2024 On Track To Be Hottest Year on Record as Warming Temporarily Hits 1.5C
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/11/1450240/2024-on-track-to-be-hottest-year-on-record-as-warming-temporarily-hits-15c
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[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2024/nov/11/cop29-live-the-climate-summit-gets-under-way-in-azerbaijan
Thanks Bitcoin! (Score:1, Interesting)
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And in the meantime, the US (Score:5)
And in the meantime, the US has elected as President someone who not only actively disbelieves in climate change, but has explicitly put off-shore wind farms as one of his personal things he dislikes. This is going to go so well.
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Even if you don't believe in climate change, making it harder to install off-shore wind is a big hit for the US economy. The US has a lot of deep water, and the technology is still fairly new so there is an opportunity to be the pioneers. Europe and China are racing ahead with it, but it looks like it will not get much investment in the US since it can't be easily deployed there for at least the next 4 years.
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It will. The sky isn't falling. Your oceans aren't boiling. You will be fine. Go do something useful.
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Well, if you listen to Trump voters getting interviewed in the street, their number one - and apparently only - priorities is the price of eggs at the supermarket. The rest apparently doesn't matter.
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So we're four years away from a runaway third party win for a candidate promising to just switch oil subsidies to eggs and leave everything else mostly as-is?
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No: most Trump voters voted for Trump for different reasons. The cost of living is the biggest reason of all as far as I can tell, but there are other things like punishing immigrants who aren't the cause of their woes, or not voting for a woman, or some other reason.
But Trump voters being Trump voters, whatever their reason for voting Trump supersedes everything else - if they're even aware of anything else. There's no subtlety or nuance in a Trump voter's mind, otherwise they would never vote Trump for re
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Don't worry, I'm sure it will be fine when he puts some petroleum industry shitheel as EPA Director and nominates a Big Oil CEO to be Secretary of the Interior. He's already said that he won't let the environmental lawyer he's had backing him anywhere near oil, instead letting him ruin public health response right as [1]Canada is reporting a human case of bird flu [npr.org]. But that's ok, I'm sure they won't botch this one and kill millions like they did with COVID, especially with all the anti-vaccination sentiment.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2024/11/11/nx-s1-5186467/bird-flu-human-canada
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AGW is totally real, I'm strongly in favor of renewable energy, and we should be developing offshore wind tech.
That being said, I have serious doubts that offshore wind is going to be economically viable anytime soon. Normal civilian electricity generation lives or dies on pennies per kw-h. It has to be CHEAP, or it's probably garbage with no future. And offshore wind looks to be hella-expensive. You gotta build tons of extra infrastructure, compared to terrestrial wind or solar. Ocean water corrodes EV
Facts don't matter [Re:Fuck all you "But it's ...] (Score:4, Insightful)
> This is what happens when science isn't compulsory in schools and facts don't matter to voters.
This is what happens when there are large, organized, and well-funded campaigns to obscure and doubt facts.
The purpose of spreading lies isn't merely to get people to believe lies. It is to get people to disbelieve everything .
The real "Inconvenient Truth" (Score:3)
If we've learned anything from this past election, it's that Gramma and Grampa love cheap gas and eggs more than their children and grandchildren.
Looks like we're starting the long downhill slide to oblivion.
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It may not take as long as you think. While the planet continues to warm, we'll see an acceleration in warming. God forbid if the frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean starts to thaw, then we've likely only got a few more years of habitabilIty left. It's really not looking so good.
Just keep moving north (Score:5, Interesting)
Thats if you are in the northern hemisphere.
Its a bit more of a problem in the Southern Hemisphere. Theres not a lot of land south of 47 degrees
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Does this mean 2024 will be the first year that we have fewer deaths due to freezing exposure than heat exhaustion?
As for the land down under- well there's a huge continent to the south to colonize if you can get global warming to melt all that ice.
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No, unfortunately not.
There was a major article last month about the white paint on the majority of weather stations getting old and darker invalidating the datasets. Total crisis to those attempting real science.
The spec said to repaint them every year but you know how grant programs go.
This site wouldn't publish such a thing so all we can do is provide some therapy for those who are being terrorized by the legacy media.
If you want something to worry about, count down the approach of the galactic sheet an
Move to Antarctica? [Re:Just keep moving north] (Score:2)
> As for the land down under- well there's a huge continent to the south to colonize if you can get global warming to melt all that ice.
If you melt all the ice, it becomes a small continent.
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You mean to the areas were no food grows because the soil is crap? Yeah, great plan!
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Why so angry? Your elderly man won. Have eggs dropped to a dime a dozen yet? Have the blacks stopped getting uppity?
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You glow.
It's just a good thing refugees (Score:2)
Don't cause widespread social and political unrest. If it's one thing I know about people it's when millions of refugees flood over into their borders their perfectly okay with it...
Re:Just keep moving north (Score:4, Funny)
Good job we just elected somebody who'll be tough on CO2 emissions...
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Canadians will line up shoulder to shoulder to defend the world's longest undefended border, btw, can we borrow your wall?
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I live in the North. We can go weeks with temps below 0. Warming a couple of degrees is okay by me.
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And this is the ignorance that causes people to vote against their own interests.
Does 100% of your food also get grown "in the North" or do you maybe think it comes from some latitudes a bit further south?
What do you think might happen with higher temperatures there? Think there might be some drought concerns?
Double-sided coin (Score:2)
It's fine, the droughts will be balanced out by the floods. Just look at how well Nairobi and Valencia are doing...