According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 if it is to avoid warming to the point that irreversible and catastrophic climate change effects, such as glacier collapse, are virtually guaranteed.
We as a planet of nations are nowhere near goals to this point and will fail
Yes, no doubt "WE" fail because "WE" are not united or have a feasible way out. And I capitalize we because the United States and Europeon countries turn a blind eye towards the planets biggest contributor, China and think they alone can make it happen while they gave China a pass until 2030, oh look, 2030 is when its too late. And "we as a planet" would include everybody.
What I find so two-face is California banning the sale of gas powered leaf blowers, lawnmowers, chainsaws, etc and then two California Universities join the Big10 because of 
creating thousands of hours of needless air travel. The mindset is not there, just political show. In the end we continue down the same path. Anybody planting trees in and around major cities??? NAH. How about wind turbines in and around major cities??
Just one glance at Europe and you see it. This winter they will be increasing their CO2 output. And don't be blaming Putin, he massed his troops for months on end trying to be heard. That could have been at least negotiated to avoid war, not even tried. Then there is the gas pipeline sabotaged that released tons of methane, so stupid.
I am all for reducing our "footprint" on the earth. Do I think we're doomed if we don't, no. All for better insulation of homes and buildings. And new technology. Did you see Porche has a plant that takes carbon from the air and hydrogen from water to make methane fuel? Costly now, but could be feasible as technology advances.
Everybody wants it to happen overnight. Not gonna happen.
Obviously.
Obviously.
2023 climate change performance index compares 63 countries in greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, energy use and climate policy. Top 5 countries include Denmark 4, Sweden 5, Chile 6, Morocco 7 and India 8. Near the bottom are Japan 50, China 51, US 52, Australia 55, Canada 58, Russia 59, Saudi Arabia 62 and Iran 63.
These "performance indexes" are so misleading. India per person is very low because of their over population and abundance of poor. India has been on a steady increase year by year. They are building 28 coal power plants. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/cop26-aims-banish-coal-asia-is-building-hundreds-power-plants-burn-it-2021-10-29/
The United States has been on a steady decrease.
Strong manufacturing countries are the worse. So let's stop manufacturing anything and live in mud homes, problem solved.
Top 5 countries include
Denmark 4,
Sweden 5,
Chile 6,
Morocco 7
and India 8.
Near the bottom are:
Japan 50,
China 51,
US 52,
Australia 55,
Canada 58,
Russia 59,
Saudi Arabia 62
and Iran 63.
Near the bottom. Have work to do.
But if China and Russia can get away with polluting our planet then we should also add to the problem, right?!
Climate change deniers and fossil fuel industry lobbyists create excuses to delay or stop climate action. However CBS news/YouGov poll reveals vast majority of Americans want government to fight climate change. On a positive note, United nations report that ozone is making significant recovery after chemical bans in many countries years ago. This shows there may still be hope for human race in the future although global warming is a harder problem to solve.
Climate change deniers and fossil fuel industry lobbyists create excuses to delay or stop climate action. However CBS news/YouGov poll reveals vast majority of Americans want government to fight climate change.
Then the majority of Americans are thinking wisely on this.
Then the majority of Americans are thinking wisely on this.
Last eight years were hottest on record: research
THE HILL -
The last eight years were the warmest eight years ever recorded according to research from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
As of 2022, the globe was some 1.2 degrees Celsius hotter than the pre-industrial era.
Copernicus researchers also found that in spite of international efforts and commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere grew in the last year. Concentrations of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas, increased by about 2.1 parts per million, while methane increased by 12 parts per billion.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/runaway-w-antarctic-ice-sheet-145116099.html
The runaway collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet -- which would trigger catastrophic sea level rise -- is not "inevitable", scientists said Monday following research that tracked the region's recent response to climate change.
That means that ice-sheet collapse is not inevitable," said co-author Professor Eric Steig from the University of Washington in Seattle.
Anders Levermann, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research who was not connected to the latest study, welcomed the approach of bringing together multiple observations and records, although the study period was "the blink of an eye in ice terms".
Now why do I think this would have never been published with Trump as president.
Latest research shows glaciers are disappearing more quickly than scientists estimated earlier. In the past, climate scientists tend to be too cautious to avoid appearing as alarmists. Now 95% of oldest and thickest ice in Arctic is already gone. In Science magazine article, half of world's glaciers are expected to disappear with 1.5C of global warming by the end of this century.
