Climate Change is Happening and Caused by Humans, New IPCC Report Says

[BlacklightShade]

A 42 page report was just released by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) this week. This is a panel of the world's smartest client scientists from 190 countries on Earth, examining every spec of climate data available and have come to an agreement in this report.

It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.
Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere
have occurred.

• Climate change is real and it is caused by human activity
• The atmosphere, water, and land surface are hotter then they were
• The current climate is NOT due to natural phenomena such as volcanic activity, solar cycles, etc.
• Climate change is already affecting every inhabited region across the globe
• Increased and more extreme climate conditions are happing more frequently and will continue to increase
• Increase in droughts happening across half the planet
• Much of the damage is already done and some of it is irreversible
• Increase flooding happening across many parts of the Earth
• A 50-year climate catastrophe is now 40 percent more likely then they were 50 years ago
• Every tonne of CO2 emission adds to global warming (there is a direct, linear correlation between CO2 and temperature)
• The best case scenario is the Earth temperature will increase by 1.2 degrees C in 20 years.
• Worst case scenario is the Earth temperature increases by 5.7 degrees C in 80 years.
• Worst case scenario is no ice will remain in the arctic in the not-too-distant future.'
• Cascading effects trigger severe climate events from other severe climate events
• 2.5-trillion tons of carbon since 1850 have been released and caused a 1-degree C global temperature increase.

How we know it is human caused

Global surface temperature will continue to increase until at least the mid-century
under all emissions scenarios considered. Global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C will be
exceeded during the 21st century unless deep reductions in CO2 and other greenhouse
gas emissions occur in the coming decades.

All natural climate changers accounted for show how our climate would have changed (in blue).

Many changes in the climate system become larger in direct relation to increasing global
warming. They include increases in the frequency and intensity of hot extremes, marine
heatwaves, and heavy precipitation, agricultural and ecological droughts in some
regions, and proportion of intense tropical cyclones, as well as reductions in Arctic sea
ice, snow cover and permafrost

Increased droughts and fires in some areas

Increased flooding, hurricanes, and tornados, in other areas

[FunkyMonkee]

What a load of bullshit!! It's as simple as this: you see that really bright light in the sky every day? That's called, "the Sun"!! Well, the Sun goes through phases every so often! It's kinda like how women have periods: at one point, it cools down a bit, at another point, it heats up. Right now, we're going through a heating phase!! It's NOT "global" warming, it's SOLAR warming and there ain't shit you can do about it!! Just ride it out like we did the last few thousand times it happened! Other planets in our solar system are heating up, too! Do you HONESTLY think they are heating up because we're driving around in cars down here? And, if that WAS the issue, seeing as how we've had the tech to become like The Jetsons since back in the `50's, why haven't we been allowed to HAVE this tech all this time so we can STOP using gas? There was a guy a few years ago that discovered a way to build an engine that runs on water, instead of gas!! The run-off from it is WATER!! You can collect that water and put it back into the tank and use it again!! One full tank of water can last you a VERY long time!!! As soon as he tried to sell his idea to the government, THEY KILLED HIM!!! Gee!! I thought we were TRYING to COMBAT global warning, not contribute to it! Again, if that was AT ALL important to them, we'd have that tech, right now!! What we have now makes them a SHITLOAD of money and they aren't ABOUT to let us kill their cash cow with water-based engines or cars that run on mag-lev technology!!

[DWornock]

You are correct. That is BS. It is not what the scientists are saying even the ones they bribe to lie, it is what an agenda driven political body claims the scientists are say. Ten years ago, when temperatures on Earth were rising, the polar caps on Mars were receding. Of course, mainstream said nary a word about that because even the fools that trust the media wouldn't believe human activity was warming mars.

The only area in which I disagree is that currently I believe the sun is going through an 11-year cooling period. However, some scientists believe the sun may be going through a long period of decreased activity that will last until about 2053; similar to the mini Ice Age. Also, there may be a slight possibility the intergalactic warm period is ending. If so, soon earth will be returning us to the millions of years long Ice Age.

[FunkyMonkee]

@DWornock They say MOST of the scientists agree, what they DON'T say is that those "most scientists" only consist of about 3% of the ones that SAY there's global warming!
I've heard about the cooling period coming up, too but, as far as I know, the Sun's phases come about every 30,000 years so, if we've just stepped into a warming phase, I wouldn't think a cooling phase would be coming anytime, soon.
I've heard that were SUPPOSED to have hit a cooling phase a decade or two ago so, if there IS one coming, maybe it's the one that's been overdue.

