• the_q@lemmy.world
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    No they don’t. UAE is using it as an opportunity to sell more oil and countries will buy. The whole climate crisis response from governments and corporations is just theater. The average person continues to eat meat, driving giant gas guzzling SUVs and fully supporting idols that use their private jets to go grab a burger whenever they get hungry.

    It’s fine though. We’ll kill the humans off and eventually without us the Earth will recover.

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    Time for negotiations is long gone.

    We need to assemble and take action against fossil fuel infrastructure and corporations.

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    Yes. Because like it or not, they are better than not having any at all. I’ll take a slow crawl to a 2°C increase over a quick one. Maybe we’ll get some people into positions of power who can avert that eventuality in the meantime.

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        My understanding is that is not yet the global annual average, that we surpassed +1.5°C for a single day, though it is very alarming nonetheless. Is that correct?

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          We surpassed +2°C for 2 days, on November 17-18.
          The average of months January to September was at +1.3°C over pre-industrial times, and October was +1.8°C hotter than the pre-industrial averages of October. So we’re on track to reach +1.4-1.5°C over the yearly pre-industrial average for the year 2023. This doesn’t mean that the climate is already at +1.4-1.5°C, yet. 2023 could just be an extreme outlier, worsened by El Nino. But I’m not optimistic.

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            Thanks for the explanation! I’m not optimistic about the trend, either, but I’ll admit that I understand relatively little about it, other than temperature rise bad, will cause more frequent and stronger weather patterns, migrations, and mass extinction events.