[yor_on]

You won't like it, neither will I. But in the choice of an extinction event and that I'll still take it.

[yor_on]

And here comes the quiz

See any signs of it?


A global fossil ban?
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spelling

[yor_on]

Whatever, can't stop you, can watch you

[yor_on]

Erm, no Antonio

"UN Chief Calls on Fossil Fuel Ads Ban"



Wrong answer.

[yor_on]

What a brilliant observation Fatih

"Every economy has its own pathway for energy. We should understand and respect it"

IEA   https://phys.org/news/2025-04-opposes-dangerous-anti-fossil-fuel.html

[yor_on]

two things

Cop 28  "The agreement in Dubai marked the first time nations had ever specifically mentioned the use of fossil fuels, which account for about 90 percent of the planet-warming emissions pumped into the atmosphere. "



Now losing carbon sinks for it becomes actually the same as if Earth would spew out more. And I'm not sure 90% becomes correct when looking at it that way, also considering accelerating natural carbon sources from, f.ex, the Arctic circle

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/11/10/cop29-climate-conference-fossil-fuels-pledge/

So old news

[yor_on]

So while IEA is licking where and whatever they use to lick, those cop's has became jokes, and ever so good reporting still becomes after its time. And Antonio, you could do better than that, what have you to lose?

[yor_on]

It's accelerating everywhere. And a lot of it due to resource waste combined with no, or severely bad recycling.

[yor_on]

Try to imagine a society built on recycling, and a society limiting resource waste.

would that solve it?

No. It's gone too far already and there are no signs of any fossil ban.

[yor_on]

your game can't recycle. Your game is built on resource waste.

[yor_on]

Every man for themselves and survival of the fittest, right?

[yor_on]

So any new tech is stymied even before invented

[yor_on]

and you are blind

[yor_on]

So

"It's difficult to determine how weather patterns will change as a result of the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which is predominantly caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

Part of the difficulty arises from the fact that weather patterns vary year to year. Several years in a row with more blocking events than usual could make it seem like blocking is increasing due to climate change, but it could simply be down to chance.

As a result, it is difficult to detect the fingerprint of human activity from weather observations alone. For example, blocking weather patterns over Greenland during summer have happened more often in recent decades, which can enhance the melting of the ice sheet. But it isn't clear that this trend is the result of human-induced climate change.

Climate models do suggest future changes in the occurrence of blocking, however. These computer simulations, consisting of equations that describe the fundamental physics of the atmosphere, are the main tool scientists use to perform experiments that parse how the climate will behave in future. When scientists run climate model simulations with increased greenhouse gas concentrations the results consistently show a decrease in blocking events. But blocking generally happens more often in real life than model simulations, which reduces the confidence scientists have in future projections."

https://theconversation.com/how-the-weather-got-stuck-over-the-uk-and-produced-an-unusually-dry-and-warm-spring-255987

[yor_on]

But 

"A team of scientists led by Francois Lapointe, a research associate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has combined paleoclimatic data from the last 2,000 years with powerful computer modeling and in-the-field research on lake sediments and tree rings to show that an understudied phenomenon, known as atmospheric blocking, has long influenced temperature swings in the Arctic."

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-arctic-heavily-atmospheric-blocking-scientists.pdf

[yor_on]

As always we can wait for those statistics, let's say 30 years? And pray that global warming doesn't twist the statistics we get from it, again.

[yor_on]

That's the problem. We never meet anything like this. It's new, added to it the fact that it will be weather, not global averages, that will kill you.

[yor_on]

yes?

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-winter-stays-australia-coral-reefs.html

[yor_on]

The same with our oceans, no averages but 'weather', marine heat waves, algae blooms, fertilizers, ad nauseam. and we don't have any good observations. so far, of what's happening. We think us have found out that it is happening somewhere around twice as fast under water as on land, with migrations and deaths as a result.

Algae blooms

2023   https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10458688/

2025   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/13/a-horror-movie-sharks-and-octopuses-among-200-species-killed-by-toxic-algae-off-south-australia

[yor_on]

This one then?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/13/starch-based-bioplastic-petroleum-plastic-study

makes for a question, doesn't it

Do plastics, no matter how you made it, exist naturally in our biomes?



" If you could find a microbe that makes polypropylene or something like it, you'd probably nab the Nobel. "