This means there has been a 12-month period in which average global surface temperature was more than 1.5°C above the 1850 to 1900 average
This means there has been a 12-month period in which average global surface temperature was more than 1.5°C above the 1850 to 1900 average
It’s insane that I’m already thinking of packing away my winter coat. It just hasn’t been cold enough for it for the past week. For reference, I live in the Northern part of the U.S., and can typically expect to see snow in April. This year we’re back to 40s and 50s in February.
I’m seriously worried that one day soon, there won’t even be a winter.
Oh don’t do that, part of the devastation of climate change is more extremes and bigger swings.
If that’s what you’re worried about I’ve got some bad news about the next 10 years lol.
Im educated guessing there will be hundreds of millions of migrating climate refugees in this decade, followed by basically social unrest nearly everywhere, followed by governments becoming more authoritarian and war like, again, basically everywhere.
Don’t forget global food shortage, famine and mass casualty events.
don’t forget governments finally doing the right thing just when cutting off oil will exacerbate the humanitarian crisis without putting a dent in the climate.
Yep. The fundamental problem has actually always been that you cannot support the current number of living human beings at their current standard of living without petrochemical fertilizers.
Theoretically if we had globally embarked on some kind of mass agricultural campaign to entirely restructure the food production and global distribution mechanism starting maybe 30 or 20 years ago, we might have stood a chance.
But that never would have happened anyway. Too many people would have had their livelihoods ruined and/or their standard of living decreased to the point theyd revolt or politically prevent this from happening.
Oh well I guess, good luck with the next few decades everyone, its only going to get worse.
Yep, they all go together and all rapidly escalate and compound upon each other.
No you cannot predict /exactly/ what will happen.
But you can look at any analogous situation of a civilization collapse historically and combine that with a basic knowledge of modern political science and economics and a bit of psychology to understand that shit will get so bad that no government, corporation, ngo, your favorite trillionaire or political ideology will be able to stop the downward spiral.
Most of the mild weather we’re seeing is due to El Niño.
Actually it’s due to the anthropogenic climate change we’ve all been partaking in for the last 200 years.
Good try though.