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Re:Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says by ch4s3 on Saturday September 05, 2026 @12:29PM (#49578121)
Most of these large wildfires are started by people and a result of bad land management in the form of stopping small fires in fire adapted landscapes. Moreover meddling in insurance markets and NIMBYism causes people to build in burn zones.

There just aren’t mega heatwaves causing famines and there won’t be at 1.5c of warming either.

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Re:Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says by lukeify on Saturday September 05, 2026 @12:34PM (#49578175)
None of that changes that we now have substantially larger and less controllable fires than we used to. Are you really denying that extreme weather and droughts don’t play a part in dramatically increasing combustibility?

> There just aren’t mega heatwaves causing famines and there won’t be at 1.5c of warming either.

Oh we’re going way past 1.5C.

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Re:Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says by ch4s3 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:48AM (#49611114)
Clearly heat and droughts are an issue and contributing factor, but land use is easily controllable relative to atmospheric CO2.

> Oh we’re going way past 1.5C.

Are we? The IPCC projects that no change in public policy or tecchnological advancement globally has us on track fro 2.6C rise by 2100, but there's a straightforward path to 1.8C. Experts no longer think the old worst case scenarios are plausible. Yes, 2.6C is nothing to scoff at, but it's in the realm of adaptable.

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Re:Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says by lukeify on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:23PM (#49615513)
2.6°C is indeed way past 1.5°C, yeah.

It won't stop there either.

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