Interesting & exciting climate news; humanity has averted apocalyptic levels of global warming, the Trump administration will be but a bump in the road of the growth of renewables – & much more!

https://climatehopium.substack.com/p/interesting-and-exciting-climate

by agreatbecoming

14 comments

  1. All this growth in renewables, yet atmospheric GHG levels keep increasing at what looks like an accelerating rate.

  4. Renewables decrease the marginal cost of fossil fuels while increasing the marginal utility of fossil fuels.

  8. It’s a nice article. I’m all for hope, but not sure I’m as optimistic. The physics are catching up to us. I have yet to see one decent response to the overshoot and collapse phenomenon, so very well articulated in Limits to Growth (and its more recent editions and follow-ups). I believe we can buy more time… But we’re currently buying it with more and more debt–borrowed energy from all of the millions and billions of living species that died since the beginning of earth’s time, storing the sun’s energy in carbon reserves and buried and pressurized into fossil fuels over millenia. And we’ve gone and released all that energy in the spec of time since the industrial revolution.

    Unless we find a money tree (eg, fusion), that debt is going to collect. And even if we do find that money tree, we need to plant enough of them and grow them fast enough before that debt comes due. All the renewables we’re deploying is great, but it’s paid for with carbon production today, and it’s payoff takes time that we don’t have.

    Hope is all that’s left! It’s all any of us really need to keep going anyway.

  9. >A newsletter focused on stories of hope in the global fight against climate chaos. While there is much to be angry, sad and disappointed about, here we’ll focus on the good news – the hope! We aim to use hope to power action!

    Oh, OK. I guess I don’t have to do anything then, thanks! Business As Usual can go on!

    edit:

    >Say it with me now; The Trump administration will be a bump in the road on the global growth of renewables.

    !RemindMe 4 years

  10. Last year was the first year to cross the 1.5C goalpost. Thus far, January 2025 is 1.74C above the pre-industrial average despite that we’re now in a La Nina. Warming is clearly accelerating. We are still heading for over 3 degrees warming by 2100. Growth is renewables can’t keep pace with the increase in electricity demand so they’re supplementing rather than replacing fossil fuel powered energy.

    This is pure cope and not helpful to the movement at all. Pure delusion.

  11. As long as this isn’t a propaganda piece intended to make people stop worrying about climate change. I would like to see more sources making this claim.

  13. To confidently say “we have averted apocalyptic warming” is a truly insane conclusion to hang on the popularity of renewables.

    At least the blog is named correctly, and while I think this is a few too many steps ahead of the progress, it is still good to read SOMETHING which isn’t terrible.

  14. Whew. All is GREAT! Disaster averted. Species extinction: reversed. Ocean acidification: neutralized. Coral reefs: coming back with a vengeance. Deforestation: halted. Plastic pollution: eliminated. PFAS/Microplastics: gone. Topsoil loss: we’re good now. Global heating: Don’t look up. Wealth inequality: that’s only a concern for 99.9% of humanity. Militarism / nationalism: we now all love each other and no more spending $ gazillions on weapons systems. Maybe we can continue business as usual for another few years, maybe a decade before humanity is forced into a hard landing necessitating a new, more respectful relationship with the natural world.

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