assassin_aragornJul 31, 2023

Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says

https://lemmy.world/post/2421583

Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says - Lemmy.world

In short, we aren’t on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions. He makes it clear too that this doesn’t mean things are perfectly fine. The world is becoming and will be more dangerous with respect to climate. We’re going to still have serious problems to deal with. The problems just aren’t insurmountable and extinction level.

Show threadHWK_290Jul 31, 2023

Well by all means, let’s make it seem less serious than it is! That’ll get people moving

Signed, an actual fucking climate scientist

Show threadbob_wileyJul 31, 2023
He’s not wrong. If people think they’re already doomed and mass extinction is just a matter of time, what’s their motivation to change?
Show threadCMLVIJul 31, 2023
The exact same thinking can be applied to the other side though. Guy says it's not an imminent threat, so we don't have to do anything right now. Worry about it next year. Which is arguably what's been happening for a long time now
Show threadLordOfTheChia

We need something like the doomsday clock but with the degrees C change forecast based on current emissions and efforts.

We have this:

climateclock.world

But I think it would be useful to have the current trajectory (in degrees C) along with a table showing the consequences of each 0.5 to 1C

Climate Clock

The Climate Clock melds art, science, technology, and grassroots organizing to get the world to #ActInTime.

Climate Clock
Jul 31, 2023 at 3:11pmWeb
Show threadAA5BAug 1, 2023

The thing is the Doomsday Clock is for something that may happen any time, and in only minutes

The climate crisis is longer term than people seem to grasp. There is no instant fix, nor instant apocalypse: it’s slow moving and long term. I just looked this up to fact check myself: CO2 stays in the atmosphere for 300-1,000 years. That’s right, we already locked in at least 300 years of climate change, and we continue to make it worse.

Even with the anomalous weather we’ve been having around the globe this year, I think people don’t grasp how long term an issue this is, and how that’s the core of the problem. How do we get people who expect next years weather to be different to understand enough of the problem to help?