No way I can like that. And not on a real computer, so finding and linking an AAARRRGGH!!! Gif isnât easy right now.
Drazen rolled his eyes and sighed. âThereâs a Belgian team in the CCZ doing a component test right now,â he said. âTheyâre going to drive a vehicle around on the seafloor and spew a bunch of mud up. So these things are already happening. Weâre about to make one of the biggest transformations that humans have ever made to the surface of the planet. Weâre going to strip-mine a massive habitat, and once itâs gone, it isnât coming back.â
So thereâs this.
And of course thatâs just how we are going to do things.
For example, in ExxonMobilâs 2019 Outlook for Energy, the company projects *no* reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector through 2040âand no date at which emissions reach net zero, implying indefinite warming.
Here is also a retrospective for how the last decade has gone, though in truth many of them are formalizing earlier losses, and the ones now will take longer to be registered for sure:
A thought â this article notes the snail Plecostoma sciaphila was destroyed by âa cement companyâ. Surely someone knows who; would it not be appropriate to name them, every time this species comes up, right along with van Benthem-Jutting who described them? Or would that just end up like giving fame to school shooters, seeing how there is apparently no shame in destruction left anyway?
And meanwhile Albertans (usual caveats apply) are welcoming climate change because they think it will bring them more prosperity.
I donât even know. I have in fact talked to more than one Albertan who thought that climate change was real, serious, required action, and thereforeâŚthey need to develop the oil sands as fast as possible, in order to have a strong economy that might later deal with things.
Honestly, it has been very hard not to be broken hearing such things. Experts say not to give up and there is still time to save some things, and I hope there is some chance people will try, but plainly not in places like that. 
Iâm seeing more people (again, usual caveats apply) saying global warming will mean milder winters in Alberta and a longer growing season, so they think itâs just a grand idea. So shortsighted.
I once had the opportunity to ask someone who worked under the former provincial NDP government about it, and he got very uncomfortable and made the usual noises about economy and jobs, then said we shouldnât be talking politics (we were in Iceland with a group from all over the world).
If I could go back, Iâd want to ask him what was so political about it.
Probably a good sign
The author is David Wallace Wells, of Uninhabitable Earth fame.
Outcome Will Suck Less Than Expected is something, I suppose.
With regards to AustraliaâŚ
As I see it, the news is still bad and IMO this doesnât change our circumstance in any way that matters. The 1.x degrees weâre already experiencing is already dangerous, 1.5C and 2.0 are worse, and each tenth of a degree above that makes it more dire. We still need urgent action.
Also, RCP8.5 has always been an unlikely outlier (right?) in the near-term, that is, by 2100. And thereâs still the question of tipping points. Where are they? We donât know because we donât have the science to say because weâve never run this particular experiment on our planet before.
So I think the authorâs positive framing doesnât help anything because what we have to do hasnât changed.
âLetâs just not do Venus yeah?â Thatâs the real tipping point: concern about the viability of the pink slime that keeps things going.
The author expands on context and framing here. (THREAD)
At least the Australian Army wonât be running out of ammunition like they did during the Emu War.
FYI, I found some of this disturbing.
i found that rather satisfying. turnabout seems fair.