It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth's surface.” That has indeed happened as predicted, it has been confirmed by a zillion studies and has been scientific consensus for decades. Yet, when the next global climate summit is coming up (it's starting ...
  • Iwasondigg@lemmy.one
    72·
    1 year ago

    I can envision some day in the future when everything is collapsing and the corporate world reaches out to science for a solution and scientists will say it’s too late, you should have listened.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      8·
      1 year ago

      So long as there are fossil fuels still in the ground (most are) and forests yet standing (quite a few are) we can do something which makes a difference.

  • SoupBrick@yiffit.net
    3·
    1 year ago

    Climate change doesn’t exist if you have no object permanence or just really, really like money.