CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/28875492

Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, UN data shows, deepening the climate crisis that is already taking lives and livelihoods across the world.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
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    11 days ago

    It is wild interacting with people who have functionally checked out of caring about climate change because the rise of rightwing fascism has made publicly opting out of having empathy so much more acceptable.

    We are hitting the pedal to the medal and 10 years ago I wouldn’t have been able to convince myself we would be so much less prepared culturally and societally to act to mitigate Climate Change (at least here in US), I am cynical as fuck but that would have been even too cynical for me to believe then.

    I mean the technology is amazing, alternative energy has blown away my expectations in the evolution and growth it has had but here in the US centrists and rightwingers have been acting like Climate Change was a tv show everyone used to tune into and now the fad has passed… it makes me nauseous.