Credits: Hawaii Sea Grant King Tides Project
In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by climate change.
High-tide floods – also called nuisance floods or sunny day floods – are already a familiar problem in many cities on the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported a total of more than 600 such floods in 2019. Starting in the mid-2030s, however, the alignment of rising sea levels with a lunar cycle will cause coastal cities all around the U.S. to begin a decade of dramatic increases in flood numbers, according to the first study that takes into account all known oceanic and astronomical causes for floods.
Led by the members of the NASA Sea Level Change Science Team from the University of Hawaii, the new study shows that high tides will exceed known flooding thresholds around the country source
NASA https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/study-projects-a-surge-in-coastal-flooding-starting-in-2030s
at risk and suffering due to the increased flooding, and it will only get worse,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “The combination of the Moon’s gravitational pull, rising sea levels, and climate change will continue to exacerbate coastal flooding on our coastlines and across the world. NASA’s Sea Level Change Team is providing crucial information so that we can plan, protect, and prevent damage to the environment and people’s livelihoods affected by flooding.”
“It’s the accumulated effect over time that will have an impact,” said Phil Thompson, an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii and the lead author of the new study, published this month in Nature Climate Change. Thompson pointed out that because high-tide floods involve a small amount of water compared to hurricane storm surges, there’s a tendency to view them as a less significant problem overall. “But if it floods 10 or 15 times a month, a business can’t keep operating with its parking lot under water. People lose their jobs because they can’t get to work. Seeping cesspools become a public health issue.”
It becomes a potentially with melting ice at poles cataclysmic...
It is not fixable but a engineering and funding problem...
Sharks once swam in central Virginia and south Carolina.....
More from article.
In half of the Moon’s 18.6-year cycle, Earth’s regular daily tides are suppressed: High tides are lower than normal, and low tides are higher than normal. In the other half of the cycle, tides are amplified: High tides get higher, and low tides get lower. Global sea level rise pushes high tides in only one direction – higher. So half of the 18.6-year lunar cycle counteracts the effect of sea level rise on high tides, and the other half increases the effect.
The Moon is in the tide-amplifying part of its cycle now. However, along most U.S. coastlines, sea levels have not risen so much that even with this lunar assist, high tides regularly top flooding thresholds. It will be a different story the next time the cycle comes around to amplify tides again, in the mid-2030s. Global sea level rise will have been at work for another decade. The higher seas, amplified by the lunar cycle, will cause a leap in flood numbers on almost all U.S. mainland coastlines, Hawaii, and Guam. Only far northern coastlines, including Alaska’s, will be spared for another decade or longer because these land areas are rising due to long-term geological processes.
Ben Hamlington of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California is a co-author of the paper and also the leader of NASA’s Sea Level Change Team. He notes that the findings of the new study are a vital resource for coastal urban planners, who may be focused on preparing for extreme events rather than more high-tide floods.
“From a planning perspective, it’s important to know when we’ll see an increase,” Hamlington said. “Understanding that all your events are clustered in a particular month, or you might have more severe flooding in the second half of a year than the first – that’s useful information.” A high-tide flood tool developed by Thompson already exists on the NASA team’s sea level portal, a resource for decision-makers and the general public. The flood tool will be updated in the near future with the findings from this study
Where will the moon be the closest and prone to cyclones months of aug Sept Oct...
It was an astrology question now it's advance in FEMA preparation of potential horizon events.
They forecast up to 60 foot tide differences during extreemingvevents forcasted for the coastal plain...
Except where land masses are actually rising.... Such as Alaska...
National oceanic and atmospheric agency.
e National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts data viewer provides a preliminary look at how different amounts of sea level rise would affect coastal flooding in the United States.
In addition to overall flooding estimates, users can see the relative social vulnerability of coastal regions; areas currently already subject to coastal flooding; impacts on marshes; and the different levels of confidence with which predictions can be made in different areas.
Data for specific areas can be downloaded for further use and analysis.
Click here to access the NOAA Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts data viewer.
Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Science journal reveals that ExxonMobil knew that burning fossil fuels cause global warming decades ago. Still, the company paid for propaganda campaigns to deny the truth and delay climate action. Now there are lawsuits seeking to hold ExxonMobil accountable for damages from human-made climate change.
So did you.
did you stop using fossil fuels?
Didn't think so
So shut the F up until you do.
don't start your car, not sure how you heat your home, but please stop it, hypocrite. Electricity, how and where do you get yours?
Any idea?
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