deployments on a different standard than fossil fuel extraction.
Not my case, I'm gonna die by cirrhosis probably.
RNG isn't fun without enough options.
Ocean currents are on the verge of collapse. Food chain collapse will follow soon after. Won’t be good times after that.
All these fools out here having children, dooming them to suffer in this shithole of a reality. Good job parents. Selfish pricks.
To be fair, they probably don’t know anything about this.
The news isn’t talking about it, or if they are, they’re downplaying it, claiming it’s a ‘hoax’ (if it’s Fox) or that ’normal’, that we’re ‘just coming out of an ice age’, that ‘it’s not that bad’.
The billionaires and republicans are telling everyone that everything’s fine, keep spending, all is well. Their church groups are parroting this because they want to support republicans.
Or they live in an a country with little to no news service in their area at all.
I did, we weren’t going to have kids but decided to when we were in a financially and emotionally stable enough time in our lives.
We decided to have 1 child with the hopes that he can be a force for good. Maybe he’ll invent a solution to some of these problems. Or help find the cure to some climate borne diseases.
At the very least we’re raising him to be a compassionate human, who can at least offset one of the assholes who are helping ruin the place’s kids. We no nothing is guaranteed, but things are going well 7 years in. 11 more to go (I know it’s really more like 5 before we get tweeted out, and 20 before he can move out, but I can dream).
Out of curiosity, do you choose to not have children or are you single?
Seek therapy
This Koala has a mental health problem!
You're arguing with a bunch of fat, lazy, loser kids who couldn't get laid if their life depended on it. Seen people on here say they would rather die than life in a post-industrial landscape. OK.
"I'M taking a moral stance!"
"Nah. You just can't find anyone that would deign to reproduce with you. You also flunked history class if you think this is bad."
I got 2 little kids. Pretty sure they would rather exist than not. Should I ask them?
