World's hottest year: 2024 first to pass 1.5C warming limit
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Last year was the world's warmest on record, bringing temperatures above a politically symbolic milestone.

We have exceeded 1.5c warming.

“I think it’s safe to say that both 2023 and 2024 temperatures surprised most climate scientists - we didn’t think we’d be seeing a year above 1.5C this early,” says Dr Hausfather.

“Since 2023 we’ve had around 0.2C of extra warming that we can’t fully explain, on top of what we had expected from climate change and El Niño,” agrees Helge Gößling, a climate physicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany.

.2C of extra warming since 2023.

substantially reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to hold global temperature increase to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change - The Paris Agreement

  • crime [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    20 days ago

    I’m one sentence in and it made me think of something that really really resonated with me when I first saw it a few years ago:

    There is a specific aspect of Marx’s theory of capitalism that I believe isn’t sufficiently emphasised. And that is Marx’s view that capital is an actual entity — a being with a mind of its own that operates independently from us.

    There’s an episode in Tuca and Bertie s2 called “The Moss” which uses moss as a metaphor for capitalism in this manner. it’s a moss growing on things, and you can’t reason with it or try to make it empathize. it’s just moss. ngl one of the most succinct and perfect metaphors for capitalism I’ve seen in media

      • crime [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        19 days ago

        Yeah that’s a good one. It’s a bit more abstract than moss though, requires a baseline level of scientific literacy and isn’t as visually striking (to the extent that it’s visible at all)

    • combat_doomerism [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      20 days ago

      it’s a moss growing on things, and you can’t reason with it or try to make it empathize

      yeah, i really think this is so much better to describe what we face than so much of the stuff I’ve seen said online, there isnt enough emphasis on the fact that the bourgousie are in a way forced to behave in the way that they do (outside of like, the weird pedophile rings, thats entirely on them)