Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says – DW – 07/30/2023
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Jim Skea, the new head of the UN's IPCC climate panel, said it was not helpful to imply that temperature increases of 1.5 degrees Celsius posed an existential threat to humanity.

In short, we aren’t on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions.

He makes it clear too that this doesn’t mean things are perfectly fine. The world is becoming and will be more dangerous with respect to climate. We’re going to still have serious problems to deal with. The problems just aren’t insurmountable and extinction level.

  • havokdj@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    aren’t on track to an apocalyptic extinction,

    things aren’t perfectly fine. The world is becoming and will be more dangerous with respect to climate.

    Those statements are contradictory.

    These fucking jackasses are running our offices and industries. If something isn’t done about this then it will kill ALL of us.

    It’s a 1.5C increase in a very, VERY short period. What happens if we get another 1.5C increase?

    And another

    And another

    And another

    You get the point.

    Nuclear energy is the key to saving this planet. It would solve any energy problem we would have for hundreds if not thousands of years, and that’s just uraniam. Don’t even get me started on thorium, we would have energy for longer than we could ever comprehend. All readily available, yet we keep burning up dinosaur shit because “muh coal companiez!”.

    What happens when we run out of oil? You bastards are going to go out of business anyways, why not just INVEST IN NUCLEAR ENERGY?

      • havokdj@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I’m not necessarily speaking for a short term solution, but keep in mind that solar is also exhorbitantly expensive compared to how much power it is.

        Solar energy is like crypto-mining if the sun was a shitcoin, an expensive initial investment and long time to ROI. Solar panels are also like glass cannons, a single crack can reduce a panel’s effectiveness by 85%.