Sonta1d ago
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
How average and extreme summer temperatures are changing in Western Europe. Graph: Robert Rohde.
This will continue until we reach net zero emissions, whether you like it or not: it’s physics.
Jun 24 at 4:51pmWeb
Show threadProf. Stefan Rahmstorf1d ago
As some comments brought this up: https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-will-global-warming-stop-as-soon-as-net-zero-emissions-are-reached/
Explainer: Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions are reached? - Carbon Brief

Warming is likely to more or less stop once net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) is reached, meaning humans have the power to choose their climate future.

Carbon Brief
Show threadNicole Parsons14h ago

@rahmstorf

Bradley was so outraged by the prospect of genuine democracy in America with the advent of the Voting Rights Act, he launched the Bradley Foundation to overturn it.

61 years after his death & millions spent on buying corrupt politicians & judges, he finally succeeded in ending representative democracy in the USA.

Koch Network is similarly outraged by the prospect of a fossil fuel phase-out.

They've spent billions to thwart climate action, and imitating Bradley's tactics

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Show threadNicole Parsons14h ago

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https://theintercept.com/2021/08/07/election-fraud-bradley-impact-fund-donors/

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/conservatives-who-gutted-voting-rights-act-are-now-challenging-one-person-one-vote/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/09/the-big-money-behind-the-big-lie

Charles Koch & his climate-denying team of tax fraudsters are setting up nonprofits to entrap captive oil markets.
https://popular.info/p/charles-kochs-5-billion-tax-loophole

https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/

In 61 years will they also boast about enacting a planetary ecocide?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2023/10/10/exclusive-charles-koch-koch-industries-has-given-more-than-5-billion-of-his-koch-industries-stock-to-two-nonprofits/

Net zero targets aren't going to stop the petrostate despots & oil oligarchs planning to fry the planet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

Secret Donors to Nonprofit Pushing Trump’s “Big Lie” Election Conspiracy Revealed

Bradley Impact Fund, linked to a major hub of election fraud conspiracy theories, lets donors anonymously give to groups pushing to overthrow the election.

The Intercept
Show threadDie Klarnamen Sternburg1d ago
@rahmstorf even if we hit net zero it will continue, won’t it? :-/
Show threadMaryMarasKittenBakery1d ago
@flostern @rahmstorf
For a while, yes. It won't stop the minute we do - but if we do it right, things will start to improve slowly in the rest of the system, which will help.
Think back to the lockdown, even that short period made things better for a while....
But yes, it took time to break it, it will take time to fix it, unless we wait too long, then.... Guess everything is fucked
Show threadCelloMom On Cars1d ago

@MaryMarasKittenBakery @flostern

If we manage to hit zero emissions, warming will stop in a matter of years, not centuries.

Glad I decided to pin this post:
https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/110753086028975608

Show threadHammerwell1d ago
@MaryMarasKittenBakery @flostern @rahmstorf A hundred years up - a hundred years down?
Show threadMaryMarasKittenBakery1d ago
@Hammerwell @flostern @rahmstorf
I am not sure about the timeline since it really depends on how soon we start and how many tipping points we shred till then. We are doing our best to bring that up to a few million years, currently.
It's a complicated system and many different aspects kept it stable for a long time, even though we abused it.
I fear, many of those are already gone and the climate emergency finds a system not healthy, but already struggling.
People don't like to consider this
Show threadAlbert Cardona1d ago

@rahmstorf

Likely until we reach net negative emissions.

Show threadElizenery🔻1d ago
@rahmstorf It will continue until well after that. It's not about emissions per time unit, but total emissions.
Show threadCasdeiro1d ago
@rahmstorf "This will continue until we reach net zero emissions". Well, sorry to point out, but the climate has inertia, so I'm afraid this will continue even long AFTER we reach "net zero" emissions, if that's even possible.
Show threadBetwixt & Between1d ago
@rahmstorf What happens when the AMOC fails? How does that affect Europe, or will that only be a regional effect?
Show threadX-tof1d ago
@blbc @rahmstorf I guess, nobody really knows the future.
But according to most of the studies it won't be a regional topic. While most of Europe will probably cool down a bit (with way more chaotic weather), parts of the rest of the world will heat up, since this AMOC won't transfer all that heat away from there and therefore it stays there.
Show threadAppleWoi1d ago

@rahmstorf

It will continue even beyond we reach net zero emissions.

We will need negative emissions, e.g. storing CO2 in #biochar in 3% of worldwide arable land.

Show threadstarfrosch 🦕1d ago
@rahmstorf I don't believe in physics