Yes but it's a lot harder for people to find, which means that essentially nobody will every look at it.
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New Research Shows More Extreme Global Warming Impacts Looming for the Northeast US
(insideclimatenews.org)
We may well have locked in meaningful change, but that doesn't mean the fight is over: the bulk of fossil fuels are still in the ground.
Or...people who might actually change policy as they act.
The Republican dream
You're assuming that the world is covered in server racks. I don't expect anything like that, even with significant increases in datacenter construction.
Let's assume 1kw per person. 10 billion people at peak population some time hence. So about 150 billion m^2^ to provide 1kw per person 24/7. The earth's surface area is 510.1 trillion m², of which about 1/3 is land. So we're probably just fine on renewables.
Nah. They bought off the feds, so they've got years to go. Also, it's a lot more profitable for shareholders to find a greater fool to sell to than it is to exit the business.
We dont end up with no currents in the sea or no wind in the air. We end up with a modified circulation pattern which affects where people can live or grow food.
I agree that it would have been better for people to figure things out a lot sooner. Its really hard for folks who are either listening to the right wing propaganda machine or tuned out from the news. I'll take late over never any day.
Three options:
- Go to every embassy or consulate you can and try to get a visa
- Live illegally in another country
- End up in a concentration camp
That would be an amazing outcome — it would enable the whole world to shift to renewable energy cheaply.
Nothing people do has zero impact. But pretty much everything else has a bigger one. Coal will utterly destroy the land, and the gases emitted after it burns will destroy far more.
Solar like this on a few percent of the land will supply all the electricity people need. So it looks huge, but is surprisingly low-impact compared with other options, or things like raising cattle
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Making it hard to learn the details is one of many actions they're taking. People in general are really confused about what is needed, which makes meaningful action harder.