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Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday.

In one of the first of several teams of science agencies to calculate how off-the-charts warm 2023 was, the European climate agency Copernicus said the year was 1.48 degrees Celsius (2.66 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times. That’s barely below the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit that the world hoped to stay within in the 2015 Paris climate accord to avoid the most severe effects of warming.

It's funny how using the term 'flirted' can alter the subjective perception of a headline. We're on track to torpedo 1.5 and still accelerating through it and beyond. Getting banged up the ass with no lube is no longer flirting. But yeah, the discussion ought to be whether the poor can afford a new electric car in ten years time, not whether multiple breadbasket failures are imminent.
 
Better from the New York Times here:

See How Hot 2023 Was in Two Charts. Hint: Record Hot.​

Month after month, global temperatures didn’t just break records, they smashed them. This year could be even warmer.

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orchard said:
Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday.

In one of the first of several teams of science agencies to calculate how off-the-charts warm 2023 was, the European climate agency Copernicus said the year was 1.48 degrees Celsius (2.66 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times. That’s barely below the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit that the world hoped to stay within in the 2015 Paris climate accord to avoid the most severe effects of warming.

It's funny how using the term 'flirted' can alter the subjective perception of a headline. We're on track to torpedo 1.5 and still accelerating through it and beyond. Getting banged up the ass with no lube is no longer flirting. But yeah, the discussion ought to be whether the poor can afford a new electric car in ten years time, not whether multiple breadbasket failures are imminent.
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Its utterly depressing to see so many fall for the culture war lines surrounding green policy, asking people to make a binary decision in their head whether we should introduce green legisaltion or starve babies to death.

It becomes even more depressing with the inability to see that climate change will become the biggest driver pretty all the policies they believe we should concentrate on instead.
 
Walken said:
Its utterly depressing to see so many fall for the culture war lines surrounding green policy, asking people to make a binary decision in their head whether we should introduce green legisaltion or starve babies to death.

It becomes even more depressing with the inability to see that climate change will become the biggest driver pretty all the policies they believe we should concentrate on instead.
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Governments and Corpos poisoned the chalice from the start. Although I didn't follow environmental affairs much until recently, it was obvious to me that Paris was a cop out. Finance is never the answer/tool for us when the problem is fundamentally attempting infinite growth in a finite world. Whilst I knew token so-called 'green' policies had been hamstrung frequently, leading to no real change if not more damage (Jevons), I certainly didn't anticipate that these corrupted efforts wouldn't be seen as such, but rather as an excuse that ANY mitigation is pointless.

As an aside, I wonder how many people think that 1.5 or 2 degrees of warming simply translates to a slightly warmer UK and a few inches of sea-level rise.
 
orchard said:
Governments and Corpos poisoned the chalice from the start. Although I didn't follow environmental affairs much until recently, it was obvious to me that Paris was a cop out. Finance is never the answer/tool for us when the problem is fundamentally attempting infinite growth in a finite world. Whilst I knew token so-called 'green' policies had been hamstrung frequently, leading to no real change if not more damage (Jevons), I certainly didn't anticipate that these corrupted efforts wouldn't be seen as such, but rather as an excuse that ANY mitigation is pointless.

As an aside, I wonder how many people think that 1.5 or 2 degrees of warming simply translates to a slightly warmer UK and a few inches of sea-level rise.
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The active amount of misinformation that is purposely put out there by thinktanks and corporations is astounding and sadly effective, as evidenced by more than a few GOT members here who have bought into their claims. Just sad.
 
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