I wonder if this have anything to do with moving quickly from “we must all limit our energy consumption” to “we must burn as much energy possible for no real purpose”.
I guess we’ll never know /s
Yearly average global mean surface temperature from five data sources, in two versions: (top) unadjusted, (bottom) adjusted for El Niño/Southern Oscillation, volcanism, and solar variation. All are aligned so that the average from 1991 to 2020 equals 0.88°C, to approximate warming since pre-industrial.
That’s what you get when you build insane amounts of AI data centers. In The Netherlands Microsoft data centers are responsible for 1% of all power consumption in the country. Google refuses to give insight in their power consumption. And now there’s a sharp acceleration in global warming. I wonder how. FFS.
Yeah, because if it wasn’t for AI, the climate would be just fine.
Blame the motor vehicle, logging, industrial farming, factories…
I get that AI is the new poster-boy for everything that’s wrong with the world, but the environment was fucked long before it came along.
The acceleration started happening 11-13 years ago…
Were the literal fire tornadoes not a clue?
Meanwhile, my workplace just announced RTO, starting next year. It’s a moderately large, 100% white collar office site.
Gotta drive those CO2 numbers up, baby!“Data centers fix this” -billionaires probably
And then AI says the should reduce emissions and they order some engineers to fix that clearly broken model 🙄
Nice knowing, y’all. Smoke em if you got em.
Tranlation: Do you remember the level in Super Mario Bros. 3 where the Sun tries to kill you?
This is today.
Tja
Checking in from San Jose, CA —Can confirm!
I had been thinking of moving back to San Jose. Has it gotten worse? I used to live in Japantown about 10 years ago and kind of miss it.
NGL, that article picture is one of the best cases of “exaggerating to an absurd degree to make a point” I’ve ever seen 😁
1.5°C Threshold Could Be Exceeded Before 2030
Come to Europe one of these days. We’re at 2.3°C.. Come and see our cities getting closer to temperatures of Phoenix, or the many forest fires, the droughts, powerplants shutting down because of a lack of water, transportation issues. The idiots saying more CO2 being good for plants can ask the farmers how things are going. We’re not having a good summer.
This is the forecast for the next 5 days in Vienna/Austria. Last week was the same. I am fucking exhausted.
Cant wait for Friday.
You know what I just realized since America doesn’t use metrics we’re even further isolated from the rest of the world because I have no clue what those temperatures mean
Ach du liebes Schnitzel, und ich dachte hier in Oberbayern isses übel.
Anecdotally, just the other day, I roamed around a little and realized that the large rapeseed fields around my city are all totally
burned. EDIT: meant to write: shriveled up. Dry as bone.
Just… gone.
We’re all trying to find who did this
“When after all, it was you and me”.
We have had the technology to completely switch to sustainable energy for at least 20 years, but we haven’t because it wouldn’t be profitable to the capitalist class. This problem isn’t caused by us, it’s caused by them.
Turns out, the real treasure is the global catastrophe we made along the way.
And by “we” I mean the ghouls running the world.
Pleased to meet you, hope you’ve guessed my name!
… Capitalism. My name is capitalism.
‘Sharp acceleration’ meaning 75% faster warming in the last decade compared to the 40 years previous, and blowing past the 1.5° target in 3-4 years. No speculation was given, but I think it’s likely we’re seeing the limits of oceanic absorption of co2 and heat. The ocean’s latent heat capacity has flattened the curve for more than a century, and it’s very hard to predict when that will run out, but sea surface temperatures spiking all over have been good evidence that we have passed a major tipping point in the last few years.
I’ve read that the models used to predict the rate of change were too optimistic or an assumption about them was too conservative and thus not very realistic. Now we have data showing the models under-predicted the rate of change, so one argument is that we were already on this path since decades ago, we just didn’t model it right.
In any case, we’re all fucked so who gives a shit anyway no?
Is there a name for when we know what the right thing to do is but we keep not doing it?
All of the climate models have adjustable parameters. We are still within the bounds of the worst case scenarios but scientists are always afraid to claim too much. An academic’s reputation is a lot less recoverable than a pop star or politician in the sense that they, and their colleagues, actually take their words and predictions seriously. I don’t want to completely dismiss the effect of lobbying and corruption toward the downplaying of global warming, but making smaller-than-necessary claims is a common sight in most academic fields.
Great Filter.
No way in hell we’re facing an extinction event. Unimaginable human suffering, probably, but humanity will persist.
Isolated pockets in relatively protected areas. Global society won’t survive it. Most of the places we grow food won’t be able to grow food, that’s already accelerating. Ocean acidification kills that food source. Blue ocean event accelerates runaway heating leading to massive hurricane force continental storms. Amoc shuts down and Europe ices over. Humanity may persist but civilization won’t.
Is there a name for when we know what the right thing to do is but we keep not doing it?
Hubris.
They also banned sulphur oxide in ship fuel which would have had a cooling effect, that was hiding the full extent of the damage and is slowly dissipating
Won’t be long until we start doing that again on purpose
How great fixing pollution with more pollution.
🎵 The solution to pollution is…more pollution? 🎵
Actually it’s kinda good news as it shows we can make direct impact to the climate. Just with a substance actually made for it.
Don’t take it too seriously, there is an effect but it’s not that large. And anyways, the change in maritime fuel standards happened in 2020, while this trend goes back to 2015. A geoengineering project is just going to cause more problems, we don’t know nearly enough about how the world works, truly.
Good news is cloud seeding is viable? Bad news is we’re probably gonna need it.
I’m sure it has nothing to do with the billionaire pedophiles not giving a fuck.
Gotta make them dollas. /s
Of course not. It’s not enough people recycling their grocery bags.
Not to say you shouldn’t recycle.
Unfortunately we’ve been duped, a lot of it sadly ends up in landfills.
Of course not. But it does feel a little silly when there are town-sized data centres being built in every direction and billionaires are just “choosing” to break all laws. Meta’s got gas turbines running to power theirs and they just said they’re gonna do it for another year. Who’s gonna stop ‘em? Everyone is too busy working and trying to survive to stop them from pretty literally torching our futures and especially our children’s futures.
Things will need to get pretty bad before we see any kind of justice or change of direction, I fear ☹️
