Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
even if it did, so what?
oh, saving the planet is too expensive, so we're just going to let it die to save money
We can all tighten our purse strings for a few years collectively (or the top 1% does it for like...a few months) or a select few of us can live in an underwater utopia built by our boiling slaves....................we're going to go with the slaves
I'll buy an apartment in "The Line". They'll have dinosaur robots!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Line%2C_Saudi_Arabia?wprov=sfla1
I guess you could say that the Saudis made a line in the sand
It's not finished yet. Just like many other grand projects they've started.
I realise you're being facetious and I do agree with your sentiment... But I guess if this was true we could/should look at potential other, cheaper, alternatives (like invest in more wave abs geothermal power)
If it cost 1000s of 10,000s a month to simply cook food, it would probably not be worth the cost to save the planet. That's how high they expensive they expected wind to be in their calculations.
Rightwing thinktank Civitas mistakenly cost onshore wind power 10,000 times higher than reality and claimed bill would be £4.5tn
They did this shit with "calculating infrasound from windmills" in Germany 20 years ago. They (a government and lobbyist financed org) were several orders of magnitudes wrong but took a very long time admitting it.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022460X23004091
As some German celebrity said: "It's hard to save the world in your spare time when others are paid to destroy it full time"
Feel like its a common mistake to mix up kW and kWh, but if you don't know the basics of power you shouldn't be trying to write on the topic and any peer reviewer should know the cost of onshore wind is in the cents per kWh, not 100's of dollars per kWh if someone has even if only from paying attention to their own electric bill.
Also apparently mixed billions and trillions at one point? Just a small factor of a 3 (orders of magnitudes).
Yeah but that doesn't support their narrative
what's a factor of ten thousand between friends?