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But last quarter Koh was forced to cut production of his chili sauces by 25%. He’s struggling to restock local supermarket outlets and his company Nanyang Sauce had to discontinue a special gift set of three chili sauces, named the “Spice of Life.”

The culprit? Climate change. Extreme weather across major chili planting regions this year has disrupted supply, pushed up prices and, worst of all, made the peppers taste milder.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah. Just the parts about slaves being obedient to their masters.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

They care enough to do things like buy properties in cooler countries so they can move to them after making Saudi Arabia uninhabitable.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

We're not quite that bad right now; efforts already taken probably dropped it to something more like 3°C of warming by 2100 with further warming thereafter.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here's a gift link you can edit into your post so that (almost) everybody get seamless access to the article.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, wind and solar seem to be able to go for 50+ years too. The main reason they're not doing that so far is that newer installations can kick out more electricity (and money) in the same footprint.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Right, but nuclear remains far more expensive than wind and solar, which is why almost no new nuclear gets built.

I'll also note that a chunk of the data is from 2007 and 2008, and the price (and greenhouse gas emissions associated with) both wind and solar have declined markedly since then.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago

He hasn't promised to be true to his oath of office.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, it's roughly at a peak, with the first actual drop seeming more likely to happen next year, rather than this year.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The point isn't to take advice; it's to push responsibility and blame onto somebody else.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The main problem with carbon removal is that it's expensive, and removing it doesn't produce a product you can sell. So in practice, doing something like what you describe within a generation requires a system of taxation which absorbs 40% or so of total economic output, and uses it to sequester carbon. That seems, to put it mildly, politically very difficult.

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