World set to breach 1.5°C warming limit set by Paris Climate Agreement • FRANCE 24 English

The climate is a solved problem. Depopulation crash due to low birth rate. This is already happening right now in Italy, Greece, Japan, and South Korea. France today has more deaths than births for the first time. There won't be enough people to run utilities and hospitals in forty years let alone produce carbon emissions.

The discrepancy between the IPCC predicting 1.5 by end of century and actual 1.5 C breach most likely 2027 is 73 years off..... suggesting the models to predict temperature change are extremely flawed.... and still we adhere to those models..... We have gone insane.... nobody thinks anymore...

Ed the Sock Comments<br>I watched the whole thing, which in this case took a minute and a half, roughly the length of the attention span world leaders bring to these conferences anyway, so at least the runtime matches the audience.<br>Let me summarize the news: in 2015, the leaders of the world gathered in Paris, cheered — there is actual cheering in this clip, like a game show where the prize is a habitable planet — and agreed to keep warming to 1.5°. Eleven years later, the UN&#39;s big announcement is &quot;okay, that&#39;s gone.&quot; Window closed. Door&#39;s shut. The 1.5 they cheered for is officially a nice memory, like the Montreal Expos or affordable cheese. But don&#39;t panic — they&#39;d like us to know that &quot;overshoot is not surrender.&quot; No, it&#39;s just losing slowly and calling it strategy. This is the climate equivalent of &quot;we&#39;re not breaking up, we&#39;re just seeing other temperature targets.&quot;<br>And here&#39;s the punchline nobody in the clip seems to choke on: we&#39;re headed for 2.8°C, and if every country hits every target currently on the table — targets they&#39;ve been lovingly ignoring for a decade — we slow all the way down to 2.6°. That&#39;s the reward for total compliance: still catastrophic, but with a discount. Next month they all fly to Turkey — because nothing says &quot;emergency&quot; like flying several thousand delegates to a summit to agree that the previous thirty summits&#39; agreements were insufficient — and the job there is to &quot;decide on much more ambitious targets than anything currently on the table.&quot; Bold. Inspiring. The table has been on fire since 2015 and they&#39;re still deciding what to put on it.<br>To be fair — and it pains me — the actual numbers are the only grown-up part of this clip: cut global emissions 18% by 2030, 45% by 2035, 69% by 2040, triple renewables by 2035, coal gone by 2040. That&#39;s the bill. And the &quot;bring temperatures back below 1.5° by the end of the century&quot; bit at least admits the truth: this is now a multi-generation repair job, not a rescue. But look at those dates and tell me who&#39;s accountable. The people voting for targets due in 2035 and promises payable in 2099 are structurally not going to be around for the exam. It&#39;s very easy to promise a museum-quality climate to people who can&#39;t yet vote, complain, or drive.<br>So that&#39;s where we are: the goalpost has been moved, and the new plan is to overshoot it, turn around, and walk back. Fine. Every fraction of a degree still matters, the overshoot can be made small and short, and whining about it is less useful than the least useful delegate in Turkey. But let&#39;s drop the cheering from the footage. The last time this crowd celebrated this hard, we ended up at 1.4° and climbing. Next time somebody hits a milestone, keep it to a firm nod.<br>Ed is out 🌹