Im taking this down because its misinfo.
But will I still have to go to work?
AI will solve it, bro. We just need 100 billions to build it more data centers with a couple coal plants each but then it will revolutionize all the jobs. Every single one of them
Just 500 bil and it will improve itself and stuff, do all the science and we can just chill bro can you imagine it? No work, no problems, just 24/7 chilling
We can’t afford to stop bro we’re almost at the singularity. 10 trillion us dollars and it will terraform mars or what you fucking want? Time travel? Sucks your dick and fucks your wife? You don’t want chinese commie bastards getting quantum superintelligence do you bro? Fucking give it here. Your fucking future, give it to me you stupid piece of shit. Trust me bro.
“AI will solve it” Oh absolutely, even dumb LLMs today can solve it, just ask ChatGPT how to solve climate change and it will tell you a reasonable plan right now.
The problem is that people in power have no intentions to implement any of that.
I’m recycling as hard as I can, boss
Extinction is highly unlikely. End of civilization perhaps, but humans are extremely hardy and versatile. You would be hard pressed to kill all humans in all biomes.
So, aside from the conversation at hand. On a long enough time scale human extinction is inevitable. No species lives forever. Either through evolution or extinction someday there will be a last Homo Sapien Sapien. Perhaps they’ll call themselves Homo Sapien Sapien Sapien.
Homo Sapi3n: Sape Harder
Source?
I’m from the future.
Damn goobacks terkin our jerbs!
Humans would have had a hard time breathing in large portions of the time when the earth had land-based animals. So…
The amount of oxygen in the air is hardly changing and would support human life easily after climate change goes bananas. The amount of CO2 that is causing climate change is actually quite tiny even though it doubled or tripled since pre-industrial times. It’s still far less than 0.5% (the safe recommended amount) of the atmosphere. You could triple the current CO2 levels, which would be devastating for the climate, and still breath perfectly fresh air.
I think “perfectly fresh air” is a bit subjective here lmao but I get what you mean
If a feedbackloop occurs where earth becomes a Venus like world… Well all die for sure
Luckily, that is extremely unlikely. Even if we were to burn all the fossil fuels on Earth, we wouldn’t even get close. Venus is 42% closer to the sun and has an atmosphere that is about 97% CO2 (compared to Earth’s 0.4%) and a bit over 90 times denser. Fun fact: the atmospheric pressure on the surface of Venus is the same as 900m underwater on Earth. Shit is soupy AF.
To hit Venus numbers, we’d need a greater than 50% increase in solar luminosity combined with an approximately 2,200,000% increase in atmospheric CO2. That means going from about 3340 gigatonnes of atmospheric CO2 (based on current estimates) to more than 73,000,000 gigatonnes (7.3 × 10¹⁹ tonnes). It’s a staggering increase that is impossible without a massive outside input, like half the earth’s crust splitting open and blasting out CO2.
Even if we were to substitute methane entirety for CO2, being a 28x more potent greenhouse gas, that still requires an additional 2,600,000 gigatonnes (2.6 × 10¹⁸ tonnes) of methane. Earth’s atmosphere in its entirety is only 5 × 10¹⁵ tonnes.
Just a small addition, Earth has a CO2 percentage of about 0.04. We’re not going to be like Venus. But there may still be catastrophic consequences for life as we know it.
That would probably not happen at a human scale. Civilization would collapse and nature would heal.
A feedbackloop might not need humans to keep it going…
That’s hardly comforting. I don’t want 90% of people to die and civilization to collapse. Can’t we just guillotine the rich and explore the galaxy?
I just want fully automated luxury gay space communism :(
Deport this gay commie woke terrorist at once!
But what about the economy??? We need profits now not tomorrow.
Counterpoint: number must go up.
(Highly ironically, seems to include this one as well?)
Won’t anybody think of the shareholders?!?
Yep. We’re probably all going to die
This is why I absolutely will not have children. Not like this.
If we’re all going to die anyway and it gets worse and worse worth every year, we can just as well burn the place down and go down in one glorious moment. Here’s to not having any hope left.
They don’t care. They just want as much money as they can collect during their brief lives.
I really do care, but I don’t have anything more I can do. I can take individual measures, and I can vote, but by and large fellow citizens clearly expressed that they don’t value this.
Current trajectory estimates are more like +2.5C to +3C by 2100 based on existing policy. We’ve actually managed to move the trajectory downward even though we obviously have a lot to go. Every little bit counts. It is far less binary than this overly simplistic tweet is suggesting
That’s global average, but some parts of the world are heating up a lot faster than others.
Yes, we should emphasize that every 0.1 degree counts
We are at over +1.5 if you ignore sliding decade average and multiple factors make +3 by 2050 reasonably likely. We got there because we erred on the side of climate sensitivity due to people like you, who told us disregard the “alarmists” and tnat we have plenty of time to act. Well, it looks like the “alarmists” were right.
If the alarmists are right, we’re completely fucked already. Might as well do nothing and enjoy the benefits of a petro society while it lasts.
This is not what climate scientists are asking for right now.
I like this comment. Because you’re right, I felt doom in the pit of my stomach before seeing it. Thanks for adding nuance.
To get that feeling back, have a go at https://richardcrim.substack.com/ That will add more nuance, and then some.
We’re actually at 2.5 now lol
Uh… lol?
(It’s prob an emotional support lol, not a laugh out loud lol.)
Mmh, I don’t know. Right now, we’re hitting 1.5°C, and depending on whether you ask the mainstream or extreme doomers, our trajectory until 2100 is 2.7…6°C. In essence, I am not sure where 2.5°C is coming from, it’s neither current state nor a prediction.
It’s not a one-number issue at all, one number is just bcs otherwise ppl would not talk about it at all.
Does anyone have any sources for the different thresholds?
https://unclimatesummit.org/comparing-climate-impacts-at-1-5c-2c-3c-and-4c/
This one only goes up to 4°C but it’s better than nothing.
There’s no quick and simple overview though, you’ve gotta scroll down and look for the header for each temperature.
Thank you!
I posted this as a meme, but I do hope someone can give you a source
Since this isn’t clearly a joke, I think you’re effectively just spreading despairing misinformation instead, since you don’t know if this is true information or not.
This is pretty outdated, since I think we’re at 1.5 or even 2.0C now
We”re around 1.5 to 1.6 right now
world looks pretty dangerous, it checks out
