Science

"If your face is about to slam in the wall at 100 miles per hour, it is sort of irrelevant if your nose is currently 1 millimeter or 2 millimeters from the wall. ... We are still heading in the wrong direction at 100 mph."

"If your face is about to slam in the wall at 100 miles per hour, it is sort of irrelevant if your nose is currently 1 millimeter or 2 millimeters from the wall. ... We are still heading in the wrong direction at 100 mph." 

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-early-earth-breaching-key-threshold.html

EVMaverick, OP Delegate, Nethermind/Nimbus operator and general Ethereum enjoyer 

Nobody I’ve met in climate science believes we’ll stay within 2°C of warming by 2100, let alone 1.5°C. We’re supposed to reduce GHG by 43% by 3020, and the current NDCs put us on track to 3% (+/- 3 p.p.).

We’re at the tail end of the fuck around era. We’re less than a decade away from the find out part.

PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Aviator, diver, Etherean, nexialist | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

We’re one feedback loop away from unmitigated disaster - whether than comes from a blue ocean event or the clathrate gun.

And we keep rearranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic.

Unfortunately it seems there is no shortage of options when it comes to tipping points..