Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. After removing the effects of El Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar cycles, researchers found that the planet has warmed at roughly 0.35°C per decade over the past ten years, compared with just under 0.2°C per decade from 1970 to 2015. The acceleration, which becomes visible around 2013 to 2015, appeared across five major global temperature datasets with more than 98% statistical certainty.
    • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 days ago

      12% of global emissions are individual car drivers alone. The individual is a sizable portion of the problem, and we need a multi pronged approach that attacks corporations outsized impact and reduces certain emissions from individuals as well.

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 days ago

        There are over a billion cars on the road. Individually it is nothing and 12% is a small percentage. Where is the other 88. I’m sick of this blame the individual when companies are doing most of the polluting. We could stop driving all cars today and it wouldn’t help. But anything to keep arrow going up. Only thing people can really do is consume less but that is a hard ask for Americans who consume far more then other countries.

    • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      If we dont support billioniares business’, and turned “the individual” into an organized mass, it would work.

      I dont know if this opinion, to change using amazon and the other big retailers, will ever come though. I saw someone legit promoting aliexpress for a product not too long ago, and I was surprised no one gave them shit for it.

      If Working for and using, for example, amazon, was suddenly shamed and everyone stopped using it, it would stop making the billionaire at the top money. If no one buys the product, no one is willing to work for the company, the company would disolve. bezos still wouldnt be broke, or held to account, but this revenue stream would stop.

      Will it happen though? I feel like a nhilist for saying, I dont think so.