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Shame it wasn't napalm.
Closer to Agent Orange
But it's impossible to live a life without some compromise to things you're morally opposed to when they are already established and entrenched within that society. It's pretty much impossible to source any affordable footwear or clothing in this country that isn't manufactured and transported without either human or natural resource exploitation - to argue that someone's point is blunted because of that situation is lazy ad-hominem Piers Morgan level reasoning.
It's the same as those who shoot down any protest with the counterpoint that you wouldn't be able to do it in Russia or N.Korea so you shouldn't do it at all.
I'm not a big fan of basic necessities such as heat, water and healthcare being in the hands of private for profit companies but I'm not gonna disconnect all power and tap-water to my home and refuse medical treatment when necessary because of that.
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Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’
Failure to cut carbon emissions means ‘rapid transformation of societies’ is only option to limit impacts, report says
A firefighter sets fire to land in an attempt to prevent wildfires from spreading in Gironde, south-west France. A rise in global temperature of 1C to date has already contributed to climate disasters. Photograph: Thibaud Moritz/AFP/Getty Images
There is “no credible pathway to 1.5C in place”, the UN’s environment agency has said, and the failure to reduce carbon emissions means the only way to limit the worst impacts of the climate crisis is a “rapid transformation of societies”.
The UN environment report analysed the gap between the CO2 cuts pledged by countries and the cuts needed to limit any rise in global temperature to 1.5C, the internationally agreed target. Progress has been “woefully inadequate” it concluded.
Current pledges for action by 2030, if delivered in full, would mean a rise in global heating of about 2.5C and catastrophic extreme weather around the world. A rise of 1C to date has caused climate disasters in countries from Pakistan to Puerto Rico.
If the long-term pledges by countries to hit net zero emissions by 2050 were delivered, global temperature would rise by 1.8C. But the glacial pace of action means meeting even this temperature limit was not credible, the UN report said.
Countries agreed at the Cop26 climate summit a year ago to increase their pledges. But with Cop27 looming, only a couple of dozen have done so and the new pledges would shave just 1% off emissions in 2030. Global emissions must fall by almost 50% by that date to keep the 1.5C target alive.
Inger Andersen, the executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), said: “This report tells us in cold scientific terms what nature has been telling us all year through deadly floods, storms and raging fires: we have to stop filling our atmosphere with greenhouse gases, and stop doing it fast.
“We had our chance to make incremental changes, but that time is over. Only a root-and-branch transformation of our economies and societies can save us from accelerating climate disaster.
grandjoeblue
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Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’
Failure to cut carbon emissions means ‘rapid transformation of societies’ is only option to limit impacts, report says
A firefighter sets fire to land in an attempt to prevent wildfires from spreading in Gironde, south-west France. A rise in global temperature of 1C to date has already contributed to climate disasters. Photograph: Thibaud Moritz/AFP/Getty Images
There is “no credible pathway to 1.5C in place”, the UN’s environment agency has said, and the failure to reduce carbon emissions means the only way to limit the worst impacts of the climate crisis is a “rapid transformation of societies”.
The UN environment report analysed the gap between the CO2 cuts pledged by countries and the cuts needed to limit any rise in global temperature to 1.5C, the internationally agreed target. Progress has been “woefully inadequate” it concluded.
Current pledges for action by 2030, if delivered in full, would mean a rise in global heating of about 2.5C and catastrophic extreme weather around the world. A rise of 1C to date has caused climate disasters in countries from Pakistan to Puerto Rico.
If the long-term pledges by countries to hit net zero emissions by 2050 were delivered, global temperature would rise by 1.8C. But the glacial pace of action means meeting even this temperature limit was not credible, the UN report said.
Countries agreed at the Cop26 climate summit a year ago to increase their pledges. But with Cop27 looming, only a couple of dozen have done so and the new pledges would shave just 1% off emissions in 2030. Global emissions must fall by almost 50% by that date to keep the 1.5C target alive.
Inger Andersen, the executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), said: “This report tells us in cold scientific terms what nature has been telling us all year through deadly floods, storms and raging fires: we have to stop filling our atmosphere with greenhouse gases, and stop doing it fast.
“We had our chance to make incremental changes, but that time is over. Only a root-and-branch transformation of our economies and societies can save us from accelerating climate disaster.
The reality is that nothing will be done. All targets will be missed or changed and they're probably not enough anyway.
The world needs to brace itself for a tough future with a massive increase in extreme weathers.
Thus is fine
orchard
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Well, we can either:
i) Bin this off because one of the meteorologists has synthetic underwear
or if it does happen:
ii) Accept it graciously as God's help vs Russia until we can burn more stuff
Its the end of October, I've put the heating on once since the Summer, that was to dry clothes.
This isn't normal!
This isn't normal!
That's the thing. The weather is absolutely tangibly different to when I was growing up, you don't even need to see the temperature plotted on a graph over 20 years to know that it has changed dramatically
Simon Buttle
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It's unusually warm on the south coast here today, some suggestions it could be fairly warm next week.
Yep - I like a spot of gardening and there are certain plants that traditionally you'd have to lift and either store dormant indoors or keep in a greenhouse over winter. Now there's quite a few of those same plants that will very likely get through the British winter if you just give them a good mulching.
The last couple of winters really have been very mild overall. There definitely doesn't seem to be as many wet days either - I remember weeks on end of mainly rainy weather but now it seems to stay dry for ages then bucket down for a short spell.
They need to throw 'offsetting' as a credible form of environmentalism right in the (recycle) bin. And we're still hugely reliant on single use plastics - recycling plastic is not the way forward. Both just forms of 'green' marketing.
grandjoeblue
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I have no confidence that they'll get anywhere. Something like carbon capturing working (not saying it currently does) is probably the only chance of turning things around. Capitalism won't stop.
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