Hot Take: Even If We Do Something About Climate Emergency It’ll Still Be Hot

I told you not to have that delicious cheeseburger, fries, and sugary drink after taking a fossil fueled drive to the airport to take a fossil fueled flight!

Carbon Emissions Could Plummet. The Atmosphere Will Lag Behind

In the next several days, the Biden administration is expected to announce plans across the economy to reduce America’s greenhouse gas emissions dramatically by 2030.

The Biden administration’s goal is to speed the process to avoid a climate tipping point that scientists warn is quickly approaching. If global warming continues at its current pace, rising seas and heavy rain will flood cities around the world, wildfires and hurricanes will become even more destructive, and many more plant and animal species will go extinct.

The tipping points they’ve been pimping for 30 years?

But reducing emissions, even sharply, will not immediately fix the problems up in Earth’s atmosphere. It took decades for greenhouse gases to accumulate in the atmosphere and trap heat, and it will take centuries for those gases to dissipate once humans decide to stop pumping them into the air.

“When you emit carbon dioxide, the climate stays altered for a long time,” says Solomon Hsiang, a climate scientist who is the co-director at the Climate Impact Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. “And so we kind of have to deal with that baggage no matter what.”

Everyone alive will still need to adapt to a warming climate. Today’s adults will be dealing with climate-driven extreme weather for decades to come. But if countries transform their economies to cut heat-trapping emissions sharply, today’s kindergartners could inherit a safer world when they reach middle age.

This really does two things: one, it’s meant to subtly explain away why, despite the big drop in CO2 output during Lockdown there was no atmospheric change. Second, it sets the stage for Believers to willingly give up their money, freedom, and choice to Government and not say “hey, when’s this going to make a difference?” Because they’ve been told nothing will change for centuries, so, they’re Saving The Future!

You can read the rest of the propaganda piece at NPR, as that’s what it is, as they attempt to Justify this whole thing, but, expect a steady diet of this kind of “It’s For The Future!” stuff over the next few years with China Joe in office pimping climate change/crisis/emergency/doom.