The above image of a table was posted on Reddit on June 11th 2025. Listing supposedly rather conservative ❲*❳ forecasts, it has us reach 4 °C warming since pre-industrial times by 2090, in a best-case scenario. Way off plan and much agreement, no matter how firmly 🥂 agreed upon at many such an agreement.
4 °C? If you care to know —
“There is no "adaptation" to such steep warming.
We must stop pandering to special interests” 🤔
❲*❳ Shaking off this misguided inclination toward the conservative, there are people like Richard Crim ❲and what if it were a pseudonym?❳, enlightening us with his “Crisis Reports” on Substack as well as Reddit posts like this one from July 5th, which prompted me to write the below. Some would dismiss, or grossly underappreciate, the information he's trying to get across merely because he "writes funny" or has no platform or weather-related education; but if it weren't for him, I wouldn't know of many basic concepts like Earth's energy imbalance — the 💤 ZJs of energy the oceans are absorbing as we speak and as they have been doing for quite a while now.. Saving for a rainy day, like.
To put a joule in perspective: a bit of sunshine makes for ~1400 joules per second per square metre. To put a zettajoule in perspective: humanity's annual energy consumption is about half a ZJ. Then to put into perspective the zettajoules our oceans absorb, there is the Hiro for a unit: the energy of the infamous atomic bomb. The asteroid that killed 🐦 most all dinosaurs released an estimated 10 billion Hiros into the climate system in one day; and in 2023 – somewhere at the end of the not-so-curvy Keeling Curve shown below – about 471 million Hiros went into the oceans. 🫠
¶
In memory of all the smug conceited willingly complacent
people thinking of “the bigger picture” or casually trusting “we'll just
tech our way out of the mess like we've always done”, let's
wrap this page up with the below image I done took from the rocket scientists at
NASA, to put in perspective the
10,000 years of CO₂ pictured above:
Technology won't save us; who told you so? The formidable past century?
I could have made the effort of adding a sort of YOU ARE HERE
pale blue dot someplace at the bottom
right, marking out the 10K out of a 100, but of course it'd be nothing the
aforementioned Al Gore didn't come up with, in a more adequate dramatic manner,
too, some literal two decades ago
(June 30th, 2006/384), with the movie
film An Inconvenient Truth.
¶
Not just for now, but once and for all..
🧊 once and for all !
..let's keep on living in the precious now,
which, after all, 🐠 iss.. “all
we can do”, innit.
Tom,
6/7/25
— except the last pic & text slablets, enclosed between "¶",
were added at the still pristine, even crispy-snowy ⛄
beginnings of MMXXVI..
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