Earth is heating up faster than scientists expected. We’re not past ‘The Point of No Return’ — but we’re close.

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1. The solutions are here but big oil spends millions convincing people that more pipe lines and eliminating emissions caps is the way to go. To many people are convinced we don’t effect the climate and they wont be detoured until it effects them personally. Soon some places will be unlivable for a good portion of the year.

2. This is dumb. The minute you go past the PNR, all effort will cease. It was a bad strategy to use that tactic.

3. Actually, we ARE past the point of no return. Way past. They’re just getting input from the hopeium-smoking camp of climatologists, who mainstream journalists always reference so that these articles can read like there’s still hope. Facts and data show otherwise. We are absolutely doomed.

4. We probably won’t know when we’ve reached the point of no return until we try to reverse course and fail.

   It’s completely possible that we’ve already passed that point, and just don’t realize it yet.

   There are quite a few feedback loops that we’ve been pushing toward their tipping points, further and further every year. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn that even cutting emissions to zero is no longer sufficient without some sort of additional futuristic climate engineering.

5. Truth is climate is going to take a backseat to the A.I arns race. And to anyone saying China is good for building renewables, they are building coal factories just as fast and no ESG standards. It’s going to be LNG + carbon capture, renewables + battery storage, and nuclear going online in the coming decades.

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