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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago

Climate Change Could Cut the Economy in Half. We’re Not Ready for It.

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Climate Change Could Cut the Economy in Half. We’re Not Ready for It.

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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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A new study suggests global warming’s effect on GDP has been vastly underestimated. Will it finally break through the religion of infinite growth?

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    Not the Economy

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    Guillotines could cut the economy in half too; I think we may be ready for that

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    Oh no! Not rich people’s yacht money the economy!

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    Well there will be less people. …maybe by half

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      It’ll be the other half too if we don’t figure out a final solution to the billionaire question.

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        I’m almost wondering if it’s looking like the Final Solution to the global warming issue. The oligarchs are all entirely aware that this is a major problem, hence why most of them have their fantasy bunkers prepped and ready to go. The funny part is, they are too short sighted to understand that it’ll only last for upwards of maybe a year or so unless they have an entire economy running down there (and none of those bunkers are equipped for it).

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    If we don’t act, it will cut the economy to zero.

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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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