Climate Change
Feb. 24th, 2025 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithArctic study urges stronger climate action to prevent catastrophic warming
Remember when 2 degrees Celsius of global warming was the doomsday scenario? Well, we're now staring down the barrel of something much worse. From the fish on your plate to the weather outside your window, everything's about to change. A new study underscores the grave risks posed by insufficient national commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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The research underscores that current nationally determined contributions (NDCs) -- the promises made by nations under the Paris Agreement -- will not suffice to achieve the 2°C target, which is the threshold marking a known tipping point beyond which widespread and severe global impacts are expected. Without substantial increases in these commitments, a future characterized by extreme temperatures and profound ecological disruptions appears unavoidable. This also suggests that scientific and policy efforts to understand the future risks of climate change need to now consider what a +3 or +4 degree world means.
People aren't really trying to meet the Paris agreement. So now things are rapidly getting worse. >_<
Remember when 2 degrees Celsius of global warming was the doomsday scenario? Well, we're now staring down the barrel of something much worse. From the fish on your plate to the weather outside your window, everything's about to change. A new study underscores the grave risks posed by insufficient national commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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The research underscores that current nationally determined contributions (NDCs) -- the promises made by nations under the Paris Agreement -- will not suffice to achieve the 2°C target, which is the threshold marking a known tipping point beyond which widespread and severe global impacts are expected. Without substantial increases in these commitments, a future characterized by extreme temperatures and profound ecological disruptions appears unavoidable. This also suggests that scientific and policy efforts to understand the future risks of climate change need to now consider what a +3 or +4 degree world means.
People aren't really trying to meet the Paris agreement. So now things are rapidly getting worse. >_<
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Date: 2025-02-25 05:33 am (UTC)Thoughts
Date: 2025-02-25 06:29 am (UTC)Ah, sounds like more of the permafrost is melting than has been reported. :/
>>After 27 years in newsrooms, I thought I was hardened to ugly news, I worked in Hobart when the Port Arthur Massacre happened. The arctic flip story cost me some serious sleep last night.<<
I do worry about the Arctic, not just its carbon dynamics, but the sea ice. The more navigable the Northwest Passage gets, the worse the political risk gets because people will fight over it. Again.
My main worry is the thermohaline cycle though. It's already wobbling, so I don't think it's going to last a great deal longer, which is a real disaster. Also, the worse the Arctic situation gets, the more it feeds into that, because melting ice is what's most likely to break it.
Ironically, the March 1 Poetry Fishbowl will be on "Yes Actually It IS That Bad" so feel free to prompt for the Arctic or other climate change issues then.