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World registers hottest day ever recorded on Monday (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Determinator@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] Scuzzlebutt@lemm.ee 67 points 1 year ago

The hottest day ever recorded.. so far

[-] money_loo@geddit.social 9 points 1 year ago

AKA the coolest day in a long time.

[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

The coolest day of the rest of your life. (Not quite, but I tried.)

[-] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 year ago

😓

[-] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

Seems like I read this same headline a few times each year. Soon, rampant heat illness/stroke is going to make the recent pandemic look like a tiny blip when it comes to human mortality data.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago

Need to stop China. They are making 30+% of the entire world's carbon output and no plans to reduce that for another 7 years.

That's more than the next 6 biggest carbon polluters combined.

[-] SaltySalamander@lemmy.fmhy.ml 32 points 1 year ago

Know how to stop China? Stop buying stuff made in China. All we, the west, are doing is outsourcing our carbon pollution to China.

[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Should the rest of the world refuse to do anything until China curbs their emissions?

[-] Cybermass@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Let's be honest, we are all fucked no matter how much we work towards reducing, it's already too late.

The real question is how hard do we want to fuck ourselves?

[-] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

It's not already too late, but it's gonna get worse. Even if we magically went 100% renewable energy right now, we would still have all that carbon in the air.

There was going to be an initial test in Sweden on putting Sulphur dioxide in the stratosphere but public outcry made them call it off. SO2 bounces some sunlight before it gets trapped on earth. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0040609009000169 this would be a temp bandaid to buy sometime, but unless every person on earth started planting trees and making charcoal to dump back into the ground I don't see a good way to sequester at a global scale.

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

https://www.nealstephenson.com/termination-shock.html

Great book based on this idea.

[-] str82L@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Also Ministry For The Future

[-] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Need to stop China

China has lower per capita CO₂ emissions than Europe, the United States has higher emissions than the previous two combined:

https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2

http://archive.today/2023.07.04-193431/https://www.newstatesman.com/chart-of-the-day/2021/10/the-us-still-produces-far-higher-per-capita-emissions-than-china

They are making 30+% of the entire world’s carbon output and no plans to reduce that for another 7 years

China is on track to nearly double its wind and solar capacity by 2025 and blow past the country’s 2030 clean power target five years early, according to Global Energy Monitor.

2022 - Sinopec has estimated that 10.68 million tonnes of carbon dioxide will be injected into the oilfield over the next 15 years, boosting crude oil production by nearly 3 million tonnes. Last year Sinopec captured and stored more than 1.52 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.

If anything it's the United States that needs to be stopped, and thankfully multipolarity is making this a reality soon.

[-] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Thanks for dropping the facts comrade. It's hard for some people to understand that having 1.4 billion people means you can't compare apples to apples with USA or Europe. China is by far working the hardest on lowering their carbon footprint.

And yes, I'm considering the SocDems in Europe, those people don't use a lot of energy because they produce nothing. If their overseas manufacturing plants produce carbon, it's not part of their footprint, on paper. China produces many things, their footprint matters to many countries.