[DWornock]

It doesn't appear cooler to me but the temperature variations where I live may be different than average global temperature variations. In any event, sun spots are lower and that implies a cooling but whether or not cooling is happening, I don't know.

[FunkyMonkee]

@DWornock Right now, it's not exactly cool. I've had 2 fans on all day and night for the past couple weeks and I STILL wake up to sweaty wet sheets! But, I've already had the heat on 3 or 4 times for several days at a time since May!! For that matter, it actually snowed about two months ago!!! I've NEVER seen it snow in June!!! I've seen it snow on Easter when I was about 7 years old, but that's never happened since then!

[BlacklightShade]

What phase is our sun in now?

[FunkyMonkee]

That, I don''t know.

[hellionthesagereborn]

Wow, the organization that recieves more then half a billion dollars a year only if they state that man made climate change is real, has stated man made climate change is real? Would never have guessed it. Well its not like over 500 scientists in relevant fields have directly protested these claims. Oh wait. Well its not like over 300 atmospheric scientists have pointed out that the instrumental data is in direct conflict with climate change models (which are not instrumental data). Oh wait. Well its not like another 150 scientists protested the UN's stance on climate change being man made or anything. Oh wait.

Yeah, but I'm sure they are just claiming that man made climate change isn't real because of the massive influx of governmental money to the tune of billions of dollars.

[BlacklightShade]

You mean the international organization derived from every country on earth of best experts peer reviewing the work and agreeing on something even when in all other cases they disagree? Like when India and Pakistan (who agree on NOTHING) actually agree on a climate report? That PAID organization?

[hellionthesagereborn]

That isn't true at all, do you even know how this shit works? You don't get government work by being the best, you get government work by being best connected. That is why NOAA got sued, because despite their government connections it turned out they lied (the entire paris climate accords where based off of their "Findings" which all where proven to be not just wrong, but actively falsified). This is why about 50 NASA scientists protested NASA's claims on climate change. Its got nothing to do with that and if you think politics doesn't influence science despite the fact that politics determines who gets grants and fundings, who gets to do their study and who doesn't, who gets to keep their job and who doesn't, then I'm sorry but their is no helping you.

So yeah, that paid organization (but I'm sure you have gone through all the relevant data as I have, from historical and paleological to satelite data and astronomical data right? right?).

[KimmyKimmy]

For the life of me, I don't understand why people keep pointing out that climate change is real, and that humans are making it worse. What's the end goal? I don't get it.

Scientists also believe that Krispy Kreme donuts are contributing to obesity, but no one cares.

[zeitgeist057]

Population is the core issue. If there were only 1 billion people on the planet, this would either not be an issue or it would be a much smaller issue.

1850-2020: hmmm.. any correlation?

Other things that would be better if the human population were reduced (without nuclear war, plague of disease, or other major disaster. If people just stopped breeding so much, it could be corrected in a couple generations):

1. Extinction of other life forms on the planet would drop
2. Plastic garbage would reduce.
3. Ocean life (fish, coral, etc) could recover.
4. Starvation, homelessness, and other issues of resources.

Some insight on population growth.

25,000 dying of hunger related causes daily
150 species daily gone forever (extinct)
50,000 acres of rainforest destroyed daily
Overfishing: ever wonder why the price of seafood has skyrocketed? It may be only for the extremely rich in the future.

[genuinlysensitive]

The last time there was "only a billion people on the planet" was the early part of the 19th century. Even then Malthus and his eugenics bretheren were saying similar things. They were wrong then as they are wrong now.

[zeitgeist057]

@genuinlysensitive nope.

[CasuallySamsonite]

They knew about climate change in the 1920's but it was bad for business so it got hushed up. OFC Climate change is human driven... anyone who fails to see that is a brainwashed toad of the toxic mega-corps.

What really makes me mad is that the consumer targeted "Green-energy" and "hybrid cars" and nearly all the presumed efforts to combat the very real threat to ALL LIFE ON EARTH has a catch and is a drop in the bucket to the sort of emissions generated by only a handful of international cooperate interests that just don't care and will even profit off green-washing.

