The 0.2° increase just between 2011 and 2015 and acceleration of sea level rise from 3.2 mm/yr (pre 1993) to 5 mm/yr from 2015-2019 is really troubling. I don't know you all, but more and more...
The 0.2° increase just between 2011 and 2015 and acceleration of sea level rise from 3.2 mm/yr (pre 1993) to 5 mm/yr from 2015-2019 is really troubling. I don't know you all, but more and more info like this makes me feel increasingly worried that we won't get into action in time to stop 2° or more.
It's going to get worse and worse. If we want any hope of stopping climate change rising above 1.5°C levels, then we'd need to be mandating aviation & maritime shipping switches to hydrogen or...
It's going to get worse and worse. If we want any hope of stopping climate change rising above 1.5°C levels, then we'd need to be mandating aviation & maritime shipping switches to hydrogen or batteries now, banning not just the sale of new combustion vehicles, but also existing ones, prohibiting the use of cement in almost all construction and favoring timber, mandating all new consumer products are made from recycled steel and metals, immediately mothballing all coal, gas, and oil power plants, and drastically planning to level off the world population and plan for a near global 1-2 child policy. This can't happen in 20 years, it'd have to happen now.
Imagine what that would do to the economy if implemented today. Will it happen? Nope. But it's the sad reality of the situation we've created. The alternative is 1cm+ annual sea level rise, mass ocean and land extinctions exceeding even the current rate, drastic climatic changes, famine, climate refugees, and massive social uplift.
The 0.2° increase just between 2011 and 2015 and acceleration of sea level rise from 3.2 mm/yr (pre 1993) to 5 mm/yr from 2015-2019 is really troubling. I don't know you all, but more and more info like this makes me feel increasingly worried that we won't get into action in time to stop 2° or more.
It's going to get worse and worse. If we want any hope of stopping climate change rising above 1.5°C levels, then we'd need to be mandating aviation & maritime shipping switches to hydrogen or batteries now, banning not just the sale of new combustion vehicles, but also existing ones, prohibiting the use of cement in almost all construction and favoring timber, mandating all new consumer products are made from recycled steel and metals, immediately mothballing all coal, gas, and oil power plants, and drastically planning to level off the world population and plan for a near global 1-2 child policy. This can't happen in 20 years, it'd have to happen now.
Imagine what that would do to the economy if implemented today. Will it happen? Nope. But it's the sad reality of the situation we've created. The alternative is 1cm+ annual sea level rise, mass ocean and land extinctions exceeding even the current rate, drastic climatic changes, famine, climate refugees, and massive social uplift.