Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?
Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?
The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heating
How bad is it going to get before we fucking stop burning fossil fuels?
Honestly, we don't even need to anymore, the only thing preventing it is cost, and any price is worth paying if we're all going to be living in a furnace in a couple of decades
The only thing preventing it is a few greedy, sick little men with a lot of power. We are destroying life on our planet for their gain, though they already have many, many times more wealth than anyone could ever need or enjoy.
And their sycophants who will carry their lies to the next generation. It's not just those that are directly responsible but also the willfully ignorant that are complicit.
we don't even need to anymore
Sorry man, that's just naive. I don't think you have any idea how dependent we are, the scale of change required.
For example, how are we to farm? Know any plants cranking out battery powered farm equipment? Know any farmers that could afford such gear?
I'm not saying we can't do more, but we're inventing and deploying green energy solutions at an astonishing rate.
Government funding can answer all those questions if the will is there. The free market will not fix climate change without heavy intervention.
As per your example, there is nothing physically preventing a battery powered tractor or combine. A government could put out subsidies for manufacturers building these vehicles, the government could then subsidise farmers buying them, and perhaps remove existing subsidy on farmers refusing to decommission their older equipment.
The literal only things where there's not a money related solution to today is long range air travel, and some very specific industrial processes that require specific plastic polymers. Literally everything else has an alternative that can be either used immediately or built relatively quickly, if we decide to spend the money.
And not just burning them for power/transport - a lot of this is coming from forest fires.
Which are frequently burnt just for cheap beef.
A lot of people are going to die or be displaced before anyone does anything and when they finally do something about it I fear their solution won't be accepting migrants unconditionally and trasferring all our labor into providing human necessities.
Preliminary study from one location, extrapolated globally using an AI driven data model
In 2023, the CO2 growth rate was 3.37 ± 0.11 ppm at Mauna Loa,
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.12447
Again this is very concerning and something climate scientists did not plan for however, it is a preliminary study based on an AI model.
Of course human driven climate change is the main cause of the mass extinction in the current Holocene. Any unhandled variables in our research and prediction models must be taken seriously. I'm curious to see if this work will be corroborated from other data elsewhere in the globe, especially from McMurdo station and the CRU in Iceland.
We could have avoided all of this had we just started to engage in a steady, slow program of finding +3% per year energy savings or carbon free power starting in 1993...
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