[HN Gopher] Yesterday, planet Earth took its first step over the...
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Yesterday, planet Earth took its first step over the 2.0 degrees
Celsius barrier
Author : ljf
Score : 28 points
Date : 2023-11-19 17:08 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| goodSteveramos wrote:
| Not every milestone is a barrier the way the speed of sound is a
| "sound barrier".
| pjmlp wrote:
| The way wars are going, we might as well destroy ourselves before
| it becomes critical.
| sillywalk wrote:
| That would be devastating to my retirement stock portfolio, if
| I could afford to have one.
| hyperman1 wrote:
| The last few days, my region (De westhoek in Flanders, Belgium)
| had serious troubles with flooding. A politician on the news
| complained how she took measures, but climate change came faster
| than expected.
|
| This level of idiocy creeped me out. Climate change has been
| known since the 1970's. Everybody with half a braincell knows the
| IPCC reports are underestimating things badly, even if they were
| correct we were going in for a rough ride, political investments
| are below what these reports require from us, and the small
| amount of money spent is badly mismanaged.
|
| I can't blame her alone personally. She's a child of her
| political generation. But that generation has only seen good
| times and is completely incapable of doing anything in a crisis.
| They'll keep going trough the same old motions, and feel very
| sorry for us when disaster inevitably strikes.
|
| Unfortunately, the average voter agrees with her. 'Eco realism'
| is the preferred course, and even the Belgian green parties care
| more about integration than climate.
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