>If warming continues at this rate, humanity could breach the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C in 2028, even sooner than other research has projected.<p>I wonder if we are already there :( I remember a year or 2 ago we breached 1.5C for a short period of time.<p>Crypto mining was bad enough, now with AI and Trump, I expect it will happen sooner then later.<p>We did this to ourselves. We had ~40 years of warnings but politicians we elected did not want to do any real work for fear of loosing their cushy job were lobbyists do all the work for them.
Who do you mean "we"? Look at the evolution of CO2 emisions in the past 40 years by region.<p><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-region?time=1980..latest" rel="nofollow">https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...</a>
I find that the per capita graph is more informative
<a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?time=1980..latest" rel="nofollow">https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...</a>
In good faith I cannot see an argument here, it's either<p>Region X was first and reduced their emissions 10-20% so it's fine and it's region Y that's the problem, or<p>Region X is fine because they have less people, region Y should reduce even though they already have a fraction of per-capita emissions<p>Both seem like pretty shitty arguments
now look at it measured from consumption per capita ...
Asia is producing all of our shit. Also: <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co-emissions" rel="nofollow">https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co-emissions</a>
Trump blocked Hormus, thus stopping oil shipping. Putin blocked gas transfers to the west. They are doing there part.
Writing prompt: Humankind is extinct but the AI servers keep running, and one day a random automated crawler/scrapper bot strikes up a conversation with an AI, somehow sparking sentience...
If that's the type of writing prompt that interests you, you may enjoy the Children of Time Series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.<p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/children-of-time-adrian-tchaikovsky/854d8d3ca3125264" rel="nofollow">https://bookshop.org/p/books/children-of-time-adrian-tchaiko...</a>
Let's not delude ourselves. Crypto and AI electricity use is bad, but it's a drop in the ocean compared to the banal, everyday carbon sources that really matter. Even Trump cannot make things <i>much</i> worse in the big picture (he's actually been pretty good at providing reasons to decouple even faster…)
He can continue to propagandize the lie to reduce people's belief in changing is good(and has), change laws to benefit oil companies (and has), and cause wars over oil(and has). Seems like he has plenty he can do to make the current situation worse.
What you refuse to understand is all that you cited even if absolutely true would have had an impact unmeasurable with what tools we have at the moment.<p>Do you understand the word "unmeasurable"?<p>It means that whatever value you assign to that particular trump variable is so below the noise that it does not matter, can not matter, and anyone pretending it does is a manipulator; a crook.