Industries and individuals around the world burned record amounts of oil, gas and coal last year, releasing more greenhouse gases than ever before, a group of leading scientists said in a new report, warning that humanity is hurtling toward "climate chaos."

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/collapse/p/1433733/humanity-is-on-path-toward-climate-chaos-scientists-warn

Industries and individuals around the world burned record amounts of oil, gas and coal last year, releasing more greenhouse gases than ever before, a group of leading scientists said in a new report, warning that humanity is hurtling toward “climate chaos.”

The surge in global use of fossil fuels in 2024 contributed to extreme weather and devastating disasters including heat waves, storms, floods and wildfires.

  • orioler25@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    8 days ago

    “For example, fossil fuel use actually fell in China in the first half of this year, a remarkable change for a country that remains the world’s biggest climate polluter. Renewable energy is being built out at a furious pace there, dwarfing installation in the rest of the world. And in California, clean energy provided two-thirds of electricity in 2023.” https://phys.org/news/2025-10-humanity-path-climate-chaos-scientists html https://phys.org/news/2025-10-humanity-path-climate-chaos-scientists html https://phys.org/news/2025-10-humanity-path-climate-chaos-scientists.html ~ From the fucking article you’re commenting under.

    I didn’t forget about them, they’re not the problem. China didn’t build a global empire centered on extractive genocide and does not work to maintain fossil fuel dependency through invasion and election interference in dozens of countries. India doesn’t have more military bases than any other state on the planet dedicated to preventing any violent resistance to the interests of its wealthiest members. Neither of them have spent the last sixty years obfuscating or straight up suppressing ecoactivist discourse and do not control the most expansive disinformation network in the world which explicitly promotes fascist values.

    Gee, I wonder what would happen if you took population into account with that stupid chart. Whatever would be the point of constructing data in such as way so as to occlude the wildly disproportionate emission rates. Oh, what’s this? (https://www.wri.org/insights/climate-friendly-choices-ranked https://www.wri.org/insights/behavior-change-reduce-emissions-climate-plans https://www.wri.org/insights/climate-impact-behavior-shifts) it also privileges individual consumer choices over industrial pollution in “articles” that are oriented toward action to mitigate climate change? Hm, why would they post articles like that alongside ones that say voting and changing your own behaviour is the best option to fight climate change? Hmmmmmmmm promoting consumption habits as a solution to systemic dysfunction? Why, who could that be in the best interest of?

    Shut the fuck up, disinformation jockey.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      4·
      7 days ago

      Shut the fuck up, disinformation jockey.

      🙄

      “Someone said something that I didn’t like in a completely non-argumentative way, so I had to go on a big rant about it, accuse them of something they didn’t do, and swear at them.”