I admit it's a longshot, but I think it's the only chance we have. The superconductor news is welcome, we just need to see it get truly confirmed without a doubt.
You’d need a bunch of jackpots to come up, in a row, immediately, at this point for technology to provide a way out of the current debacle.
To paraphrase Paul Lieberstein’s character on the Newsroom:
If we stop drilling globally right this second
AND
Everyone stops driving their car and starts biking everywhere
AND
We invest immediately in clean renewable energy
THEN
I still don’t see a way out of this.
I was walking my dog there most days when that happened, and to my knowledge they never caught the spooky hackers did they?
For now, just call me spooky Patsy.
Anyway, whilst more and more cars and buildings with air conditioning expel heat without a considerable lag, thus amplifying the thermal heat island effect [2], and the reduction of aerosols that were contributing to global dimming [3] making it possible to warm up the sea and land to new record highs since records began [4], have the climate scientists adjusted their models yet, or are they still in full on fatalism and alarmism mode? I feel like Roy Castle [5] still lives on.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_c...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming#Relationship_to...
[4] https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2023/06/16/sea-surface-tempera...
The 2007 IPCC climate change synthesis report specified a deadline of 2015 for peak CO2 in order to meet the lowest mitigation scenario. Of course we've blown past that date and it's still full speed ahead with business as usual.
Alas, I try not to blather on about the severity of the climate situation in every thread.