doomer

876 readers

43 users here now

What is Doomer? :(

It is a nebulous thing that may include but is not limited to Climate Change posts or Collapse posts.

Include sources when applicable for doomer posts, consider checking out !bloomer@www.hexbear.net once in awhile.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

Infamousblt@hexbear.net

MiraculousMM@hexbear.net

100

2024 was the first year above 1.5C warming (almost 1.6) "We must exit this road to ruin - and we have no time to lose" - UN chief António Guterres (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net to c/doomer@hexbear.net

30 comments fedilink hide all child comments

We have exceeded 1.5c warming.

"I think it's safe to say that both 2023 and 2024 temperatures surprised most climate scientists - we didn't think we'd be seeing a year above 1.5C this early," says Dr Hausfather.

"Since 2023 we've had around 0.2C of extra warming that we can't fully explain, on top of what we had expected from climate change and El Niño," agrees Helge Gößling, a climate physicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany.

.2C of extra warming since 2023.

substantially reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to hold global temperature increase to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change - The Paris Agreement

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Robinson’s interview on revleft really convinced me he did the homework to accurately portray a realistic best-case scenario (note: best case in that he still has massive amounts of hopium that is technically possible).

[–] combat_doomerism@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

wow, didnt know he went on there lol. his solutions were kind of strange, there would be libsiht like "cryptocoin buts its called ecocoin and actually works as a carbon credit somehow!" and then the next chapter was "children of kali are killing like 100 ceos per month with drone swarms and its... working..." honestly i wouldnt even mind it if he would have put in some MLs taking over countries

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s great listen. It’s what got me to read the book. On it he admits the liberalism present is an acknowledgement of his material circumstances and that it wouldn’t be authentic for him wrote more radically because it he can’t mantle the perspective of a person less comfortable. The dude is totally self-aware. His hopium is him writing from a self-acknowledged position privilege because he didn’t want to larp (paraphrasing).

In the interview he talks about how his partner is a scientist and most of solutions are based on conversations with them. It’s been a minute so I’ll leave it at that to avoid misrepresenting.

[–] combat_doomerism@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

that's actually really cool, that level of self awareness is really rare imo. i should say i really enjoyed the book, and if if someone is on the fence about it i would recommend reading it, was more just saying i cant fully endorse the book lol

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Chiming in to second that, just read it. Not endorsing everything, but it’s a net endorse as opposed to a net “ignore this”.

[–] combat_doomerism@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

only other caveat is it's an unorthodox read, i enjoyed it but i remember getting one of my friends to read it and they said it was too dry sometimes