Climate dump! Come in for your gloom and doom

Self-explanatory. It's already out of date, but it shows the massive spike in temperature that started happening ~150 years ago (most of which in the last 40 years, that little bump is WW2.)

AMOC collapse is "pretty likely by 2030-2050". It would cause all of Europe to basically collapse. Temperatures would 'concentrate' in a band across central Europe. France would be "okay", but hundreds of millions would likely die. No worries.

"EEI", Earth Energy Imbalance, is a fairly new concept for commoners like me. But it shows the reason for the massive bump in "energy the earth got from the sun" we got the past ~1.5 years. Something "broke" in how the globe absorbed radiation from the sun in 2023. Likely "IMO2020", cleaner shipping fuel that were causing massive amounts of clouds (cooling effect) over the world's oceans. We had been hiding a BUNCH of warming up until then, and... here it is.

This is how much fossil fuels we extract from faaaar under the ground each year now. Oh, and it's still increasing. I actually have a sort of "metaphor" for this pic.

If the atmosphere had the same pressure as at sea level (us) all the way up, it would only be 8km tall (5 miles). Normally the air gets thinner the higher you go, but not in this metaphor.

In this image you see Burj Khalifa, which is 800m tall (0.5 miles). So the atmosphere is practically just 10 times higher than that building! As we pump up CO2 (and other planet heating gases), it just... fills up. It doesn't "go" anywhere. It just spreads out across this incredibly thin layer of gas we call the atmosphere on this planet.

Right, this is the IMO2020 stuff I talked about, so brand new science! The red represents the places we *WERE* creating clouds using the dirty shipping fuel, that was used in all the world's cargo ships. Oh, and that dirty fuel is sulfur. Incredibly bad for human health (which is why we regulated it).

Those clouds are now mostly gone, and because of that, ocean temperatures have spiked, revealing the real global warming we had caused. Oh, and hurricane Beryl was likely a consequence of this.

More than 1000 dead in the pilgrimage to Mecka earlier this year, due to record heat.

Some basics (skip if you know how CO2 works).

On the surface of the planet, there's always been a relatively stable amount of carbon "available". The carbon moves around in the "carbon cycle", so from the air, to the oceans, to all the vegetation on land, in a cycle that keeps repeating.

But once you start messing with fossil fuels, ancient *BURIED* sources of oil, coal and gas, we eventually (like 200 years ago) realized that those carbon sources hadn't been part of the surface of the planet for likely hundreds of millions of years. And suddenly we're "shocking" the planet with extra carbon that just wasn't there before.

Remember those huge cubes? We burn those each year, and turn them into giant clouds of CO2 (carbon dioxide), using the atmosphere as a dump for our pollution. And since CO2 just builds up in the atmosphere, it obviously has effects on global warming, and the climate (the sum of all weather).

The world will keep heating up as long as we use fossil fuels for our machines. Cars, trucks, planes, coal and gas plants, the works. Nobody thinks it'll be an easy change to make, but the alternative, NOT changing, will absolutely lead us to doom as crops start failing on a global scale, unable to feed 8.1 billion people.

We're hurting the animal kingdom with our way of life.

Ah, in Swedish, but I'll explain. It shows the emissions of various countries. "India, "All other countries", USA, China. But the rightmost one shows "All countries with less than 2% of the total emissions", adding up to a whopping 40% of all emissions. It's showing that small countries definitely have their fair share of the blame here. In the end it's behavior that matters, not country size.

If you have a shopping mall and cars near you, your country *is* part of the problem.

Just a heatwave on the south pole causing apocalyptic heat there, nothing to worry about I'm sure............ Unless you care about the "doomsday glacier", Thwaites, about to slide into the ocean and raise sea levels by several feet, wiping out many, many cities. But hey, that's at least 20 (!!) years into the future! "Yawn" am I right?

Oh right, the north pole! So, the north pole, the Arctic, is just ice that's floating on the ocean there. There's no *land* under the ice like on the south pole (Antarctic).

Funny story. Antarctic means "no polar bears here". So if you ever mix them up, just think "anti polar bears".

Anyway, remember how I said clouds cooled the planet, and that we got rid of a bunch of clouds over the oceans recently, causing a spike.....? Ringing any bells? Well, anything "white" on the planet actually cools us, a lot. So it's bad news when "white stuff" disappears.

Yeah, the north pole is about to completely melt, as it's just a thin layer of ever melting ice right now. Most of it is less than 1 meter thick (4 feet), and it could go within 10 years, causing *yet another spike* in global temperature. And I'm thinking it'll be a BIG one.

Yesterday, this scientist figured out that we've practically doubled the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, if you account for other powerful gases we're also responsible for (methane and nitrous oxide). If you just count CO2, it's "just" 50% more.

It's bad.

Whatever hope you have, at least realize that we've made our bed, and it's very soon time to lay in it.

It's so bad.