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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The hottest day ever recorded.. so far

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

AKA the coolest day in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The coolest day of the rest of your life. (Not quite, but I tried.)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Seems like I read this same headline a few times each year. Soon, rampant heat illness/stroke is going to make the recent pandemic look like a tiny blip when it comes to human mortality data.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Need to stop China. They are making 30+% of the entire world's carbon output and no plans to reduce that for another 7 years.

That's more than the next 6 biggest carbon polluters combined.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Know how to stop China? Stop buying stuff made in China. All we, the west, are doing is outsourcing our carbon pollution to China.

[–] NewNewAccount 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should the rest of the world refuse to do anything until China curbs their emissions?

[–] Cybermass 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's be honest, we are all fucked no matter how much we work towards reducing, it's already too late.

The real question is how hard do we want to fuck ourselves?

[–] baldingpudenda 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not already too late, but it's gonna get worse. Even if we magically went 100% renewable energy right now, we would still have all that carbon in the air.

There was going to be an initial test in Sweden on putting Sulphur dioxide in the stratosphere but public outcry made them call it off. SO2 bounces some sunlight before it gets trapped on earth. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0040609009000169 this would be a temp bandaid to buy sometime, but unless every person on earth started planting trees and making charcoal to dump back into the ground I don't see a good way to sequester at a global scale.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] str82L 3 points 1 year ago

Also Ministry For The Future

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Bro China is one of the greatest contributors to renewable energy 💀

[–] kromem 8 points 1 year ago

This is fine...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago
[–] huquad -1 points 1 year ago

This is all just a natural earth cycle \s

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Global warming is a myth, it won’t amount to a hill of beans. /s