I really don’t think it does.
And…I’d invite you to imagine who else might use that exact image and for what purpose.
I honestly don’t know what your point is.
But you have certainly given me pause.
Without all the hyperbole…
What can we expect?
Continued extreme weather events. Food supplies will be bit restricted at times.
Sea level rise.
Loss of animals due to a lack of forrests.
Increased health problems due to poorer air quality and maybe an uptick in insects carrying diseases.
Migration may need to increase as other poorer countries escape their situations. Probably a similar thing to the immigration in the 50s/60s from the war.
Economic problems coming from migration (there’ll be lack of housing and infrastructure for them) and there’d also be a greater gap between the rich and the poor.
Insurance Premiums will surely go up and there’d probably be certain things committed (like flood cover is now).
Greater conflict between countries over resources (there’s some sensitivity over computer chips).
There’s probably way more.
We’re feeling the effects of these now. So I’m assuming it’ll just get worse over the next 10 years.
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Absolutely, every one of those and many more.
There was a study of a particular beetle in the equatorial region that found that the prolonged warmth that has been occurring there now was sending them sterile. Preliminary stuff atm but ■■■■■■■ hell.
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This is what I meant by many more. We kinda understand the impact that expected warming will deliver. It’s the unknowns, or mostly unknowns, that I’m more concerned about.
Yes, there are bound to be many black swan events. Everything is connected and when we mess with those connections the results can be pretty severe and unexpected.
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Yep. Butterfly effect and all that.
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THIS
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I have spoken about the paper wasp nest in my backyard before, but a few weeks ago we had a pretty severe storm in Sydney and their nest got knocked down. I was delighted to see them rebuilding the next day and they are now buzzing around our Lilli Pillis on a gorgeous autumn day. Nature is amazing!
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In a recent (successful) challenge to Germany’s alleged failure to implement its climate change programs, lawyers were arguing the fine point to distinguish between a political program and a concrete plan.
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I know she puts on a show with the dry German humor, need to get hits to generate income, but Sabina is a physicist and is not afraid to debunk others.
She highlights the issues with the lack of government actions on reducing the impact of climate change. We are currently no where close to where we need to be to align with government targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It’s backed up with data from the usual international climate bodies which shows current state, policy commitments and projections to meet them.
Governments come up with policies and don’t follow through to make those policies translate to reality. They have such a wide view focus on many possible solutions instead of focusing on a few that have a good chance of working.
Her video below clearly shows this from about 1:28 in.
This is the reason why the pic resonates with me. Legislate to only have EV sales post 2035 but without clear plans and actions to achieve everything else that’s required to allow EV’a to be useful in reducing climate change.
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It’s less about policy, although this is a big factor, but more about Governments having failed consistently to stand up to capital interests.
Generally speaking, they’ve tried to thread the needle between making tangible action and preserving fossil fuel profits. We saw what happened to Gillard when she went after the money.
Trying to balance such an equation was never going to do good for the environment, or for people, or the economy, in the medium to long term.
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Yes, It’s clear that evs alone aren’t the solution, but you can’t have a successful transition without evs.
It’s not that hard to see that and not get wrapped up in whataboutism
If we can’t get the policy and execution right for an EV transition form ICE vehicles we have no hope of reducing climate change. From memory ICE vehicles contribute around a 1/3rd of greenhouse gases. There is 2/3rds left to deal with and they will be much harder with no tangible policies let alone plans in place.
I mean things are dire I know, but I think ev’s are a step in the right direction
Im not disagreeing with you. I think you missed my point
Also are the only policies ev policies? Are there no other policies?
Look we are ■■■■■■ but ev transition isn’t the only policy
I’m really not having a go, more responding to the meme you put up
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There are for electricity generation but they are inadequate and way behind where they need to be. Nothing or very little to deal with methane produced from livestock, deforestation, air travel, etc
Yes I agree with you there
People jumped to that conclusion and it’s not a surprise I guess seeing some of the assumptions made.
I think differently. Probably as I’m scientifically trained and have interests in physics and astronomy and I don’t consume the usual social media of twitter and Facebook and the like that many do.