Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5 °C target

There&#x27;s lots of faulty reasoning going around society:<p>* There is no climate change.<p>* The temperature charts are rigged.<p>* Scientists conspire to get more funding.<p>* Dissenting opinions are suppressed by the mainstream.<p>* Taxing CO2 is a way to control the economy and stifle growth.<p>* CO2 is actually good for plants.<p>* CO2 does not cause climate change.<p>* If there is climate change, CO2 is only a minor contributor.<p>* Humans do not cause CO2, nature does that.<p>* Climate change is not caused by humans.<p>* Climate change is not bad.<p>* If it is bad, there is nothing we can do.<p>* It&#x27;s only bad for other people.<p>* It will only hit us hard in the far future.<p>* We cannot make compromises in our lifestyle or risk our economy.<p>* We have invested much too much in fossil fuel technology to give it up.<p>* Renewable energy is not feasible. It&#x27;s a joke. Don&#x27;t even think about it.<p>* Solar cells cost more energy than they produce.<p>* Batteries produce lots of CO2 during production.<p>* Windmills will never harvest the energy that was needed to produce them.<p>* Our electric grid will fail if we add too much renewable energy.<p>* We cannot store enough electric energy.<p>* Renewables can never work because they cannot produce energy on demand.<p>* Even if renewables were feasible they would be too expensive.<p>* Why don&#x27;t we just build more nuclear plants?<p>* Thorium will save us in time, so no hurry.<p>* Fusion is only 30 years away, so why invest in renewables?<p>... this is only what came into my mind spontaneously and some points are really hard to argue, especially with non-technical people who do not see scientific facts as something solid but something that can be negotiated.

I know that there are many climate depressed people on this forum, frustrated by the fact that nothing is being done and, at the same time, under the illusion that they themselves cannot do much about it.<p>Yes you can.<p>Eventually, the solution will have to come from the government. But the government won&#x27;t act unless we demand it.<p>- Change your lifestyle. Less flying, driving, meat. More non-electronically powered forms of play.<p>- Divest fossil. Invest renewable.<p>- Most importantly, get away from keyword and join other people. e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xrebellion.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xrebellion.org</a>

Why is this news? Did anyone expect otherwise?