Vote out any policy maker who impedes the response to climate change.<p>This is not something we fix as individuals, with feel-good home solutions, recycling, or planting trees. Large industry is destroying our world, on purpose, because of greed.<p>This only gets fixed through policy and regulation. Vote.
Could we breed trees which capture more CO2?<p>We increased crop yields multifold already:<p><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/crop-yields">https://ourworldindata.org/crop-yields</a><p>So maybe we can do the same to carbon yield?<p>Are trees the plants which capture most CO2 per hectare?
It’s essential to consider the multifaceted effects of our environmental interventions. For instance, the commendable move in 2020 to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions in shipping lanes had an unintended side effect. The decreased emissions meant fewer sulfur dioxide-based clouds in the atmosphere, which previously reflected a significant amount of sunlight and contributed to rain cloud formation. While reducing emissions is a positive change, the absence of these ‘reflective clouds’ might be inadvertently amplifying the heat, especially when combined with the current El Niño. This could partially explain the accelerated ice melt in Antarctica we’re observing just three years after the regulation change. It serves as a reminder that the Earth’s climate system is intricately interconnected, and actions in one area can have cascading effects.
To keep track of the graph (click Antarctic) :
<a href="http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-i...</a>
At some point, we should probably stop calling it climate change and just start calling it climate abandonment. We're all so desensitized now that the more stories come out, the less people care... =/
If you want to show a trend, give us a diagram that shows a trend. A scatter plot with a trend line would be a start, maybe.<p>One can equally interpret the diagram from the article as showing a fairly constant level - somewhat varying within a limited range - with 2023 being an outlier. All it tells about is the variance and without at least more year labels there is no way to read anything about the trend from it.<p>[I'm not saying the article is wrong or right, just that it does a very bad job supporting its thesis.]
If the ice volume gets too low, even the Futurama style of cooling is going to stop working.
<a href="https://youtu.be/0SYpUSjSgFg?si=8ovAWC1IGL9Z7JXf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/0SYpUSjSgFg?si=8ovAWC1IGL9Z7JXf</a>