11 Charts to Keep You Up Tonight
1) we're fucked, 2) we're getting fucked sooner than we thought, and 3) there's nothing we can do to stop it.
A roundup of charts showing 1) we're fucked, 2) we're getting fucked sooner than we thought, and 3) there's nothing we can do to stop it.
- Various estimates suggest the planet will cross +3 degrees sometime around 2060. Unfortunately, these same researchers show the rate of increase has increased. While the rate of change could plateau - or even slow - it could continue accelerating making the timing estimates below optimistic.
- The temperature rise in certain regions is decades ahead of the global mean. Many parts of the world are racing toward collapse-level average temperatures.
- As Earth heats unevenly, many places around the world have set new temperature records during this century. As time proceeds, expect these new records to be re-broken.
- This is moving too fast for us to control. Millennia of temperature change within 200 years - the momentum is realistically impossible to stop. Moreover, human civilisation is hooked on its reliance on energy, the agony of withdrawal from which it cannot survive.
- After two centuries of industrialisation, sixty-seven percent of all CO2 emissions were puked out by the industrial machine since 1980. Half of that since the 2008/2009 Global Financial Crisis. Emissions growth is exponential, most made in the post-Kyoto world with annual records still being broken. The very children raised to be 'environmentally aware' are from the generation that has witnessed the biggest increase in emissions. Civilisation is addicted to fossil fuels.
- How bad will the temperature overshoot get?
- Shorter, warmer Arctic winters make it more difficult for sea ice to thicken, accelerating the probability of a blue ocean event and amplified feedback loops. Without the polar regions reflecting light away from the planet, every single one of the charts in this post will look much worse. It's coming.
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