World Still On Track For Catastrophic 2.6C Temperature Rise, Report Finds (theguardian.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/13/2327240/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds
- Source link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds
> The world is [1]still on track for a catastrophic 2.6C increase in temperature as countries have not made sufficiently strong climate pledges, while emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high, two major reports have found. Despite their promises, governments' new emission-cutting plans submitted for the Cop30 climate talks taking place in Brazil have done little to avert dangerous global heating for the fourth consecutive year, according to the [2]Climate Action Tracker update (PDF).
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> The world is now anticipated to heat up by 2.6C above preindustrial times by the end of the century -- the same temperature rise forecast last year. This level of heating easily breaches the thresholds set out in the Paris climate pact, which every country agreed to, and would set the world spiraling into a catastrophic new era of extreme weather and severe hardships. A separate report found the fossil fuel emissions driving the climate crisis will rise by about 1% this year to hit a record high, but that the rate of rise has more than halved in recent years. The past decade has seen emissions from coal, oil and gas rise by 0.8% a year compared with 2.0% a year during the decade before. The accelerating rollout of renewable energy is now close to supplying the annual rise in the world's demand for energy, but has yet to surpass it. [...]
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> The new analyses also show a worrying weakening of the planet's natural carbon sinks. The scientists said the combined effects of global heating and the felling of trees have turned tropical forests in southeast Asia and large parts of South America from overall CO2 sinks into sources of the climate-heating gas. [...] The report projects that the level of CO2 in the atmosphere will reach 425ppm (parts per million) in 2025, compared with 280ppm in the preindustrial era. It would have been 8ppm lower if the carbon sinks had not been weakened. The GCP projection for 2025 is based on monthly data up to September and has proven accurate in the previous 19 annual reports.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds
[2] https://climateactiontracker.org/documents/1348/CAT_2025-11-13_GlobalUpdate_COP30.pdf
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Seems you have no clue how Science actually works. You know what would happen to climate scientists that did what you claim? Loss of job, in bad cases loss of their PhD. You know why you do not read about that happening? Because these people do not do it. All published and peer-reviewed models say pretty much the same, and hence one being radically different would be immediately obvious ans subjected to intense scrutiny.
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Say what you will about Epstein, he never gave anyone black lung disease.
nothi (Score:1)
Four degrees Fahrenheit is nothing . Florida is hot in the summer anyway, and oil-tankers love ice-free northern oceans. But, as solutions go that's just the tip of the iceberg. We have all those newly minted nuclear power plants to cool our buildings and even construct reverse green-houses for sugar maple & birch. Thank gawd we built 30 6-GWatt units starting in Y2K, because ... oh wait ...
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> the tip of the iceberg
In 100 years nobody will know what this means because icebergs won't exist.
Bill Gates is still flying (Score:2)
The simple reality is we can't stop global warming without putting the burden on some people. Eventually the burden will be put on people in the places that are no longer livable. But that is a long way off and no one is willing to give up any of their benefits to avoid it.
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Bill Gates is still flying because he'll be worm food before the shit starts hitting the fan. At least we'll always have that one emoji to remember him.
A better example would be to look at what younger climate activists are doing. Anybody checked up on that Greta girl lately?
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she's in prison in israel
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Well, if people were at least honest about it. But instead they push lie after lie and that makes things a lot worse. On the plus side, we are learning how incapable humans are, both as individuals and as groups.
Good News... (Score:1)
Everyone!!