Die „Vitalfunktionen“ der Erde sind schlimmer als jemals zuvor in der Geschichte der Menschheit, warnen Wissenschaftler
by secure_caramel
Die „Vitalfunktionen“ der Erde sind schlimmer als jemals zuvor in der Geschichte der Menschheit, warnen Wissenschaftler
by secure_caramel
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I’m sure some dumbass is gonna come to comment “What about 50 million billion years ago!!??? ppffftt in human history!? Big woop! Checkmate scientists!”
TLDR: we’re fucked
Earth’s “vital signs” are worse than at any time in human history, an international team of scientists has warned, meaning life on the planet is in peril.
Their report found that 20 of the 35 planetary vital signs they use to track the climate crisis are at record extremes. As well as greenhouse gas emissions, global temperature and sea level rise, the indicators also include human and livestock population numbers.
Many climate records were broken by enormous margins in 2023, including global air temperature, ocean temperature and Antarctic sea ice extent, the researchers said. The highest monthly surface temperature ever recorded was in July and was probably the hottest the planet has been in 100,000 years.
The scientists also highlighted an extraordinary wildfire season in Canada that produced unprecedented carbon dioxide emissions. These totalled 1bn tonnes of CO2, equivalent to the entire annual output of Japan, the world’s fifth biggest polluter. They said the huge area burned could indicate a tipping point into a new fire regime.
The researchers urged a transition to a global economy that prioritised human wellbeing and cut the overconsumption and excessive emissions of the rich. The top 10% of emitters were responsible for almost 50% of global emissions in 2019, they said.
Dr Christopher Wolf, at Oregon State University (OSU) in the US and a lead author of the report, said: “Without actions that address the root problem of humanity taking more from Earth than it can safely give, we’re on our way to the potential collapse of natural and socioeconomic systems and a world with unbearable heat and shortages of food and freshwater.
By 2100, as many as 3 billion to 6 billion people may find themselves outside Earth’s livable regions, meaning they will be encountering severe heat, limited food availability and elevated mortality rates.”
Prof William Ripple, also at OSU, said: “Life on our planet is clearly under siege. The statistical trends show deeply alarming patterns of climate-related variables and disasters. We also found little progress to report as far as humanity combating climate change.
But Sen. James Inhofe has a snowball, so is it really that bad? /s
First Flames going out, and we don’t have the option to kindle it anymore.
We’re looking at mass starvation, disease, and absurd weather patterns. If we’re lucky, the species will survive, but millions, if not billions, are going to die.
Here’s my thing – this kind of catastrophism just turns me off. As far as I can tell, catastrophism has only been used to try to empower a few people over others, all on the implication that the world is ending unless we give *these* people control over everything so that they can fix it. I searched google trying to identify these 35 vital signs, and I couldn’t find them. What I did find is this same article published word for word by many, many news outlets. Not separate reporting by different authors, this same identical article. Smells like more catastrophism fear-mongering at work, to me.
And I’m not saying we couldn’t be better stewards of the planet. I happen to think that we could and should be. That doesn’t mean there aren’t things that don’t bother me. For example, the eccentricity in the earth’s orbit as nearly at it’s most circular point, and still heading towards less ellipticity as part of its normal eccentricity cycle. During this time, the earth is at its closest to the sun. Then there are a myriad of studies that indicate that solar output has been increasing as part of the sun’s cycles, but confusingly there are other studies that claim that’s not the case. Based on the timelines that I’ve found, it seems like the sun *should* be in a warming phase. The earth’s axial tilt right now is about halfway between extremes, but is in the decreasing part of that cycle, which means warmer winters on average at the very least.
These three factors alone would equate to substantial warming on the planet *before* we ever start talking about what’s going on down here. I’m not saying nothing is going on down here, but I’ve found it suspicious that the catastrophists never bring these three factors up, and in interviews and podcasts I’ve watched will just hand waive these questions away. Maybe I’m skeptical because I grew up being told that New York would need to build sea walls before now, that Florida’s coastline would look radically different from sea rise than it does right now, and I could go on with catastrophic predictions that we learned about in school that haven’t come to pass, but the years predicted have come and gone. My life experience makes me skeptical of precise predictions that seem intended to empower a few people over others.
Maybe that makes me an idiot, but I don’t think so.
but guys it’s okay because we’re buying EVs now
Oh these crazy scientists, always fear mongering because of some bad weather. /s
At this point we don’t need scientists to tell us this. They tried to warn us for decades, now it’s very much obvious they were right all along. And still there are people denying it …
I’m at a point where I kinda feel like I should care but no matter how hard I do my fucking best. A rich person somewhere probably just ordered it’s fourth rolls Royce to carry his Chihuahua to it’s private jet while polishing his diamonds with the tears and blood of a rare deep sea ultra endangered baby fish that’s vital to our ecosystem for some reason and eating turtle and shark fin soup daily to hopefully have stronger erections.
Definitely not above fighting for the survival of this planet.
“Was probably the hottest ever”
100000 years of data and they come up with probably?
My question is and should be everyone’s question…what caused the hottest temperatures before 100000 years ago?
**STOP HAVING CHILDREN**
It’s not fair to them.
Unprecedented climate crisis that we knew has been coming for at least 50 years, global political instability when we even try to mitigate climate a little bit, domestic political chaos as soon as gas prices go up 50% with a very real threat of electing Trump again because of things like this.
We need a technological breakthrough to save us because at this point I don’t see how our species can be trusted to do the right thing here otherwise. We are a country full of summer children who grew up in wealth and comfort no other humans could have imagined and we have no perspective or grit to face the issue honestly.
Don’t worry some politicians will get on their jet and go to conference and if we just all eat bugs and don’t question “the science” it’ll all be fine.
Shhhhhh! You’ll scare my diesel pickup truck, she’s a temperamental lady.
Same story from 22 years ago.
I know what will help. Massive military mobilization across the globe.