silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 15 days agoFossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. New numbers suggest otherwise.grist.orgexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up1105cross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1105external-linkFossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. New numbers suggest otherwise.grist.orgsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square5fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
minus-squareStinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 days agoSadly even that wouldn’t solve our problem. We’re already at 1.5°C above normal and we’ve got 20 more years of warming baked in after emissions stop. Then come the tipping points.
minus-squaretae glas [siad/iad]@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·15 days agoit’s not the only thing that’ll need to be done by any means, but it’d be a great starting point! 🤞 it’s like the thing people say about planting trees / reforestation: “the best time for it would’ve been 40 years ago, the next best time is today”
Sadly even that wouldn’t solve our problem. We’re already at 1.5°C above normal and we’ve got 20 more years of warming baked in after emissions stop.
Then come the tipping points.
it’s not the only thing that’ll need to be done by any means, but it’d be a great starting point! 🤞
it’s like the thing people say about planting trees / reforestation: “the best time for it would’ve been 40 years ago, the next best time is today”