...... just wondering

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/08/antonio-guterres-cop29-climate-breakdown-tipping-points-fossil-fuels-finance-aoe

The Paris agreement was a sop in Paris even as it was taking place. James Hansen said so, so did I, if that's of any significance . The Paris agreement was stillborn. . We are at 1.5 deg already, the idea being put out that you have to wait 20 years to prove this is delusional. And the northern hemisphere is warming at twice that rate.

The world is heading for 2+ deg rise by 2050, (it's presently a quarter of a degree/decade) and probably 4+ deg by 2100 as the planets warming is obviously accelerating as it's losing its capacity to absorb the CO2 and methane and the oceans' surfaces the heat.

We need to reduced CO 2 emissions by 9% per annum, says Guterres. Covid reduced CO2 emissions by 5.4% now rebounded to highest ever. So we need a permanent state of recurrent pandemics killing perhaps 60 million people every year and restricting movement and economic activity, to get our 9% reduction.

If ordinary folk like you and me are still driving an ICE car (I don't), or taking diesel buses or trains, heating your home with gas, or pretty well buying or using anything with a fossil fuel energy input, or worse still, flying, then we are the problem.

But nothing will happen. The Amazon will turn to dust, the ice caps will melt and in the lifetime of our children, the world will become a hostile place where survival is a matter of chance and not choice.