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‘I’ve never seen heat this bad. It’s not normal’: Italy struggles as temperature tops 40C 118f (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] SirYeet@lemmy.world 65 points 11 months ago

Captain Planet tried to tell us

[-] o0joshua0o@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

So did Al Gore.

[-] RandomlyAssigned@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

He's a hero

[-] lapommedeterre@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

If only we took pollution down to zero...

[-] entropicdrift 1 points 11 months ago

At this point it'd make things worse due to what climate researchers call the Faustian Bargain

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Bjørn Samset of the University of Oslo and his colleagues used four climate models, which cover a range of climate sensitivities, to see what would happen to the global average temperature if the short-lived greenhouse gases (methane, nitrous oxide etc) were kept at their current level, but CO2 emissions ceased once they have reached a level of 420 parts per million (ppm). (This is 15 ppm above the current level of 405 ppm, or just another five years of emissions at the current rate.)

The result was average warming of 1.35°C over the four models, above a late 19th century baseline. (It has been demonstrated that global average temperatures increase while CO2 is increasing, and then remain approximately constant until the end of the millennium despite zero further emissions.)

You know, when I was a kid, I kind of had this thought that maybe nobody was doing anything because there was nothing to be done. I was wrong on that, and it would still be unequivocally better the sooner we do this. But I wasn't entirely wrong, and here we are. If we stopped yesterday, this shit would last into the next millennium!?

If nothing else, at least it made me very conscious of enjoying everything I had.

[-] lapommedeterre@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ahh, I see. Interesting read/study. I wouldn't say they call it the Faustian bargain, but an example of a Faustian bargain. I suppose they could call it the Faustian bargain of GHG reduction, so that it doesn't usurp the term entirely, haha.

(Also I was referencing lyrics from the captain planet theme :P)

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