The planet’s average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

  • R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    How is this not a bigger story? What the fuck?? This is cataclysmic. It should be all we’re fucking hearing about. Fuck.

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    1 year ago

    “sooner than expected”, “tipping point”, “nonbinding resolution”, “climate scientists warn”

    Everything is fine…

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        1 year ago

        About 15 years ago I was going somewhere with my family. Stepmom and I were talking about Climate Change then, how if things didn’t change that massive starvation was likely, that crazed weather would be irreversible, etc. and she noticed that my 10 year old niece’s eyes were getting huge. She was genuinely disturbed by the conversation and began to say is this really going to happen? Before I could plainly reply my stepmom reassured her that no, things were going to be fine, and we changed the subject.

        Niece is in mid twenties now and subject to the reality of the situation as it slowly unfolds, like an asteroid headed toward the earth at 5 mph. The future is dreadful to her.

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      …and decreasing the utilisation of their coal fleet to the point where their coal consumption for electricity is flat and set to start decreasing next year.

      https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/global-electricity-review-2023/#chapter-6-country-and-region-deep-dives-china

      And their renewable energy share is higher than the US (and most of the world) and increasing faster.

      Stop whatabouting and fix your own shit.

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          1 year ago

          Unless you’re Chinese, there’s very little you can do to stop that, as opposed to encouraging your country’s politicians who have proven commitment to curb climate change.

          So “China builds 5 coal plants every day before breakfast” is the whataboutism here.

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          1 year ago

          The point is that this poster is a WuMao and will say anything to try and support the Chinese government. Sad that they have wormed their way in here already.

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            1 year ago

            I am not WuMao. I simply don’t appreciate useless finger pointing and implied righteousness to justify doing nothing just because some other country isn’t doing what they can either.

            We’re all watching the world burn and this finger pointing is doing little else but assure a very painful future.

            • Reliant1087@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              But this user isn’t diverting attention from an American policy or whatever. The original post was on how we have the hottest days so far and they rightly pointed out that a government was building lots of coal plants in that context. Others have chimed in and said that the government also is investigating in renewable, though I question if that makes building coal plants okay.

              None of this is whataboutism. No one is above criticism or scrutiny.

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                1 year ago

                What I see is directing attention at China as a polluter and placing effectively sole blame on them.

                I feel like my point stands and it’s a perfect example of strongly implied whataboutism.

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                  What I see is directing attention at China as a polluter and placing effectively sole blame on them.

                  Sounds like a “you” problem then. No nation should be expanding coal burning.