Remember the 3 R's
-REDUCE
-REUSE
-RECYCLE

This is why things like "Right to repair" and outlawing the resale of second-hand / unlicensed consumer goods is such a big issue.

[TangBang69]

Power companies have us all in a corner with only one option for who supplies gas & electricity which leaves no choice but to use obsolete and dirty fossil based energies.
They then say our reckless overuse & making them too rich causes global warming from carbon emissions.
However , it was big oil that lobbied hemp into prohibition ~under the GUISE of being a dangerous drug~ to thwart a paper making process that would render their tree reliant method that remains the present method obsolete.
A crisis caused by the people? Of course carbon gasses are going to accumulate more as he alarming rate at which the rapid & widespread removal of what filters carbon emissions from the air recycling it into oxygenated air , the trees, would be the more likely cause.

[Riebeck]

So many people say this but nobody offers reasonable solutions. Even if the entire world switched to electric vehicles, this wouldn't be nearly enough.

We need to stop the cargo shipping industry. Stop products being made and assembled buy numerous countries then sold in another country, only to break in a year because of cheap material and thrown away. Every product should be grown/made/sold locally.

[f_ckjoebiden]

The earth has been around 5 billion years and will be around few more billion. Live and let live, stop acting like one blink of the eye in the history of the world and you think you know what's going on. Get bent. Florida is supposed to have been swallowed up long ago. It matters not whether the Earth is rising in temperature or not. What a ridiculous thing for anyone to become a self proclaimed expert on.

[lancecantee]

Instead of IPCC, the trolls are too are too busy posting their own MyPP reports. That said, I do appreciate you taking the time to post this.

[Anonymous]

uh huh. just like all the fires are being caused by this so-called climate change, until they're investigated and found to be started by bat shit crazy liberal college professors who need climate change to be real for the agenda they're pushing in their classrooms.

[BeenThereLovedIt]

Yep, the whole world of professors and climate scientists and intellectuals and doctors and environmental agencies and democrats and progressives and whoever else are just all conspiring secretly against you. While most of the world is secretly conspiring what I find amazing is nobody can find where they all meet up to hatch their evil plot to build non-destructive renewable and eco-friendly systems to try to save you nonbelievers.

Sarcasm aside, 98% of all scientists agree climate change is man-made, quite real, and disasterous for mankind. But no.. You just keep listening to the junk science that is paid for by big oil and other polluters.

It's gonna suck for you when you eventually realize you are wrong. Probably after it's too late.

Oh wait.. it's already too late. The science is in, we're fucked.

[Snakeyes7]

I don’t understand though. If climate change is caused by humans, how could we have an ice age and have it end without humans using anywhere near the amount of technology we have today?

[BlacklightShade]

Not sure what the question is exactly. The quicker route to recovery is to enact policies that recuse carbon. Vote for politicians that understand things. Embrace Thorium nuclear power plants

[Snakeyes7]

Ok but even if we manage to completely rearrange the economy to accommodate for these new green technology standards without collapsing it, we will still have China that makes just as much as we do if not more. How are we going to convince them to change? Last time I checked, their leader doesn't exactly take too kindly to criticism.

[BlacklightShade]

China is suffering an energy crisis and a pollution crisis. They are investing in alternative energies and one of particular interest is a thorium nuclear reactor. Thorium, unlike plutonium can't be used for weapons. It's half-life is much faster than plutonium, it is more abundant than plutonium, it doesn't require heating up water because thorium itself can be used to power the turbines, and it is easier to cool down, can easier to build safety protocols around. And then the usual advantages of nuclear power's co2 to power output ratio can't be beat. China can build and sell them to other countries without fear of them becoming bombs while providing power to all areas of the globe.

Coal, oil and gas can't be the only energy source.

[Snakeyes7]

Ok so this thorium sounds like something the US should invest in too if it’s safer for the environment AND has a much better output than plutonium.

I’m very critical of massive changes to this kind of stuff instantly because it throws the economy into chaos much like what happened when the pipeline in the southeast got a ransomware attack and gas prices shot up, gas stations actually ran out of fuel and very few people could actually afford an electric car. However, things like this I can definitely get behind.

[BlacklightShade]

The US did spend about a billion dollars studying thorium in the nuclear proliferation days but abandoned it because it wasn't a viable weapon fuel.

