A small point:
If we had started reducing emissions back in 2000, we’d only have to reduce them by 2% per year to limit warming to 2C by 2100. Today we’d have to reduce them by 5% per year. If we wait another decade, we’d have to reduce them by a massive 9% per year. pic.twitter.com/p2bIs7kMJB
— Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath) February 23, 2019
The Supreme Court stole the US election of 2000 AD for the Republicans. For George Bush, Jr. It stole it from Albert Gore.
My friend Stirling Newberry was the only person at the Supreme Court protesting.
Afterwards, he said to me and some others (paraphrased): “That was our last chance. We are going to ride this bucket all the way down to hell.”
Turns out he was right.
(Whatever you may think of Gore, and I think he’s a coward, he was, ummmm, serious about climate change.)
We aren’t going to hold global warming at two degrees Celcius. We aren’t even going to come close.
We all know this. More on some specific consequences, in only one country, which will cost hundreds of millions of lives, later.
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