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Re:Ask HN: Is there any hopeful news about climate change? by sien on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:19PM (#36980570)
The impact of extreme weather events has been declining as a share of global GDP since 1990, people are good at adapting.

Source :

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/dont-believe-the-hype

One of the high scenarios for emissions, RCP 8.5, which was used for modelling what might happen with climate change, is unlikely to happen:

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-good-news-about-cli...

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any hopeful news about climate change? by sien on Thursday August 03, 2023 @12:47AM (#36981483)
There are also plenty of sizable places around the world that generate very little C02 when generating electricity.

See France, Ontario, Quebec, Sweden and other places on the map below and look at their C02 emissions per year per kilowatt.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map

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