We’re a bit like the dinosaurs only when the asteroid is approaching, we put all our energy and resources into making NFT photos of it and train AI models to generate photos of asteroids based on a text prompt.
What threat are you foreseeing that is comparable to an asteroid? The linked article suggests we just had a year at about +1 degree over average and we seem to have sailed through unscathed.
Unless we can link climate change to the Russia invasion of Ukraine, there seem to be bigger problems right now. Mostly linked to incompetent diplomacy rather than, say, China's industrial successes.
Unscathed? We just had the warmest summer on record in North America and a record-breaking wildfire season that blanketed huge swaths of the US and Canada in smoke, just to name two effects that come to mind. Clearly we'll just sail through the coming years, as well.
>a record-breaking wildfire season that blanketed huge swaths of the US and Canada in smoke, just to name two effects that come to mind
I'm no climate change denier, but it seems weird to attribute this on climate change when it's arguably also caused by poor forestry management practices (ie. suppressing forest fires for decades leading to a buildup of flammable material), if not more so.
This argument doesn't hold water for the scope of the fires we saw last summer. Are you really going to discount the extreme drought conditions and the fact that many of these fires started in areas that have long been uninhabited?
Are you going to ignore the worst wildfires, which were associated with terrible drought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Canadian_drought? Last year wasn't as bad in the US, but which way do you think the trend is headed given the link we are commenting on?
No as I mentioned specifically in the comment, I am talking about "average". Similar to one cold winter in one part is not a proof of climate not changing, one draught shouldn't be attributed to climate change.
In the graph that I can't find any pattern or trend. Draught were bad in 2011 and then it improved and then got bad again and seems to be improving for a year.
I meant the original Climate Pulse link. You do not see a trend and do not believe we will see more frequent and intense droughts, and therefore wildfires, due to climate change?
There's nothing quite as kinetic as an asteroid, but megastorms, floods, and heat waves are expected more frequently.
More worryingly, changing weather conditions suggests more crop losses, which suggest more food insecurity, which suggest more political and social unrest. Strictly speaking, we produce a lot more food than we consume in this country (well, if you like corn, at least), but we've also built a fairly fragile system of monocultures and long supply chains that show up as outsize impacts from relatively minor disruptions (remember when the floods in Thailand meant hard drives were unobtainable for two years?). We're not really built for resiliency these days.
It's unlikely to be an extinction level event (although changing conditions mean different diseases spread in different ways, and one wonders what a couple failed rice crops in China would do for global stability), but it does imply a much shittier future for all of us on a much closer timeline than I think a lot of us were hoping for (I was personally looking forward to living out my golden years in the woods, but they burned down two years ago).
