Climate Change trends
This is a space to think about climate change trends.
Thesis: Electric and solar will reach parity with hydrocarbons as a source of cost effective propellant. AI will drive down the costs of transparency and compliance in lowering Enterprise climate change footprints.
A multi-year average, rather than a single year, is what scientists pay attention to, and these past months have likely been buttressed by the warming effect of El Nino. The yearly increase is a wake-up call — as are record sea surface temperatures and the continuing collapse of Antarctic ice.
The fascinating and scary part about the ice melt is the scale. At these numbers we are likely looking at the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet. That is equivalent to about 7 meters of sea level rise (Daniel P. Schrag, Origins Podcast). Greenland is so massive it has it's own tide, so these numbers add up quickly.
Solar is becoming cheaper and more efficient
It’s unproductive to expect the third world to reduce emissions, now that US and Europe has finished monetizing our industrial age.
Unposted
In 2010, electric cars made up less than 1% of global car sales, but from this low base, there has been quick growth in many markets.
By 2022, around 1 in 7 (14%) new cars sold worldwide were electric (for 2023 the preliminary estimate is around 1 in 5). In Norway, the share was 88%, and in China, it was 29%.