2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit

[gnabgib]

Related from 2 months ago:

State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming (5 points, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085978

This year set to be first to breach 1.5C global warming limit (10 points, no comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42077420

[ksclarke]

Looking at the number of points and comments on each (including this one), I remember something my mom (an elementary school teacher) always said: "You have to repeat something three times before people hear it."

[a5c11]

Does that mean they are going to push Europeans even harder, and do nothing to countries which are the real culprit?

[toomuchtodo]

China is rapidly decarbonizing, India is right behind, it is the US you have to convince to move faster (coal plants are rapidly on their way out, but US consumers prefer ICE pickups over EVs, and LNG exports must be prevented and substitutes found [carbon footprint determined to be substantially higher than coal]). Europeans have, for the most part, done very well considering the carbon profile of everything west of Poland. But they also need to speed up the EV uptake, with domestic EU automakers pleading "it's too hard" while China eats their lunch. Norway shows they way here imho, as they have reached their 2025 deadline of only new EVs being sold. Battery manufacturing is needed, as much as possible, batteries are the future of anything not seasonal storage.

We did not leave the stone age because we ran out of stone, but because we found something better. This applies to renewables, EVs, batteries, etc as well, the problem is mostly solved, it is a matter of making the machine go faster is all. We need enough low carbon energy to replace everything fossil today (account for the orders of magnitude efficiency gains versus thermal generation, so not a 1:1 replacement needed), future energy growth, and energy needed to sequester 100+ years of emitted carbon.

The exponential growth of solar power will change the world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40746617 - June 2024

(the Earth collects enough solar radiation in less than an hour to power humanity for a year)

[pjc50]

The real culprits are at the top of https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe... : gulf oil states, Australia, petrostate Canada, then the ones you'd expect like US and Russia.

[matthewmacleod]

Who is “they”?

[lm28469]

Which countries?

[hn1986]

Won't make a difference if the leaders (Trump) doing even believe in climate change.

[t0bia_s]

Article full of Hume's guillotine, like most articles about climate and weather.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem

[defrost]

Thermodynamics isn't a system of morality.

[nojvek]

What amazes me is that FL is hit the hardest from Hurricanes yet the overwhelming view is that climate change is a haux. The words "climate change" are banned from all official govt docs and communication.

Big gas guzzling cars and utility companies building in more gas generators and hiking prices. Yes there is some solar, but it's <5%.

I doubt much will change in next 4 years. Trump and Republicans are very pro carbon fuels.

[andrewstuart]

I wish the climate deniers who helped get us here had to pay some price.

[t0bia_s]

Sounds like some kind of fascist slogan.

[bamboozled]

Politicians: "WhY ArEn't yOuNg pEoPlE HaViNg kIdS?!"

[spwa4]

I somehow doubt global warming is the problem. Average apartment size, average income, ie. "the economy" is going to provide an answer much more than global warming will.

[SMP-UX]

What, global warming?? Naaaaaillllll!

[Timon3]

For those uninitiated, this is a quote from Dragonball Z: Abridged. It's a fan dub of DBZ until the Cell saga, with incredible amounts of work put into each aspect of the production.

It's a true gem of the internet of the 2010s, and a must-watch for any fan. A bunch of voice actors even started their careers through it!