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- cross-posted to:
- climate@slrpnk.net
It proposed a new goal of limiting the “overshoot” of rising temperatures and eventually figuring out how to undo the temperature gains, a highly uncertain path.
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spoiler, everyone in a position to steer away from climate apocalypse is vested in steering toward it
I’m still convinced a big reason for the AI push is the energy needs mean a full run on remaining fossil fuels.
The rational thing would be to let it keep developing in small labs while we transition to renewables. Then after solving the energy crisis we’d be able to try and scale up AI.
Doing AI at present scale without renewable energy is stupid for everyone that isn’t making a shit ton off fossil fuels.
Even then, it doesn’t solve the water issue either.
We couldn’t afford to use AI even if it worked, that’s what people are missing, we flat out can’t afford the resources, we need them for humans right now.
I’m convinced they’re going all in on AI because they know climate change is locked in, will be significantly faster and worse than advertised, is going to cause massive global upheaval, and they’ll need a fully-automated totalitarian surveillance state and killbot army to protect themselves from the proles.
My bet is 3c by 2050, as in billions may starve in your lifetime.
Those in power thrive on scarcity.
If you see how China is using AI, it’s drastically different than how the U.S. is. They’re using it to benefit the country and the citizens, and are rapidly transitioning to renewables.
The US is going to be left with no resources and with people who hold trillions of dollars of a currency that everyone will agree is worthless.
Most are boomers who know they’ll die in the next decade. They don’t give a shit.
Ya know…
I always thought glaciers breaking off into rivers/lakes and causing massive inland tsunami like waves would be the thing that woke everyone up…
We’re fucked if it wasn’t enough
“There have been many plagues in the world as there have been wars, yet plagues and wars always find people equally unprepared.”
If Camu were around, he’d add global warming.
Reversing will be 10x harder than not emitting and we’re failing at that. I’m not too hopeful.
How exactly do you reverse runaway feedback loops?
They’re not yet at runaway. If we drop emissons to zero, then temperatures stabilize within a human lifetime
You realize we’re already locked in for between 4-10C in warming, with the highest probability being at 6C, right? That’s if you stopped all emissions right now.
We’d be hit with an immediate 1-1.5C in warming as we lose the cooling effect of all the particulates (like diesel exhaust) in the atmosphere, pushing us to +3-3.5C. From there, the natural feedback loops take care of the rest.
The amount locked in is more like 2°C if we did a crash shift off fossil fuels and meat. Those higher numbers presuppose that people won’t forcibly shut down fossil fuel using plants and equipment before the end of its useful life.
We’re almost at 2C already and that’s with the cooling effect from all of the particulates.
Lmao
Destroy the nearest star.
Great Filter, y’all.
