Earth is ‘perilously close’ to a global warming threshold.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/earth-is-perilously-close-to-a-global-warming-threshold-heres-what-to-know

created by CookieRelevant on 17/03/2025 at 19:14 UTC

111 upvotes, 7 top-level comments (showing 7)

"The real problem here is that this sort of sends a signal to the rest of the world that the United States isn't willing to honor its commitments. We're the world's largest legacy carbon polluter. We've put more carbon pollution into the atmosphere than any other country, and that's all the climate cares about. It cares about the cumulative carbon emissions. Over time, we've contributed more to the warming of the planet than any other country."

If a nation was engineered with the specific purpose of breaking treaties and making the life more difficult for other nations it would share much in common with the US.

Comments

Comment by mark1mason at 17/03/2025 at 19:28 UTC

25 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Michael Mann is full of crap. He consistently under-represents the severity of global warming. The global warming conditions are far worse than he claims in this interview.

Comment by Inside_Ship_1390 at 17/03/2025 at 21:12 UTC

9 upvotes, 1 direct replies

A spot of light reading...

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/noam-chomsky-republican-party-most-dangerous-organisation-human-history-us-politics-mit-linguist-a7706026.html

Comment by salkhan at 17/03/2025 at 19:30 UTC

27 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Israel dropped so much ordinance in Gaza it should also be tried for accelerating climate change.

Comment by Dry-Tension-6650 at 17/03/2025 at 19:51 UTC

12 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Bro it’s been over re Climate Change for a while. The data is out. A ton of shit is gonna go down in the next 50 years.

Comment by polygonalopportunist at 17/03/2025 at 22:24 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

It’s been a solid run of altering a planet for a profit and power. The byproducts from earth we created led to some great cancers and die offs. We added physical creations and compounds that didn’t turn out to be helpful to life on earth. This hybrid/earth version or whatever it was didn’t work. Why would a species made of this home act this way? Better luck to the next group.