"'It's now or never': World's top climate scientists issue ultimatum on critical temperature limit"

[Kaleva]

"The highly anticipated report, delayed slightly due to last-minute disputes over the exact wording of the document, says curbing global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels would require greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 at the latest.

At the same time, methane, a potent greenhouse gas, would also need to be reduced by roughly one-third.

The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said it is “almost inevitable” that humanity will briefly surpass the critical temperature threshold of 1.5 degrees in this scenario, but it could return below this level by the end of the century.

“It’s now or never, if we want to limit global warming to 1.5°C,” IPCC Working Group III co-chair Jim Skea said in a statement accompanying the report. “Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, it will be impossible.”"

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/04/ipcc-report-climate-scientists-issue-ultimatum-on-1point5-degrees-goal.html

[Takket]

1. Wow that sounds bad, but did you see Smith slap Rock!!!! OMG!!!!

[Kaleva]

3. It wasn't that long ago when I thought I'd be dead of very old age before the shit got real

Now, the way it's accelerating, I may be around for a couple of decades.

[HAB911]

2. Geeze, first the scientists, then the military, and now the Rays

might be true!

ST. PETERSBURG — Since the Tampa Bay Rays began their search for a site to build a new stadium more than a decade ago, sea level rise has changed where they can look, team president Brian Auld said Tuesday.

“Sites that once appeared to be great places to build a ballpark are now expected to be underwater,” Auld said during a panel announcing a new report on climate change from the Tampa Bay Partnership.

Auld is chairperson of the Tampa Bay Partnership’s Resilience Task Force. The group is made up of business leaders from across the region.

Speaking after his panel appearance, Auld declined to say which sites the team might have once considered, but no longer will.

https://www.tampabay.com/sports/rays/2022/04/05/climate-change-to-rule-rays-out-of-st-pete-waterfront-stadium/

[Johnny2X2X]

10. Florida is going to be the hardest hit

The entire state is flat and barely above sea level. The entire southern tip is going to be gone by the end of the century. The Keys will be totally under water. The Gulf side coast is going to move inwards by 5-30 miles almost all along the western coast of Florida. You're talking about millions of people displaced in Florida alone, hundreds of thousands of houses gone, maybe a million homes gone.

[Javaman]

11. good thing because, you know, when the world truly goes to shit...

we'll still have football

[PA Democrat]

4. Really exposes the "Drill, baby, drill" enthusiasts for the short-sighted idiots that they are

and fossil fuel industry for the malignant cancer that they are. And yet we still see so many corrupt politicians so eager and willing to push the industry's agenda of profits over humanity.

[Kaleva]

12. There's also the antinuclear people

[Silent3]

5. If it's now or never, the world is going to pick "never". n/t

[Kaleva]

6. While I'm hoping for the best, I'm preparing for "never".

[Elessar Zappa]

7. Yes, it best we prepare and adapt.

[themaguffin]

8. jfc, "now or never" will NOT convert people. It just won't. Here's what the response will be

"They said in ten years X would happen"

"Al Gore said X would happen by now"

etc

etc.

[maxsolomon]

15. Nothing will convert people. Humans are short-sighted Apes.

It was always Never. It will never be Now.

[Javaman]

9. keep an eye on the Thwaite and Pine glaciers.

the ice shelves that are holding them back are rapidly melting and cracking up.

once they go, then all bets are off. the oceans will rise anywhere between 3 and 10 feet globally.

right now they are predicted to break up within 5 years time.

[Calculating]

13. Ok

We'll get right to dealing with it after we deal with the madman trying to start ww3, COVID, and a whole lot of other issues.

[Kaleva]

14. Climate change could well take care of those