WTF Climate Change News

[Beebo Brink]

Starved of new talent: Young people are steering clear of oil jobs | Grist

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Major UK methane greenhouse gas leak spotted from space

The detection of methane by satellite raises hopes future leaks can be stopped more quickly.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Beebo Brink]

More entirely predictable corruption in the carbon capture scams.

Errors In a Federal Carbon Capture Analysis Are a Warning for Clean Energy Spending, Former Official Says - Inside Climate News

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Only A Supervillain Could Stop Climate Change

We need to destroy this civilization to ‘save’ the climate

indi.ca

 

[Free]

Only A Supervillain Could Stop Climate Change

We need to destroy this civilization to ‘save’ the climate

indi.ca

Musk is going to try and stop climate change?

 

[Soen Eber]

Musk is going to try and stop climate change?

<mutters>Cape. He needs a cape. We can violate the "No Capes!" rule for him. got to get a cape. Gotta git him a cape. He needs a cape Cape. where to find a cape.</mutters>

 

[Free]

Gotta git him a cape.

Starting work on that now...

$ git branch cape_01

 

[Beebo Brink]

Only A Supervillain Could Stop Climate Change

We need to destroy this civilization to ‘save’ the climate

indi.ca

Like any addict, we might need to quit, but we actually don’t want to. Without fossil fuels, I’ve struggled to go anywhere, to cook food, and daily power supply depended on the weather. During our months long collapse, Sri Lanka’s (already meagre) pollution dropped dramatically and people suffered unimaginably. That’s the scale of sacrifice required to even make a dent in the general collapse....

Ay, there's the rub.

A truly effective climate mitigation strategy is enormously disruptive and painful, with huge numbers of casualties. People will not voluntarily dismantle their currently comfortable lives and walk into hell, in order to improve the future for generations of humans that haven't even been born yet.

Instead, many people deny what is happening, or convince themselves that if just enough people drive EVs and recycle trash, then we'll come out of this okay. We won't. We will descend into hell eventually, just not today.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Homes in parts of the U.S. are "essentially uninsurable" due to rising climate change risks - CBS News

Already, 6.8 million properties have been hit by higher insurance rates, canceled policies and lower valuations due to the higher cost of ownership, and an additional 35.6 million homeowners could experience similar issues in the coming years, First Street noted.

"At the end of the day, we've been building in the wrong areas, with the wrong building codes, and we've been suppressing rates and telling people it's OK for decades," Eby said. "And all of that is coming to a head right now because insurance is at the very tipping point of the cost of all of those decisions we've made in the past."

Who Are America’s “Climate Migrants,” and Where Will They Go? | Urban Institute

Climate migrants—people displaced by the far-reaching effects of climate change—already exist in the United States. They include homeowners wading through the process for buyouts of flood-prone homes, families evacuating during climate-exacerbated disasters, and the families moving en masse from places experiencing environmental and economic changes.

Just last year, 16.1 million people globally were displaced because of weather-related disasters. More than 1.2 million of those displaced were Americans.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote link to FT article

 

[Soen Eber]

Is this only affecting hops or is it affecting wheat as well, hopefully enough to ameliorate somewhat the current situation with central European wheat prices causing unrest vis Ukraine?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

‘Imagine Westminster under water’: stricter tests needed to see how City copes with climate disasters

Sam Woods, the boss of the UK’s financial stability watchdog, suggested that the City needed to be put through a more rigorous scenario, having so far only proven that banks and insurers could survive “slow burn” changes over a span of 30 years.

Woods, who runs the Bank’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), said he is waiting for an opportunity to test the City’s resilience against a “very large climate event” that knocks out a major financial hub such as London, Paris or New York, and sends shockwaves through global markets. His watchdog, part of the Bank of England, was set up in the wake of the 2008 banking crisis to police financial stability.

“The one thing that we are going to need to test is what would happen if we had a very large climate event in the UK, or possibly another major financial jurisdiction,” he told the Observer in an exclusive interview. Woods was speaking before the prime minister rolled back a string of net zero commitments, including delaying a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars to 2035.

 

[Beebo Brink]

The path to limiting global warming to 1.5 °C has narrowed, but clean energy growth is keeping it open - News - IEA

The new Roadmap sets out a global pathway to keep the 1.5 °C goal in reach, providing a comprehensive update to the groundbreaking original report that was published in 2021 and has served as an essential benchmark for policy makers, industry, the financial sector and civil society. The 2023 Update incorporates the significant changes to the energy landscape in the past two years, including the post-pandemic economic rebound and the extraordinary growth in some clean energy technologies – but also increased investment in fossil fuels and stubbornly high emissions.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Currently — October 3, 2023: Last week was the most unusually warm week in recorded history

Expect more escalating global warmth as El Niño picks up

www.currentlyhq.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days - BBC News

 

[Beebo Brink]

Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why | Cognoscenti (wbur.org)

 

[Essence Lumin]

Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why | Cognoscenti (wbur.org)

In short, we're fucked and nobody wants to hear that. The only question is how many years do we have?

 

[Beebo Brink]

In short, we're fucked and nobody wants to hear that. The only question is how many years do we have?

Depends on where you live and how well random luck works in your favor.

It's not like the entire human race will drop over a cliff en masse. As has happened throughout the history of our species, each area will experience its own normal disasters (earthquakes, volcanoes, storms, drought, floods, fires), some of which will be greatly exacerbated by climate change. Governments will fall, just as they have done since their invention. Civilizations will collapse, as is their wont. People will die, as they always have, and our numbers will be whittled down from 8 billion, but most likely not to extinction.

When? It's probably a process that will take centuries to play out. Lucky people will be touched but lightly for decades, but if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, it could be lights out tomorrow.

 

[Essence Lumin]

When? It's probably a process that will take centuries to play out. Lucky people will be touched but lightly for decades, but if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, it could be lights out tomorrow.

I highly doubt civilization as we know it will last for centuries. My prediction is by 2100 at the very latest we will no longer be able to produce a cpu which without, the world will be a very different place. I'll certainly be dead by then though.

 

[Beebo Brink]

I highly doubt civilization as we know it will last for centuries. My prediction is by 2100 at the very latest we will no longer be able to produce a cpu which without, the world will be a very different place. I'll certainly be dead by then though.

And that's the rub with trying to predict what happens in the future beyond our lifetimes. As tempting as it may be to say something definite like this, we'll never know. I'll check my crystal ball in 10 years and see how things look then.