It’s too late to save Britain from overheating, says UN climate chief
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/10/06/too-late-save-britain-overheating-climate-chief-jim-skea/Open linkView original on futurology.todayhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/10/06/too-late-save-britain-overheating-climate-chief-jim-skea/Open linkView original on futurology.today
Not a huge fan of this headline. While it's true that we're locked in for a certain amount of warming, phrasing it as "it's too late" kind of implies "why bother", which is not a healthy attitude towards climate change.
Neither is we/they/AI/God will figure it out. I don't read the headline that way though, it's more a factual "there will be overheating, so get ready", which is totally appropriate.
telegraph is a firmly right wing rag posing as a legit news source
The check engine light pops up on your car. You are busy with life and commuting and so you bring it in a few weeks/ months after it came on. You finally get around to bring it into the mechanic.
The mechanic tells you its too late to fix the thing. You fucked up by driving around with the check engine light on and its now beyond repair.
Its not the mechanics fault you lack the emotional maturity for bad news.
Mechanic analogy doesn't really apply to climate change. You'd have make the car drive forever, become increasingly costly, eat your food and kill people while the mechanic will be able to repair it if you bring it in everyday for a long time. Bringing it to the mechanic would then also slow the deterioration and slowly make it better instead of it just getting worse.
It's a bit late for getting 1800's climate back within our lifetime but it's not to late to prevent it from getting worse.
I think what you meant is saying "your engine oil is on, it's too late to take the car to the garage" is an unhealthy attitude towards car maintenance.
Except nobody here has said that and the article isn't either. All it says is the temperature WILL rise we are already at that point.
It's just a bunch of people in the comments arguing with nobody about things being to late
The IPCC has always been thought of as being conservative in its estimates of climate change, so to hear Jim Skea, the Chair of the IPCC, say it’s too late is sobering
As long as his declaration isn’t a sudden prompt for all UK industry to say “fuck it” to any green initiatives.
Do not give up! Fight.
Well said!
This report makes for sobering reading, but it's never too late to stop fighting for a better tomorrow:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-never-too-late-to-take-climate-action/#:~:text=Scientists%20warn%20that%20we%20are,the%20planet%20past%20these%20limits
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/06/too-late-climate-crisis-myth/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240206-hannah-ritchie-sustainability-data-spreads-hope-not-doomism
Remember, hope and optimism are important motivators:
https://www.positive.news/society/media/positive-news-stories-bring-people-together-study-finds/
https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/dissertations/rn3012085
and pessimism isn't useful:
So try not to let bad news like this get you down or facilitate a spiral into Doomerism:
And try to limit the bad news you ingest, as it can be bad for your metal health:
And be mindful of the media's propensity to favour bad news over good:
Finally, remember to take time to remind yourself about everything going right in the world
Things are tough out there, so try and remain positive friends!
Fight who?
Fight to reduce carbon emissions. Keep taking action.
Also abusive corporations, sociopath billionaires, and corrupt politician that enable both
The weatherman!
Time for Doggerland to return..oh more flooding you say
I thought global warming was going to disrupt the gulf stream and make the UK colder?
It's going to overheat first, just long enough for the folks there to spend billions of £ installing air conditioners, and then it's going to be plunged into a localized ice age.
So you're saying that for a brief moment in time climate change will create a lot of value for shareholders?
ಠ_ಠ Listen here you little shit.
::: spoiler serious answer
Only for "big HVAC." For everybody else, it's just a broken-window fallacy with no upside at all. :::
So frost punk timeline 2 centuries late
That hasn't happened yet and we don't know for sure if/when it will
It seems to me that the newer the research is the sooner the estimates seem to be getting, so my money is on a collapse before 2050 and I wouldn't be surprised at all if it happens within a decade.
If thebgulfndtreamnsroos, Britain will need those 3 degrees... 4D Chess folks!
All hail and farewell to Britain.