2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit
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·January 10, 2025a5c11
Does that mean they are going to push Europeans even harder, and do nothing to countries which are the real culprit?
pjc50
The real culprits are at the top of https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe... : gulf oil states, Australia, petrostate Canada, then the ones you'd expect like US and Russia.
igg
This list seem to be based on production based accounting if emissions. Consumption-based per-capita emissions are available here for those curious: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...
matthewmacleod
Who is “they”?
lm28469
Which countries?
SMP-UX
What, global warming?? Naaaaaillllll!
Related from 2 months ago:
State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming (5 points, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085978
This year set to be first to breach 1.5C global warming limit (10 points, no comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42077420