We've barely managed to make a tiny dent

I always want to reply with that chart on every post about some magical new climate technology. Nothing really matters until we stop pulling carbon-based fuels out of the ground and lighting them on fire. That’s it. That’s the only thing that matters. Wind and solar are great but we’re still approving gas/coal/oil projects, at least globally.

It’s like with the water crisis in the American West. They guilt trip individuals into feeling bad about taking showers but it’s like 80% agriculture. And the majority of that is for animal feed. (I’m not saying everyone go vegan. That’s about as unrealistic as asking everyone to stop fucking to keep the population from growing. I’m saying don’t grow alfalfa in the fucking desert and then blame people who bathe.)

And for what?

For that.

Lines must go up.

I don't see a dent...

Perhaps we should start actually trying

Whatever dent we make today will be visible in decades. This is Moses in the desert, people, if we do what's right, we won't see the promised land, but our descendants will

And yet you can see the small dent the collapse of USSR made.

I find the people with hope genuinely confusing at this point.

I bought CO2 sensors for an Arduino project. The firmware is calibrated to 400 ppm. It is rapidly becoming in accurate because baseline keeps going up.

That period between 1990 and 1995 where there seems to be 3 consecutive years where it slowed to a relative crawl... Imagine if we did that. What if we plateaued there for a few years - decades even - and then started dropping. A wonderful thought.

The chart indicates another way to fix global warming. We could add to the atmosphere. It would take a massive amount... Maybe have boil the ocean?

Fuck yes, straight into the wall full speed. Don’t even tap the brakes.

Only positive thing I can see there is, that the last few years seem to be linear growth instead of the exponential before...

Our masters prefer profit much much much more than planetary survival.

No, we had precisely zero measurable impact on the Keeling curve.

This is impossible to fix with capitalism. Capitalism demands infinite growth. We're going to have to start working on antigravity now to escape this dead planet (the plot to interstellar).

So how do we have readings going so far back, like even in the late 1800s? Is this just an assumed average for back then?

I got one word for you: Vote.

Corporations like BP push individual responsibility and personal carbon footprint[1] to try to neutralize you from achieving real policy gains which would have a much greater impact than your individual action. Time spent trying to convince people to vote for politicians who take climate change seriously is far more productive than time spent trying to educate people about their so-called carbon footprint. Of course we all play a part but seeing this chart it's clear we need more action and that's why I'm saying this.

[1] https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-12-18/how-big-oil-helped-push-the-idea-of-a-carbon-footprint

Incapable until directly affected

lol. That’s because awareness doesn’t work.

There is no dent at all. 3+ppm increase in CO2 is faster than 10 year average. Even as energy transition is progressing globally, war on Russia, forest fires and drought is going to make emissions sticky.

Now show us the same graph, but going back to first hominidae.

Why don’t you post more than that? Earth exists much longer than this. There are data about Earth temperature for hundreds of milions of years, but it probably doesn’t fit your theory, eg: https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_620_original_image/public/graph-from-scott-wing-620px.png?itok=Jgi659bn

So what. We live and then we die.