https://archive.ph/UlyoJ
"You can never really see the future, only imagine it, then try to make sense
of the new world when it arrives.
Just a few years ago, climate projections for this century looked quite
apocalyptic, with most scientists warning that continuing “business as usual”
would bring the world four or even five degrees Celsius of warming — a change
disruptive enough to call forth not only predictions of food crises and heat
stress, state conflict and economic strife, but, from some corners, warnings of
civilizational collapse and even a sort of human endgame. (Perhaps you’ve had
nightmares about each of these and seen premonitions of them in your newsfeed.)
Now, with the world already 1.2 degrees hotter, scientists believe that warming
this century will most likely fall between two or three degrees. (A United
Nations report released this week ahead of the COP27 climate conference in
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, confirmed that range.) A little lower is possible, with
much more concerted action; a little higher, too, with slower action and bad
climate luck. Those numbers may sound abstract, but what they suggest is this:
Thanks to astonishing declines in the price of renewables, a truly global
political mobilization, a clearer picture of the energy future and serious
policy focus from world leaders, we have cut expected warming almost in half in
just five years."
Via
Future Crunch Oct 28, 2022:
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https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-clean-water-rewilding-spain-tipping-points-clean-energy/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
