Satellite data shows up climate forecasts

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I think a population crash is very likely...though it might not get here for a few centuries.

Putting AI in charge? There are a number of excellent or, at least, good science fiction movies like that. But:
- Will it be in time to prevent climate collapse?
- Will it care?

But the world's biggest forests in South America and Indonesia are slowly being cleared for farmland
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-u ... bc779a496c

the loss of these carbon sinks and increase in carbon emissions will accelerate global warming trends.

"Coastal officials prepare for looming threat to strike: 'I don't think people understand what's coming'"

this is confusing, are rising tides and coastal erosion responsible for California coastlines getting inundated?
Or is it global warming?

I suspect the correct answer is "Yes".

Rising tides and coastal erosion are associated with coastal flooding and with rising water levels. Mostly I've been hearing about it on Atlantic coast but I'll guess there might be some on the Pacific coasts, too. The article is talking about Texas so, strictly speaking, the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico...but those are sometimes lumped in with the Atlantic coasts.

And Climate Change has increased the frequency of the events. But since individual incidences may or may not have been caused by Climate Change they used to just say it made things more likely. Recently, however, I have heard cases of weather forecasters directly attributing some things to Climate Change.

"Global Warming" is, I think, an outdated term for what is now called "Climate Change". Climate Change is causing more erratic weather. Usually but not always warmer. But with changes to Arctic air patterns sometimes some spots will get some cold weather which is attributed to Climate Change. That is a temporary phenomena, however. In a few centuries warming will be overwhelmingly dominant.

Oh boy, a thread about global warming and AI?

I'm of the opinion that AI isn't anything more than a bubble at this point. The current training model for generative AI has a serious problem with diminishing returns - which means that, in order to get AGI you'd end up having to use infinite energy. This is why Microsoft, Google and openAI are so interested in operating nuclear power plants - there is literally not enough energy even for todays models, much less tomorrows, so they need nuclear power to keep things going. Needless to say, I feel pretty confident that we will collectively run out of energy long before we get AGI.

So I'm not worried about AI.

Speaking of energy, it appears that we actually hit world peak oil in November of 2018. Oil production in the US is still increasing, but not as fast as the rest of the world is decreasing. It's also looking like the US will hit its peak in the late 2020s, after which it will experience a significant decline. This just so happens to line up pretty well with the big public push of "peak oil demand" - you can't demand more than what exists, after all.

This rolls nicely in to global warming. I don't think the Earth will warm more than about ~4.5C. The reason is because 1.)Fossil Fuel use will naturally drop off below a point where additional emissions will be stalled 2.)this natural drop off of fossil fuels will result in a significant correction to the human population in the medium term, lowering emissions even more

Even w/o climate change some stretches of coastline get washed away, and others get silted out and expand out to sea.

A harbor gets silted up here, and a cliff collapses dumping a light house into the sea there.

Climate Change is a huge but gradual contributor.

As the world warms (as a whole...like I said things will be erratic and some spots might temporarily get cold) the oceans get deeper. Maybe only a few inches deeper, but that will make it easier for storm surges to get to things along the coast.

Ocean water in the Gulf of Mexico and along the East Coast of North America is getting warmer, in general. For the last few years that has been a factor feeding the fury of hurricanes. It has gotten to the point where TV weather reports are repeatedly calling the behavior of this year's hurricanes "unprecedented". That is, hurricanes seem to be getting nastier.

But "Climate Change" is a huge, slow process. From one year to the next you don't really see it. But there is an increasing number of small things going on that are, by themselves, newsworthy.

Speaking of hurricanes
https://www.news.com.au/technology/envi ... 9588bbadfc