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

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399 points gmays | 2 comments | 17 Nov 24 18:49 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pstrateman ◴[17 Nov 24 19:52 UTC] No.42166593[source]▶
The simple reality is that humanity is unable to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without an alternative that is superior.

For every ton of CO2 that the west has reduced in the past decade China has produced three tons of CO2.[1]

We need another breakthrough on the scale of the Haber process.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?country=OWID_WRL~Hi...

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benchmarkist ◴[17 Nov 24 19:58 UTC] No.42166639[source]▶
Technology is not going to get us out of this mess.
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1. xbmcuser ◴[17 Nov 24 20:31 UTC] No.42166950[source]▶
I was of the same opinion till last year actually still am as I think the world has passed the point of no return when it comes to global warming.

But the tech is there just not the political will or finances as it hurts economies and people's chances of winning elections.

China is likely to hit it's peak oil because of ev's and peak coal in the next 2-3 years because of renewables and batteries. Although China is mostly going electric for economic and energy security reasons it will be interesting to see what happens when it is no longer using carbon based energy for it's growth.

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2. benchmarkist ◴[17 Nov 24 21:58 UTC] No.42167686[source]▶
Money is fake so we can print as much of it as we want. The problem is that innovation can't be bought with money. Newton did not invent calculus because he wanted to get rich, he invented calculus to understand the universe. Money is not the issue.