Many of Earth’s “vital signs” have hit record extremes, indicating that “the future of humanity hangs in the balance”, a group of the world’s most senior climate experts have said.
More and more scientists are now looking into the possibility of societal collapse, says the report, which assessed 35 vital signs in 2023 and found that 25 were worse than ever recorded, including carbon dioxide levels and human population. This indicates a “critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis”, it says.
The temperature of Earth’s surface and oceans hit an all-time high, driven by record burning of fossil fuels, the report found. Human population is increasing at a rate of approximately 200,000 people a day and the number of cattle and sheep by 170,000 a day, all adding to record greenhouse gas emissions.
“humanity’s future in balance” and “humanity’s future hangs in the balance” don’t mean the same thing
Yea that title is ass.
Hmm, sounds like Big Science is trying to sell more Earth.
Scientists to World Leaders:
“How many times we got to teach you this lesson old man?”
CO2 increase causes an increase in crop yield.
Not without water
Good thing higher temperatures mean more water in the atmosphere then.
There is a finite amount of H2O on earth, and climate change is altering weather patterns that used to be reliable. Increased evaporation in no way guarantees healthy ecosystems where humans can survive.
CO2 also lowers nutrient density despite increasing total size and weight of crops, meaning you have fewer nutrients per calorie and per pound. Even if you could spin this into a positive, all crops have the same vulnerabilities to heat stress, drought, and unpredictable seasons, all of which are increased by excess CO2.
Even with crispr changing the timeline to create new crops that might handle the new climate every year to be incredibly short, theres not enough time to produce and distribute those new versions before the climate has changed enough to require yet newer versions of said crops.
But good news, bugs and algae will be plentiful. hope you like algae bars with insect protein bars as a snack.
Well, so many people complain about starvation that I just figured there’d be some celebration of our increase in caloric yields per acre.
Yes, we do need other fertilizers to get more nutrients into the food, but it doesn’t hurt to have more basic carbohydrates available.
If you eat just rabbits, nothing else, just lean rabbit meat you will starve to death
It doesn’t matter if you eat 2000 or 10000 kcal of rabbit, if you don’t get more nutritious food, you will die of starvation and your body will waste away.
More calories by itself isn’t a good thing.
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Then to be fair we should be backdating the fines for heavy polluters to when it first started, so the UK, Canada and the US pay our fair share of the cost.
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Only if we also backdate the fines and extend them to the countries who sell the most petroleum so Saudi Arabia and Russia can help foot the bill :)
governments: We got you, King!
raises taxes on ICE drivers
“Balance” HA! You’re late to picture. It’s easily too late 2030 Has been my call for over a decade now. Everyone says I’m crazy. I know you’re ignorant. You think this is an accident. This is conducted intentionally by folks and you can’t see what is obvious because they won’t STFU about everything else. You’re a sucker for believing fucking anything. Don’t believe me. Figure it out for yourself. Stop believing anything. It’s fucking obvious when you discard the flash of the neon sign.
