Hurricanes are getting so strong in a warming world that a Category 6 intensity should be added to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind scale, a new study finds.
Why it matters: The research shows how significantly climate change is altering storm intensity and other characteristics, as well as further underscoring the limitations of the scale.
Reality check: The paper, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, does not represent an official move by the National Hurricane Center to add another hurricane category.
Nation by nation of course. That would have to start with a single prominent wealthy nation though.
I just don’t see the will. Humanity in all likelyhood will follow the path of least resistance off a cliff without exercising radical violence or radical democracy. I think we’re too cowardly to act, and the owners correctly bet on that mass fear and indolence. We largely don’t think of our children, only our own immediate consequences.
Not all nations have legislatures. Not all nations with legislatures have legislatures that actually represent the will of the people. Not all nations are even democracies or republics.
How exactly do you plan to get the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on board? Because they’re a huge part of the problem. Do you think you’re going to convince the House of Saud to stop pumping oil out of the ground and selling it?
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“Not all?” rofl almost none. The Nordic nations and that’s about it, and the market capitalists will do to them what they’ve done to the UK and are doing to the rest of Western Europe. That’s why I am without hope. I’m just commenting on the ridiculousness of our hopeless situation. It’s remarkable in in a dark way. Burning the paradise we inherited as the apex predator because we were conquered by the modern equivalent of the snake oil salesmen of old who convinced us its the only way.
Imho, there is no solution, at least not one humanity is capable of calculating. Enioy the show, it’s basically Jackass without the self-awareness on a much larger scale. We’re not going to survive our nature with all the technologies we’re too primitive to wield responsibly.
Probably that “great filter” astrophysicists use to explain the lack of obvious interstellar civilization activity out there. At some point, a species becomes just smart enough to develop technologies that can destroy it they lack the capacity to wield like grown ups benevolently.
So… your solution is to legislate this nation by nation even though most nations do not actually represent what people want and won’t legislate it because of that and due to this it means the entire species is determined and committed to destroying itself.
Squid, other than the devil, what are you advocating for here?
Honestly, I don’t think climate change will be solved, but I also don’t think the entirety of humanity is to blame.