Reversing climate change may cost quadruple after tipping point, warn experts

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-reversing-climate-quadruple-experts.html

by The_Weekend_Baker

11 comments

  1. Doesn’t sound like they factored in the cost of simply coping with the impacts, nor the loss in productivity or cost of loss opportunity on time, talent, and materials

    Never mind the small detail that people who directly study tipping points are frequently reporting uncertainties, and new factors not currently in the models.

  2. This reminds me of a trick question my engineering teacher asked: On a 1-mile race track you have 2 minutes to complete 2 laps. Your first lap averaged 30 mph. How fast does your 2’nd lap have to be to meet your goal? The answer was “Your time’s already up.” Folks are misunderstanding what ‘tipping point’ means.

  3. The irony is the fiscally responsible solution will **always** be prevention, whether it’s healthcare or online security or goddamn climate change. These supposed parties of fiscal responsibility are really just the opposite of that.

  4. There is no technology we have now that can pull billions of tons of carbon out of the atmosphere. There will be no reversal of climate change in the next century. Where this study gets its figures from is a bit of a mystery.

  5. No matter what it’s going to cost everything also everyone is to blame especially me because I know assigning blame is the most important thing so it’s all my fault. Now that that is settled can we get to work.

  6. “I’ll probably be dead by that time so not my problem.”

    Just about every politician.

  7. Evil has all the money and they don’t want any changes to their pampered privileged lives. And don’t believe in global warning. So there is that.

  8. The people who believed that reversing climate change is possible are deluding themselves.

  10. Using the words reversing and climate change in the same sentence is an oxymoron. The time to do that was in the 1950s. We were too busy exploding hydrogen bombs in the atmosphere to worry about greenhouse gasses. We’ve passed one critical tipping point passed another. The A M O C is slowing to a stop. Catastrophic climate changes will finally wake up humanity but…it’s too late, baby.

  11. top climate scientists warn that climate change will wipe out humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years

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