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Bread and Circuses

1 week ago • •

Bread and Circuses
1 week ago • •

Why are you so upset? Stop worrying!

Business As Usual is turning out just fine. 🙄
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The Copernicus Climate Change Service, a European Union organization that monitors global heating, announced on Thursday that the year 2024 will be 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels. That means humanity has passed a critical threshold established in 2015 in the Paris climate accord.

“After 10 months of 2024, it is now virtually certain that 2024 will be the warmest year on record and the first year of more than 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels," Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, said in a statement. "This marks a new milestone in global temperature records and should serve as a catalyst to raise ambition for the upcoming Climate Change Conference, COP29.”

The EU agency announced this moment as nations all over the world gather in the Azerbaijani city of Baku for the 29th Conference of the Parties. The ERA5 dataset found that global temperatures in

Headline from linked article says: "Earth on track for hottest year in recorded history, passing critical 1.5° warming threshold." Below this is a photo of a large city with tall buildings, and a searing, hot sun rising amid an orange sky tainted with smoke from out of control wildfires.

Earth on track for hottest year in recorded history, passing critical 1.5º warming threshold

Climate scientists have long identified 1.5º of temperature rise as a grave milestone for avoiding disaster

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Pēteris Krišjānis

in reply to Bread and Circuses • 1 week ago • •

"should serve as a catalyst to raise ambition for the upcoming Climate Change Conference, COP29" I hope she said this with sad smile. I wouldn't be able to say it seriously at this point.

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