It is not feasible to expect each individual to buy a Tesla or suddenly recycle everything. It has to be policy that product and auto manufactures, energy companies must follow by regulation. And the only solution can't be "I don't know how to do it so I'll just keep burning coal."

Economically, the ROI on climate change investment is huge because the costs of a bad climate are massive migrations, destructions to cities and industries from frequent severe weather disasters, food shortages, forest fires, air conditioning bills, etc.

[Snakeyes7]

Yeah that's unfortunate, I'm not sure how else we can save ourselves without switching to thorium.

Plus, minus the extreme weather, those costs of climate change could also be symptoms of careless economic handling from the government which I hear has been really bad since the pandemic hit and I'm not expecting it to get any better anytime soon. I think it is imperative that we should be able to tell the difference before we panic too much over this so we would be able to fix it.

[Avicenna]

China pollutes twice as much as the US (and one third of the world's entire total) and is still investing heavily in coal. Let them make changes first.

[Snakeyes7]

@Avicenna yes that will bring the risk down much faster.

[Avicenna]

yup...

[genuinlysensitive]

China also pollutes more than every other country on Earth, and is currently the ONLY country breaking the Montreal Accord. So why isn't there protests outside every Chinese embassy daily?

[Snakeyes7]

@genuinlysensitive Probably because those who participated in that would be killed. Xi isn't exactly what one would call the patient type.

[BlacklightShade]

Yep, China is pretty bad. They are also investing in thorium nuclear power plants to reduce co2 and to make trillions selling to other countries.

[f_ckjoebiden]

Where do you come up with this college like education on how the world works? What a crock.

[exitseven]

If global warming is real at least I won't have to move to Florida after I retire. I might even have ocean front property.

[BlacklightShade]

If nothing changes you can live in Montana and have ocean front property in 100 years.

[exitseven]

I have a summer cottage that is about 200 yards away from the ocean. I want to retire in ten years. I'm doing the math.

[KimmyKimmy]

By chance is your cottage near the Obama's cottage?

[exitseven]

@KimmyKimmy It isn't even as big as his outhouse, But it is about the same distance from the ocean except I am at the top of a little hill.

[KimmyKimmy]

Based on where Obama bought his seaside cottage, he seems as worried about rising sea levels, as he is about mask wearing at his 400 person birthday party.

[exitseven]

@KimmyKimmy Yes, that is apparent.

[BCA6010]

Uh huh. So what are China, Russia, India, Brazil, and Ukraine going to do about it?

[abc3643]

That's irrelevant. If you got cancer, you'd act on your cancer. Your neighbors aren't going to give a shit.
And, believe me, those countries are now beginning to give a shit too.

[BCA6010]

@abc3643 Believe me, they are not. Keep telling yourself whatever you need to help you sleep better, though.

[abc3643]

Unlike you,
1) I am twice as old as you and cognizant of human nature.
2) I understand the physics of global warming.
3) These countries have fundamental issues to address themselves. They may not have cared before, but they are going to have to care because their very existence depends on it.

Don't bother replying; I am muting.

[f_ckjoebiden]

@abc3643 LOL. Your existence in the cosmos is like the blink of the eye, you know so much about climate change, wait, damn it, it was global warming, at least when Al Gore re-invented it just like he invented the internet.

[Wise4myage]

Then what caused them in the past? Tropical plants use to grow in the arctic, so who or what caused that? I think its real, but you can't pin it all on humans.

[Anonymous]

Must be true because the experts say so. Of course if we pay them more money they can fix the problem for us.

[najekim]

We are in-between ice ages so it will be getting warmer regardless. Humans are just helping it to peak faster and stay there longer. Another ice age will be coming.

[andreasderjuengere]

Let's build more spacecraft and do a few fun rides in space.

[anylolone]

It's the end of the world, as we know it, and this time we swear it's true.

[zagor]

Chicken Little only has to be right once...

[anylolone]

@zagor Yes. But after so many failed doomsday calls, chicken little will be discredited for ever.

[Lisa0203]

It is and polar bears are hungry and having a rough time. Aww

[zagor]

Not exactly earth-shattering news. Except literally...

[DaveToo]

Nuh, D'UH?

[KrakenAttackin]

Buuuulllllshit.

[Diya010]

Agree