Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates

With USA going full climate denial in next 4 yrs and SCOTUS packed with O&G friendly judges. It’s going to get worsw

Yep, our grandchildren will have to pay a very dear price to clean up our mess of Glory days.

On the bright side for a brief moment in time we created lots of shareholder value.

I don't think cleaning up is an option once you get a runaway atmospheric hot-house. Human population will fall due to global disasters and food-chain collapse, then wars, then the party is pretty much over.

Aka the big grift

What has the US administration done in the past 4 years to make a significant impact on the global warming issue?

Even if USA reversed 180 degrees, the rest of the world is going to continue fossil fuel usage.

Developing nations will continue to increase individual CO2 usage as their economies improve.

People want to live a modern western lifestyle, and that requires more energy.

Realistically the world is going to generate far more energy, not reduce energy usage/production.

Moving to solar and nuclear is the only likely solution that will result in reduced CO2 volume.

Although the dear price is away off, The bill is starting come due today; see news stories about fires and hurricanes.

I know you can't be serious, but are you also trying to imply that the incoming administration, staffed from top to bottom with oil industry insiders, won't affect our trajectory?

It's funny seeing people groan and moan about climate change on HN when the average neolib here most likely voted Trump lmao, especially based on the comments in the winner announcement thread. You are preaching to people who wouldn't blink twice to burn an actual mountain of coal if it got them YC funding or a 1% reduction on their tax bill.

I think it was a serious question that was relevant to the conversation.

* Inflation Reduction Act (IRA): largest federal investment in climate action to date, allocating over $391 billion to reduce carbon emissions.

* Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: investments in public transit and infrastructure, promoting sustainable transportation and reducing emissions.

* Methane Emissions Reduction: EPA introduced regulations to curb methane emissions from the oil and gas industry

* Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) Phase-Down: EPA issued a final rule to reduce HFC production and consumption by 85% over 15 years

* Rejoining the Paris Agreement

* Climate Finance Pledge: the administration pledged to increase international climate finance to over $11 billion annually by 2024

* National Climate Task Force: established to coordinate a whole-of-government approach to tackling the climate crisis, aiming for net-zero emissions by 2050.

$391B over ten years. The total sum of this effort is less than 2% of our GDP. UNCTAD says it'll take 18% of 48 countries GDP (distributed appropriately).

Florida - that's where Trump is staffing many folks in his cabinet. They banned the words "climate change" and "global warming" from being mentioned in any official document.

Florida - also where there are $100B+ disasters every year.

America is now the Florida of the world!