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Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory - scientists
A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice have alarmed some scientists who say their speed and timing is unprecedented."I'm not aware of a similar period when all parts of the climate system were in record-breaking or abnormal territory," Thomas Smith, an environmental geographer at London School of Economics, says.
The world experienced its hottest day ever recorded in July, breaking the global average temperature record set in 2016.
Average global temperature topped 17C for the first time, reaching 17.08C on 6 July, according to EU climate monitoring service Copernicus.
Ongoing emissions from burning fossil fuels like oil, coal, and gas are behind the planet's warming trend.
This is exactly what was forecast to happen in a world warmed by more greenhouse gases, says climate scientist Dr Friederike Otto, from Imperial College London. "Humans are 100% behind the upward trend," she says.
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Of course, you could always rely on a 'gut feeling' and see where that gets us...
If things are that bad it's pointless doing anything, let Rome burn, it's going to regardless.
One thing has puzzled me for a while. During Covid we saw the biggest slowdown in manufacturing in modern history, few ships, fewer aeroplanes. Man made emissions must have reduced by a factor of 10 at least. Entire industries shut down.
Why did that make no difference whatsoever, in fact judging by all the doomsday reports, it seems to have made matters worse.
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There was a reduction in emissions but it didn't last long.
Why Didn't Atmospheric CO2 Fall During COVID? — Caltech Magazine
The COVID-19 pandemic decreased air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions within a few weeks. However, while carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 5.4 percent in 2020, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continued to grow.
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There was a reduction in emissions but it didn't last long.
Why Didn't Atmospheric CO2 Fall During COVID? — Caltech Magazine
The COVID-19 pandemic decreased air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions within a few weeks. However, while carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 5.4 percent in 2020, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continued to grow.
That article almost reinforces my point, why bother doing anything?
Look, I'd rather have clean air than dirty air, who wouldn't?, but if a slowdown on the scale of Covid can't reduce the effect, what can?.
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It was too short a time scale, the reduction lasted months, not years.
“This suggests that reducing activity in these industrial and residential sectors is not practical in the short term” as a means of cutting emissions, the study noted. “Reducing these sectors’ emissions permanently will require their transition to low-carbon-emitting technology.”
In that case is he right to be gloomy about our chances to reduce emissions at all? While China and India cough up huge amounts of carbon and the seas continue to warm, shedding more ice into the oceans, then our puny efforts will only make a small dent in the sheer scale of what we hope to achieve. It's worth doing for the sake of clean air and clean water in the UK but in the long run how much of an affect will it have on global emissions as a whole? And if our government does much less in its avowed agenda to tackle GW on the grounds of cost then we may not even achieve a tiny percentage of what should be done.
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Yes. It will need a global response.
And there's the rub: neither will be prepared to do much more as the scramble for economic growth becomes more intense. Perhaps AI can help out in future?
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And still people think that minor changes on that big massive yellow thing doesnt affect this tiny little planet as we spin at 1000mph while travelling through our solar system at 67000mph while our galaxy is travelling through space at 1.3 million mph
The alternative to the other deniers' argument "it's not happening, no need to do anything"
"It is happening, no point in doing anything"
Which one is Tranny using today?
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