Financial Times: "The goal of limiting warming to 1.5C looks increasingly out of reach, study finds. Earth set to exhaust ‘carbon budget’ within 3 years as Paris hopes fade.

InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net · edit-2 25 days ago

Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net · edit-2 25 days ago

You mean setting a target with no punishment to countries that don’t enforce it so you just move it forward every ten years wasn’t working?

InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 25 days ago

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

- Henny Youngman

KuroXppi [they/them]@hexbear.net · 25 days ago

Iran has a moral obligation to bomb the ME oilfields

iByteABit [comrade/them]@hexbear.net · 25 days ago

hotspur [he/him]@hexbear.net · 21 days ago

This paper seems to strongly point to +3C by 2050, so yeah, we’re almost certainly going to miss 1.5.