We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized | Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked. Now they need to fall — fast.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 7 months ago

We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized | Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked. Now they need to fall — fast.

Montagge@lemmy.zip · 7 months ago

Only 30 years too late!

silence7@slrpnk.net · 7 months ago

It’s too late to have no identifiable impact, but absolutely not too late to stabilize temperatures — every 1/10 of a degree matters, and it’s better that we do it now than wait until we’ve burned every last bit of coal, oil, and gas.

Montagge@lemmy.zip · 7 months ago

For sure! It’s just frustrating how long this has been a known issue.

zerakith@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago

More of the CO2 currently in the atmosphere has been put there since it was a known issue.

Depressing but a bad situation is better than a terrible one, so we must push on.

MrMakabar@slrpnk.net · 7 months ago

It looks really great. Implemented policies are for nearly stable emissions. Better then growth for sure, but still not even close to enough.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 7 months ago

For sure. Actually winning a civilization-supporting planet is going to be a decades-long fight to get things to where we need to be

sinkingship@mander.xyz · 7 months ago

That’s an article giving hope for sure. I don’t know how realistic it is. Maybe there’ll be an emmissions peak in 2024 while we should half emmissions by 2030.

The difficulty is: even if we’re peaking, we have only a few years to half these emmissions, which means there is no time at all to relax. We need to push even harder.

I’m worried about many countries switching to natural gas and declaring natural gas climate neutral. I believe this could be a big threat.

Sidenote: maybe I’m getting just old, but I did hard concentrate on that article where every other word is bold.