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Worrying Rise in Global CO2 Forecast for 2019 (theguardian.com)
The level of climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is forecast to rise by a near-record amount in 2019, according to the Met Office. From a report: The increase is being fuelled by the continued burning of fossil fuels and the destruction of forests, and will be particularly high in 2019 due to an expected return towards El Nino-like conditions. This natural climate variation causes warm and dry conditions in the tropics, meaning the plant growth that removes CO2 from the air is restricted. Levels of the greenhouse gas have not been as high as today for 3-5m years, when the global temperature was 2-3C warmer and the sea level was 10-20 metres (32 to 64 feet) higher. Climate action must be increased fivefold to limit warming to the 1.5C rise above pre-industrial levels that scientists advise, according to the UN. But the past four years have been the hottest on record and global emissions are rising again after a brief pause.
Could you provide citation for our President being a traitor? Not taking the piss, just trying to understand where you're coming from.
The government is shut down - Has anyone noticed?
We're abandoning our post militarily as a country - Which side of that argument are you progressives on?
Our allies have zero faith in our leadership - Do you have faith in their leaders?
Our President is literally a traitor - Like literally dood.
And you expect these goons to be worried about the atmosphere? - I only expect goons like you to be worried.
I don't even think they breathe the same air as the rest of us in the real world. - We do, we just smell the sweetness of success while you suck in the fumes of outrage and failure.
Fox News needs its own fucking planet, and it will suck. - You are right and it will suck for those not on it.
Hurry Elon and develop you BFD so that you can rocket yourself and these whining progressives(so called) of this planet.
Of course butter. Realy butter, from freshly squeezed cows and salt. Lots of it. In a styrofoam container that keeps the stuff warm and doesn't burn my fingers on the damn hot butter.
Screw the world. I'm old. I don't have kids. And I'm tired of trying to teach people. I tried to inform, I was laughed at, mocked and eventually threatened. What for? It's not like I need this planet more than maybe 30 more years, if that. I'm fairly sure that it's gonna last that long. After that, why should I give a fuck anymore?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I find it funny you only mention Fox news as if the outlets you like are paragons of truth and fact. Meanwhile, we have had wonderfully bad examples of how bad the news and "journalists" are as they do everything to push narrative over fact.
This isn't a defense of Fox news.
Your genes are elsewhere in the world even if you don't reproduce. If you have a sibling then they have about half your genes, and if they have two kids most of those pass along. If you have two siblings then the fraction of you out there is even higher. And one can go back up the ladder, looking at cousins.
So basically you are all out there and statistically at least half your genes are in someone if you have a lot of family.
You are therefore unnecessary as a vessel for the genes to keep going. But if you feel you have an obligation to your genes then you should care about the planet.
In fact the same logic applies to people with kids. Personally they themselves will die. Only their genes go on. So why should anyone care about the planet if you don't??
Not having kids is not any basis for your logic
The headline on the article is misleading. there is nothing more worrying about this year than last year. The rate of emissions is doing whatever it was doing last year (going up, going down, staying the same...). All that changed is a temporary fluctuation in one of the sink tems is low this year. But this is just a normal environmental fluctuation not the driver term.
So yes one should be interested in emission rates and their long term impact but worrying about next year is not something one needs to place any different concern on.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Go stick your head in a plastic bag, and tie it tight.
Enjoy the CO2.
Who writes this shit? I'm tired of it.
People who want to avoid a devastating future where million die due to an eternal famine while millions more flood into nations further from the equator. I think everyone is going to be tired of that very quickly. Vote for people who will do something to avoid this future and you won't have to read about it anymore.
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How is this tech news again?
I understand its an important issue, but tech related it is not.
Slashdot is "news for nerds and things that matter". Climate change matters.
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Oh, not to worry, climate-change deniers, religious types, greedy bastards, and whoever else effectively doesn't give a fuck about what happens to the Earth, it's got it's own failsafe plan to save itself: the die-back of the Human species. You people keep going the way all of you are going, and at some point there won't be enough resources to sustain everyone, and there will be a massive die-back of our species, along with the fall of our civilization -- likely hastened by the wars that you'll fight over what usable land and resources are left. So, eventually, the Earth will survive and recover -- but we'll either not be here to see it, or there'll be only a fraction of us left. I won't be here to see that happen, none of us will, but I almost wish I would be just to see the look on the religious zealots' faces when they realize that Zombie Jesus ain't coming to 'take them home' and that they have to live with the mess they've made of things...
...or, you can all stop being idiots about this and stop fucking everything up, starting now. Your choice.
It's lazy to say that the world and humanity will not end (literally no one is suggesting the world will end, and the worst predictions do not predict humanity will end). It's also lazy to say that reasonable analysis is labelled as far right. The quote you posted can't be debated.
Taken to their logical conclusion, increasing population, increasing CO2 output, increasing pollution, and environmental change suggest that sometime soon things are going to reach a tipping point in the broadest sense, financial, socioeconomic, environmental. This is reasonable analysis that also can not be debated and should not be labelled left or right. Saying "I believe a future technology we have no hint of now is going to emerge soon enough to be able to have enough of an impact on this problem to materially affect the current trajectory" is the ultimate laziness. Renewables/nextgen nuclear seem at best to be able to take a bite out of current output not take a bite out of atmospheric CO2. And keep in mind we need that tech now, not in 50 years. Citation welcome, but please don't cite something lame.
But for me it really comes down to the hard fact that we are borrowing against the future for our present. The morality of what we're doing is incontrovertibly bad. I would not want to be my own grandchild, I would be freakin pissed at how selfish and lazy my grandparent had been. Granted humanity has always done this, but our ability to consume and pollute has grown exponentially.
How do I edit my sig.