By Keith Antonysen

Around 16 months ago, artificial intelligence (AI) was used to assess 100,000 climate change studies to display whether those studies upheld climate science.

There are so many studies being created it is impossible to read all studies or articles about the studies published.

The AI survey upheld the conclusions of the 100,000 studies. The heading in Science Alert was “AI Analysis of 100.000 Climate Studies Reveals How Massive The Crisis Already Is.”

Some “hard truths” are needed:

“Is 1.5 degrees Celsius still within reach?

Not unless the world starts making way more of an effort to cut emissions. To meet the 1.5-degree goal, emissions would need to peak by 2025 at the absolute latest, which seems highly unlikely. The temperature increase is already at 1.2 degrees Celsius. The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report in April warning it is “almost inevitable” that the world temperature will surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius even in the next few years.”

Scientists working for Exxon Mobil decades ago assessed that when CO2 reached 430 parts per million then the expected global temperature would be around 1.5C above pre- Industrial times. The rate of increase of CO2 in parts per million is around 2.4 per annum at present. The measure of CO2 for 2022 was 417.2ppm. A continuation of a 2.4 increase in CO2 at 2.4 ppm will mean that 430 ppm in 2030 will have been by-passed. The combination of all greenhouse gases expressed in terms of CO2 is over 500 ppm.

The rate of loss of forests in the Amazon Basin and other tropical areas, along with loss of mangrove forests; with added wildfires around Earth mean natural storage of CO2 reduces. Also, the warming of oceans means an incredible amount of CO2 needs to be eradicated. Oceans are a major storage point for CO2, except as they warm the uptake of CO2 is less.

These factors add to the possibility of 1.5C as being unassailable.

It has been suggested that the change in Arctic jet stream has reached a tipping point.

Labor has done well up to now; but, allowing new major fossil fuel developments cancels out any previous good work done.

There are apparently 118 new coal and gas ventures in the pipeline, should any be developed then Labor trashes all the good work done and creates a further amplification of climate change.