Stad Social
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 3 years ago

Agreement to phase out fossil fuels would be huge for humanity, says Gore

www.theguardian.com

external-link
message-square
19
fedilink
197
external-link

Agreement to phase out fossil fuels would be huge for humanity, says Gore

www.theguardian.com

silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 3 years ago
message-square
19
fedilink
Exclusive: former US vice-president and climate activist says phase-out can be only measure of success for Cop28
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • Blaubarschmann@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    45
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 years ago

    I feel with this guy. Dude has been trying to tell everyone about climate change for decades and people still don’t really do much to fight it. They deny, delay, argue instead of taking action even though they know exactly what to do

    • Paddzr@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      18
      ·
      3 years ago

      But the president of this entire show who just happens to be also part of the oil industry said there’s no scientific proof…

      Oh well! Show’s over folks.

      • itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        3 years ago

        There’s no scientific proof because you have been burying it for decades and spreading misinformation!

        • floofloof@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          12
          ·
          edit-2
          3 years ago

          And yet still there’s plenty of proof. The CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is just lying.

    • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      18
      ·
      3 years ago

      Imagine if this guy didn’t get shafted during the elections and became POTUS. The world would probably be very different…

      • Hyperreality@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        edit-2
        3 years ago

        See also:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_with_Ed_Miliband

        And credible fraud allegations during the 1996 Russian Presidential election.

        The world could have been a very different place.

    • isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      3 years ago

      Sometimes I wonder how things would have been if we got him instead of Bush :/

  • grue@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    26
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 years ago

    Fun fact: that guy was elected president.

    Less fun fact: Jan 6 wasn’t the only coup attempt in the US in the last few decades. The Brooks Brothers Riot was one too, and it succeeded.

    • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 years ago

      Huh. As an outsider I don’t recall ever hearing about that before. What the fuck, America?!

      • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        3 years ago

        Really? It was all we could talk about before Trump.

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      3 years ago

      Mind giving some reading materials? Looks like it was 271 vs 266 electoral for Bush.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election

      • jballs@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        3 years ago

        Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_recount_in_Florida

        The Supreme Court halted recounts that could have changed the election results. Some post-election studies have found that “if the disputes over the validity of all the ballots in question had been consistently resolved and any uniform standard applied, the electoral result would have been reversed and Gore would have won by 60 to 171 votes”.

        • pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          3 years ago

          Unbelievable really. Gore might have pushed for a sustainable society and the world might be a different place. Then again, he probably wouldn’t have gotten a second term because he would have pissed off big money and the world would be the same.

  • Binthinkin@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    3 years ago

    Dickhead should have fought Bush over the Brooks Brother Riot. Thanks for being a bitch Gore.

  • blazera@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    3 years ago

    Agreements and phasing schemes dont do shit as we’ve seen.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      3 years ago

      If they actually result in not adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, they’ll do.

  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 years ago

    At this point it’s a joke…

    • Hyperreality@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 years ago

      The killing joke.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 years ago

      It’s so funny … I’m dying … we’re all dying

Climate@slrpnk.net

climate@slrpnk.net

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !climate@slrpnk.net

Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 63 users / day
  • 139 users / week
  • 364 users / month
  • 2.81K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 1 subscriber
  • 8.94K Posts
  • 34.4K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • silence7@slrpnk.net
  • BE: 0.19.5
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org