Actually, I think it’s more like the lung cancer patient who adamantly refuses to quit smoking because he’s only in stage 1 or 2.

You need to do a presser

Wealthy humans will adapt. The others … maybe not so much.

No, we’re choking on a possible 3C of warming by the time our kids get old. That’s almost 6F. That’s going to be very ugly.

Lots of ways… here’s a jarring example. There are 10m motorboats averaging something like 2mpg in the US. Assuming just 100 hours of use/yr at 25kn. is 1250 gallons or 10 tons of Co2. Motorboats are pushing up the average for everyone.

He gave a great talk on the history of energy, at the end of which he shared his concerns about climate change. But zero mention of ideas to prevent further warming, except to say that he’s against mandates. Then again, his company provides 15% of the fracked gas in America today, so there’s that.

Still flying his private jet? He does good work, but he needs to walk his talk too.

You misunderstood. I’m actually concerned that civilization may come crumbling down prior to 2.0c, let alone 3.1c. But I would love to see studies suggesting otherwise — I have a kid and would like to retain a modicum of hope for him.

Agree - it sure feels like it, but is there any research on what temperature increase would truly do us in? Could billions of us survive at 3.1 degrees? Insane question but here we are.

That looks bad, but it depends on the average thickness of the ice. How thick is it?

Need full lifecycle data. Can’t judge anything without it.

They would be much more credible if they didn’t stand to earn billions of dollars from it.

Every time a home collapses, a pile of electronic, chemical and construction debris is released into the ocean. Is anyone actually responsible for the waste stream? Shouldn’t communities be held responsible and forced to prevent home destruction in the first place?

I’m not a researcher, but when I worked at Friends of the Earth, we sued epa over localized impacts of lead from small aircraft aviation fuels around airports. EPA is now forced to regulate small aircraft fuel/lead admissions. It seems pretty likely that PAHs and other contaminants are localized too

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Well, during his divorce proceedings, he said that a worm ate part of his brain, so there’s that.